Since the establishment of the signboard of Milkyway in the Chinese film circle, it has never disappointed people, and this time is no exception. It brings even greater surprises to the audience. After many Hong Kong directors were unaccustomed to the environment, Director Du also tried it once, but his works were well received.
one. Opposite between good and evil, there is no doubt about death. Police and
bandit films can be regarded as a major feature of Hong Kong movies. From the classic "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers" before the return to the "Very Sudden" of Galaxy Impression, they all compare Hong Kong police and gangsters. The game between the two shows the original flavor, the police follow the clues to investigate the case, and the petty fights between colleagues are all indispensable elements of Hong Kong police and bandit movies. Naturally, the climax of the whole movie at the end of the movie is the The heavy firepower of the good and the evil sides is at war. In this last scene, there are never too many stories that the screenwriter can create, and every action of everyone will make the audience nervous, not only for the characters in the play, but more importantly, for the In this fleeting moment of life, will there be an unexpected situation that will change the life of everyone in the fire.
As a brain-level character of Galaxy Impression, Du Qifeng brings unexpected surprises to the audience. In conjunction with a group of screenwriters such as Wei Jiahui and You Naihai, when watching the movie, you will be amazed by the characters' actions when you are nervous. The feeling of a hail of bullets, it is a calm, thoughtful, but intense gunfight aesthetic.
In the early years of "Provincial and Hong Kong Flag Soldiers", director MacDangxiong took a group of gangsters who came to Hong Kong to loot from Guangzhou as the protagonists, and showed everything after their arrival in Hong Kong with a realistic and documentary shooting technique. Actions, nakedly show their violent characters and the ambivalence that they have a desire for a better life but use illegal means to pursue them on the screen. In the end, the gangsters fought against the police. The Hong Kong police dispatched helicopters and flying tigers. The battle in the alley can be described as a classic, fluent footage editing, and the despair of the gangsters when they finally had nowhere to escape. The top of the attic immediately turned into the past tense. After a burst of gunfire by the police from the first floor, they had no room to fight back, and the subtitles slowly rose with the dusty attic as the background. The police succeeded in annihilating a gang of gangsters at the expense of very few people in the final battle. This kind of ending is the best embodiment of the invincibility of evil. There is no suspense. When the gangsters enter the labyrinth-like narrow alley, their fate is trapped in it, and there is nowhere to escape. This can be regarded as a classic paradigm of positive and evil confrontation, and future generations can explore and innovate on this basis.
Director To Qifeng filmed "Very Sudden" in the 1990s, and the shootout at the end of this "Drug War" can be regarded as an intertextual relationship. In the sparsely populated factory area, without the intervention of more forces, the number of police officers can be regarded as five, and there are only two gangsters, but the murderers who were driven to a desperate situation have already made up their minds: either they will kill a bloody path, or Fight one you die and I die. In the end, both sides were corpses on the street, and the battle between good and evil was over. At that time, I am afraid that no one thought that even the police who happened to meet the gangster might not have expected that they would die in such an isolated and helpless situation. The most unexpected part of this "Drug War" is also at the end of the shootout. The drug dealer Cai Tianming lost his humanity. When the audience thought he drove the school bus to block the police to rescue his family, he immediately drove away, leaving his family completely. All were killed when exposed to police gunfire. He wanted to escape alone, but let the family he cared and loved to die. In the end, it was also on an uninhabited suburban road. The two sides started a contest, and another force opposing the two sides suddenly joined, increasing the suspense. The big deaf and the small deaf shot the policeman and the shooting master Cai Tianming, but a group of people finally Can't escape death. Although Cai was able to survive the shootout, Officer Zhang Lei had to handcuff Cai when he was dying. Although the price of justice was heavy this time, Cai was prevented from escaping, and the failure to escape was the loss of Qingqing's life. From this point of view, Du's films pay more attention to narrating from the perspective of the police. Although the result is that evil can outnumber righteousness, it follows that if you want to achieve justice, you must pay a great price. Good people may not have a good ending. I am dead, and the fish is dead and the net is broken can make the audience enjoyable to watch.
In the shootout, the force majeure factors are intricate and the situation on the scene is chaotic. Even the person with the best psychological quality can hardly resist the fear of death. He calmly responds to this very sudden situation. People have different hearts, whether it is good or evil or selfless. Whether it is selfishness, sharpness or stupidity, all human thoughts affect actions, resulting in thousands of possibilities for fierce battles. The attraction of Hong Kong police and bandit films is that the audience can see the thrill of street police and bandit battles. The fascinating thing about the police and bandit films of Galaxy Impression is that there will be thousands of accidents during this fierce battle, leading to thousands of endings. People can't help but sigh and experience the sudden feeling of this ever-changing change.
two. About the movie
What makes me uncomfortable in this movie is the performance of the character "Haha". I believe that the Galaxy creative team originally wanted to portray him as a character with a completely different personality from the calm and calm drug dealer on the other side, but his characteristics are Laughing all day long is too naive and exaggerated. When negotiating with others about drug trafficking, the mind is still weak.
"Drug War" chooses the blue tone as the basic color, which not only highlights the indifference of drug dealers to life, but also shows the omen of the film's tragic ending. Director Du pays attention to the sinister performance of light and shadow on the hearts of the characters and the environment. On the fishing boat at the dock, "Brother Haha" has just been arrested. Cai almost got into trouble again, and it was difficult to save his life. There was only a weak light source on his face, "If you want to live, I will accompany you." Officer Zhang said to Cai with a gloomy expression. "If you're going to die, I'll accompany you." The characters immediately became resolute and resolute, and the form was pressing. The dark scene not only forced Cai Guaijiao to cooperate with the police, but also forced the audience to breathe. The tension between the two sides pressed everyone. The audience's heart is full of curiosity about the tense relationship between the two, whether they can break through the siege of darkness and tear a gap in the sky.
The most commendable thing about this movie is that the screenwriter used two clues to narrate at the beginning. On the one hand, he used a car crash to lead out the big drug lord Cai Tianming. The other clue is that Officer Zhang was undercover in the car. Contact, which launched the contest between the two sides.
In addition, a scene of the explosion of Cai Tianming's factory was recently released online. In the film, most of his relatives were injured, but he relentlessly rescued the drug-making equipment, disregarding the lives of his relatives, and all of them died. Although this paragraph shows that Cai's conscience is gone and completely eroded by drugs, it is undoubtedly a better choice for the director to choose to reduce it. Seeing that the factory was in a mess, with dead bodies everywhere, I could actually imagine what kind of person Cai was, and it was reasonable to put the whole family to death later on, plus it would be redundant. It's also not a wise choice to cut it at the beginning, obviously less than the curiosity of the audience when a car hit the store directly.
The attention to detail is also an element of authenticity that the entire film possesses. After the two policemen tracked the drug dealers for many days, the first thing they did was to get out of the car easily. They worked very hard. The hidden drug in the body is also very real, washing the drug packaging, and the female drug dealer who did not expect her to die was still wearing shoes before she died. There is also a scene at the end that touches on the execution of the death penalty, allowing the audience to see what the execution of the death penalty is all about.
How to satisfy both the Hong Kong audience and the mainland audience, everyone was full of disappointment with movies that mixed Hong Kong and mainland flavors. This time, the head of Hong Kong's drug dealers came to the mainland to trade, and the law has become the law of the mainland. If they are caught, they will be sentenced to death. This is a very dramatic story in itself. How will their group escape to heaven, or go straight to hell? Instead of pulling mainlanders and Hong Kongers together, everything happened naturally and logically. Compared to watching the "Infernal Affairs 3" that made the audience feel uncomfortable, Chen Daoming's mainland police seemed helpless. He came to Hong Kong alone and felt ignorant of this land. Among the many Hong Kong police, a mainland police suddenly appeared. . Director Du clearly shows the situation of the two groups of people with ease. Both sides have their own goals, reasons, and thinking. In the competition, they will be integrated.
Andre Bazin, the great French film critic, said for a long time: film has entered the era of drama without knowing it, and the form has never been so strictly constrained by subject matter as it is now. is the subject matter itself. Galaxy Impression integrates the story of the protruding peaks and the cold and skilled rhythm style into the film, which is unique. Gone are the days of making a film and contributing to art. A few years ago, Chinese films began to follow suit, and as a result, those excellent things of their own have long been thrown out of the sky. The result of making films with money is that the quality is difficult to guarantee. As a result, there are not a few films that have participated in half-day tours of the theater. Now the screenwriters It's rare to create a story that gets the audience thinking. The good news is that in this movie, the spirit of the Hong Kong police and bandit genre is still there, and a movie that respects our IQ that the audience has been missing for a long time has appeared again.
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