I didn't watch the movie, but I was itchy because of this comment.
Every year the film festival comes as scheduled, and every year Huang Meiyu comes as scheduled, and when I put away my umbrella and settle down, the movie starts, and the rain on the screen is heavier than outside.
Melville's heavy rain, clattering down directly on us, "Big Dawn" came across. Four men and one car, all with top hats and long trench coats, the gangsters are dead, and the ending of the movie has been written. Only this time, the police chasing them are bluer, lonelier and more charismatic than them.
"Great Dawn" was Melville's last work, and a year later he died of a heart attack. In Melville's glorious catalogue, "The Great Dawn" may not even make the top five, and many Melville fans complained that the film ended the most charming gangster friendship of Lao Mei's past movies, four They robbed the bank together, one of them was shot and was sent to the hospital with great difficulty, but after several twists and turns, the other three went to kill their companions in the hospital bed. Lao Mei's gangsters shouldn't do this. You see in "The Red Circle", the gangsters who have never known each other identified each other with just one look, and in the end, in order to save each other, they both put their life and death aside in order to save each other. Should be the "Across the World" brothers who later took over by John Woo, okay?
Too bad Melville didn't have the strength to defend the last-minute turn in his life. The film inscription of "The Great Dawn" said, "In their hearts, there are only two feelings, vagueness and mockery." This inscription has both strong ambiguity and a profound sense of nothingness. My understanding is that Melville ended his romantic hero with this epigraph, saying goodbye to his "Bob the Gambler" and the old cop who guarded Bob; goodbye to his "lone killer" and the killer The secret of loading bullets, in "The Great Dawn", Melville tried to add a colder realism to his metallic existentialism, but his attitude is not clear, so the whole play has surprisingly few lines, It makes the gangsters who already have a sense of face blindness even more unclear. However, Lao Mei's motive is very clear. This time, he did not let his Alain Delong play the role of the gangster. Alain Delong is playing the policeman, but the policeman and the gangster have the same expression, the same clothes, and the same cigarette The posture, the same ruthless shot, and even sharing the same woman with the gangster boss.
In this sense, "Big Dawn" is Lao Mei's most important work, even if it is not considered to be Lao Mei's representative work. In other words, he completed the confluence of gangster movies and film noir by himself, and completed the turn of police and bandit movies by himself. The grey grammar he invented started a new wave in the world. Just in Hong Kong, he was possessed by John Woo and John Du. , also directly into "Infernal Affairs". This man is really too good. Just his unscrupulousness in walking the rivers and lakes in the tone of a pornographic novel writer can kick away a contemporary director who is delicate and young.
In the film festival, I watched one film after another, but there was only one as cold as Lao Mei. Watching a lot of directors who are cute and laughing enough to use the camera lens, they will think, you go to see "The Great Dawn", the French goddess Deneuve has no chance to flirt with the camera, and Lao Mei is stubbornly fighting soft movies on the screen. handsome. In this way, when I finally squeezed into the screening room of the hit movie "Day Yan", and saw the director make a derailed drama into a pure love movie, the three views are so outdated, I can't wait to gather together Shenlong Summons Laomei: Save the movie.
"Big Dawn" ended, and the heavy rain at the beginning turned into the iron fog of dawn. I got up and walked into the plum rain in Shanghai. I felt that this rain surnamed Mei must be related to Lao Mei.
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