If you want to kill a ghost, you must go to hell yourself. By the time you return, you will be a ghost.
When I saw this scene, my heart skipped a beat, and the above sentence popped into my head. "Slaying the Wolf 1" is really a movie with almost no nonsense and no extra shots! And it perfectly showcases the characteristics, or glamour, of Hong Kong police and gangster films of that period: dark and chaotic. This darkness and light has nothing to do with color, this chaos and narrative has nothing to do with editing, but about the collapse of order, the reversal of right and wrong, and the blurring of right and wrong. The world of "police" and "bandit" is dark and chaotic.
Hong Kong police and bandit genre films are the collective memory of an era. The deep connotations discussed in the film are often the boundaries of justice, the bottom line of human nature, and how people's hearts rise and fall. Being a police officer is not an easy task. What these law enforcement officers face every day is only complete filth and ugliness. Those filth and ugliness are the swamps of the world, the navel of human nature, and those who do not have a strong heart and a firm will. Difficult to clean. After being immersed in it for a long time, some people become disheartened and live with it; some people choose to collude with evil forces, and some people have become indifferent and lost their warmth; Unscrupulous, omnipotent, so that they are forced to the edge of a cliff, and will eventually be doomed. In the end, how many people can take the vows made in the police academy as beliefs and follow them through?
In "Slaying the Wolf 1", they did not implement their beliefs. Maybe they are upholding justice in their own way, but as a result, fate has taken a wrong turn, where thorns are full of thorns, and they are doomed.
This is also another feature and charm of Hong Kong police and gangster films, that is: authenticity. After watching more, you will find that the ending is usually tragic, and most of them perish together, full of blood. Yes, these cop movies don't bother to create sweet, brilliant, glorious, great dreams for anyone, they don't set you up as a superhero, and they don't owe you the aura of the protagonist. There is only a pair of flesh and blood here, head-to-head to the road of life and death. In these films, there are pairs of cruel invisible hands, peeling off the flesh of the illusion, exposing the rough bones of reality, and forcing the audience in front of the screen to watch it and swallow it.
Therefore, at the end of "Slaying the Wolf 1", the reality is so frightening and despairing. This is reality with an exaggerated filter, but it is still in the category of "reality". The people here, regardless of whether they are good or bad, right or wrong, right or wrong, righteous or evil, have not escaped a tragic ending, and this ending is all causal, unpleasant, and intertwined. Also, from the moment they became "ghosts", they could no longer count on getting the world, where there was no destination.
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