Thanks for the movie recommendations, Andre. I will definitely try to find a copy of City of God to rent--sounds like I could learn a lot from it.
On Oct 15, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Andre Garzia <an...@andregarzia.com> wrote: > Thanks Richmond, > > I am doing well here. I actually live in Niterói which is the city on the > other side of the bay everyone sees on the postcard. I've been living with > those kinds of raid since forever so its no as impressive for us as it is > for foreigners. I live reasonably close to two slums which surround the > prime real estate area of my city. After 32 years of this sh*t, you learn > how to manage it. > > I think this was one of the reasons I was so amazed when I went to > Edinburgh and saw people late at night with cameras and laptops walking on > the meadows. In Rio you would not dare to do that. At least it never gets > dull or boring. For those wanting to see a "faithful" representation of Rio > thru movies, I recommend "City Of God" which is an action movie set on the > slum called City Of God. It is a fantastic movie. I also recommend both > "Elite Troop" and "Elite Troop 2" which are action movies about Rio de > Janeiro Special Ops Troop. That police force is called BOPE (Special Police > Operations Battalion), all their gear is black and their symbol is a skull > crossed with knifes and this is the police. Actually I saw one of them last > week, I counted four pistols and a machine gun on a single guy. The movie > is great because its not your typical movie about crazy police force > against bad crime lords. It shows how corruption works on Rio all the way > from the mayor office to the slums and inside the police force. US and > European watchers who never saw anything about south american exciting life > style as told by ourselves will have a great and enlightening experience > with those movies. > > :-) > > :-) > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Another "quiet night in Rio" I see: >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/**world-latin-america-19940440<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-19940440> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> >> > > > > -- > http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. > http://fon.nu -- minimalist url shortening service. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
