to be brothers...

Lenny 2022-03-26 09:01:11

In 2011, I tagged this movie. Today is April 1, 2016, and I finally read it. Time flies, "The True Color of Heroes" is 30 years old. The young Ajie has passed away for 13 years. On your sacrificial day, looking at your works, it's not just time that makes me feel emotional.

Hong Kong gangster films brought the glory of an era. Later, when the rivers and lakes were sluggish, another film reversed this form. It is called "Infernal Affairs", a young thief who has been on the normal track of society for more than ten years, he said, I just want to be a good person. A "good man" who has been on an abnormal track for more than ten years, he said, I am a policeman.

Black and white.

However, when soldiers and thieves are brothers, what is right and what is wrong, what is right and what is unrighteous, everything is confused.

Once you enter the gang, it is as deep as the sea, and it is too difficult to get out. Brother Hao, played by Dillon, is undoubtedly the most painful character. Brother Xiaoma has nothing to do, just wants to "take back everything that belongs to him", but Brother Hao, but because of family ties, he entered the industry and made his debut because of family love, but because of Xiaoma's affection and loyalty, he had to Returning to the underworld, and because he wanted to fulfill Ajie's "white", he had to pay the price of losing his freedom for his "black".

Brother, ah brother, these two words seem to have magic power. As long as it is related to "brothers", it can always ignite people's flames. How much we look forward to having a life-and-death brother is because in the real world, such feelings are too scarce.

Thirty years ago, John Woo played with the aesthetics of violence (you really look like a bad guy, at first I thought the policeman in Taiwan was an undercover gangster, I saw John Woo in the cast list, and it took me a long time to know it was the policeman), Thirty years later, "Tai Ping Lun" failed miserably at the box office, and people will always think of what Brother Hao said to Brother Pony: Why didn't you leave? Here, it is no longer yours and mine. Thirty years later, Wu Dao faced this era of fast food entertainment to the death. His aesthetics and thinking were ridiculed by Duanzi hands. It is no longer possible to please the newcomer... Indeed, this is no longer his arena, but he is still holding on, he has not left, and he is still waiting for an opportunity to get everything back, whether it be the glory of the past or the glorious era, but , in the end it is hard to beat, time.

Thirty years in a flash.

What impressed me the most was not Brother Fa's fancy killing, but his heart-to-heart sentence: "Being a brother...there is no text, and he has been shot in the head." Officer Ajie, played by my brother, collapsed on the spot.

In this world, bad people live for thousands of years, and good people are struck by lightning. Seeing it blocked my heart and lungs, but I still wanted to watch it.

The tragedy of Brother Pony's life is that whenever he kills the little monster, he is too confident, and when he looks back, there is nothing left.

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  • Ellen 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    2014.04.22-Capital Cinema-Xidan Store-Hall 9: I think I may not have seen this movie in its entirety when I was a child? Because I only have a feeling of deja vu for the shootout when Mark went to Taiwan alone to avenge Song Zihao. Having said that, the gangster action movies of that time were powerful, serious storytelling, and wonderful gun battle scenes. As for the brotherhood and friendship that are strongly portrayed in the film, I think of it as the basic love, which once again proves that I am not pure now.

  • Gennaro 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    Heroes have short tears, brothers have long love

A Better Tomorrow quotes

  • Mark Gor: I've never cried since I was a kid, I cried that time. I swore to myself that no one will point at me with a gun.

  • Ho Tse Sung: Sir! I'm not any big brother anymore.