phantom of the gangster
Speaking of underworld, Hong Kong movies have left a deep impression on our generation growing up. Such as the classic "Young and Dangerous" series, "Infernal Affairs" series and so on.
The entertainment-oriented Hong Kong commercial film also presents the underworld very beautifully: they are always drug dealers, the police are helpless, the underworld is always suits and black goggles, and in the hail of swords, lights, swords, shadows, and guns, the unrestrained pleasure and revenge. Hong Kong's gangster movies have the illusory beauty of martial arts movies. And this "Despicable Street" is about a completely different underworld from Hong Kong movies, a realistic version of the underworld.
Byung Doo is an ideal underworld. He tries to publicize his "dao" by dictating and asking members to recite the rules and create a different underworld environment. But the facts prove once again that people can only adapt to the environment, but cannot change the environment.
Whenever he summed up a "dao", there would immediately be reality to slap him in the face.
He told the members that even if you starve to death, you must have dignity in being a gangster. Immediately after that, he went to someone's house to collect debts in his shorts, and wanted his elder brother to kneel down and beg for money; he said that the seven mouths we were eating together were family members, but in the end he was killed by the sword of [family members].
He is an idealist, but not a successful practicalist. In Bingdou's heart, what he calls the spirit and essence of the gang is: loyalty. What he didn't know, however, was what the spirit and essence of the real gang was: despicable interests.
survival instinct in the gang
In many cases, the standard of good and evil is very weak. Most of the time, most people do not have a clear position, nor do they think carefully, but just unconsciously stand on the side of the majority, because it will make life easier. It's just a survival instinct.
The people in the underworld, like this underworld world, are bloody, violent, evil, despicable and ruthless.
Compared with the bloodier fight scenes and more ingenious power struggles of other gangster movies, "Despicable Streets" focuses on showing the survival state of the underworld's little people struggling under heavy pressure. No matter how high the status is, it is still despicable
Bing Doo, who started out as a rogue-like person who collected money, gradually developed an industry, a game arcade, and a real estate company. Except that his income may have increased a little, in fact he did the same thing as he did at first - fight and kill.
Human perception has two worlds, one is the internal world and the other is the external world. The inner world refers to my own feelings and feelings, for example, what do I like and what do I want to do. The outside world, however, is other people's opinions, other people's opinions, and what the external environment asks you to do. Everyone needs to find a reasonable boundary between the inner world and the outer world. Under the powerful external world, Byung-doo is not without ideas to resist. He has struggled, he has tried to expand his internal boundaries more, such as pursuing his own love, but the external world has shattered his attempts, or hopes, dreams, again and again. Bingdou has always been at the bottom of society. No control over their external world.
Gangster spirit: Betrayal -- loyalty, because the chips for betrayal are not enough.
The people you have reached out to pull, rescued, and helped, may in the end be the ones who will hold you back, harm you behind your back, and drag you into hell.
At the end of the film, Bingdou said to his friend Kim Minho, who was filming, "This time we must capture the essence of the gangster spirit." It's a pity that the gangster spirit in Bingdou's heart is different from the gangster spirit in reality.
From the very beginning, people like Bing Doo were not suitable for the underworld, but they were forced to by life. We all know that the two things a gangster should never do is ask for forgiveness and forgive others, and he does both.
Those hearts that will never know their satisfaction, in the endless abyss, follow one after another, and they will never be recovered. In pursuit of new goals, we can throw away the people of the past and open a new chapter of life without looking back, but the memory of the past can never be eradicated.
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