In Casablanca during World War II, France has been defeated, but North Africa is still under the jurisdiction of the Vicky government, and it is the best stage for spy movies.
After the Anti-Japanese War and before the Pacific War, the concession area of Shanghai became an isolated island besieged by the Japanese army. Japanese, Americans, French, Germans, Blue Shirts, underground parties, traitors, and gangsters were all mixed together, and they were even spies. The best stage for a war movie.
Although Casablanca is in the context of a big time, the theme is simple: there is a love called letting go. However, the characters are well created. The male protagonist who seems to be an old river and lake hides a pure heart; the female protagonist who is suspected of cheating has unavoidable difficulties; the police chief who looks like a legal traitor can't wait for the Germans to die.
Sea of Spies (Shanghai), on the eve of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, had originally taken the pure espionage route, allowing the male protagonist to go through various twists and turns, and finally obtain information, but one step later, which is also a good plot direction. If you take the emotional route, you can, but too many are too messy and too shallow. There are the male protagonist and the German engineer's wife's handsome man, and Gong Li's inexplicable eye-to-eye; Chow Yun-fat and Gong Li's looks are inseparable but life and death are inseparable; Strange love; a Japanese traitor fell in love with a counter-spy agent; maybe there is a strange relationship between the male protagonist and Tanaka. There are so many feelings, but there is no foreshadowing. It's really love that doesn't know what to do, and everyone doesn't do business. When the situation changes in the big era, talk about love and love.
This movie is really a pity. It has a good grasp of the atmosphere of the times, but it is too greedy. It wants to talk about a lot of emotions, and wants to please the audiences in the United States, China, and Japan at the same time. In the end, only some bright spots are left, which is a waste of Fage. The twilight version of Shanghai Beach.
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