brother
Many years ago, in the video room next to the school, I watched Wu Yusen's "Blood Two Heroes". At that time, I didn’t know what VCD was, and it was the world of video tapes. The movie was not popular, and it was full of brotherhood between Xiao Zhuang and Li Sir. At that time, Ye Qianwen neither married Lin Zixiang nor went to the Spring Festival Gala. She looks like a jade girl, innocent and pleasant. On the screen, Xiao Shrimp and Mao Ball are holding guns, back to back, and shooting, covered in blood and smiling. An abnormal affair between the killer and the police hit people's hearts all at once. There is no need to inquire about identity, no need to ask black and white right or wrong, leaving the back to you, that is, the life is also handed over to you. Many years later, Yeosu, South Korea. Ding Qing, who is still a gangster, and his brother Li Zicheng went out to kill people, and rushed into the house to see that the other party's people were so scared that they backed out. Li Zicheng didn't say a word, and swiped in with a knife. Six years later, Ding Qing, the number three figure in the mixed gang, learned of Li's identity, a police undercover agent, but he let him go, and when he was dying, he even took off the ventilator he was relying on for his livelihood. If he doesn't die, Li will have no way to survive. The brothers who were born and died together, the brothers who once entrusted their lives, whether you are a policeman or not, are worthy of your life to save.
Good and evil
Many people compare "New World" to "Infernal Affairs". In fact, apart from the "police undercover gang", the two pieces have very few similarities. No matter how hard and tired Chen Yongren played by Tony Leung, he never wavered his recognition of police identity and "institutional justice" from beginning to end. The phrase he blurted out: "I'm sorry, I am a policeman" can become the motto of almost all police officers. Chen Yongren's distress comes from his underworld status. This disgraceful sign made him lose his beloved woman and child. His greatest wish is to return to the police force and become a glorious people's policeman. Li Zicheng is completely different. In 8 years, he has been ranked fifth in the gang since he was young. He has a house, a car, a wife, a younger brother, and a son who is about to be born. His income is N times that of an ordinary policeman. He is like a successful person. This is hard work. Chen Yongren can’t compare at all. His greatest pain was that Section Chief Jiang, Chief Gao and others used undercover secrets to threaten him from time to time, asking him to serve the police. Li Zicheng's wish is to leave, to escape, to completely get rid of the identity of the "policeman" that has tortured him for 8 years. "Infernal Affairs" does not provide value judgments, everything is customary, and good and bad are clearly distinguished. No matter how sentimental and righteous the gang boss Han Chen is, he can't stop Liu Jianming's abandonment of his heart; Chen Yongren has been in the underworld for 6 years, and Huang Sir has never worried that he will be stained or corroded. But Cui Minzhi in "New World" is not Huang Qiusheng, because there have been precedents of undercover rebellion and betrayal of his colleagues, his acting section Chief Jiang is vigilant to Li Zicheng and always guards against him. He has many eyeliners by Li's side, even Li's wife. He sent it to monitor. The Jiang-Li relationship is not the kindness and trust between Huang and Chen, but all kinds of coercion and temptation, both soft and hard. In order to achieve the "justice" goal of eliminating gangs, the police can do whatever it takes to disregard the safety of the undercover agent. The phrase "doing big things always comes with small sacrifices" reveals the coldness and cold-bloodedness of the top police. Director Gao and Section Chief Jiang met three times, and each time they expressed the same meaning: Of course it is important to eliminate gangs, but their own black yarn is even more important. The police's unscrupulous, shameless, and ruthlessness reflects Ding Qing's deep sentiment and impotence. Comparing the two compartments, Li Zicheng's ownership has been determined.
Underworld
Justice is a vague and suspicious word in "New World", far less clear and defensible than in "Infernal Affairs". The film tries to tell people that there may be another standard besides what is known right and wrong, good and evil at a glance. This is what Wu Yusen repeatedly emphasized in his movies-friendship. In this sense, "New World" is closer to Wu's gangster movies like "Blood Two Heroes" in spiritual temperament, although from the plot point of view, it mixes the undercover elements of "Infernal Affairs" and "Underworld". The heroes compete for the seat. In "New World", people can see a series of classic Hong Kong movies. At that time, Hong Kong still belonged to the free world, and the directors did not know everything about the North Drift. Hong Kong films used to be a glorious peak of Asian movies. It's just that nowadays, Korean films without censorship have come from behind, and they are constantly surpassing them while paying tribute to Hong Kong films. In "New World", Koreans who have no taboos nakedly display all kinds of blood and violence on the one hand: the beginning of the film is to pour cement into the mouth of a living person and then sink into the river; Ding Qing deals with the traitor directly with an iron shovel and explodes the head; the elevator Here, he used this wide-angle lens that was constantly shaking against the crowd, and it was more tragic than the long corridor shot of 3 minutes and 11 seconds in "Old Boy". On the other hand, in terms of value orientation, "The New World" is a black one to the end, directly dissolving the opposition between good and evil in "Infernal Affairs"-Liu Jianming and Chen Yongren's rooftop duel with guns turned into Ding here. In front of the Qing hospital bed, Li Zicheng's deathbed entrustment and Xia Gu Rouchang. There is no darkest, only darker: Li Zhongjiu, in order to be in the upper position, deliberately deliberately, step by step, and finally fell into the trap set by Section Chief Jiang; Section Chief Jiang provoked Ding Qing and Li Zhongjiu to fight between the two tigers. The Jedi counterattacked, looking for Chinese hackers to attack the police website, and digging out a number of undercover agents in the gang (Chinese hackers are indispensable!). And in the end, Li Zicheng, who had been struggling between black and white until he was dying, was awakened by Ding Qing's advice before his death: "You have to be cruel to live." So, his sick cat showed off his power and completed a shocking reversal: in one fell swoop, he wiped out all the dissidents in both black and white, and became the chairman of the board. In the flames, policeman Li Zicheng and all his information turned into ashes; in the dark, the new chairman of the Golden Gate Group, Li Zicheng, slowly surfaced, creating a whole new world. Lie undercover to this level, is the highest state. Chen Yongren and his like, who are still suffering in the Hell of Infinite Hell, are simply weak!
aesthetics
"The New World" is the fourth work of the director and screenwriter Park Hun Jung. In terms of visual effects, he deliberately created an exquisite and elegant image style. The top figures of the underworld in the play are always in suits, bright leather, and all have excellent demeanor, whether they are using torture or killing. , And maintained a shocking domineering even to the end of his death. They are the managers of large enterprises and the controllers of violent groups. Eating Western food and playing golf completely ended the era of young and Dangerous street gangsters. They are a new generation of underworld elites. In contrast, Chief Jiang and Chief Gao on the police side are a middle-aged uncle who is heroic and late, and the other is a government bureaucrat who describes insignificantly. Promoting this and suppressing the other is really clear at a glance. It is also enjoyable to watch the four male stars of Lee Jung-jae, Choi Min-sik, Hwang Jung-min, and Park Seong-wong perform soaring. Huang and Pu, who play gang bosses, are not handsome, but they are glamorous and in the limelight. They are well deserved to be nominated for the best actor and actor at this year's Art Awards. Bai Dao's Li and Cui have limited space to play due to the plot relationship, but they are still wonderful. It goes without saying that Cui Minzhi is the actor, and Lee Jung-jae has already proved that he is not only relying on appearance to win the world. When Ding Qing's eyes were red and resisting tears, his relationship was precisely in place. The title of the film is "The New World", which already expresses the position of the film, just as Wu Yusen would call Xiao Zhuang and Li Ying the "two heroes". This is the underworld, but it is not infernal. The key is that this is a new world.
The last two paragraphs are added, which is regarded as a special extra: in the film, Ding Qing and Li Zicheng are assumed to be overseas Chinese in Lishui (I happen to have colleagues with the same background. Most of these people fled from Shandong to North Korea before the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The Han people on the peninsula are different from the Koreans who smuggled from Yanbian to South Korea in "Yellow Sea." PS: "Yellow Sea" is another Korean movie), but Huang Zhengmin's Chinese words are really bad, and it sounds too awkward. It's the one who played his lawyer, speaks fluent Beijing movies, and has a very good line skills. He should be a senior Chinese actor. It's a pity that there is no information available, which is a pity. The relationship between Ding Qing and Li Zicheng has been widely interpreted as "true love" of selflessness, and the copycat Rolex made in China has become a "witness of love". I remember that when Westerners watched Wu Yusen's films, they also believed that the heroes must have emotions beyond friendship. Well, I admit that corrupt people are in power, and straight people have no escape. It turns out that the chivalrous rivers and lakes of China for thousands of years are all the sky overflowing with basic feelings...
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