Ren has been a policeman all his life, but only after his death will the world know. What's the difference between this and being a bandit all your life? What's the use of making you the president of the country when you die?
"I'm sorry, I'm a policeman."
"Who knows?!"
Liu Jianming wanted to be a good person, but it was premised on doing many, many bad things. I don't know who is more pitiful of the two, maybe both are equally pitiful and can only live in their own shadows.
If they are the same kind of people, the same police or the same underworld, they become good friends. But they are also a type of people now, a type of people who can't be friends, undercover.
Personally, I feel that only the first one is the most worth watching, and it doesn't matter whether the other two are watched or not.
I like Tony Leung very much, not only because of this film, he always has a feeling of loneliness, often with a smile, a little helpless. There's a bit of a self-deprecating element to the humor.
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