I want to start with the ending story. One night in late autumn, the disciple suddenly sat up and wept bitterly, and his master asked him.
"Do you have nightmares?"
"no"
"A sad dream?"
"No" said the disciple, "It's a very sweet dream"
"Then why are you crying so sad?"
The disciple wiped his tears and whispered, "Because I can't make dreams come true." The saddest thing is not bad things and bad luck, but beautiful things once flashed, beautiful pieces are imprinted in your heart, and you understand that it is impossible to get it, only looking up, only remembrance, only remembrance, but what Can't do it, it sounds really sad. Beautiful things are inherently destructive. This is the director's worldview. The whole story is not complicated. The protagonist Shan Woo is the boss’s capable man. He has principles in his work, is decisive in his work, and is loyal to the boss. The boss also trusts him, in addition to his outstanding ability to do things, but also because he almost There is no personal life of their own, or even contact with women for reasons other than work, so who do not like employees who have no passions! In the conversation with the boss and some lens language, I saw that Shanyu’s monotonous private space and cold-toned table lamp set off his inner loneliness. He is similar to a cold-blooded murderous character. Although lonely, he is calm, because nothing breaks this. Lonely.
What broke all this is because of a special mission of the boss. The boss is about to go to Shanghai on a business trip. Ask him to follow up to find out if his little girlfriend is cheating. If so, call him. If the implication is true, the boss’ little girlfriend will have nowhere to go. . This also explains the boss’s personality traits-hate betrayal, this hate betrayal will later conflict with the strong principle of the male protagonist. In fact, when speaking of this task, the middle-aged boss was unspeakably shy about Lolita's plot and was a bit cute. The tree moved with the wind, and his heart moved in the process of taking care of the boss’s girlfriend. This is a common plot, but because of love, there is no need to avoid clichés and not let it happen. Shan Woo who has no emotions sees it. The girl's sweetness and loveliness, the fireworks in the world made him have a wave of waves, like the branches at the beginning of the film, swinging with the wind. He has not been able to achieve the tenacity of his mind, so when he found out that his boss’s girlfriend had an illicit relationship with others, his first reaction was a violent beating, but in the end he let them go on the grounds of "the best way to deal with it." Letting them not meet again is actually not the best way for Shanyu. Once the Dongchuang incident occurs, he will be held accountable by his boss, but his vague heartbeat makes him act in a completely different style.
When the boss asks him why he did that, he still uses the "best way to deal with it" to cover up his inner feelings. The boss is also an old world, and he doesn't buy it for this argument, as mentioned earlier. You do it right a thousand times, and the last time you make a mistake will drag you into the abyss. In the rainy night, Sunwoo was crushed, beaten, buried alive, tortured and insulted. In fact, the boss’s approach is not the best solution. , He would rather lose his capable cadres and let him tell him that it was his heart. He would rather investigate a mistake in the end than consider the overall situation. This is his outlook on life. What the boss said is right. At this time, the boss let him People gritted their teeth, and Shan Woo couldn’t figure it out—why he had been a loyal horseman for seven years, and the boss wanted to treat himself this way? Sunwoo, what you think is right and wrong, and all you really need to do is obedience. The contradiction unfolded, and Sunwoo's principled nature kept him from surrendering, and this was also reflected in the conflict with another gang leader, President Bai. As a result, the contradiction broke out, and when he was tortured to half-dead, he broke out desperately, and at that moment it caused the viewer's extreme comfort. Then came the purchase of weapons, revenge, a series of actions with great visual impact.
He didn't know why it was like this, but he had no other choice but to continue. The fighting scenes of the whole movie were wonderful and elegant. Finally, when he killed the person who wanted revenge, he dialed the girl's phone with trembling blood-stained fingers, and the girl's voice came from the other end of the phone. Those beautiful pictures came into his mind again. Finally, Sunwoo He was shot and killed by a single shot, and he said that word when he fell-too cruel.
That sentence came from a cold-blooded gangster, and it was heartbreaking. He was a successful underworld man with unlimited prospects. His fate made him touch the gentleness, but he couldn’t get it. He just made one. Beautiful dream, whispering when I woke up...that's too cruel...
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