This is another story in which desire triumphs over hope. Although these two terms sometimes refer to the same thing, the subtle difference between them is enough to turn the story upside down. To Qifeng grasped this difference, This film rescued from the stable, telling people that once desire has the upper hand, waiting for people in this world is no longer a redemption, but an endless punishment.
I have read a few film reviews with some religious inspiration before, and I suddenly began to feel that the film should be full of redemption in order to be complete and powerful. But then I found out that this kind of point of view bothered me when watching the film, because when I tried to think that the person in the film would start to redeem himself at some point, I found that he was actually completely different from what I thought, and he would also Getting further and further away, allowing myself and the plot to degenerate indefinitely, especially in those films with gloomy plots, this really bothered me a lot, because there really couldn’t be any redemption in it, that kind of feeling just went away. Like a guy who keeps hitting me and I can neither fight back nor turn away.
It's just that after this feeling, I will feel ridiculous. Since I can accept the complexity of reality, and also accept that sometimes there is no possibility of redemption in reality, why should I have perfect expectations for illusory stories? ? Maybe I really think of the movie as a perfect dream, maybe I really believe that there is a place in this world where there is only redemption and no punishment, even if it only appears on the big screen. In fact, this is not the case in reality, and neither is the film.
I don't know why, after watching "Underworld", I always feel that Gu Tianle has a trace of evil spirit attached to him. Although he still has a dark complexion, he seems to be forever covered with a gloomy color, maybe just like time. When things change, they change forever, and there is no way to go back. In this film, Cai Tianming, played by Louis Koo, is also a mysterious character all day long. Thinking of a guy like him who relies on betrayal to save his life, it should be like this, right? Gu Tianle's interpretation of the characters in the film can be said to be full of skill, portraying the heart of a person who survives by betrayal in a hideous and horrifying manner, especially when he finally wants to escape but cannot escape, especially when he is lying on the execution bed in the end. When self-salvation is impossible, people suddenly feel that if there is only redemption in this world, where should people like Cai Tianming be placed? He will never ask for redemption, and I am afraid he will never have peace. Maybe he can only get a moment of peace after being injected with sedatives before his death, right? And it is in this scene that Gu Tianle performed superbly, and this film should also become his masterpiece.
Sun Honglei also has a shadow of both good and evil, but after years of experience, he has long been able to take it in and out. The anti-drug captain in the film is generally good. As for the scene of his drug use, whether it is real or not, I don't think it is necessary to be serious. It just needs to give the audience a shock. It really needs to be completely real. First, the effect may not be very good, and secondly, it is expensive, so it is unnecessary. As for the other characters in the film, most of them are quite satisfactory. The more outstanding ones are Guo Tao and Li Jing, who play drug dealers, big and small. They seem to be honest and cowardly, but they can draw a gun and fight fiercely at a critical moment. It seems that this drug dealer is really the life of desperados. No matter how ordinary and wretched he is, he is crazy when he is fighting for his life!
Although the story in the movie takes place in the Mainland, the style of storytelling is still from Hong Kong, and this is the reason why I love Johnnie To. He has now become one of the few peaks in Hong Kong movies. He insists on the Hong Kong movie style. The last few signs. Although many filmmakers now talk about fusion and fusion at every turn, they seem to have the world in mind and do not stick to the rules, but they are actually justifying their own abandonment. In this movie, the styles are different, and the fusion of things, whether good or bad, is already something else. Therefore, I hope that even if Director Du finally goes north for the market, please keep your own style. The so-called acclimatization is an excuse. The success of this film is an example, as long as something is good, no matter what the style is, the market will accept it!
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