——"The Dictator's Handbook"
"New World" is a Korean gangster movie, full of popular anti-police and bandit routines brought up by Hong Kong movies - hooligans are serious, police bastards. This movie is not suitable for people who have watched too many Hong Kong "War" series of movies, because it is too easy to guess the fate of the characters when they see the characters. Too many routines and advancements can easily cause aesthetic fatigue, but they will feel that the rhythm is slow. At the end, Li Zicheng killed all the main characters in the play, and that part of the tribute to the end of "The Godfather 1" made people feel a little more refreshed.
And I want to talk about this movie, mainly because the plot is too suitable for a book I read recently - "The Dictator's Handbook", the boss in the gang, the leader of the same country, a company, the way is the same of. As the screenwriter of the movie, if you have read this book, you may be a little more full in character creation.
Some people say that this movie is the Korean version of "Infernal Affairs", and this movie's portrayal of the image of the police is really bad. Choi Min-sik plays an almost paranoid leader image. In the plot design, he can only make breakthroughs. The bottom line refreshes the lower limit of untrustworthiness to promote the plot, and at the same time uses the composition of the camera to express his heart. This is really too thin. In the Hong Kong version of "Infernal Affairs", Huang Qiusheng came out with a face mixed with justice and helplessness. That face will make people feel that Liang Chaowei's sacrifice is full of greatness, and Cui Minzhi will only make Li Zicheng's efforts worthless.
Let's talk about the process of Li Zicheng's rise to power.
“There are only three things a challenger needs to do to seize power. First, he has to get rid of the incumbent. Second, he has to control the government. Third, he needs to create a sufficient Make sure he becomes the coalition of the new incumbent." - The Dictator's Handbook
above replaces government with corporations or gangs, the same holds true.
In the film "New World", the leader of the Kinmen gang died in a car accident, and the incumbent has been removed. "A country cannot live without a king for a day", and it is very important for the successor to come to power. At this time, there are three successors. The second-ranked semi-reclusive old-school leader Zhang Shouji has been in a state of retirement because the former president has the sole power. Lay a good peripheral relationship; Li Zhongjiu, who ranked fourth, was the actual head of the merged club. In addition to these three, the police forces also want to get involved. Since they can't get rid of the pot, they simply support people who can be controlled. At this time, the achievements of the police undercover Li Zi who were originally installed are very important.
During this period, if the police want to come in to help justice, they must establish a reliable winning alliance. Section Chief Jiang (Cui Minzhi) chose the undercover Li Zicheng and the second character Zhang Shouji. It is very important to build a winning alliance and ensure the loyalty of the members. At this time, the leader (Chief Jiang) has to do two things. Fear of Supporters Being Abandoned” (The Dictator’s Handbook). Section Chief Jiang barely achieved the first point, but made a fatal mistake on the second point.
He promised Zhang Shouji to become the president of the gangster Golden Gate Association, and promised that Li Zi would go abroad to live a decent life after he succeeded. This was the expected benefit he gave them. In terms of "eliminating the fear of being abandoned", he has always been Using a means of fear to ensure control of their own rule.
This part of Zhang Shouji is not shown in the film, but he got the chairmanship by self-injuring 800, and then put his gang under the control of the police. This must be unacceptable to anyone with high ambitions. Yes, Zhang Shouji is now accepting the conditions of Section Chief Jiang, but he also hopes to use the power of the police to rise to the top. After all, he has been retired for a long time and does not seem to have secretly developed his own power. As for Li Zicheng in the film, Section Chief Jiang used multiple means to push him into the gangster camp step by step.
First of all, constantly repenting and committing to let an undercover agent stay in the gang for ten years is a very test of people's psychological quality. Two-faced people have lived for too long, and it is easy to fall into the quagmire of division. And Section Chief Jiang repented his promise of "doing it this time and not doing it once" again and again, and it was easy for Li Zicheng to deduce that Section Chief Jiang's words this time that he could go overseas to live after the infighting was an empty promise.
Secondly, an undercover agent was placed beside Li Zicheng to monitor Li Zicheng's actions. His wife and the officers around him are all undercover police officers, who are used to monitor him, a loyal criminal policeman who has been undercover for ten years. This sense of distrust can easily cause people to rebel. In fact, in the end, Ding Qing also took advantage of this, and let Li Zicheng finally join the gang. After learning that Li Zicheng was an undercover agent, Ding Qing, the eldest gangster, gave him 100% trust and choice. There was friendship and strategy. One side is the brothers who fought side by side, killed people and shed blood together, and gave each other their lives; the other side is the superior who does not trust and only knows how to squeeze his own interests, how will Li Zicheng choose?
"The Dictator's Handbook" says, "The state will not have interests, but people will have it." And I also say, "Society will not have interests, but people will have it." Is black and white so clearly distinguishable? Putting justice and evil into consideration of each person's humanity and self-interest, the choices that individuals will make may not necessarily coincide with the mainstream values of the public.
Then join the police, although there will be a bright and faint hope, but that hope will always be the carrot hanging in front of the donkey, the cat chasing his own tail, Li Zicheng will always be trapped in the quagmire of personal division, and there is no hope of breakthrough; Gangsters, who live unrestrainedly and unrestrainedly in the dark, why not be happy? Besides, the gangsters they are in now are facing a transformation to wash away their "bloody original sin".
No matter what, people want to survive on their own. So in the end, the massacre by Li Zicheng was just an inevitable result of eliminating the roadblocks in power. Li Renjiu and Zhang Shouji, killing them was both revenge and a necessity to come to power; and killing Section Chief Jiang, one was revenge, and the other was to cut off his own back. road. If you want to live, you must be ruthless.
In the process of coming to power, Li Zicheng implemented the principle of superiority very well, "The time to let them know your true thoughts for the first time can only be the moment when you have ascended the throne and expelled them from the palace. , not a second earlier." Zhang Shouji's eyes said everything, and the shock of the trio of Qiantou Cao also explained everything.
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