This is actually a movie about love and survival, focusing on the dilemma between love and reality.
The realistic goal of Section Chief Jiang, who is investigating gang crimes, is to crack down on gangs and bring them into the police's management scope. That is to say, the common tactics are used for my purposes. I have to say that this realistic goal is very mature, because it takes into account the large groups' influence on all aspects. It may not be a good way to blindly eradicate the influence of the virus, and it may even cause chain negative effects. It is better to achieve strong control over it and turn waste into treasure.
The emotional dilemma of Section Chief Jiang lies in the harm to Li Zicheng and other undercover agents. It is to sacrifice the partial human struggle for the sake of the overall situation.
Section Chief Jiang was not blindly ruthless. He only used his subordinates as chess pieces. He bought gifts for Li Zicheng's unborn child, and resigned after telling the director to resign, showing his inner conflicts and struggles. The ruthlessness and eagerness on the face is just because he knows that there is no way, just like when Li Zicheng’s wife called him an asshole, he also said indifferently that it’s right, but we are just like this. , This is my job, this is what I do.
Section Chief Jiang is the person who knows the most in the play. He knows that he should not do it. If he does it, he will bear it. Explaining anything is useless. No matter how much he said, he couldn't relieve the pain of the other party, and he didn't intend to excuse himself. He has his own realistic goals and is extremely persistent. There is no doubt that he is an excellent policeman. Refusing Ding Qing's bribe in the stadium shows his character. He has a strong principle of neither righteousness nor evil, and he also has a clear understanding of the real environment (in the interrogation, he said that even if you take you away, others will come up), so he strikes a balance between the two It is also the most beneficial way for the police and society to control and reform gangs. But his death knot is the same as that of many tragic heroes: for a good purpose, he has to adopt abnormal means. And he also knows that there are not many people who can understand him. It would be naive to let Li Zicheng, a pawn, as a pawn, who is struggling with every step, always maintain the same position with himself. . Therefore, he also exercised strong control over Li Zicheng, and did not hesitate to use his undercover status to threaten him.
He knows that he is taking risks and knows that it is easy to be backlashed, but he has nothing to do. The risks and benefits of this kind of game are equal. Achievement is like getting rich overnight, and defeat is a place to die.
So he always has a calm expression, while arranging to do his own thing, while silently waiting for the result.
He is the most experienced and toughest of the three, but also the most lonely and numb, because his behavior is difficult for others to understand, and the sentiment he reveals does not care if others understand it.
Don't affect work because of affection, work is his first goal.
Those who are not in it are not aware of the difficulties.
Section Chief Jiang’s dilemma is still not something he can solve on his own. He has to rely on external forces. In the end, he can only rely on the success of the undercover agent, and the predicament will be resolved before the dilemma disappears.
He didn't wait for that day, what he waited for was the killer sent by the undercover.
His expression was still so calm, but there was a moment of relief from exhaustion.
Compared with Section Chief Jiang, Ding Qing's contradictory situation is obviously more grounded and easier to be accepted. From the perspective of handling internal affairs, Ding Qing is more moral than unscrupulous like Section Chief Jiang. For example, he does not want the police to intervene to help the struggle within the group, and would rather risk failure to resolve it by himself. As for the relationship, Ding Qing knew that Li Zicheng was an undercover agent, but silently arranged a way for him (it was not the last hint of his development within the group. At this point, Section Chief Jiang has not made it clear. The truly most moving thing is. One is to destroy his electronic files inside the police station, so that Li Zicheng’s identity will not be exposed because of the possibility of information leaking again. Even if Li Zicheng stays away from the gang and becomes an ordinary person in the future, he can live without worries. Don’t worry about the gang’s revenge).
Ding Qing's plight is purely emotional and relatively easy to handle. It is nothing more than killing Li Zicheng to protect himself and his group, or waiting for himself to be wiped out. With Ding Qing's wisdom and the determination of the preservation group, he would definitely not choose the latter, but if he was planning to instigate rebellion at the time, he was probably not that naive, because people in that position would not take risks with affection.
At that time, his inner contradiction should have reached its culmination, and he was hesitant to deal with Li Zicheng. With his character, he would probably want to wait for a face-to-face conversation to be considered (Ding Qingzai didn’t know that he was facing a disaster. I put the watch and files for Li Zicheng in the safe before, and logically it is very much like preparing for a final showdown with the other party to make a choice).
So Ding Qing died. This is also a routine but appropriate treatment in the drama. Otherwise, as Ding Qing said to Li Zicheng when he was dying, what should I do if I survive (not to mention Ding Qing, the screenwriter has a headache, then I have to spend another two hours to shoot both episodes)?
When Ding Qing was dying, the only thing he told Li Zicheng twice was that he must be ruthless in order to survive. This sentence is actually quite meaningful, more like a self-deprecating Ding Qing to himself, because Ding Qing himself is actually a person who is not cruel enough. If he is cruel to the third in the gang and cruel to Li Zi, then he is completely cruel. You can still live comfortably. It's not that he didn't understand, it was because he couldn't overcome this moral and emotional dilemma by himself, so he died. But he doesn’t regret his choice, but he doesn’t want Li Zi to follow in his own footsteps. This sentence to Li Zicheng's unfeelingness has actually become Ding Qing’s bearing and conveyance of Li Zicheng’s affection for Li Zicheng. In the scene of shooting the Go teacher, Ding Qing's expression is very interesting, it seems a bit of entangled satisfaction. Because in the previous shots, Li Zicheng's hands have always been clean, and this is the first time Li Zicheng has been in the film. Killing in the middle, or killing one's own person, no matter what the motive, it seems that there is a kind of ruthless change).
Ding Qing's love and reality dilemma can be solved by himself, but he hasn't waited for the day when he thinks about how to solve it.
Li Zicheng’s dilemma is the easiest to portray because of the setting of his innate identity. However, since the film was not at all involved in the struggle between police and robbers, his setting has become an embarrassment and also the most embarrassing. Plain, lack of depth. Therefore, there is basically no drama in him, and even his performances are ordinary. It is nothing more than deliberately relying on lines and expressions to express the pain and suffering of the undercover, and responding to the actions of Jiang and Ding Qing and other gang figures. . The scriptwriter gave him a very simple task, which was to complete the reversal at the end, as if a chess piece was pulled up and down, and finally in the process of wrestling between the two sides, it was troublesome. Finally, from quantitative to qualitative change, he made up his mind to make a choice and broke out in an instant. .
His dilemma is the real dilemma of Ding Qing and his love and innate identity. This dilemma is difficult for him to break through. In addition to his choice, there is also a necessary condition, which is the disappearance of external pressure (knowing his identity) Man does not exist), otherwise he will not be able to get out of the predicament no matter how hard he personally works.
There are two and a half planners in this film, one is Section Chief Jiang, who has a deep strategy but a high and widowed over self. He deals more with things than with people. As a result, he loses control of Li Zicheng. A Ding Qing, who is slightly inferior in aptitude but deep in love and righteousness, makes people feel that he has the position of brothers in his heart, and finally makes Li Zicheng fall in love. The last half is Li Zicheng, who just did a simple job of killing his mouth at the end, and he succeeded in seizing power in a sudden emergence.
The so-called new world is actually just repeating the old story. The stage of the modern city is still a scene of intense conflict between sentiment and reality. Sensibility and reason are always a pair of irreconcilable contradictions. Because of this, the world is so cruel, the sentiment is more moving. After all, human nature makes no one want to live like a machine, and how many people are desperate to put everything in it, just for such a little love.
So in the end, we sighed for Section Chief Jiang and sighed for Li Zicheng, but it was Ding Qing who kept the copycat couple's watch in the safe.
It is the kind of brotherhood of being rich and not forgetting each other.
ps: Objectively speaking, the shortcomings of the film are very obvious. For example, the structure is looser, some characters have problems with the bedding and subsequent connections, the undercover portrayal is too superficial, and many details are obviously logically wrong (for example, the death of Chief Jiang at the end is simply It's a child's play), but its advantage is that the expression it wants to express is sufficient and thorough, and it is not as good as the rest. It is difficult for such a movie to not make an impression. Another thing I want to say is that in recent years, although the copycat content of many big Korean movies is very large (in addition to this film, such as Highland Warfare, Berlin), it has to be admitted that the standard of copycats is very high (the copy is so professional) And there is no lack of my own creativity and ideas, and at the same time, I have not lost the oriental temperament and feeling. This level of ethics is still worth thinking about and learning from.
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