The Korean movies released today are no longer satisfied with the label of love movies, whether it is the social themes from "Su Yuan" to "The Gift of Room No. 7", or the large-scale disaster films from "Influenza" to "Skyscraper" , Today's Korean movies are not what they used to be, and in terms of gangster-themed movies, when Hong Kong movies were in full swing in the golden age, Korean gangster movies were not even known, and even in the 21st century, their movies are only "My Wife Is "Big Brother" and other equal works, but today's splendid gangster Hong Kong films are as follows, and the Korean film, a gangster work called "New World", its high level of film is really amazing .
Watching "New World" reminds me of the classic "Infernal Affairs" of the same theme in Hong Kong. It's not about the same undercover elements, these are two completely different stories, but because of its neat suits, The dark battles under the high-rise buildings, today's gangsters, are by no means the street struggles of "Young and Dangerous". Such movies have become an era, and today they cannot satisfy the audience's appetite, such as Japan's Yamaguchi-gumi, Italy's The mafia, the gangsters of the big forces, is basically two words, and after years of accumulation of camera sense in Korean movies, regardless of the quality of the film content, the camera sense has reached a level that makes many movies comparable to the world. The exquisite texture makes a gangster organization out of thin air so vividly portrayed in the violent rendering at the beginning of the movie, but the violence at the beginning of the movie is not the main theme of the movie. The film style of Takeshi Kitano takes the development of the gang as the environment of the film. With the intensification of internal contradictions, the whole plot is fully unfolded. It takes a combination of heart and blood battles. The difference is compared with Takeshi Kitano's film style. The work, "New World", integrates the police into the intensification of the internal contradictions of the gang. It is meticulous, pressing, exciting, and the dark battles of several games are perfect.
In a country that can amend the constitution because of a single film, Korean films have an extremely broad censorship system, so that no matter the director or the screenwriter, there is no hidden worry that cannot be reviewed after reviewing the creation of the film. The most important factor for the success of a series of social-themed films such as "The Furnace" and "Influenza", the bad guys may not be severely punished in the movie, and the good guys may not win in the end. Korean movies often do not have a main theme. Victory, gangsters must lose police and gangster movies may not happen in Korean movies, but this does not mean that their movies do not have their own moral standards and bottom lines. In "New World", the undercover police detective killed himself. The boss of the gangster eventually became a big boss in the underworld. The story of a black to the end, such a plot is almost unbelievable at the moment, but after watching the movie, I feel that everything is reasonable, just like the rape of a young girl in "The Furnace" Just as the student's principal was finally acquitted, in "New World", the underworld eldest brother Ding Qing in the movie, although he did a brutal and ruthless deed, was full of affection and could not attack Li Zicheng, the undercover brother who knew that he was a police officer. , in the movie, his alternative personality is like Leon in "This Killer Is Not Too Cold". He has cold blood and warmth, and the characters have strong tension. Ding Qing in the movie has also become the key to the climax of the whole plot.
There is no absolute right or wrong in "New World". Everyone is on the edge of good and evil. Morality is still justice. In a story that seems outrageous and dark to the end, such a movie is by no means a superficial propaganda of sin, giving people What it brings is a meditation on human nature and the legal system, which is a classic of modern gangster movies.
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