Inside the main hall of Baolian Temple, Han Chen folded his hands together, trembled towards the Buddha statue in front of him, and shouted, "Bless the Buddha." Turning around, he said to the crowd, "Fortune tellers say, I am a general practitioner. My bones are dead, but I don't agree. I think it's up to you to decide whether you live or die."
At that time, Liu Jianming was destined to be a "bone", but he didn't want to be a bone, and one day he wanted to climb on a pile of white bones. the "will". Besides, he also has an "invisibility cloak" that sneaks up from the bottom without knowing it, with a strange mind, which is very wonderful. Have you ever seen a snakepit? The caves were crowded and crowded, full of tangled snakes. The head of the snake presses the tail of the snake, one is entangled with the other, the snakes are arched and submerged in the group, crowding and pulling, you are not dead, I will not live, one is not doing two endlessly, don't think that one of them can "emerge" and "get ahead". Liu Jianming is also a snake waiting for an opportunity in the dark. No one knows whether it is poisonous or not, and the color is generally inconspicuous. It's covered up, but at first glance, it's not unusual. It's a strange heart that no one can guess.
This thought tossing of his mind was not actually thought through early in the morning. The invisibility cloak gave him enough sweetness, and made his career promotion, emotional marriage, and social status smeared with serious names. He was used to enjoying a good-looking mask and didn't want to take off to show his hideous and ugly side. Keeping things in order to let others know the secret, lest you lose it once, and lose everything you have. As long as Han Chen is dead, he can "pretend" for a lifetime. This is the choice of normal people, and the logic of normal people. If there is one thing in the world that can cover up the sins committed without a bottom line, and not be punished by the binding laws of the world, then the evil side of the nature will be magnified in the infinite freedom, and it will be wrong and wanton. What is Liu's nature we can't lie, but his invisibility cloak is a breeding ground for sin. Now let's make an assumption: if A has another identity, he can kill more people, drink the best wine, grab wealth by various means, have sex with the most beautiful woman in the world, commit the most Unforgivable sin, although he will be punished at this time, he can change his identity anytime and anywhere. Abandoning everything in the past, you can choose to be innocent, or you can experience everything in the past again, and then change your identity, you can always escape from the shell, and you can always get away with impunity. How will he choose? If Chen doesn't find out Liu's true identity in the end, can he be a good person from now on? Even a good man who is always afraid, always frightened, never freed.
When he was in the Baolian Temple, he didn't do anything at the beginning, could he be defined as a bad person? Can he be called a bad guy who has worked diligently in the police station and gained the trust of his superiors and colleagues over the years? With the protection of the invisibility cloak, is he a bad person who wants to be a good person forever? Whether it's Han Chen or the police, he just wants more benefits, greater benefits, and a better life, and he can do whatever he can to achieve these. Discussing whether he's a bad guy is not what I'm trying to say, what I'm trying to say is that every one has the same potential as him to be a bad guy, in this case.
If we believe that beyond the plane of life, there is another eye, another hidden and subtle power, that will make any invisible "myth" tend to be shattered. So who in the world is working on this? I think it's religion.
In "Republic", Glaucon tells a story: The ancestor of Lydian Gugos was a shepherd. One day he walked into an abyss and found a ring that could make him invisible, so he tried every means to get it. The position went to the king as an envoy, and then he took the opportunity to seduce the queen and conspire with her. Kill the king and finally take the throne. A just or unjust person, under certain circumstances (perhaps an invisibility cloak), will do the same evil out of a desire to be better. Socrates also admits: "A terrible and strong illegal desire is actually in everyone's heart, even some sane people have it." And we usually pursue the pursuit of human nature as a kind of goodness, and everyone's Restraint is entirely based on the law (a customary rule) to restrain one's own desires and desires. Perhaps people think that injustice is more in line with the acquisition and realization of their own interests than justice. Therefore, the definition of the rules is to protect the average interests (public interests) rather than individual interests as much as possible. It is against the law of survival and the law of survival. Whether this anti-natural rule that seeks temporary stability and peace is an eternal truth is not yet known, but at least human beings have practiced part of it in the vast history and achieved certain results-human beings still exist in the world, but compared with others One possibility (at least a generalization on a large scale and history) is unknown. Maybe another new species has fully practiced it, in the future or deep in the universe.
Returning to the film itself, the double-line interlaced story advancement and binary opposition narrative structure clearly present both sides on the surface, through the experiences and choices of two "invisible people" to interpret the expansion of human nature in social life and moral values . Unlike Liu Jianming's "reasonableness" (in fact, what I said before was not all to illustrate his reasonableness?), I always thought that Chen Yongren was more of an ideal incarnation. This kind of incarnation is not the person Chen Yongren (because this person is also full of emotions and desires, and is affected by the environment and conditions), but the choice and pursuit of this person.
Chen Yongren is also an invisible person, the difference is that he always wants to take off his invisibility cloak. Yang Jiang said something in the article "Invisibility Cloak": "Whether the invisibility cloak is from the fairy family or the mortal world, it is inconvenient to wear it - it is not only a small inconvenience. The soul wrapped in the body can't stand it either. Yan Liang, can't stand being bumped. It's easier said than done to become invulnerable to swords and guns, and to be invulnerable to fire and water! If you don't have this skill, you will have the chance to see the truth of the world and people's feelings. You need to keep hypnotizing yourself to tell yourself: Who are you? What is your identity? Where did it come from? Constantly pondering: is my choice wrong? What will happen to you? He didn't even dare to imagine it, perhaps subconsciously in his mind had already presupposed a not very bright end. Stealth into a strange group, forcing yourself to drink alcohol, drugs, play with women, live a sloppy life, including a group of underworld brothers. Some people talk about the sadness of being an undercover agent: you have to gain the trust of others to achieve your goals, but you are doomed to betray that trust. The more successful you are, the stronger your sense of failure. This is a paradoxical road, and a journey of self-abuse.
Someone died for his secret, which added to the burden in his heart; someone who knew the secret died halfway, which destroyed half of his mind. He is not for his own desires, but for his own beliefs. What is the difference between the two? The difference is that one is an incarnation of a normal "person" and the other is an ideal incarnation.
When I first thought of the Invisibility Cloak, it was actually the first time Chen and Liu met in a video store. The two sat together to appreciate music and cherish each other. At that time, I thought of Ge Fei's "Invisibility Cloak". In "Invisibility Cloak", Master Cui obsessively hides himself in classical music, is content with the edge in the prosperous and impetuous world, and pursues the noble feelings in the old music that has been brewed for a long time. The noble feelings constructed with time are not simple value judgments, and the binary opposition between invisible and visible, noble and vulgar can be established. In the illusion of being in the mind of the floating world but being paranoidly driven to another time by oneself, invisibility here is a kind of nobility. Master Cui's invisibility may be seen as a cynic, and Chen Yongren's invisibility is for faith. Without choosing to survive by depravity, without deceit and betrayal, it may be that their status quo is helpless and weak to resist. Living in the boundless darkness, looking around and helpless, at a loss, the ultimate liberation is death, the endless purgatory is only burning for the living.
Therefore, Liu Jianming is the only protagonist of Infernal Affairs.
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