"Drug War": To Qifeng, who is happy and grieving

I haven't seen such a happy and grudge movie in a long time. Although the gunfight is exaggerated and unreal, although the protagonist died in a large film, escaping from the scissors of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television is already the ultimate Hong Kong film can do under the new system. Tired of Woo Yusen's pigeon aesthetics, Wong Kar Wai's greasy and crooked, To Qifeng gave us a punch directly in the chest, the ruthlessness of a headshot, the embarrassment of a policeman standing on the street urinating, and Koo Tianle's plump character modeling .

It's still like a Hong Kong movie, but it's not the Hong Kong movie it was 20 years ago. I vaguely remember those swords, lights, swords, machine guns, and black trench coats when I was a child. The elder brother took the younger brothers across the world. Later, Hong Kong films that were head-to-head declined, and "Infernal Affairs" and "Underworld" appeared with exquisite and character depictions, but they were basically suppressed by the new system of co-production films. Although "Drug War" is still repeating the unavoidable ideology, for example, the police played by Sun Honglei and others have no shortcomings at all, resulting in a lot of failures in the shaping of this role than Louis Koo, but at least there are no sloppy police family members, police lovers, police bosses, let me A lot of relief. If the protagonists of Haruki Murakami's novels have never had the kind of sloppy family relationships in Japanese novels - who would be patient with the audience who walked into the cinema! Those are for the housewife who sits in front of the TV/computer every day and knits sweaters, not us.

Although there are a lot of flaws, the two major culprits that beat the Hong Kong film, the main theme and emotional clues, were removed, and the film was thrilling to watch within an hour and a half, and there was no cold scene. From Louis Koo crashing into the restaurant head to head, to the undercover agent played by Huang Yi catching the drug truck at the toll station, until the death of Koo Tianle, the climax is repeated one after another. This ending is what I admire the most - although it is too dark, it makes me think that the film should be rated R, but it is not sloppy, it is a big sap to the audience, heavy breathing, the sound of the syringe advancing, the smell of death, the whole In it, there is also a sense of black humor, and the subtitles appear, neither explaining the ending of the remaining people nor holding a commendation meeting or a martyr's cemetery. When the screen is black, the subtitles jump out cleanly, which is comparable to "Gravity". The camera is black behind Sandra Bullock's footsteps, and the camera in "Inception" is black under the top that is about to fall. It's really dark.

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