Watching this film again in 2021, the sadness and despair overwhelmed me. Jackie Chan's screen image has been completely subverted, the former Jackie Chan image is optimistic, alert, just, full of vitality and creativity of the common people. This film completely deconstructs that image. He was played between the palms of several young people, and he watched his subordinates die in front of him, but he couldn't do anything, and the male protagonist Shuangwen was unhappy. The new police story is a complete subversion of the previous police stories. The previous ones were all comedy and cool, and even the villains were presented in a witty style, but this one is very similar to Leo after taking a pill in The Matrix. To the reality, all the romance and splendor were a fantasy, and the city finally showed its fangs. At the beginning of the film, passers-by were kidnapped by people who were trapped by stocks, implying the anxiety and unease of the society at that time. The villain is no longer the harlequin model of the past. When I was a child, I watched Wu Yanzu and his party kill people at the beginning, which became one of the shadows of childhood. (So I didn't see Azu taking off the mask, which is a pity.) Looking at it now, that kind of bloodthirsty, cruel, naive and crazy, the fear is still deep in the bone marrow. When the villain hanged Jackie Chan for the first time, Jackie Chan cried and said to the camera, how could this be. At that moment, it was as if Jackie Chan in 2004 broke the fourth wall and had a direct conversation with me in 2021. How could this happen, how could it become so fast, and I burst into tears. Jackie Chan may just want to express his sadness for the change of actors, but in today's context, it is very much like a prediction 15 years later. At the end of the road, he is greedy, angry, and delusional. He is a policeman who is getting old and old. He is a young, confused and empty man who finally chooses to embrace death. He is a passerby who is heavily indebted because of stocks. He is Zheng Xiaofeng's father who stole bread. At the bottom, despair and madness lingered. Disordered cities, crazy crowds, like clowns, but there were no Dark Knights back then.
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