In the twentieth year of the film, I opened it in a modest apartment in the American Bay Area.
Unsurprisingly, Two Heroes in Blood is a very typical Hong Kong film. From the moment of opening the movie and seeing that our lone hero is a professional killer, the process of watching the movie is like watching how a splendid rose withers gracefully.
Hong Kong films often shoot cops and gangsters. There are so many police and gangster films in a small area, so that every inch of land and every intersection seems to have had a fierce gun battle or a drug deal. Mixed with the rush between skyscrapers and the tender heart of the people at the bottom, the brilliance of human nature under the hail of bullets is always as romantic as a bunch of red roses on a rainy day. I will never forget the picture of Zeta Jones dancing in the corridor densely covered with infrared detectors on TV when I was a child. It seems that the elegance in crisis and the warmth in troubled times are always fascinating. In the final decisive battle in the movie, the blood stained Xiaozhuang's white suit. He was dying in the loess and crawled towards Jenny slowly. As soon as the camera turned, I returned to the picture of Xiaozhuang playing "A Life of Light Drunkenness" on the rooftop. The melodious sound of the piano reverberated through the night sky, as if it was a parallel time and space. Jenny and Xiaozhuang's life will always be calm and indifferent, even if they meet their confidants. Accompanying you, don't get too drunk, just be lightly drunk day by day for the rest of your life. But this is just a beautiful fantasy after all, and once you set foot on some roads, you are doomed to never return. In the world of killers, retreating from the rivers and lakes may just be a legend.
The film is actually very simple and easy to understand. There are no obscure metaphors or overly profound subjects. In addition to the fierce shootout, the film talks about the trust between people, the sympathy between opponents, and the debt and compensation. Xiaozhuang said that trust and rules seem to no longer apply in this era, and they are useless and outdated things. But when the fourth brother appeared in the church with a bruised nose and a swollen face, I believe that many audience members felt a power in their chests like me. That power is telling every audience in silent language that the best things between people are not outdated and will never be outdated, just not everyone is good enough to have it. Only when you tell your friends about the last hiding place can your friends show up to you with the money you have fought for your life. When you ask the gangsters to chase the soldiers, he will stand up for you even in the hail of bullets and take risks, and only when you truly forgive the person who hurt your eyes and indirectly ruined your life from the bottom of your heart. The harvest is the person who is willing to protect you and shed the last drop of blood for you. The simplest truth is that the feelings between people are mutual. The underworld boss who chased and killed Xiaozhuang was extremely insecure, probably because he never really trusted others or was trusted by others. This hateful man is also a poor man.
At the beginning of the movie, when I was still unfamiliar with the faces of the actors, I was guessing which two of them were referring to. Chow Yun-fat with the protagonist's face must be counted as one, but the other actors are a bit unfamiliar to me who doesn't often watch Hong Kong movies. Only at the end did I realize that there were actually more than two people who had been portrayed in the film. The friendship between Xiao Zhuang and the fourth brother, Li Ying and Zeng Ye is no less than the best partner who fought side by side in the end. Later, when I saw the English name of the film, I couldn't help but be dumbfounded, the killer, maybe this translation is more suitable for the English market. "Whether it is a comrade-in-arms who is dependent on life and death, or an old friend who has known each other for many years, in his own life path, he can only be a lone hero." Such a metaphor is too in line with the values of the Western world. But I still like the Chinese name of this film, even if it sounds a bit casual, but it means that no matter when, there is always a person behind it.
Just like that flock of doves will definitely fly back.
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