"Underworld" is a very good gangster movie. It has a strong epic feel to it while remaining highly entertaining.
The film revolves around the story of election talkers and snatchers. There are many characters in the show, each with a distinct personality and unique temperament. The living people and the thrilling events form a colorful and layered underworld scene, which more or less reflects an aspect of Hong Kong's social history.
The faucet stick is the token of "He Liansheng", a big gang in Hong Kong. A small thing, everyone has their own opinion.
For elders of the uncle generation like Deng Bo, the dragon head stick is a sacred relic. It represents the face and authority of the gang. The gang "Heliansheng" is their belief.
Deng Bo has worked in the underworld all his life. His moral values in life and his worldview belong to the underworld, full of loyalty, brotherhood, social responsibility, and ethics. While he idealized the underworld, the underworld also pushed him to an idealized idol position.
Deng Bo's righteous rhetoric on anti-corruption and upholding integrity at the Speakers' Council almost convinced me that being in the underworld was a very bright and promising career. Even the police officer Sir was very annoyed at Deng Bo's indulging fantasy, and scolded "You think the underworld is a legitimate industry!".
Of course the underworld is not a legitimate industry.
The faction bosses who hold real power in the underworld have never been benevolent, righteous and moral. Without one exception, they are all scumbags. With viciousness, insidiousness, brutality, shamelessness. . . . Waiting for the worst human word to describe them is not an exaggeration. In order to compete for profit, they kill their own brothers without mercy.
They also worship the dragon head stick. But their purpose is not glorious at all. Of course, they still talk about "doing things for Grandpa", but in their stomachs, they are all about how to strengthen their own strength and expand their own territory.
Anyway, whoever has the strength can get the faucet stick; whoever gets the faucet stick, whoever has a large number of bosses and younger brothers competing to serve as vassals, can be the king and hegemon. The faucet stick has a temptation that any Jianghu boss can't resist.
This time, it was Ale and Da D who participated in the election of the speaker.
Ale's strength is weak, and he is obviously at a disadvantage compared to the big D who is supported by his younger brothers. He is alone most of the time. He smiled amiably, and he didn't even smell like a triad. Instead, he looked like a kind old family man who went shopping and cooking by himself.
However, once luck came, Ale became a talker, and his younger brothers began to gather around him slowly, and some weak factions also came to attach. His gaze became firm, his waist began to straighten, his expression became serious, and the evil spirit on his body became heavier and heavier than when Big D was most arrogant. He was even more frightening when he laughed than when he wasn't.
Big D was already very powerful before he became a talker. But his prestige came a little strange. It seems to be the case. He paid money to bribe elections, and let Buffalo come to power as the speaker of the previous session, and then he hid behind the scenes to manipulate and reap the benefits. This time, he personally went to the front desk to campaign, determined to win, so he signed contracts with many bosses in advance and took benefits. If you can't choose, it's a huge trouble.
There is a very obvious difference between Deng Bo's underworld and the underworld of black bosses, giving people the impression of schizophrenia. Which one is the real underworld?
In fact, they are all triads, and they have different roles in different aspects. One is for face, the other is for lining; one is for advertising, and the other is for survival;
The two underworld forms point to the chives among the chives, the hooligans of the bottom underworld.
To paraphrase a common term in political economy "exploitation" to explain this relationship, that is, the black boss makes money by "exploiting" the "blood and sweat" of the hooligans, and the reason why the hooligans willingly accept "exploitation" is partly because they are Deng Bo's nonsense about loyalty and loyalty in Jianghu legends confused his mind.
When the little hooligan plane shouted "I'll do it for Grandpa" while slashing with a dozen opponents with knives, the mental state shown is definitely a hundred times more exciting than smoking du. Deng Bo's kind of spiritual underworld provided batches of leeks who sacrificed their lives and had the courage to contribute to the real underworld of the black boss.
Of course, the little hooligan also has other careful thoughts. What if he becomes the boss one day later?
When Ale enlightened Zhanmi, he said a very crucial sentence, "Young and Dangerous Boys don't need brains, they are all young and Dangerous Boys all their lives".
Judging from the relationship between the uncles, the faction bosses and the hooligans, the real mistake in the whole story is actually Deng Bo. He tried to put his illusory power into reality, decide who to speak to according to his own wishes, and no longer obey the rubber stamp rules, thus arousing the strong backlash of the should-elected big D trying to break away from the gang and establish his own door, causing a wave of gangs to shake. The foundational event.
In the underworld where abnormal human beings can survive, this incident is very bloody, brutal, and magical.
When Big D flouted the gang's rules to grab the faucet, he didn't receive much resistance from his peers. Some faction bosses even help him for money. Dongguan Tsai was ordered by his boss to help Big D find a stick. The Dumbos' bullshit only works when they need it.
Only when Big D tried to break away from "He Liansheng" and go it alone did he provoked public anger and became the unanimous enemy of the gang. Eating the meal of "Heliansheng", but smashing the pot of "Heliansheng", so that everyone has no food to eat, and everyone will work together to deal with the big D.
The turning point of this matter happened when Dongguan Tsai beat the big head and was about to help Big D get the faucet stick.
The big head, who was beaten with blood, received a call from his boss, asking him to hand over the faucet stick to the Dongguan boy who was an enemy a second ago. He didn't know what he was thinking. But his hand was shaking, his eyes were very puzzled, and he was still reading the oath of gang rules that Deng Bo had instilled in him.
The big head has no great ability, he is just more religious than the plane. He is the kind of brainless young and dangerous boy that Ale said.
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