For the current audience, Jackie Chan does not have the punches and legs of the golden age of Hong Kong movies, and they can calmly accept the fact that people will grow old. Back then, the scene of tearing the screen at the theater and scolding Jackie Chan for "not fighting" can only be used as a drink in the past. "Shinjuku Incident" appeared in a subtle gap. Against the background of the sluggish Hong Kong film, Er Dongsheng chose a big and heavy production.
Compared with the previous gang films that praised gangsters and advocated affection, the Chinese in Japan in "Shinjuku Incident" reluctantly accepted the cruel ending of disintegration. The movie begins with the once-frenzy smuggling, and many Chinese have set foot on the unfamiliar land in the East, including Tietou and Ajie. No identity, language barrier, in order to survive, they can only rely on each other. Once the living space is suppressed, they have no choice but to fight with the guys.
The Chinese people who haunt Shinjuku are not only smugglers, but also foreign students who work part-time, ordinary people who have settled down, and overseas Chinese who open shops and do business. They are also mentioned in the film. In the dark field, people from different places form gangs, and it is inevitable that there will be friction and disputes. However, they can't escape the control of Japanese gangsters, after all, Shinjuku is someone else's territory. Wanting Tai Sui to break ground is tantamount to a fool's dream. Tietou had the idea of a good man, and he was satisfied when he saw that his brothers had a foothold. I don't want to continue killing people and stealing goods, and I didn't take the opportunity to make a fortune. The kind-hearted Tietou doesn't understand that once you walk into this darkness, you want to let others go and you won't let them go. He can't see the rules of how Shinjuku works at night, just as it has another set of laws during the day, which dooms them.
On the surface, Ajie, who was in bad luck, dragged a group of people into the quagmire. In fact, they didn't want to live with ants, but there was no better way out. If you want to stand up as a man, you must break the control of the gang, and the best way is to arm yourself into a gang. Er Dongsheng didn't spend too much energy dealing with how the Chinese Gang rose, because the focus of "Shinjuku Incident" was the collapse and disintegration at the end. Action scenes, the film often pursues sudden outbreaks, and uses brutal and shocking violent means to perform, such as cutting hands and throats. These scenes add up to less than a minute. Compared with the sabers flying horizontally and the younger brothers running around in Hong Kong films in the past, the horror and bloodshed of the film undoubtedly weakened the indiscriminate beautification of violence in the past.
Er Dongsheng once again put the climax showdown in the dark night, an ordinary place, not wanting to be murderous. The whole process is a combination of dynamic and static, both inside and outside. The Watanabe Group and the Tainan Gang wanted to exterminate the Chinese Gang, and the crowd was killed downstairs. Unexpectedly, the return of Tietou caused a change in the building, and Hungry Wolf was waiting outside. As a result, the flock inside was in disarray and turned against each other for vendetta. The two sides started a tragic hand-to-hand fight. Since one side came prepared, the other side was distracted, and the process of the fight can be imagined. The suspension of electricity in the middle did not turn the situation around, and the Chinese gang could not escape the fate of being wiped out.
"Shinjuku Incident" echoes the beginning and the end, presenting the structure of the narrative circle, indicating that no matter what the protagonist does, he will not escape the trap of fate. Tietou came in search of love, and later died of a phone call to his lover. Interpol Kitano met Tietou for the last time in the sewer, and the two no longer owed each other. Losing his identity when smuggling, Tietou has actually died once, and this time is only the final annihilation of his physical form. 【Eastern Airlines】
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