This is a gangster movie, but it is also based on a real story. I heard that the mafia still offers a reward of 500,000 for the wanted agent, which sounds really exciting. However, the film is not as intense as imagined. At first glance, it is still a relatively dull film. In contrast, it is also a movie about undercover. The famous "Infernal Affairs" in China is much more interesting. If nothing else, it is enough to have the five best actors in front of you, plus some twists and turns. The plot and the anti-undercover in the bizarre undercover, the undercover in the anti-undercover, are really dazzling to the point of dizziness. And "Faithful Traitor" is much more simple, with a simple narrative style, so simple that the entire movie is immersed in the world of two people. Undercover Downey.
The shooting style of the film tends to be more of a literary film, a single continuous shot, without too many shooting scenes and the passion that a gangster film should have. The film has been exploring the hearts of the characters, depicting Lao Zuo, a sullen little person, who is preoccupied and looking forward to a big career; depicts Downey's wandering between black and white, the imbalance between work and family; also depicts The revolutionary sentiment between Lao Zuo and Downey goes from shallow to deep. The whole film is in a kind of gray depression, so that this color film has always been viewed by me as a black and white film.
Unlike the Infernal Affairs-esque undercover movies, it doesn't have a black-and-white line, and between the gangster and the FBI, the characters in this character are always confused, and he doesn't even know which identity he is more suitable for. He got the father-son relationship from the gangster Lao Zuo, but he couldn't get the security and trust he deserved from his boss in the FBI. It can be said that this character is gray, he has been cruising between black and white, is a "middleman" and a "loyal traitor". Here is a compliment, the name of this movie is really good.
At the end of the film, Lao Zuo didn't want to believe that Downey would kill him when he was dying, but Downey's hard work only got a small badge and 500 yuan, plus a lifetime of incognito, this ending There is really a sense of helplessness and loneliness.
Johnny Depp and Tony Leung used two completely different performances to perform undercover, and different directors also like to emphasize their talking eyes in front of the camera. I especially like the close-ups of Depp's eyes at the beginning of the film. , the quiet and restrained eyes reflect such a gloomy story.
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