There is love between men and women, brotherhood, and fellowship, but I think what this film is about is more than just loyalty.
Xiao Zhuang is single-minded, just wanting to send Jennie abroad to get his eyes healed; the fourth brother is obsessed, just hoping to get back the money that belongs to Xiao Zhuang; and Li Ying is desperate, just to safeguard the justice that people trample on at will. They are all people who persist and act. As long as they have promised, they must do it. So this is not their arena anymore, because they suffer from paranoid reluctance to give up.
Saying "don't give up, don't give up" is just a cowardly excuse after giving up countless times; saying "only the paranoid can survive" is just a gesture and strategy for survival; saying "being consistent with the times" Advance”, who knows whether the times are advancing or retreating? If persistence can be exchanged for light and fur, we may strive hard; if the price of persistence is sacrifice, we define persistence as stubbornness.
Some films are really "youth don't know the taste of sorrow". At the time, I only thought it was hot and exciting. Now it seems that those bullets sprayed out of anger are actually helpless and sad. Even the ending is unbearable: Xiao Zhuang died, and he always thought that he could transplant his cornea to Jennie after death, but he lost both of his eyes. He crawled on the ground and tried to grab Jennie's hand. However, it was staggered, and finally died in the call of Jennie, while Li Ying shot Wang Hai decisively while surrounded by police officers, making the final footnote for his persistence.
Twenty years later, I am still so moved, because I know: John Woo is no longer John Woo, and Xiao Zhuang is still Xiao Zhuang.
2011/2/19
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