elite nonsense

- Well, Tropa de Elite is a good action movie. As for being fascist, I think the one that is on the verge of becoming fascist is the hero, and anyone who believes the movie is a true portrait of reality in Rio. It's an ACTION movie, folks! If you want action with a bit of drama, you must have extreme situations. Even one of the screenwriters, who was an elite cop himself, has said it on O Globo newspaper: not all regular cops are corrupt, and not all elite ones are honest, but he had to write it like that for the movie to work. The idea is to make you feel so trapped that you start to think that torturing people, like the elite cops do in the movie, is a good idea. As for real life, it is not: tortured people lie, specially if they have been expecting it to happen to them and have trained themselves for the situation. They learn to pretend to be tough, and then pretend to break and give out info that will incriminate their enemies, or innocent people.
- What about the fact that the hero blames the upper class drug users for giving out the money that buys guns for the drug dealers?
- Well, I am sure that every drug user would love to give that money for the government to use in health programs for the poor, but you'd have to legalise all recreational drugs, if you want to collect the taxes. I think it would be smarter than this war on drugs nonsense, really.