John Woo's last Hong Kong movie before going to Hollywood was starring Chow Yun-fat and Tony Leung. According to some film critics, "Hot Detective" is still the continuation of the violent aesthetics of John Woo's action film. Indeed, the gunfights in it are basically a condensed version of a Hong Kong movie in the 1990s. There are large scenes of bullets, and there are also small-scale similar Russian roulette.
At the beginning of this year or at the end of last year, I saw a feature film on a TV channel explaining Hong Kong films. It specifically described the look in Huang Qiusheng's eyes, played by Liang Chaowei's Jiang Lang after killing "Uncle Hai". There was distinct anger, reluctance, and tears, but then it turned to a smile for undercover.
In this story of a police undercover thief in the early 1990s, there are not many scenes of love, but even if there is not much love, it will not be absent. Although there are not many scenes, there are still bunches of white roses in the story, even before the hail of bullets at the last moment, the white roses still appeared. Of course, there was also a card that appeared with White Rose before, and the card was some English songs with sweet words, and the melody of these songs could be translated into some specific code words.
In any case, love will never be absent at any time, no matter if there is a hail of bullets or floods, love will definitely make life more gentle with its most moving gesture. Roses and guns are absolutely stark contrasts. Some people will interpret the roses to set off the guns, but I feel that the guns are used to set off the roses.
In addition to the white rose, there are also those lovely children in this movie. In the hail of bullets, Chow Yun-fat is holding the child in one hand and holding the gun in the other. As the child of love, he is also interpreting love in the play and expressing the meaning of love.
It can be seen that love is such an important proposition that it always exists in everyone's heart, including some evildoers. Therefore, the killer under Huang Qiusheng in the story was still reluctant to hurt the innocent patients in the hospital at the end. Before that, the killer told Huang Qiusheng that there must be some bottom lines that must not be crossed.
From the beginning to the end of this movie, it is nothing more than talking about the topic of love, or that love itself is distributed in some details of life, and I just focus on bringing out the details of life.
Love can only be seen, felt, and touched more directly and intuitively when it is brought out.
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