In 1991, Ni Kun, the retired gang leader, was killed. His concubine Chen Yongren (Shawn Yue/Leung Chiu Wai) was studying at the police academy, and was accidentally discovered by the police academy Principal Ye and Huang Zhicheng (Huang Qiusheng). He was fired, but because he told Inspector Huang that he wanted to be a good person, he was sent to work undercover with Ni Yongxiao (Wu Zhenyu), the eldest son of Ni Kun. On the other hand, Han Chen (Zeng Zhiwei)'s subordinate, the triad gangster Liu Jianming (Chen Guanxi/Andy Lau), was sent to be an undercover gangster inside the police. All this is the beginning of infernal affairs. In "Infernal Affairs 2", Chen and Liu are not the protagonists. The story mainly focuses on how Inspector Huang deliberately collected evidence, and even conspired with other triads to assassinate Ni Kun in order to eliminate the harm. Forced to become a big boss, focusing on how Ni Yongxiao avenged his father and how he was plotted to die. It all started with Ni Kun's death in 1991 and the underworld turmoil that followed, and finally Han Chen replaced Ni's family and Hong Kong returned.
Every time I see the end of the film, my emotions will be deeply immersed in the story, the 1997 that came to my face, the complex emotions of saying goodbye to the past and starting a new reincarnation.
1997, Hong Kong, Bauhinia, Deng Xiaoping, the Asian Financial Crisis, the brand of this year in history is so clear and so clear that it was brought to the end by this movie, and it is more appropriate to use this year as a metaphor for the end of a gangster era: Because that was indeed the end of an era for the whole of Hong Kong.
In the heavy rain, the big-brimmed hats in Hong Kong changed their badges, and the Royal Hong Kong Police became the Hong Kong People's Police.
In our story, Inspector Huang also replaced the picture of his number one rival Ni Yongxiao on the wall with Han Chen.
Once the emperor and the courtier, the little policeman Liu Jianming, who was about to be promoted, had to start all over again and return to the police station to work the night shift and continue to be a little policeman.
In the small apartment where Liu Jianming lives, there is a picture of the return of Hong Kong, the heroic Chinese People's Liberation Army, which we have known since childhood, on the TV.
In our West Kowloon Police Station, everyone happily took off the British Royal Emblem, the Bauhinia flag on the roof rose in the night sky, and the voice-over was a soft and calm female voice from the TV: The flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China Rising, marking the end of more than a hundred years of colonial history...
Has the real history ever noticed that such a tortuous story has been inserted into its body? Have those caught in reincarnation ever received a shred of mercy from it?
In the luxury suite of the hotel, Han Chen faced the fireworks of return alone outside the window.
In the flickering light and the dark, Han Chen looked at the photo of him and his deceased wife.
In 1997, fireworks lit up the night sky, and
also illuminated the faces where the lights were dimmed
. The hazy tears in the window are the last sincerity,
wipe away the tears and
greet the new era with a smile.
He came to the hall of the return banquet, and the music reached a climax in an instant, at this moment when the true feelings were suppressed the most.
Cheers, for a new era! Cheers, my friend!
And Chen Yongren on the suburban highway has helplessly become the younger brother of Han Chen's younger brother (Silly Qiang), and he is still waiting for an endless undercover career.
The title says, "This is the best of times, this is the worst of times, we're going to hell, we're going to heaven." But the times are irrelevant here, and the logic of reality doesn't dominate (in Johnnie To's underworld series, no In the underworld, the police can't do their job well, and the two are sharply opposed, black and white), this story is just a knight novel set in Hong Kong in the 1990s, love, conspiracy, betrayal, friendship... like Like a space opera like Star Wars, the universe is just a stage for legend. And this is a Hong Kong legend in which people endure endless torture.
No matter what I do, I won't be able to reproduce the original, but if it can do it, what's the point of the movie?
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