The fission of traditional values

Erwin 2022-01-18 08:02:38

Wu Yusen's personal feelings with a lot of hard work have gone to an inevitable failure.

At one time, Wu Yusen was a defender of the morals of the traditional arena, but he was in a big era that was a bit similar to rituals and music, and the power of money began to dominate life. As a result, everything in all traditions has changed, and money has become a measure of everything. Standards. This is an unstoppable historical trend in a commoditized society, and such a trend has created unavoidable internal anxiety for the Chinese who have been deeply influenced by the Confucian family culture, because all this is in line with the love of human relations that Confucianism has always emphasized. Righteousness is the opposite. Wu Yusen is full of reluctance to traditional brotherhood, but he can't stop the trend of the whole society personally, so he poured all his feelings into the heroes in his movies, and was the last moral thing. Rescue, and finally ended in tragedy, composing a traditional moral elegy.

As a result, his heroic film produced a stirring era resonance in that era. The protagonist in the film is not only a simple superhero who punishes evil and promotes good, but is more like a defender of traditional morality. The existence of characters has a new look. The foundation of his thoughts, this is where he is different from the previous people.

There is emotion and righteousness, reason and reason.

Based on such a sentiment, although his heroic films are not as good in terms of social composition, they are lofty in mind, defending the inherent traditional morality with freedom. Therefore, there is the wonderful and smooth visual magnificence of the Fenglin Pavilion shootout. First of all, the emotional line runs through to establish the audience's identity, so that the audience also participates in the pleasure and sense of justice of the shootout.

For this film, Wu Yusen really poured his own emotions. Obviously, the main line of the film is to express the destruction and destruction of friendship by money culture, and the fission of human nature under cruel conditions. Obviously, there are many unreasonable points in the layout of the plot. For example, the visual extravagance of the friendship between a few people was too romantic and wasteful, so that it did not pave the way for A Rong's subsequent transformation. Cutting it too fast and jumping over time and space are too obvious to make it possible for the audience to establish identity in an instant. More importantly, the violence not only separates from the content, but even produces destruction, because the violence here is the violence of the fission of friendship, and there is no heroic justice and pride.

Of course, there are a few scenes that are still very impressive, especially Tony Leung's performance. Tony Leung's emotional control before killing Jacky Cheung is beyond the reach of ordinary actors.

For this film, Wu Yusen devoted more personal emotions, and his exploration of friendship and humanity reached the peak of all his films. In the past, he could simply distinguish the binary opposition between good and evil in the style of Yi Bo Yuntian, and in this film , Is a chaotic state of good and evil. Under such a situation, it exposes the unacceptable human pain.

The story begins to have a background of the times, and the characters have a foundation to rely on. The first half romanticizes brotherhood. For violence, a dance-style carnival is carried out in the name of friendship, which can be called a violent poetic editing. .

Under the war, we wore civilized open crotch pants.

The background of the story takes place in a war environment, in a world where there is no logic to tell, all selfish desires are released. Fear of death-human beings' instinct for being greedy and fearful of death; the desire for money and the swelling desire for survival have disappeared for more than ten years for a box of gold. For yourself, you can kill your friends with your own hands. The life of being killed is no longer meaningful, and the crowd fell in a pool of blood in the shooting.

Brother's bullet hurts the most

The last life of Huizi was the most distressing. His pain was not only the pain of bullets, but also the collapse of his belief in brotherhood. At last he saw A B. He should be happy. He should be pleased with the past things A B told him, but he understood everything. Finally he pointed the gun to his heart. He wanted to tell B, although I I can't speak, but I know it all in my heart.

People who have lost themselves

The last A Rong is bloody and bloody. From his face, we can read his loss of self, but his soul did not rest in peace because of his success. The heartache of shooting his friend until the moment before his death, he did not really Calm down.

In the end, Ah B's face was treated with cuts. It was obvious that he was the most injured person. He was not yet happy with Huizi, and could die under the understanding of his friends by a real friend. Suffering a huge trauma is the collapse of faith, and the hesitation of the future. Therefore, his roar is a question of the unreasonable world.

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Bullet in the Head quotes

  • Ben: Mr Leong. I think think you're mistaken. When we were in Hong Kong we admired Miss Yen. We like listening to her sing. We were all staring at her just now, as we were wondering... wondering why she had changed so much. She's not pretty any more.

    Paul: Ah Bee!

    Ben: She's lost her innocence. She's not happy any more. I wonder who was responsible for that?

    Y.S. Leong: You're criticizing me? Not many people would speak to me like that. Young man, you've got balls. Bring me wine!

  • Ben: You're pointing a gun on a good friend you've known for more than a decade!