From Billy's often lip service "Fuck you", it determines the style of this film. The emphasis is on the truth, and compared with the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, it has a lot less sensational part. There is no goodbye to the police, everyone's death is so normal. Expressive without details. Kobe's role is more sloppy than Andy Lau's version. He didn't hesitate to delete Billy's file without Hua Tsai's regret. Maybe this is what the director wants, and it shows the difference between Eastern and Western cultures.
In the first dialogue between Billy and Kobe, using a peculiar instrument as the background music
did not know Director Martin's thoughts, and some did not understand.
Infernal Affairs, how to interpret the real infernal Affairs? Does this film reproduce the real Infernal Affairs?
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