This is not a high IQ movie, but it is a movie that respects the audience's IQ; this movie should be regulated by the rating system, but it retains unobstructed violence and blood under the recent slightly looser censorship in the mainland; This is a movie with the spirit of the mainland police officers and the spirit of Hong Kong gangsters.
From the plot point of view, the story of how Hong Kong drug lords escaped from the mainland's legal system is vividly displayed. The entire drug relationship network connected in this connection makes the audience hooked with the deepening of the plot. The police in mainland China are extremely heroic and wise and courageous, but they have to trust Cai Jiming, a "death prisoner" with an extremely strong will to survive. This is a gangster film, belonging to To Qifeng's gangster film. Catching the thief is the life of the police, hiding the police is the life of the thief, if you can't catch the police, you will die, if you can't avoid the thief, you will die: the most dramatic moment is between the two to reach the threshold point, the desire and destiny of human nature The mission of the thief makes it impossible for the thief to escape and strive to survive in the future, and let the police catch one and want to catch two.
The well-proportioned large and small climaxes, interspersed with interspersed jokes in the tense plot gaps, make the film have a good dramatic appeal. The drug-addicted train driver who transported the raw materials of drugs, the haha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-be-for-the-arms---big-deaf--and-small-deaf--all-of-the-movie-became-the-beautiful-point-of-the-smile-point-of-the-movie. Just imagine, without them, the audience should have been suffocated by this powerful sense of destiny. A really good director will never begrudge small characters, in order to make the work more solid or grand, or just for rhythm control, but this is not another desire. There are many characters in "Drug War", and most of them are inevitably in the form of Facebook, and some are only distinguished by the use of rotten memes, such as the stuttering drug lord, the brave and fearless public security, but for a genre film , I really want to make every character take root.
This is about the characterization of "Drug Wars". Objectively speaking, the main task is still "three points into the wood", especially Cai Tianming of Louis Koo. Sun Honglei, with his hard-working but not overpowering acting skills, completed the character shaping of the high-ranking criminal police captain, but the limitations of the characters themselves in the script can only be superficial resourcefulness and bravery, but lack some deep humanity. Exploration of the place. Perhaps, the director really left these thoughts to Gu Tianle. This should be a milestone on the road of Gu Tianle's acting breakthrough. The calmness of dealing with the police in the hospital, the resoluteness when seeking reprieve, the cold-blooded face of the death of relatives and friends, the memory of the pain of his wife, the insidiousness of getting rid of the police siege, the fear of executing the death penalty... The heart of a complete criminal is really touched by him After all, if you want to cooperate, you will cooperate closely, if you want to rebel, you will be rebellious and ruthless, what a black-bellied and cowardly drug dealer!
Cai Tianming's struggle is actually the expression of Du Qifeng's author, a shallow discussion of the impact of the death penalty system on human nature, a slightly deliberate fatalistic argument. Many people are thinking about the ending of the film where no one survives, the slaughter that presses and spins step by step, making it impossible to breathe. I secretly thought that this is Du Qifeng's sophisticated and skilled action drama to describe his philosophy of life: no one survives, everyone can die. In the most amazing shootout at the end of the whole film, a sharp and decisive gunshot was the final development of the relationship between the police and the bandits, which revealed the true meaning of the "law of the jungle". There is no distinction between people, between life and death. , justice and evil dissolve right and wrong. Is the mission of the profession right? Is the will to live wrong? People are like ants, separated from each other by gunfire, and each is crushed by fate. If you have great wisdom or little cleverness, you can only look down on everything, and there is no other way.
Are you struggling? Struggling. In the end, everyone lost.
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