Among the numerous Hong Kong police and bandit shootout genre films, "Blood Heroes" is undoubtedly one of the most classic.
Chow Yun-fat's unique personal charm is undoubtedly the most important finishing touch of the whole film. He can be a killer who hates evil, or a good man who stares at him affectionately, but that sense of oppression lingers. There is a detail in the film. The policeman played by Li Xiuxian sits on a chair and restores the exact same scene of Chow Yun-fat. However, the same action, he feels leisurely and domineering on Chow Yun-fat, but it disappears on the police.
The film wears the cloak of a police and bandit film, but it is always about rivers and lakes and brotherhood. Whether it's the life-and-death relationship between the police, the promise of gold between the killers, or the life-and-death relationship between the protagonists, it's all moving. In this world, no interests come first, some are just pleasure and revenge. Maybe like it said in the movie, they are too nostalgic and people today are not moral. Therefore, so many good Hong Kong films have also been left behind by the big era.
There are a lot of symbolic meanings in the film: churches and killings, white clothes and black clothes and blood, including the wounded eyes of the protagonist at the end... All of them have a unique sense of fate. It is not difficult to understand why John Woo said that this is his most perfect movie.
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