The wind is shaky and the water is cold, and the strong man is gone forever.
The classic Chinese gangster in 1986, 33 years later, that bloody romance is still the yearning of many people.
The heroic spirit carried by the three male characters is the Chinese classical chivalrous spirit-love comes first and sacrifices oneself for others. At the same time, the three of them represent different ideals of life. People who grew up under the influence of Chinese culture can find their resonance from the three roles.
Brother Ma, who wants to go to the sky and embrace the bright moon, is freehand and unrestrained, unrestrained and mad. He is drunk at the moment, and he goes out laughing at the sky. How can I be a Penghao person; Song Zihao, who is a brother and a father, is a pragmatic style. He is affectionate and righteous, calm as a mountain, surviving the turbulent rivers and rivers, and the small streams in front of the door; the high-spirited Song Zijie is a childlike pure heart, simple and straightforward, and his ambitions are like the rising sun. Passion is dynamic, but also impulsive.
Brother Xiaoma and Song Zihao are men, but Song Zijie is just a boy.
Both men and boys are stubborn and childish. When Song Zihao and Xiao Ma were still high-spirited gangsters, they would push and play like children at the elevator door of a high-end hotel for a joke when they went out to talk business. When Song Zijie liked his eldest brother, he and his brother would tickle each other every time they met.
Men and boys also have beliefs, they have their own set of life principles, they have their own cherished and adhered to, and they will work hard for their own goals and dreams. But the difference between men and boys is that men have more responsibility and faith than boys. Men can endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens, while boys often cry.
Brother Xiao Ma limped to sleep in the basement, cleaned the windows of the car for his former younger brother, and even said thank you for the money that the younger brother threw in the ground, just to avenge the gentleman for ten years. After Song Zihao was released from prison, he hoped to rehabilitate. The cautiousness and unease he had when he was just looking for a job had completely lost the prestige of a former underworld boss, but he worked hard and never complained, only to be able to afford the choice of starting over.
Song Zijie couldn't bear the humiliation yet. In the face of unsatisfactory things, Song Zijie just blindly fought fiercely. What he sometimes did was no different from the lawless underworld.
One of the reasons why Song Zijie is easily annoying is that he doesn't have the loyalty of Xiao Ma and his brother Song Zihao.
Brother Xiao Ma and Song Zihao's loyalty is a kind of heroism, and it is a rare morality in all corners of the world.
They are willing to take responsibilities that do not belong to them for the sake of brotherhood, and are willing to do things that are not beneficial to them, and may even be dangerous.
When Brother Xiao Ma went to Taipei to avenge Song Zihao alone, he changed his usual frivolity. Whether it was reading newspapers reporting his brother's imprisonment or meeting with the bigwigs of the Taiwanese forces, he was very calm and steady, with a kind of death-like attitude. Decisively. The suave elegance and murderous bloody violence in Fenglin Pavilion have a shocking beauty under the slow motion movement.
Brother Xiaoma is willing to commit a monstrous crime for Song Zihao, and Song Zihao is willing to give up reform for Brother Xiaoma, but Song Zijie can't. He even hates his brother for going to the underworld and affecting his future in the police force. Song Zijie is still a child who only thinks about himself. Going through fire and water, stabbing swords and self-sacrifice for the sake of his brother is not within his emotional acceptance. His accusations and complaints about his eldest brother are like playing a child's temper in the face of the unrepentant sacrifices and sacrifices of Xiao Ma and Song Zihao.
If Song Zijie, who was born in the police, faced the dilemma between family friendship and the illegal and disorderly morality of Jianghu society, Song Zijie might not be so unpleasant.
The masculine charm shown in the film has been praised to this day, but in fact, the only female character in it, Jackie, is also strong and reasonable, not inferior.
The first half of the plot is compact, but the second half of the plot is obviously broken. The combat strategy of a group of people is basically zero. Of course, if you only pay attention to the hearty bloody violence, you can choose to ignore it.
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