This time, "Drug War" is To Qifeng's consistent style. The script is solid, shocking, and unexpected, but it is also cold in reason. It does not play emotional cards, and it does not earn tears. It shows the darkest side of human nature.
In fact, it is almost delusional to want to make a police and bandit movie in the style of Du Qifeng under the approval system of the Mainland State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, but under the premise of Mr. Du's persistent persistence and gradual exploration of the Mainland environment in recent years, I have to say that he still does his best. Efforts to retain some of the original Hong Kong flavor of "Drug War". Although more or less local elements of the mainland have been incorporated, it is understandable. After all, co-productions are currently the mainstream, and in general, they can be regarded as a major challenge to the inherent style of the mainland film market.
Do you make such a film, in line with the socialist scientific concept of development, in line with the main theme of a harmonious society? Killing a policeman shows that the domestic police's lack of ability to solve crimes is a taboo in domestic movies. To a certain extent, it challenges the authority of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the Ministry of Public Security, but John To's "Drug War" has achieved it, and finally it is the road of mainland police and gangster films. an important step forward.
Lao Du's violent aesthetics is based on the feeling of "heroes cherish each other", but the violent but ambiguous, masterpiece "Dark War", Andy Lau and Liu Qingyun's police and bandit games, their mutual respect, people sometimes can't tell who is right and who is wrong , which is probably one of the reasons why our generation began to follow Lao Du. In "Drug Wars", To Qifeng's violent style is still there, and it is more and more pure, so clean that there is no gap, but the aesthetics have been left out and disappeared, and they are thrown away like a burden.
Lao Du's script this time is solid. He doesn't play with you and write poetry, but he acts in a real way, and makes a film that is cold, cruel, and desperate. The story is a linear narrative, with multiple lines intertwined in parallel, and many characters criss-crossing the plot and compactly advancing the plot.
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Sun Honglei... Zhang Lei Gu Tianle... Cai Tianming
Huang Yi...Xiao Bei Gao Yunxiang...Xiaoxiang
Zhong Hanliang...Guo Weijun Li Guangjie...Chen Zhixiong
Guo Tao...Big Deaf Li Jing...Little Deaf
Wang Siya...Policewoman Hao Ping... Haha Brother
Gan Tingting...Haha Sister Lin Xue...Fat Cheng
Lu Haipeng... Que Shu Lin Jiadong... Li Adong
Ye Xuan... Sapa Zhang Zhaohui... Saliva Su
Jiang Haowen... Black boy Wu Tingye... Qiu
Zi Ziyi... In Xiao
Lin's drama, Cai Tianming is so cold that it makes people shudder, and he reverses many times in the play Just to survive.
Zhang Lei's long-distance bus scene from the beginning to the later scenes of Li Zhenbiao's nephew and Haha fully show his hidden attributes, showing the adaptability of the anti-drug police.
In the interrogation room, Cai Tianming was silent in his mourning for his deceased wife, and finally came to his senses to make a last-ditch effort for his own survival and offered to take guilt and make merit; drug dealers burned real money, police collected travel expenses, and the close-up of the camera was very sufficient, a lively black humor. ; Under the control of the puppets of Hong Kong drug dealers, Li Zhenbiao let several ships set sail together. His nephew was sober and unreasonably requesting more than 70 ships to start at the same time and leave the port in a mighty manner. At the end, when the end was approaching, people felt pale and powerless. , The police representing the force of justice fought with two deaf men, but they were beaten by the two deaf men and almost wiped out the entire army. In the end, Cai Tianming didn't even have time to give a look of disdain, so he shot headshots and killed all the remaining policemen!
This is the most dehumanizing police and gangster film I've seen over the years. It's neat and real, and it doesn't leave a living. That's right, they're all dead anyway. . Every detail of the movie is cold and cruel. There seems to be no temperature in the movie. Xiaobei and another policewoman were hit by Cai Tianming and a few drug dealers, and then repeatedly crushed. He fled by himself, kept shooting Beckham, and the gun was crisp. It has been a long time since my brain, who has been in aesthetic fatigue for a long time, has seen the forces of justice so vulnerable in the mainland police and gangster films that justice will win, and the police are fragmented and bloody.
Zhang Lei, who regards investigation as his life, Cai Tianming, who will do anything to survive, Deaf who wears a bulletproof vest even when he takes a bath, Hong Kong drug dealers beat Li Zhenbiao, every character and every scene puts the audience in an extremely cold ice cellar . Especially for the role of Cai Tianming, Du Qifeng has undoubtedly cooperated with Louis Koo very well. Not only has Galaxy Imaging cooperated with him the most times, but he is also the one from the first scene to the last scene in this "Drug War". His role is a drug master. In order to survive and become Zhang Lei's informant, he has been begging Zhang Lei to let him commit crimes. Along the way, he has promised to bring Zhang Lei into it step by step. The disintegration of the situation, when he began to win the trust of the audience, Cai Tianming's cruel side of the drug dealer showed without reservation. Use kindergarten children as shields; drive to pick up the group of seven, just when the group of seven ran to the road, he drove away, making the group of seven instantly the most conspicuous target of the police, here are his godfather and His brother; shot two apprentices mercilessly; even smashed his hands in order to break free from handcuffs. In order to survive, he could even sell his soul. At that moment, the audience will probably feel that drugs are nothing, and the human heart is more poisonous than drugs. Koo Tianle once again performed an impressive role quietly.
All the protagonists and supporting actors died heartily in the end, leaving no one alive. The police corpses were all over the place, and probably the entire theater would be filled with sadness. When Cai Tianming was injected with venom, he went against the quietness at the end of ordinary literary movies, and kept saying all kinds of gossip. Always fantasize about the last possibility of survival.
Audiences who like To Qifeng can see many surprises, while those who are not familiar with To Qifeng can adjust their mentality and watch a dark movie that kills people in addition to drug trafficking. They have a beautiful vision for socialism and have a heart full of love for the world. Best not to watch it.
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