If Daniel Day-Lewis vividly and profoundly depicts the growth history of an oil devil in the movie "The Blood Will Come", then in the movie "Underworld", Ren Dahua uses a steady pace, fresh Live and heavy interpretation of a history of changes in Hong Kong gangsters.
Both films have foundations to follow. The foundation of "There Will Be Blood" is half of the Bible, which is about the dark half. What To Qifeng wants to show in "Underworld" is a Buddhist story about the history of Chinese gangs. concept of causality.
To Qifeng admitted at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August 2005 that his starting point was not to make a violent gangster film, but only to make a film showing the history of Hong Kong - or the history of the Chinese people. The audience can view the underworld as a film Shame for the Chinese, but it can also be regarded as an integral part of culture or history. In short, I want to make such a movie. I don't want to make it a "hero movie". The underworld always oppresses others, but at the same time they emphasize moral principles. Without these principles, they really become bandits.
In this way, the story of a gangster unfolds ups and downs under Du Qifeng's camera, and slowly comes to an end. Ale (played by Yam Dahua) and Big D (played by Leung Ka Fai) go fishing together, and Big D talks about two talkers in other gangs. As soon as the words fell, Ale turned around and struggled to lift a stone larger than a human head, and hit his head with fourteen consecutive hits. He didn't stop the fifteenth strike until he saw his son on the hillside, and Ale slipped into the ground. In the water, he was buried alive by Ale.
At the end of "There Will Be Blood", Daniel (Daniel Day-Lewis) is suddenly provoked at his home by his long-time rival Eli (Paul Dano) who comes to visit with words about old accounts and religion. Suddenly shot, with a bowling bat three consecutive hits on the opponent's head, Eli fell to death.
If it is said that all encounters in the world are reunions after a long absence, then all impromptu conflicts in the world are long-planned, and are the concentrated outbreak and disorderly release of evil in human nature.
Ale's son, who witnessed his father mutilating the big D who was fishing with him just now and went to chase and kill D's wife, was so frightened that he could barely speak. He returned to the car, his eyes were dull, and he couldn't even look at his father again.
As for Daniel's son, his ears were deafened by the explosion in the mine disaster when he was young. Seeing his father's evil and frantic plundering, he became a dumb boy who did not want to talk anymore. When he grew up, he stayed away from talking about interests A father who does not read feelings.
Will Le Zai, who has grown up many years later, become like Daniel's son, I hope not.
When Ale shoveled the first shovel and landed it on the faces of D and D's wives, who were still warm in the pit, the ending song "Song to Heaven" floated in the air:
sympathizing with each other, holding hands to encourage each other, morality and justice Words to the ground to the sky; high-
singing and toasting, writing my promise with great ambition, and saying that life and death will not change.
Now the spring flowers are blooming all over, and the autumn wind will be inevitable in the future, and the stories of the old days will be staged from generation to generation
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There is death and there is life, the world has continuity and extension, there is no day without today.
Laughing and asking when and where, if you meet someone from the past again, will you know that year.
In the last set of shots, Ale returned to the car and said the last line in the film to his shivering son: Go home, the car turned and drove out of the camera.
And in the last line of "There Will Be Blood", Daniel sat wearily next to Eli and said to the housekeeper who heard the sound from upstairs and came down to inquire: I'm done.
These are very similar to what Thomas Eliot said in "The Hollow Man":
This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with a whimper.
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