This era is an era in which all kinds of different personalities are being eliminated

Everett 2022-04-10 08:01:01

The underworld is a Confucian literary epic. There are no exaggerated fights and conspiracies in the palace, and everything shown can find the prototype of life. The collective life of the Li society not only has the style of the pictures of the Li society, but also cannot be separated from the principle of human beings' deep-rooted group survival. Every typical example in the film is very old-fashioned. An excellent group drama reflects an era and reflects many groups.

It is mainly about character analysis and impressions, with less content about film techniques.

To be continued, not to be updated regularly.

The Lego section has been updated.


airplane

The plane is not a stupefied young man, and certainly not a "chivalrous man", he just represents a group that is now dying.

He lives in the plane for a long time, eats convenience food, drinks bottled beverages, gets injured at both ends in three days, and is thin and thin. It is fake to be able to fight, but it is true that he will die. To some extent, his fighting power comes from immunity to fear and pain.

At the beginning of the first part, the domineering big D told him to eat the spoon on the boat. Although we know this is a "big D-style" joke, the plane really crushed it and ate it, which was quite a kind of scolding from the parents. Why don't you die and then really jump off the stairs as a kid. This is essentially a rejection of the other party's discourse system. For example, if you are scolded for not dying, you can have normal, funny, awesome, and terrifying responses, indicating that we are allowed to continue under the same discourse system. The battle will determine the winner, but if I really die, it means that your discourse system has failed, and my will to refuse is above you, showing my control and your stupidity.

Whether it's a child who jumped off or a plane, of course, he won't calculate the cost of proving other people's stupidity, because this behavior is too cool, he has a sense of monopoly of values, that is, since you are a person who holds the usual discourse system , you will definitely not choose an alternative response like me, so this response method is unique to me, and this sense of superiority is monopolized by me. For example, Mr. Bai posed a difficult problem to Afan. Afanti did not solve the problem, but directly said that I couldn’t solve it, and then killed himself in public with five feet of blood, becoming the spiritual totem of the people in the northwest. This kind of ending is what people like airplanes like most.

The plane is a person who only believes in himself, and is not convinced by anyone. At the same time, he is a weakling who is surrounded by loneliness and a sense of crisis, completely unable to grasp his own future. This is not contradictory. On the contrary, it is very realistic. Just like Xiangzi Luotuo, he keeps working hard for a dream that cannot exist at all, but he will never get the car that he thinks will lead to happiness. How many people are there in reality? Fighting for similar fantasies.

As a paranoid, the IQ of the plane does not drop. This is the way a person like him survives. He knows that the car is empty. Compared with the careers of other capable leaders, his efforts are nothing but farts. , even the godfather's appreciation is false, is to use. But he can't stop. What this kind of person values ​​is not whether the thing he is after exists and whether it has value, but that he strengthens the sense of mission and gold content of his pursuit by giving this meaning to his pursuit. Just like what Xiangzi wants is not a hundred yuan ocean, nor a stable home, it must be a rickshaw, only a rickshaw can make his future happy and secure. And the reason? At first, it may just be because someone praised him for his big feet, and he must be a bull to pull a cart.

Yutoubiao said that if you don't agree, you will have a bigger power than Big D. How does he know that there is no conviction in the dictionary of the plane, and there is no logic to make people convinced by engaging in power. His intuition tells him to solve a problem. The ultimate problem, all other problems have been solved, as for where the ultimate problem is, I don't know. Anyway, the first battle is fought, and it will get closer step by step.

If a person is very good at misinterpreting and extremizing the external feedback he receives, he will become withdrawn and extreme, like a plane facing a long-haired subordinate, walking in empty-handed and fighting, like a rushing mad cow. turn. He was no longer thinking about the work that the boss explained, but after various misinterpretations, he translated the matter into "I want (ignoring all obstacles) to complete the matter of handing the stick to Huo Niu". Just like you asked Xiangzi a hundred times, how can you be happy? Xiangzi will answer you one hundred and one sentences, just give me a car.

When Zhan Mi handed the stick to Brother Le, the plane rushed up to beat Zhan Mi. It is said that he hates him for stealing his own credit. I think it is very reluctant. He personally handed the faucet stick to the gang, can he get more benefits than the plot? Obviously not with his negotiating skills. What he hated was that Zhanmi had destroyed his own sense of ritual in completing the mission. Not only was the stick taken away by Zhanmi, but he was also saved, which made him both hate and ashamed. The stress response of these two contradictory people is related to evil.

In the past, the plane spent a day selling white powder under Yutoubiao, and after passing the guard stick, Cheng Le Ge’s Qi Zai spent two years playing dog sticks. The change in status did not improve the plane’s quality of life at all. When Le brother tested the other four people two years later, he didn't ask about the idea of ​​the plane. He still lived in an old-fashioned pigeon cage. Every time he fought, he received a thin stack of money. But also in a state of unease, distress and suffocation.

Before and after Jimi's candidacy, Brother Le said twice in a row that I would support you as a talker, and the plane's response was not as expected. I". Does he really crave connections and recognition? otherwise. When a person with normal intelligence has real desires, the corresponding methodology and style of work will inevitably be born. The plane is only in the long-term closed and endless self-struggle. "New driving force" thinking of seeking change, which is the rise of an instinctual need, similar to a person with a muddled life who spontaneously makes a schedule one day. But he misinterpreted it again as "dealing with Zhanmi will make your wish come true", which is nothing more than a lame self-deception that transfers the added value from the rickshaw to the blue cab and the green cab. "If you do something, everything will be different." He just wanted to test whether the motivation was convincing enough.

Hijacking Jammi's girlfriend is very unfashionable behavior, including pulling Jammi into the car and going around in circles. He (perhaps for the first time in his life) was trying to imitate the behavior of a gangster, and he said bluntly, "I want you all to be afraid of me" , Unfortunately, the level of imitation is really catching chicken. Doesn't he know that Brother Le wants to be re-elected? Not only does he know, but he doesn't care, He needs to change. What really woke him up was the blow from Zhanmi's girlfriend and Zhanmi's "she's not afraid of you". However, I was sweating for Zhanmi. The plane was holding a gun against his neck when he was suddenly smashed. If there was a mishap, everyone in this car would have to explain it all.

According to the previous routine, the plane must find Zhan Mi and rush up with a shot, and then be beaten to death by the driver and Ah Wu; he tried to use the terrifying and threatening brain-based routine, but he couldn't even hold a woman down. As a paranoid thug, he had no first chance. Three options, the plane sees its future clearly at this moment: he has no future at all.

Jimi let him go, there was a bit of sentimental factor, but the plane let him go, mainly because he was relieved. He found that he didn't have to morbidly pursue an ultimate value that was complicated and heavy by himself, just look at himself doing this. The fate of the two choices, you can clearly evaluate what you are.

Theoretically, a true intellectual would spontaneously throw himself into a state of wandering in a sense of lack in order to achieve a highly complete self-evaluation, but the plane is neither an intellectual, nor does it spontaneously enter this state. As an underworld, you must show your grudge and antagonism in order to have the guts and motivation to do things, but people themselves are complex and diverse, reason and intuition compete for the domination of people, give up intuition and give guidance to reason It will also cause people to feel internal humiliation, and vice versa, so there are some people in this world who can't overcome this, and use one person to fight against everything in the world.

Such people cannot speak into the circle, work in a withdrawn style, do not know how to form a group, or even have no worldly desires. Ordinary people do not understand the way such people understand society, and they will be misunderstood as stubborn, alternative, and autistic. They may become like this because of premature enlightenment, premature injury, betrayal, etc. It is difficult for them to fully immerse themselves in a herd, falsely packaged narrative, even if their rationality fully admits that doing so more efficient. This kind of person seems stupid and pitiful, but it is actually very complicated.

3,000 years ago Achilles said he would choose the latter between immortality and being a short-lived hero. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Zixu crossed the river in China, and the fisherman committed suicide to conceal his whereabouts; Yu Rang assassinated Zhao Xiangzi, disfigured and swallowed charcoal; Nie Zheng stabbed the man tired, destroyed his face and dig his eyes; Song Xianggong fought, did not disturb the river crossing, and lost his life. Lost it; Qu Yuan threw himself into the river; Jie Zitui would rather die than leave the mountain. Such romanticism has existed widely in history, and has even been changed to festivals, which have been passed down for thousands of years. Much of this "single-heartedness" is obviously foolish in terms of stakes, but people measure history with heroes, not ledgers, cannon fodder, and the "right majority" because "the world needs more heroes."

But today, the times have entered the ebb tide of heroism, there are no longer so many things to cry about, business has become the fundamental principle, people will not remember or even recognize a "the most powerful plane in the whole gang", and will only bow at the feet of the powerful interests . "Young and Dangerous Boys don't need brains, they are young and Dangerous all their lives" Does it mean that you should do your best? In fact, it means that you have to use your brain to adapt to the changes of the times. If a person lives forever under the paranoia of "I do things for xx, I will solve all kinds of problems", without thinking about desire and utilization, in peaceful times, he will basically become a loser, and in conflict, he may become a sharp knife, but it is more likely is a tragic death. Whether it is the army, the team or the underworld, organization has replaced bravery as the fundamental guarantee of combat effectiveness. People are not as important as before.

However, it can also be said that because the plane gave up the assassination of Zhanmi, Dongguan Zai had to send people to continue the job. As a result, the coffin shop fell, and Brother Le was staring at his son Danny. No third group could be sent to rescue the scene. Dongguan Zai ran away, and Brother Le was hammered to death for chasing Danny. Is this a nonsensical key-character narrative?

But on the other hand, the plane is lucky. As long as he is willing to let go of his paranoia, he has an option to retreat. In the end, he threw away Zhanmi's card, indicating that he did not want to rely on Zhanmi for help, except for Qi Zai's In terms of solar terms and personality, he is still rejecting the same contradictory "same foreign object", which also shows that he has given up the way of living in the past.

Throwing away the card is a kind of pleasure and awe-inspiring forgetfulness in the rivers and lakes? how is this possible. The plane is not Du Wenze, and "Underworld" is not "Young and Dangerous". It is an adult art that does not blow utopian soap bubbles. What the plane throws away is the paranoia of adults, and it tells about a kind of person without a future. How to break up peacefully with a reality full of hypocrisy.

"No matter what you think, call me", then if you don't call, you have no idea. The godfather Lin Huaile died, and He Liansheng became the Li family. His uncles did not know him. In fact, the plane and He Liansheng had been exiled silently to each other. Although there will be enemies, but compared with Zhanmi and the gang, they have become eternal puppets, and the plane is free to some extent.


Jammy

What Zhanmi metaphorically in the play is the "excellent but confused new generation".

Jimi is extremely smart, calm, and has strong action and action principles. He is a top-level triad talent. The only thing he lacks is a sense of purpose. His ability can handle a lot of things, but he doesn't want to get involved too much. As time goes by, he no longer knows what he wants, so it is difficult to obtain happiness and a sense of security.

No matter the first or the second, Jimi rarely shows a happy smile or a smug look, and most of the time he looks serious, silent, and depressed. Jimi is not a cowardly and useless representative. On the contrary, he contains almost all the advantages of being a human being that the movie "Underworld" can show: clear thinking, fast action, good acting skills, ability to grasp the key points of interests, and perfect compatibility between public and private morals. .

In the first part, Zhanmi did not have much descriptions of strategy and fighting scenes. Even if he became the protagonist of the second part, there were very few descriptions about how he planned, how to create public opinion, and how to fight. However, he passed A series of breakthroughs and upgrades have created a very strong and reliable character impression. He is a double giant of action and thought. Like a top student, he is always facing the tests and choices of fate, and he will always give the best solution right away.

But such a talented person with strong ability and vision is confused.

He joined the underworld because he was bullied as a hawker. The porn industry he engaged in was very profitable. Guan Zai Sen had to rely on him to save all the money from the big D bribes. The first episode broke out. He was in an economics class and was called away to save people. When he met Brother Le, he saw from Brother Le's "gang will handle it" and his unhurried attitude that Brother Le just wanted to grab a stick and take the throne, holding the gang's signboard to follow He spoke, and he didn't care at all how to deal with the big D's fight against Brother Longgensen. From then on, Zhanmi realized that the gang is nothing more than a violent organization. The collective unconscious only values ​​the internal greatest common divisor, and does not care about individual gains, losses and propositions. If you want to fight for your justice, you can only rely on your own strength to gain enough right to speak. .

Zhanmi went to the cadres first. Coincidentally, Big D went crazy at this moment and wanted to fight for Xinhe Liansheng, and all the cadres who listened to him and were neutral were pushed to the side of Brother Le, the gang. They stopped the war and quickly brought back the faucet stick, which is the matter of Dongguan Zai and Datou. At this time, Zhanmi asked, who is going to play Big D? There was silence. Elder and Brother Le are in prison, and no one can order the punishment of Big D except them. So Zhanmi said, let's see who gets the faucet first. It means that you all don't want to make extra troubles, and I'm not qualified to punish Big D, so what if it's me who gets the faucet back? Am I eligible to make some demands?

When Zhan Mi was following Dongguan Aberdeen, Dongguan Aberdeen called and asked the boss that someone was following him, but the boss didn’t answer directly. I guess they thought Zhanmi was stupid and went to play Big D, so they pretended not to know, which caused Dongguan Aberdeen and the plane to be very wary of Zhanmi. . The plane and Zhanmi splashing paint on each other is a rare episode in the play that reflects Zhanmi's personality, because the plane and him are the same level younger brother, he can follow his temperament, and Zhanmi beats Chang Mao with a trash can, which is considered a big D. He let the fire cow that was handed over let go, and in the end, no matter whether the plane or the long-haired subordinate died, he could pick the peaches and take the faucet stick.

But the dying plane evoked Jimi's sympathy. He called an ambulance for the plane and covered him with a piece of clothing. A few simple actions were both positive and contradictory. This move can be regarded as leaving a weight in the heart of the plane. The first part only punched a few times for Zhanmi's behavior of picking peaches. According to the style of the plane, this is already very forgiving. After a lot of work, Zhanmi knew that Brother Le was going to form an alliance with Big D for the sake of profit, so he did not hesitate to kill the father and son. The right to speak that he had worked so hard to grab was useless again, so he fell into confusion again. He didn't want the money. A man who had formed an alliance with the man who beat his boss handed over the money. If he asked for it, it not only amounted to infidelity, but also personally denied the meaning of his active participation. In the end, he only got an empty promise of "give me face" and the right to be promoted to be the son of Le Ge, but he didn't want this, he didn't want to be a boss in the underworld at all. In the end, he found that he was busy for a long time, and all his goals were lost: he didn't avenge Longgensen, and he didn't support Longgen because of him, but in the name of the gang. He only needed something that he was not interested in.

What Brother Longgen said to Zhanmi in the sanatorium was actually his self-reflection. The underworld is not a destination for people, but a carnival where everyone gets what they need. The relationship of interests between layers is not tight, the relationship is gone, and the four are empty. Harmful is not deadly, what is deadly is useless. The big D who hurt others can continue to be a big cadre (of course, he killed himself later), while the ordinary Longgen, Chuuji, and Senge suffered bloody disasters because of their "uselessness". From the perspective of God, the origin of the entire first plot lies in Guan Zai Sen, a waste of money gambling and losing money, greedy for 100,000 big D's money for Longgen, which resulted in many disasters later, and Guan Zai Sen was Isn't it an irony to do such stinky things in front of younger brother Zhanmi and boss Longgen?

Brother Longgen's remarks hit Zhanmi's confusion, and these words affected Zhanmi's road afterward. They are all confused and smart people in the underworld, but Brother Longgen can retire and sit in a wheelchair, and Zhanmi can only push the wheelchair to the second part with a confused face.

The second Zhanmi used the contacts in the pirated disc market accumulated for many years to directly transform into a big business of logistics services, and secured leaders at all levels in the mainland. The white gloves that the underworld has to use. This is a set of basic frameworks for economic construction in Hong Kong with a high degree of reduction. Zhanmi talked about the future with his girlfriend on the hillside that he was about to start. It can be seen that he has a sense of purpose in the past two years, and he is rarely happy.

As the person who made the most money in Heliansheng and wanted to develop northward the most, Zhanmi was pinched to death by Deputy Hall Shi: If you want to develop northward, you should "be the biggest one or be inappropriate." Master Su, squatting in the same cell. It's a real episode here that Master Su didn't answer the phone. The police didn't change their color after reading Zhanmi's note. Section Chief He fled in embarrassment and no one cared about it. It was obviously designed by the public security. Carry out arrest. One of the most poignant scenes in the entire movie is the statement that I can be patriotic, too, when Jimi is barefoot and wearing shoes.

As for whether Ali is an undercover agent, I won't go into details about the many related discussions. Brother Orochi, who supports Zhanmi, has taken the initiative to admit that some of his subordinates said that Ali did it, and there should be no doubt about it. Ali is Zhan Mi's very trustworthy younger brother, who fights and flies leaves together. What's more, Zhan Mi often takes him to run errands even though he is a different generation. But in order to do business in the north, he can kill his younger brother like a seasoned politician. Jimi is very familiar with the rules of gangsters and has the ability to perfectly control them. He knows that only with strength can he have the right to speak, and only with the right to speak can he realize his own ideas in the collective, and the apex of the right to speak is totalitarianism. The logic of the department is the same.

To achieve totalitarianism, it is very important to be decisive, so he can treat Ali and Mr. Guo like a mustard; the city government is also very important, so he does not mention Le Ge's true intentions, but mentions the empty words "give me face" 2 years ago; It's also very important, so he noticed the plane's car outside the window and decisively stopped the plane from drawing a gun. After Zhanmi found the ultimate goal of whitewashing entrepreneurs, he reached a state of full devotion. At this time, he was no longer confused, and he could even persuade him to return to the plane, just like an old driver.

After learning about Deng Bo's death, he wanted to retaliate and began to be ruthless. Through the use of terror, he managed the people around Le Ge without changing his face. Sheng Dong hit the west coffin shop, he personally seduced Dongguan Aberdeen, facing the sword array as steady as Mount Tai. After rescuing Mr. Guo, he did not entangle with Dongguan Tsai and called the police in advance. At every step, he made the best and least expensive choice. His absolute rationality and forbearance had broken through the sky, but he still maintained his grasp of himself and the warmth that he had when it was eased.

Zhanmi's magnanimity has reached the level of blurring the true and false. Maybe he can't tell the difference. He is the only candidate who is present every time his uncle is present. He really believes that he will use the darkest means and pay the smallest price. He got Le Ge without leaving any trace, with the confidence of ability and ultimate goal, saying "I didn't do it" is nothing. This kind of spirit is like an outstanding young emperor.

Then, when the plane was chased and killed at night, according to the previous performance, many people must have thought that Zhanmi's car would not come back after driving far away, but he came back and rescued the plane. It's hard to tell what the two most entangled men were thinking in the car. Jimi's few words were expressing a greeting of personal identity, and the plane was not the type where career personality and true self were separated at all. One became the boss, the other completely lost power, and this seems to be the end of a standard story of rich, handsome and diaosi.

Unexpectedly, the mainland public security told the emperor, what is God. At the top of the mountain, Zhan Mi frantically tried to deny that he only wanted to do business and be a safe and harmless self, but in order to achieve this goal, he was forced to mobilize his dark, terrifying, totalitarian self. The awakening of your personality is to keep you in the vortex of totalitarianism for all eternity. Jimi's goal of helping his children to walk the right path was disillusioned, and he personally facilitated all this, and personally became a complete villain.

Is there any way to get a higher-level voice right now? there is none left. He fell back into that confusion again, he didn't want to see the faucet again, he was excited and worried about his wife's pregnancy. How to get uncles? What else will the police ask for? What is the future of the Li family? There are children who can take the right path and those who must succeed. How do you make cruel choices? How should I face the dark side that I have liberated for the rest of my life?

When you think you can determine your destiny with all your strength, you actually open a Pandora's box of uncertainty. What is the use of excellent top? Better to bury your own tools. What is the use of making money? Someone put a hook in your mouth. What is the use of totalitarian top? Generations have been leeks, slaves of power and money transactions. The carrot is tied and the stick is clenched. No matter how young and how fast the donkey runs, it has no freedom to choose where to run.

Losing his goal and adding a lot of trouble, Zhanmi will be confused for the rest of his life until "Underworld 3" is released.


Big D

I read that most of the articles that analyze the big D focus on researching "how did the big D play step by step"... I can't say it is useless, but I feel that the care for the big D himself is not enough.

Big D is a typical rockstar personality, very cocky, why is the rockstar personality once so attractive and so popular? Because most ordinary people, especially those in economically disadvantaged areas, are like elephants chained to their ankles since childhood. It is difficult for them to realize that as long as they are not afraid of anything, not even death, they will get a lot. What they can't get, they will be suppressed for life. The big D is a life-long outgoing, very alpha type. Like a rockstar, he shows off, straightforward desires, and happiness when he is satisfied. Some things have been criticized and stigmatized today, but it is undeniable that there was an era when a large number of people were told by superstars that you can still live so happily.

However, in Hong Kong, in the Confucian cultural circle, it is a gangster who struggles to survive in the dark side of society. Once a conflict occurs, he will completely turn his face, overturn the table of morality, law, gangs and seniority at any time, and directly fight for life and death. Just a big hassle.

This part of the characteristics of the Alpha race in the Han culture is called thunderbolt fire and thunderbolt, which is very demeaning. This is a division of pragmatism in Han culture. , and demanded that every member of the society be de-armed and dogmatic, abide by the rules, and find an organization in case of trouble. There is no doubt that these two values ​​despise each other. The activists are most disgusted by cowards, scabs and wall-riders, while the stabilizers are most troubled by extremists who bomb when they encounter a problem, such as Big D.

Because this kind of person is not easy to negotiate, he likes to directly tell people about their strength, and he will show his trump card with murderous intent when he plays a stud. The key step is that someone can be a literati, a writer and an artist without negotiating the conditions. If you really punk in the society, it will damage the interests of other people who accept the negotiation.

Then why does Confucian culture dislike this kind of cocky personality, but retain the praise of Han Zhaolie, Sun Dasheng, and Lu Tixia? Because in a survival game, a compensation mechanism for the weak is needed, which means that there will always be someone who will not get benefits in the negotiation, and will step back and step back in life. Such people are actually weak, and they choose to be angry. In fact, It is forced, and the repression is turned from internal to external, and more people actually don't even have such a choice. This is the main way for the Chinese-style big Ds to be born, not the little tigers born in the European and American-style security environment. We are still a long way from realizing that kind of environment.

If a survival strategy is too radical, it will lead to the rapid elimination of such genes and personalities, but in fact, in the infinite game of ancient China, the survival strategy of Human Torch is very good, even in modern times, no " What the proletariat has lost is its yoke, and what it will gain is the whole world"? When the system is running well, there are rules, distribution of interests and solutions to conflicts, but when the system is aging, a small amount of Human Torch can become the sword of Damocles that threatens the negotiation mechanism.

It is precisely because of the existence of such people that the other members' compliance with the rules has been strengthened, and it is precisely because these landmines are buried in Qianshou that to some extent, most honest people are protected. Without the big D, other people dare not lift the table. Brother Le will take advantage of every step on the board and become an absolute dictator. Because of the big D, the person with the dominant board will not be delicious. It's ugly, but the rules that should be followed will still be followed to some extent. The gang can’t dominate, and it needs to be balanced. The essence is that no one can completely control the negotiation mechanism, and there must be a threat to ensure that the weak can get some benefits from the negotiation. process.

In fact, absolute publicity and publicity are impossible to exist in ancient and modern China and abroad. Big D teases the plane, but grabs the plane's hand and prevents him from continuing to eat the spoon. At this time, he can distinguish between performance and real action. It's just that he couldn't make a stick after blowing the chicken, which completely inspired his human Torch's stress response. In this election, he can only use the offense as the defense, bombing again and again until he is killed. His biggest failure is that Confucian culture does not allow Alpha, but division is always an inverse scale, which means that you no longer have a compensatory effect on the weak, then all brothers will beat you.

In fact, since 1997, the traditional business of Hong Kong gangsters has been strongly attacked and subdued by the mainland police. The survival space of the gangsters has turned sharply. In this case, Big D can defeat all other gangs and completely control Tsuen Wan. It has reached the point where it can compete with the other 8 districts of Liansheng. You can search for the area of ​​Tsuen Wan. If according to the real triad tradition, the big D who engaged in splitting will definitely be killed directly, but for the sake of drama, it was written that Brother Le negotiated with him in order to use the power of the big D to bring down Tsim Sha Tsui.

But a domineering and domineering type like Da D, whether it is a decent or a villain, according to traditional culture, will not die well, and it is secondary to whether there is someone to praise it after death. It is precisely because of this division of pragmatism in Han culture that you have to try to maintain its internal balance, so you cannot be completely real.

When he was fishing by the river, Big D was wearing the suit he had chosen to celebrate when he was chosen. He wore this suit to talk to Brother Le about things, could he just talk about it? This is what he really thinks, he is determined to win. Brother Le is a hard-core businessman. What he advocates is an era of business. The economic sources of the underworld are all illegal. In the era of business, the underworld can only be the bottom. People like Big D are destined to be the era of business. banished, destroyed. As for really falling to the bottom or dying, that's the difference between numbness and real, which goes back to what rockstar brought us and why they left.

If you die today, you will die, if you make a big plan, you will die. When you die, can you die when you are finished?


Shi deputy hall

The first plot mainly takes place in Hong Kong, and Shi Brigade has no role in it. However, from the two dialogues, we can see that it took him two years to promote the brigade to the deputy hall, and at the beginning of the second part, he had already secured the management rights of Xinji Lao Xu in the mainland. It can be seen that this person is specially aimed at subduing the Hong Kong underworld. .

If it is said that in the underworld elections in Hong Kong, the mainland public security is not easy to interfere, then with the development of the times, it is inevitable for the Hong Kong underworld to go north to do business, and the mainland public security will invite you to enter the urn.

He figured out the bottom line of this session of cadres. The most suitable person to replace Ale as a talker is Zhanmi. Zhanmi didn't want to do it, so he used the management power to force Zhanmi to do it.

What's interesting is that in the process of Zhanmi getting rid of other competitors, Zhanmi can be said to be ruthless. To say it too much, he is no better than Lin Huaile. But the difference here is that it doesn't matter if you do what the organization asks you to do. After you do it, you will "investigate clearly" and "a misunderstanding", and the right to pardon belongs to Deputy Office Shi, not the Hong Kong police.

And Deputy Office Shi is also illegally breaking the law throughout the whole process, ignoring corruption, allowing Xinji triads to make trouble, instigating Zhanmi Hei to eat black, forcibly searching out leading sticks, and crossing the border to enforce the law... No matter in the concept of mainland or Hong Kong, this is called "No legal concept" above, but what does it matter? In the second part, Zhan Mi and Shi Vice Hall formed a pair of black and white illegal fanatics, explaining how "totalitarianism" achieves its goals from two perspectives.

But on the other hand, Zhanmi bought Brother Le's younger brother to kill Brother Le, although the method was extremely dark, but it was the minimum price paid for competing for the position of the speaker. And Shi deputy hall fishing law enforcement to control Zhanmi and then control the underworld, is also the minimum price to allow the underworld to go north. They break the rules, break their oaths, and kill people, but what they do is actually the choice that best serves the collective interest. This is a very interesting proposition. If a high degree of individual rationality serves the collective interests, the process is often unsightly and destroys the three views. This film nakedly exposes the chaos and anti-principle of collective interests. The essence of human beings is nothing more than to survive, and they also talk about moral laws and personal sentiments.

There are many people who say that the Hong Kong police respect the electoral system, but only control them to make troubles, but don't forget that during lunch, Ah Tao said that the underworld is doing a small circle election, it is better to pass it on from father to son like Xinji. From the manager’s point of view, since the underworld cannot be completely eliminated, family inheritance is undoubtedly the most stable and trouble-free. It’s just that the Hong Kong police are unable to force reforms. First of all, the police force is insufficient (Fat Deng: See if your prison can hold it?) Secondly, there is no market interest like the mainland to make fat bait, and it is impossible to play "please enter the urn".

The biggest difference between Deputy Director Shi and the Hong Kong police is that the Hong Kong police are only concerned about the underworld election troubles, and they have not crossed the line to enforce the law. They still "respect" the underworld system, which is their definition of "stable and prosperous". After the return of 1997, the Hong Kong police Confidence in controlling the underworld is also multiplied. In order to control all the gangs, Vice Hall Shi turned into the designer and executor of the rules, and the mainland gave him the resources and conditions to realize his ideas.

It is not difficult to guess that, in the end, all gangs capable of going north to operate are under the control of the mainland police, and those who stay in Hong Kong will be handed over to the Hong Kong police. "Stable and Prosperous". Compared with Le Ge, Shi Fu Hall is what a truly successful and perfect emperor in China should look like.

From a historical point of view, it is the only way to go to the vast world to engage in economic construction, and the mainland has undoubtedly become the owner of the times. If you are a businessman, you can enjoy this opportunity, but if you are young and dangerous, you have the conditions to quit the club, or become the boss and use the gang reform as a certificate of vote. Either you go to see if you can survive if you quit the club, or you go against the century-old election tradition and prove your patriotism with actions. There is no option that can truly make Heliansheng and the mainland stable and prosperous, and that peace is the most valuable option. This is called the original sin of the times.


Le brother

In Le Ge, there are mainly two meanings: the process of the birth of a dictator, the influence on the people around him, and the contradictory relationship between human nature and power.

Power is the most powerful drug in the world. Once you are infected with it for a long time, all your personality, behavior, preferences, and habits will be reshaped, and you will become a puppet of power, a vassal. You think you're in control, when, in fact, it's the power behind you that humorously controls you. Why did Uncle Deng's sentence about balance greatly affect the first election, because this awakened other uncles: first of all, the most powerful people are the most unsuitable for dictatorship, and there must be many people who disagree with him and want to split. People under the spotlight, adding a layer of spotlight can only have the opposite effect. Secondly, the influence of the Senate has been achieved since ancient times by helping the weak and the superior. You represent a certain general, he represents a certain politician, and finally everyone chooses a poet who is not represented as the consul, so that the generals, politicians and poets are all Take the House of Elders. The opinion of the elders does not recognize money or strength, so as to ensure that the selection system of elders will not be replaced by anything, and it will be stable "a hundred years earlier than the selection of the chief executive."

According to the value of the Senate, the first one that is most suitable for support is Brother Le. Not only is he well-received, but there is no one in the DPRK. The big D bribe is to directly buy off the two core veterans of Kuangbang and Longgen. Brother Le, he is going to discuss with the incumbent regional leaders like the boss of Dongguan Zai. The pills are all sold in Tsuen Wan and I don't want to support him.

But Le brother's campaign slogan is very explosive. As the leader of the Jordan District, he is a bit like a grass-roots general in the ancient border defense. Not to mention the small site, he often rubs against other gangs. It is adjacent to the most fertile but completely inaccessible site in Tsim Sha Tsui. This kind of character from the battlefield has a unique sense of loot, and at the same time it is easy to go to extremes. Laying down Tsim Sha Tsui is not only the slogan of his election, but also the source of legitimacy, but in his bones is the obsession that was gradually born when he was a district leader. It is actually very risky to use this kind of battle-hardened and obsessive grassroots generals as central leaders, ranging from putting tactical value above strategy, or undermining the upper-level design due to lack of political vision. However, Brother Le's easy-going style in the early days concealed this very well. His uncles admired him very much. His son did not know that he was involved in the underworld for many years. Big D looked down on him.

In the historical view of heroes, it is always said that if the thick black is not to the extreme, just don't be thick and black. If you want to force the way of Shura if you don't completely obliterate the human nature, you will overturn the car. Longgen's words to Zhanmi basically mean this. For example, people like Cao Cao accidentally released their desires and poems, because their lust and stubborn temper have endangered their political life several times. According to the feudal emperor view, they are not as competent as Liu Bang and Li Shimin, but according to the concept of socialist leaders, this kind of Three-dimensional and fleshed-out characters are certainly more "cute" than super-politicians.

But how does power corrupt a person? First of all, your competitors give you a good excuse, so that you can mobilize the resources of the entire gang to fight, and finally find the leading stick to stabilize your position. This process lacks checks and balances , because the opinion of the Senate is to agree with the anti-secession. This will invisibly release a person's dark side, gradually subverting his previous easy-going style. Secondly, a grass-roots general who has suddenly gained such great power needs to digest the people who support him in the process. Although these people are all in the name of "doing things for the gang", the method of digestion coincides with the obsession of the grass-roots general. Go and lay down Tsim Sha Tsui and share the benefits. The two steps before and after actually rationalized the dictatorship both in the public and in private. It may be that people like Zhanmi who did not catch a cold at the beginning of the game did not fully enter the game. The ease and speed of this rationalization is normal. possible. What does it mean to buy big D by blowing chickens is thick black, "Young and Dangerous Boys use their brains", in fact, it's all Le Brother's wish to play Tsim Sha Tsui, and to be able to divide meat and eat.

In this situation, it is actually very dangerous. The alliance based on benefits and taking advantage of the righteousness is loose, so the second film must be shot from the perspective of dictatorship and anti-dictatorship. In the second Le Brother’s five Qizai, the plane is a private thug who specializes in shady affairs. Master Su is involved in Mark Six lottery and lawsuits. Zhanmi only sells pirated discs. Dongguan Aberdeen is mainly responsible for triad standard affairs such as occupying the viewing market, buying and selling pills, and collecting protection fees. He felt that he was strong enough to run for election. Brother Le smiled without saying a word. He thought he would have no problem serving his uncles. But this thinking actually fell into the trap of the first big D, that is, the selection of people cannot be selected from the interest chain that is already in the central government. It must be the grassroots and the weak. Once you have entered the central government, don't think that you still have front-line grassroots. This kind of advantage, and from the perspective of this anti-infighting, this time the righteousness is not on your side, Ale.

Actually, think about why Huo Niu and the others stood on Ale's side in the beginning to help him go north to find Siyanming? It's not just because the previous words were blowing chickens and didn't act according to the rules, and other people were pitted, and the predecessor was in trouble, so the following must help organize the appointed new posts to clear the relationship, without this layer, who can go with the big D's people Grab the stick. This shows that Brother Le has not put his position right. Maybe power and success have paralyzed his ability to observe. If he reflects on the logic of his own superiority in the first movie, he has to admit that only Zhanmi is eligible for the election this time. conditions of. Deng Bo persuaded him to retire, and he made the words so clear. Don't have such serious grass-roots thinking. Zhuang has to take turns. The person you are elected to sit in the Zhuang has more fame and fortune. The social rules of a group reach the middle and upper levels. Ruthless, who is the best to support people, but Ale, a celebrity with brains, didn't understand.

Finally, let’s recall Brother Le’s son. In fact, we can say that Brother Le, if you don’t care about everything other than power, just don’t care at all, don’t act like a good person with your son, don’t kill people and pretend to be nothing, let alone Care about him and the little gangster, how he likes to drop, anyway, there is only a faucet in your life. And if you care, don’t care about being so clumsy, at least give your son a brief explanation when he was handcuffed and taken away by the police for the first time. Don’t just go home and turn the page with a single sentence. Your son's 10-year-old mentality can't handle this. Before and after the last parent-teacher meeting, he did not communicate with his son at all, and directly ordered the bodyguard to do things. This is a man who was kidnapped by power and lost the most basic caring ability, but he couldn't get rid of this layer of caring. It was because he admitted in his heart that what he did was all shameful, and it was not right at all, so he simply chose once Silence for the second time, and thus more alienation and misunderstanding from others. There is no innocent person who has anything to do with the underworld. There is no reason for your son to be an exception. The point is that you can either confess or choose not to care. It is a matter of a few words for a boy of this age to learn whether it is good or bad, but we all know that long-term indifference is the only thing It is the root cause of the failure of parental education, not because the parent's career is disgraceful, and it is a dereliction of duty to be a father without knowing this level. Superficial behavior and losing control of himself will only harm everyone, not only his son, but also Mr. Guo and Deng Bo. The methods of A Le, who is completely out of control, are basically mechanical coercion, revenge, and evil spirits. Biansheng, at the riverside, and Dongguan Aberdeen fight each other to kill each other, is this like a young and dangerous boy using his brain? This is a typical case of being a slave to power, but unable to completely abandon humanity, and will eventually be backlashed.

The use of grassroots leaders in border areas to check and balance the forces of the DPRK and China is always used to solve the problem of dynamism and balance. However, due to the inherent flaws of such people, there is the possibility of runaways and the risk is also very high, which requires the ability of decision makers to be sufficient. To control this kind of gameplay, you have to be resourceful, or wait for the time to be strong and weak. The uncles in the underworld are all old men with no money and no power, so the way to check and balance is to use other young talents and cabinet elders to stabilize the young warriors. It's just that Lin Huaile pretended not to be a martial artist, and the loss of control under the water was not noticed by others. Uncle Deng's luck was too bad. Therefore, an army without a political commissar can easily get rid of the pure military merit system.

As a triad that has been rooted in Hong Kong since the feudal era, frequent changes of leadership are necessary, even if it will cause internal struggles and consumption. Because the main business is underground, the longer you work in each session, the greater the chance of being exposed, and the more thoroughly you will be understood by the police and colleagues. Due to the lack of adjustment of interests brought by the change of office, and the basic business of triad members is highly similar, there is no such thing as a monopoly of which industry, it will become easier for grassroots sites to be penetrated, and even a large number of wandering will occur. The "stateless" "bourgeois elements" among the various gangs have completely destroyed the entire underworld ecology. 100 years ago, the big gangsters figured this out very clearly. They would rather be troublesome and have to be elected every two years. They must not be re-elected and become a backwater.

Ironically, the so-called "dictatorship" is a kind of schema thinking for the convenience of the narrator and the audience, it seems as if a dictator can be the absolute controller of a group, but this person has a salient effect and personality. Traits, which can lead the audience to produce an internal attribution such as "his character and essence is a dictator, so he can succeed as a dictator". And we all know that internal attribution is always artistic and simplistic. All historical and political works like to describe dictators. Your alma mater’s list will definitely list the students who were admitted to the top ten universities this year, because it affects a The rise of a dictator, or the total stock of educational resources that affects the intensity of competition among all candidates, is a cruel and boring thing that no one wants to see.

From this point of view, "Harmony is Precious" made Brother Le disgraced under the combined effect of undercover and godson Wu Fang, which has reduced this schema thinking to a relatively low level. You can say that he killed Deng Deng. Bo's retribution, or his strength is not as good as Zhanmi, or his teammates are too pig, or the number gang's people are specializing in Ke Le (the death of Dinosaur brother)... Anyway, you can find many factors, wait until you realize that this tm is fundamental It is a cup caused by a combination of various factors, you will become self-aware, and you will not care about using stereotypes to analyze people and things. To some extent, the goal of the director has been achieved.

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Election quotes

  • Big D: [to Lok] Don't talk to me until you have the baton!