Bigger than life

I just watched Salve Geral and what strikes me was not the typically cinematographic script (plots, riveting twists and etc). That worked well to catch the eye, but the thing is that the movie portrays organized crime as something bigger than life - and up to a point it is necessary to agree to that.

The problems with the public prison system, inequality of conditions, election interests, power abuse - all that builds a maze where the poor might easily get lost inside.

The best scene for me was somewhat unexplored, but it was there (after all, it is an action movie, no time for philosophical reflections) - her wealthy sister claims the protagonist has lost the sense of good and evil, and she replies: Have I?

The fetish for technical organization is there, an element that typically builds American action movies: the complexity of the system, the operations, the tricks. Being above good and evil is the plus that, honestly, only foreign films are usually able to achieve. On the top of it, it is widely based on true facts. The car chase scenes were not that well executed as Hollywood films... but how to care about that when you see two white middle class white people being abducted to the chaos of a massive raging violent attempt to social transformation?