I like the second one more than the first one. The recognized highlight of the second film is Wu Zhenyu, and of course I agree with it. Wu Zhenyu performed that kind of gentle but cruel and cold-blooded feeling in this film. I remembered the clip "Red and White Rose: Infernal Affairs 2" shared by a friend on Weibo in October 2014, and I remember Eason Chen in bgm The deep hoarse voice sang "How cold but still beautiful", very like Ni Yongxiao.
It is very worth mentioning that Zeng Zhiwei's acting skills just exploded. In the first and second part, there are two scenes of eating, one is a shady hero, and the other is a foolish young man. As the plot progresses, his expression is also constantly changing. From the very beginning when he said that the Ni family was kind to him, to the end of Mary's death, his hair turned white, and his previous frivolity disappeared. It was the wily Han Chen in the first film.
Apart from Zeng Zhiwei's "The Growth of a Big Brother" and Wu Zhenyu's "The Downfall of the Gangster", Edison Chen is really quite remarkable. It stands to reason that he and Andy Lau are completely different actors, but I can see the number one in several scenes. From the look of Andy Lau in the department, it can be seen that he really not only depends on his talent to eat, but also tries very hard to figure out the role and fit the role (so my next movie is Dog bites dog ୧(⁎˃ ◡˂⁎)୨ꔛ♩).
I don't know why, with the growth of age, Carina Lau's charming and naive style in "The True Story of A Fei" has almost disappeared. She doesn't look like a big-shot woman, but she has the feeling of a gentle matriarch of a big family, soft and beautiful. But she's not so sexy. She raises her eyebrows and you think she's beautiful, but you don't want to see more.
What surprised me the most was the timeline in this movie. This time line is neither long nor short, but it just happened to make the changes of the times clear: Ni Kun died → Ni Yongxiao took over → Ni Yongxiao cleaned up the gang → Ni Yongxiao lost power. Jumping out of it, it is actually the last glory of the British colonial Hong Kong gang.
At the end of the film, it happened to be stuck in Hong Kong's return. Zeng Zhiwei stood in front of the window watching the fireworks, opened the door, and there were people holding the national flag. There was an inexplicable feeling that "the people are still those people, but they just changed the stage". Both visual sense.
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