This "Drug War" can be said to be a starting point, but Du Qifeng, who has been suppressed for so long, will not be easily recruited. This seemingly simple but powerful work hides an invisible blade of his old man. "The human heart is more poisonous than drugs" is the slogan of this film. The audience also agrees with this sentence. Cai Tianming's actions in the play completely verify this sentence, which can't help but make people feel chills. But I think that if that's the case, it's too easy to see Director Du.
In fact, Cai Tianming is just a chess piece on the chessboard of the poisonous net, behind which there is a bigger black hand; and his status is not low. And Cai Tianming and Brother Haha are his pawns. The relationship between them is both an exploitative relationship and a cooperative relationship. Cai Tianming has a lot of information about the drug network. It can be said that he knows the entire Asian drug network well, and even has some involvement in the Western drug market -
this can be seen in the execution of the execution at the end of the film. He can provide the man behind the scenes with the information he needs, or he can do some illegal business in the dark, in exchange for Cai also being protected. It is because of the information he has mastered and the special relationship with the man behind the scenes that he is able to navigate the drug market with ease and conduct his own drug business step by step. The relationship between Haha and the man behind the scenes may be closer. Brother Haha has been doing smuggling and drug trafficking all the year round, and the amount is staggering.
The first batch of transactions he and Li Zhenbiao (of course fake) amounted to 30 million. Moreover, Cai Tianming's drug factory is in Jinhai, so his drugs will naturally be sold to Brother Haha. Cai's two apprentices produce more drugs. But all of this together still can't satisfy Brother Haha's drug demand, so he asked Cai Tianming to be the middleman to negotiate business with Li Zhenbiao, one can imagine how big his shipments are. He owns such a large wharf, so many fishing boats, and is engaged in such a large amount of illegal business. Don't the police and government departments hear a little bit of wind. Would he dare to smuggle drugs so recklessly if there was no big man behind him to support him? When he met "Li Shuchang", he emphasized his personal connections in South Korea and Japan. In fact, a large part of his drugs were also sold to Japan and South Korea, and this was his greatest use. Every year, the country seizes a large amount of drugs, some of which are destroyed in public, but I believe that is only part of it, and the other part. If people like Haha and Cai Tianming sell these drugs to South Korea, Japan and other neighboring countries, the profits can be imagined. The relationship between the black man behind the scenes and Cai Tianming and Brother Haha has been developing steadily in this way, but everything is bound to be unexpected. The film has two important surprises that make two major changes in the plot.
The first is that at the beginning of the film, Cai Tianming happened to meet Zhang Lei when he was sent to the hospital. When Zhang Lei saw Cai Tianming lying on a stretcher, he asked the doctor what was wrong. The doctor said he was injured in a car accident. It can be seen that the doctor did not realize that the car accident injured person had anything to do with drugs. If it wasn't for Zhang Lei's appearance, Cai Tianming would have recovered and discharged from the hospital like ordinary patients. There may be some investigations into the car accident, but he can do all of these. settle. Just because of the unexpected encounter between the two, Cai Tianming was arrested, which forced him to figure out his next plan, and also led to the following plot. At this time, Cai Tianming knew that the only bargaining chip he could use with the police was the information he had. So he confessed his apprentices as well as Brother Haha and Li Zhenbiao. But he didn't mention the Hong Kong Sevens behind it. It's not that he couldn't bear to say it, but he didn't want to reveal more information. If this plan goes well, there may be two results: one is to find an opportunity to escape during the police action. With his network of connections, as long as he escapes, he can disappear immediately;
The second is that after all the actions are over, his betrayal has a reprieve. As long as he is thrown into prison, the mastermind behind the scenes can help him with the rest. Of course, Brother Haha will be fine. Li Zhenbiao doesn't matter how he handles it, and Cai Tianming's two apprentices, the big deaf and the small deaf, are unlikely to survive. They will either be shot on the spot or sentenced to death. Therefore, in the factory in Ezhou, Cai Tianming was worshipping his wife on the surface, but he was actually worshipping his two apprentices in advance. When he burned the piles of banknotes as paper money, Cai Tianming did not refuse. He understood the money in his heart. The two apprentices have no chance to spend. Everything seemed to be going smoothly, but beyond Cai Tianming's expectations, the big deaf and the small deaf escaped during the action. This was the second accident. Cai Tianming didn't expect that they would have a tunnel, which made his previous plan basically go to waste. As a last resort, he confessed to the Hong Kong Seven, followed by his second plan. And this plan is more extreme and more expensive.
If these seven people are arrested, the implication will be very big, and the behind-the-scenes mastermind may be involved, and if the behind-the-scenes mastermind feels that his safety is threatened, he will definitely silence them all. These Cai Tianming knew very well that if he wanted to survive, the group of seven could not stay. At this time, the captain Zhang Lei no longer believed in Cai Tianming. Afterwards, he would definitely investigate to the end. This would be troublesome for everyone, and the other police officers involved in the operation could not stay, so there was a plan for the two sides to fight. According to the length of the movie, this police and bandit shootout lasted for more than ten minutes, which was very hot and intense, but it will never be that short in reality. The plot shown in the movie is that the captain Zhang Lei leads everyone to fight to the death with the drug dealers, and none of them are spared. Here we have to think about it. Zhang Lei is also an old policeman. He has a strong ability to handle cases and a strong personality. This tragic shootout seems to fit his personality. But he is not a gangster thug, and he will not be stupid enough to take the lives of his brothers to fight drug dealers. At that time, he had already called for special police support, so he would organize brothers to restrain each other and wait for the arrival of the special police.
The reason why the special police did not come is very simple. Some people do not want to leave a living hole at the scene. .
Imagine the situation at that time. Several police officers were going to have a shootout with a group of drug dealers armed with guns, and the location was at the gate of an elementary school. The urgency of this incident was no less than the terrorist attack on Zhongnanhai. This can completely dispatch a helicopter, and should mobilize the nearby police to support. But none of these, only the SWAT police arrived after everyone was dead, and as you can see, there was no shadow of an ambulance behind the police car. There is another point here. When both sides in the rout were dying, Cai Tianming, who was handcuffed to the car by Zhang Lei, broke free from the handcuffs. But he didn't run away directly, but walked over and shot all those who didn't die. Why did he take this risk, he also knew very well that the police would have support. It is conceivable that silence in his heart is more important than escaping for his life. Only by silence can he give an account to the man behind the scenes, and the other party will not give up on himself, so that he can save his life. At the end of the film, Cai Tianming was executed by lethal injection, but will he really die? Although lethal injection is more humane and advanced, it is also easier to cheat, which is not the same as blowing your mind straight. Cai Tianming still has a lot of use. The group of seven is dead. Someone needs to connect this line. This chess piece cannot be lost, so he will not die easily. The execution of the death penalty is just a cutscene, for outsiders to see. The same is true for Brother Haha. Team Zhang and the others are all dead. No one will pursue this matter further. He can naturally protect himself. At this time, let's take a look at the film's slogan "The human heart is more poisonous than drugs". This is not just a propaganda slogan, it is like a cold poisonous needle that pierces everyone's heart. So many police officers have been sacrificed to protect themselves, what is it that makes people's hearts so poisonous? If you think about it, it is nothing more than the word "interest". The profits of the drug trade are so huge that people can get carried away. And there may be more than one person behind the scenes. He can control the actions of the special police and the mobilization of the entire police force. It is conceivable that his status is not low.
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