Too many people marveled at the fact that the drug-related scenes exposed in this film were able to pass the trial, but the real surprise is not the scale of the drug-related scenes, but the attitude and the censorship in the hidden film and the entire empire. The sharpness of the opposition. It’s not hard to notice that the seven gangsters of Hong Kong in "Drug War" are no longer the black and super young and Dangerous line with the extraordinarily ruthless skills in the tradition of Hong Kong movies, but they look like ordinary people except for drugs. The citizens of the two silly women, children, young and old are even "good citizens". In the scene of the Tianjin Port Negotiations, when the negotiations were in a crisis, the mainland drug dealer Haha Ge, who was pretended by the police team Zhang (Sun Honglei), kicked on the table and pointed at the unpredictable Hong Kong boss Biao Shu. I don’t think Sun Honglei showed It is the prestige of the public security. Rather, it can be a fake haha or a real haha. It can be a public security or a mainland underworld. In a word, that’s " The "Mainland" is so strong against "Hong Kong", whether it is the police, the underworld or the businessmen, the "Mainland" is so strong in front of "Hong Kong."
If the heart of "Drug War" is so great, then it does not exceed the level of "fighting land" that is commonly found in post-97 Hong Kong films on the ideological level. The real cruelty of "Drug War", or Johnnie To, lies in its cruelty to Hong Kong and Hong Kong people.
The word "ruthless" (severely critical) focuses on the role of the male protagonist Cai Tianming (Gu Tianle). As a Hong Konger, Tony To is concentrating on the issue of "national character" of Hong Kong people, quite a bit like "sorrowing the misfortune and angering the others", and does not show mercy.
The role of Cai Tianming is sentimental and righteous, ruthless and unjust. Every time he faces a strong (police) crush and a chance to survive, he will not hesitate to choose to protect himself and sell it, but he never really cooperates with one heart and one heart, and never easily reveals the limited cards in his hand. At the same time, he has always left as much as possible but extremely limited leeway for family and brothers and rivers and lakes and "Hong Kong." His attitude towards the northern forces is not so much a surrender, but rather a surrender. It is not so much a struggle, but a struggle. He is clever, enters the WTO, speculates, dares to fight for his life, possesses all the psychological qualities and skills to adapt to the worldly existence, instinctively distrusts and disagrees with power, and always falls into the weakness of isolating himself.
If six words can be used to explain Cai Tianming, it is: cartilage, love freedom.
Although the above-mentioned words of one family, the past two decades are still vividly remembered, and everyone has their own experience. So far, I think of a few words I saw Jackie Chan in a magazine many years ago. I don’t remember the original words. The general idea is: if there is only a shop across the street and a few pieces of bread in the world, the first, the second, and the third. If you cross the street to get it, it will definitely be a Hongkonger.
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