每个生命都值得被爱

On July 12, 2000 the Rio de Janeiro police trapped a man who was trying to rob a bus. He took eleven hostages, and the local SWAT team was called.
This incident became known in Brazil as the BUS 174 affair.

According to the official records Geisa was shot four times: one in the face by the police officer and three in the back by Sandro.
The officers who took Sandro into the police van were charged for murder and considered not guilty by a popular jury. They still work for the Rio de Janeiro police.

Geisa是那位最终丧生的人质的名字，22岁；Sandro则是那位劫持犯的名字，20岁。

相似的场景，相似的事件，相似的开始和相似的结局。
据说，这条新闻当时成为巴西各大媒体的头版头条，电视台现场直播了Sandro的劫持活动以及警察解救人质的过程。但是，却没有一家进行调查了解Sandro劫持公交车的动机。于是，在“BUS 174事件”发生两年后，导演Jos Padilha与Felipe Lacerda完成了这部Ônibus 174，回放了孤儿Sandro二十多年的不幸人生，探寻这个震惊全国的劫持事件背后的根本原因，从而真实呈现巴西街头少年所面临的暴力压迫。

Sandro从未见过父亲，6岁时亲眼目睹母亲在眼前被谋杀，自此流离失所，成为街头少年。生长在贫民窟，未学过读和写，与其他同样无家可归的孩子作伴，可卡因上瘾。15岁时，亲历Candelaria church massacre，再次目睹自己的同伴被警察杀害。

是的，这不是一个好孩子。同样的还有那位菲律宾前警察。他们不辨是非善恶，他们反社会，他们视别人的生命为儿戏。人们谴责他们，对他们叫嚣，希望将他们“清扫”出去，以为这样，我们的社会就会变得更美好。但倘若他们从来就父母庇荫，生活幸福，倘若曾有人教过他们善恶是非，倘若他们从未成为这畸形城市的一份子，生命和尊严得到保障。究竟是他们的恶造就了这个社会的恶，还是这个畸形的社会造就了他们畸形的心灵。

影 片的最后，屏幕上出现一张全家福。然后Sandro的阿姨说，“I really wanted to bury my nephew. But what would happen if I said I was Sandro's aunt? They would come after me, at my house, at my work...There would be lots of reporters. I didn't want that." "I dressed him in a white shirt. And I told him, 'this is not what you wanted. Your dream was to work and raise a family. But you took the wrong path. This isn't what I wanted for you." "But Jesus will forgive you. God bless you. Rest in peace."

Jesus will forgive you. Jesus will forgive everyone. 然而在这个“上帝之城”里，却依然只有无穷无尽的以暴治暴。