The young monk asked the old monk, "Is the wind moving or the willow tree moving?" The
old monk "The wind isn't moving, and the willow tree isn't moving either. It's your heart that's moving."
"Sweet Life" was doomed from the very beginning. However, this is a not too sweet story, and the sweet cello soundtrack of the film can hardly make a dark life sweet. I have always liked Li Bingxian's performances. From the earliest "Love in Love" and "Bungee Jumping with Love" to "Poisoning" and "Everybody Has a Secret", he is an actor who is both good and evil, whether it is a teacher who is in the beginning of love or a woman. The playboys in the pile have never disappointed everyone. This time, Li Bingxian played Shanyu, who wore a neat suit and drove a famous car to and from the high-level club. Under these bright appearances, he was just a thug under a gangster boss, a murderer who was hidden in a gentle way. .
Shanyu's original dark life has changed under a special order from the boss. Shanyu is monitoring the boss's little lover. Unfortunately, the boss's little lover has an affair, and this time, Shanyu did not start killing, let go. After the boss's Xiaoqing and her boyfriend. From this moment on, Shanyu became the target of the underworld, because he deviated from the boss's original intention. And Shanyu did not bow to the black forces, and launched a resistance to the entire organization. Shanyu let all the people who fought against him fall down, and finally Shanyu also fell, and fell under the gun of another killer from the boss Gu Lai. The scene of the final gunfire confrontation reminded people of the last century. Hong Kong gangster movies.
"Sweet Life" is very much like a Hong Kong gangster movie in its heyday in terms of picture and structure, a very male movie. Fights, speeding cars, rainy nights, blood, bullets, warmth, pursuit, and revenge also appear in the movie, and the movie also features men as the protagonists. Women are like all gangster movies like a vase. However, the theme of the movie is somewhat different from that of Hong Kong gangster movies, and there are not too many rules of the gangsters of all corners of the country. Not because of the drug trade, nor because of the fight for status within the community. Just a simple and sweet reason, a reason even the dead boss wants to know, what made Sun Woo so brave to rebel against the entire organization.
For Shan Yu, who has never been in love, has never felt warmth, and has been a killer for seven years, when he met that woman, he had a dream in his heart, and he wanted to feel the tenderness of that moment. He found that the inadvertent smile made him feel the sweetness he had never had in his life. The dream is beautiful, but when you find that there is no way to realize it, you can only use another extreme way to take revenge on those guys who are chasing him. It doesn't matter if you fall down. The life of a killer is inherently dark, and it is the darkest when a sweet wish in the heart finds that it can never be real-time. Just like the story at the end of the film: the
little monk woke up crying and was very sad.
The old monk asked the young monk "Did you have a bad dream?" The young monk "No.
" The
old monk asked again, "A sad dream?" The young
monk "Neither." The
old monk "Then why?"
, a dream that will never come true." …
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