I found it recently, and when I saw the scene where Ah Lang was in a daze in his yacht room with a thousand paper cranes hanging from it, I suddenly thought that I had seen it N years ago.
There are young Chow Yun-fat Liang Chaowei Mao Shunyun Lin Baoyi Huang Qiusheng, and of course John Woo himself, who is a cameo in the role of a retired police officer.
In Wu Yusen's shooting scene, there are people flying around when the strong firepower is being swept away by the guns.
The key item is the white rose, which also appears in this piece
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A Lang, played by Tony Leung, is an undercover entangled to death.
The conversation on the rooftop of a building with the only boss who knows his identity is really reminiscent of Infernal Affairs.
Why did John Woo make a cameo appearance as a retired police officer himself, and also gave a few scenes of chatting with Chow Yun-fat. Those lines may be meant to express themselves.
It turned out that the classic scene, Chow Yun-fat shot down the escalator from the second floor of the teahouse, took place a quarter of an hour after the opening. I thought it would be gorgeous, but after watching it, I felt that the action was very coherent.
Starting from the shootout in the teahouse, a series of heavy-duty shootout shots were full of firepower, which made me suspect that they had more than 38 points in their hands. Think about it, the arms case! I see!
And in the first 10 minutes, it was bloody, and there was a headshot.
Skip the middle storyline (in short, it is compact and not procrastinated), and go directly to the main scene of the hospital in the second half.
The hospital CS shootout between Ah Lang and Chow Yun-fat was exciting enough. It doesn't make you gasp at all.
I have no talent, no thorough definition of the aesthetics of violence. The shallow view believes that there must be contradictions and contrasting things that are harmonious with each other.
For example, in the first battle of the tea house, most of the tea guests came to walk the birds with bird cages. On the one hand, there is the fierce scene of the gun battle, and on the other hand, the various rare bird species in the bird cage are frightened and fluttering indiscriminately.
Especially the hospital battle, how many guns and shells must be prepared. . On the one hand, the robbers hijacked hundreds of patients, such as the sound of gunshots and howls that were shot by lasers, and on the other hand, the babies in the nursery were frightened and cried.
When Mao Shunjun and Chow Yun-fat evacuated the babies, they stuffed cotton in their ears. Isn't this almost exactly the same as John Travolta's wearing headphones to Nicolas Cage's son in "Changing Faces"!
Sure enough, in the end, Chow Yun-fat held the last baby in his arms and sang nursery rhymes to coax him, while shooting the bandits to break through the siege, which confirmed my conjecture. When he was shot in the right arm, blood splashed on the little baby's face, but the baby was still calm.
It is the contrasting aesthetics of violent gunfire pictures and innocent children.
In John Woo's gangster films, personal heroism is always very strong. There are often times when the villain or the villain resolutely walks out or walks into the sea of fire in slow motion alone, and the background is an explosion scene.
The righteous policeman is always humiliated by the evil gangsters due to various restrictions (laws, favors), and is called incompetent. Police often have to cross the line to make those "undeserved sacrifices" and take extraordinary action. Constantly entangled in whether to do the right thing, both right and wrong. On the other hand, the gangsters can do whatever they want, and they are perverted to the core.
Good is not "good" in the traditional sense, and bad is indeed "bad" to the extreme.
As Chow Yun-Fat and Ah Lang's Asir said in the film:
"There are many things in this world that can't be asked why. Why do the police ask
for a search warrant when they enter a house, but the thief doesn't?
The thief does not need to write a detailed report?
Why do we have to prove the thief's guilt before the court sentence them to jail? Why can't the thief
prove that he is not guilty?"
When ten armed bandits were fighting, they didn't have time to worry about whether they killed their own people by mistake in the past, and whether they regretted what they did wrong.
Just like when Ah Lang killed a colleague by mistake in the hospital, Chow Yun-fat said: "That's an illusion, you didn't kill the police! Your biggest enemy is yourself, you can't win yourself, how can you go out and fight others!
" For that purpose, the process is too complicated, and there is no time to think about what not to do and what to do. If there is a "mistake", sometimes I have to paralyze myself.
Sometimes, some things are too late to entangle why. Because spending more effort on A matter may be more important than entangled in B matter.
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