(1) Over the past few decades, with the rapid economic development of South Korea, its modern cultural undertakings have also made great progress. Just as its industrial manufacturing has come from behind, Korean culture has a tendency to come from behind. Compared with Japan, Korean movies obviously have the possibility to surpass the latter. Last year, "Parasite" won the Best Picture Oscar for the first time as a foreign film, a recognition and reward for Korean films by the international film industry. The rapid development of Korean films, in addition to the rapid economic development, also has a great relationship with the relaxation of the government's censorship system. From the point of view of us movie lovers, except for pornographic themes that are banned, it seems that all other themes can be filmed, including very sensitive political themes and the two Koreas.
Everyone knows that the most obvious feature of Korean movies is that they are ruthless. The revelation of the dark side of human nature and the criticism of the dark side of the government and the judiciary are all one-shot and never condone. Korean dramas are basically shot according to the facts, and they will not ignore the facts in order to promote the so-called "positive energy". Perhaps, it is precisely because of this ruthlessness that Korean movies have an infinite charm that makes people immersed in them.
Today I want to talk about the Korean gangster movie "New World".
In various ranking lists of world movies, the top-ranked movies always have a large proportion of police, criminals and gangsters, such as "The Godfather", "Pulp Fiction", "Infernal Affairs" and so on. why? Because people like stimulation, they also like to peep into the complex human nature, and they are especially interested in various complex human emotions such as hatred and loyalty, and it is easy to substitute themselves into them. Gangster movies, especially men's favorites.
Compared with all kinds of famous gangster movies in the world, South Korea's "New World" does not lose at all, and its charm even surpasses other movies.
"New World" is first and foremost a gangster movie, and secondly a cop movie. There are many undercover movies, but none of them have a plot like "New World". In the end, the undercover police officer actually entered the role and became the new boss of the gang.
In order to describe the extreme nature of the plot, I used a very noble word - sturdy!
So sturdy! In the stories of police, gangsters and gangsters, there is no one else.
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Ten years ago, the police sent Li Zicheng, a young police academy student, to infiltrate the Kinmen gang, trying to monitor the latter through undercover police. There are only three people who know about it: the police chief, the sub-citizen, and his colleague, Section Chief Jiang. When he was growing up, he was undercover, and his nerves were always tense. He wanted to clean up soon and take his wife to live overseas. But Section Chief Jiang kept dragging him, looking for various reasons to let him continue undercover. This time, Zicheng asked Section Chief Jiang to quit. At this time, President Shi, the boss of the Kinmen Group, died unexpectedly. Section Chief Jiang asked Zicheng to stay undercover and wait for the Kinmen Group to elect a new president before quitting. Zicheng had no choice but to continue the undercover mission.
The fact that Zicheng has been kept in the dark by his boss is: Section Chief Jiang has already sent a few people to go undercover beside him. Zicheng's wife, Go teacher and personal younger brother are all police eyeliners. Soon, Ding Qing, Zicheng's boss in the gang, found all police information through Chinese hackers, and all these undercover police officers were exposed. In front of Zicheng, Ding Qing brutally murdered several undercover police officers except Zicheng's wife. At the same time, Ding Qing quietly collected Zicheng's police files.
After President Shi died, in order to control the Kinmen Group, the police tried to recommend someone they could control to become the president. In Kinmen, apart from a few seniors who were the same generation as Guildmaster Shi, the most powerful were Ding Qing and Li Zhongjiu. According to the rules of the gang, the chairman should also be selected from these two. However, in the police plan, the candidates will obviously not be the thorns Ding Qing and Zhong Jiu, who cannot be dealt with by the police, but Zhang Shouji, who has already lost power among the seniors.
And Li Zicheng is the most capable general under Ding Qing.
Under the plan of Section Chief Jiang and Zhang Shouji, Ding Qing and Zhongjiu fought hand-to-hand and killed each other. Ding Qing was beaten and died of serious injuries.
After Ding Qing was killed, Zhang killed Zhongjiu, and then tried to kill Li Zicheng. Zicheng saw through Zhang and Jiang's tricks, and led his brothers to carry out a large-scale campaign, killing all his superiors, including Section Chief Jiang and Zhang Shouji, and ascended to the position of president, becoming the new generation boss of the Kinmen Group.
The gangster "New World" planned by the police has turned into a "New World" under the rule of undercover policeman Li Zicheng!
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The reason why this movie is great is that it handles the relationships and emotions of the characters to the extreme, which makes people have to be amazed.
The undercover policeman Li Zicheng and his boss, Section Chief Jiang, are in a subordinate relationship, and the two are closely watching the Kinmen Group.
The wishful thinking of the police chief and section chief Jiang is: to take advantage of the death of the old president of Kinmen and the election of the new president, let Zhang Shouji, who he can control, ascend the throne of the president, and create a "new world" of gangsters that is conducive to police control. To this end, Section Chief Jiang did not hesitate to sacrifice his subordinate Li Zicheng. In fact, for a long time, Zicheng has known too much about the situation on both sides of the police and the gang. Let him live, Section Chief Jiang will never be at ease. At the last moment, under the arrangement of Section Chief Jiang, Zhang Shouji was going to kill Li Zicheng, and Li also saw the opportunity, killed Zhang Shouji and ascended the throne himself.
Section Chief Jiang is his boss, but he has no trust in Zicheng. He arranged a few undercover policemen beside Zicheng to monitor the latter's movements. This is fatal to Zicheng's feelings. In the end, Section Chief Jiang and Zhang Shouji were going to kill Zicheng, indicating that Jiang had no relationship with Zicheng as a colleague. It was precisely because Zicheng saw through Chief Jiang's vicious psychology that he decided to kill the man with a beastly heart. Only by killing the well-informed Section Chief Jiang, Zicheng can safely sit on the throne of the president.
The relationship between Li Zicheng and Ding Qing has been tempered for ten years, and has developed a very strong brotherhood. Ding Qing treats Zicheng as his own younger brother.
Through Chinese hackers, Ding Qing obtained all the information of the undercover policeman, but quietly collected Zicheng's files and put them in the office safe, pretending that he did not know the undercover identity of Zicheng at all. Of course, Zicheng also understood that Ding Qing already knew that he was an undercover agent, but he was reluctant to kill him.
Being hospitalized in the hospital, Ding Qing thought it was the last step to try Zicheng: if Zicheng came to see him, it meant that he had a deep relationship and he had to work hard to fulfill Zicheng; When Zicheng appeared in front of the hospital bed, Ding Qing, who was wearing a ventilator, had bright eyes and was so excited that he ordered Zicheng to help him take off the ventilator. When Ding Qing had difficulty breathing and Zicheng wanted to put him back on the ventilator, Ding Qing refused and said a few very moving words: You and I are brothers, think about it, if I survive, you can Can you handle me? In Ding Qing's opinion, the police are worse than the gangsters, and Li Zicheng can no longer be seen by the police, and it is impossible to obey the police any more. At the same time, only by his own death can Zicheng become the president without worry and create a new world. Ding Qing just wants to be a brother, and his own life has been put aside! At the same time, he told Zicheng to go to the safe to get gifts - two Rolex replica watches that Ding Qing gave him, and Zicheng's police file. Zicheng confirmed again that Ding Qing had long known that he was an undercover agent! Even if it is not for any other reason, just for Ding Qing's trust in himself and brotherhood, Zicheng should do his best to fulfill Ding Qing's mission and become the leader of the Kinmen Group. Does a scholar die for a confidant?
Ding Qing, played by Huang Zhengmin, is the character who impresses the audience the most.
Hwang Jung-min, Lee Jung-jae, and Choi Min-sik are all my favorite acting schools, and they worked together to create this classic work.
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