Ears and the Police

In 1992, Mr. King, a robber in Southern California, captured a wounded policeman to torture him and brutally cut off the policeman's ear. That was a scene in the movie "Reservoir Dogs", and this ear led to the subsequent destructive exchange of fire between good and bad gangsters. This bloody scene is still talked about by Cult fans, and none of the warm or ruthless gangsters in the movie are more vivid and crazy than the director who came up with the whistle-blowing doctrine. Behind the cut ear, fans remembered the first-time badass director-Quentin Tarantino. In 2007, Chen Guibin, an inspector of the Hong Kong West Kowloon Crime Squad, cut off one of his ears and gave it to his superior at the warm moment when his superior retired. It was a scene from the movie "The Detective" (neurotic detective). This ear led to Chen Guibin's retirement to seek medical treatment. It also gave the detective, who is famous for his "experiential criminal investigation" on the original broadcast, even more powerful foresight into the future. force. This bloody scene is exactly the same as "Reservoir Dogs". The scene ignores the struggle of the audience in front of the screen, turning their heads or pulling their collars, and directly finishes the whole process of self-abuse. The directors Du Qifeng and Wei Jiahui, who copied this whistle-blowing idea, quietly hid behind the scenes, leaving the lunatic temperament and notoriety from outside to inside to Liu Qingyun, who played Chen Guibin.

Of course, the palace-level To Qifeng doesn't just want to copy the bloody swoosh idea. To cut his ears, Van Gogh is still an older ancestor. The same is true for the detective Chen Guibin. It seems that after one ear is missing, the vision is clearer and wider. Colors are richer and more diverse. In terms of character creation, screenwriter Wei Jiahui even asked the one-eared Chen Guibin to "see ghosts in my eyes", which is still the kind of demon carried by a real person. With these special functions, the police officer Wang Guozhu and the missing suspects with guns that were initially raised in the story were all clearly insightful and partially solved by Chen Guibin's "experience detective + ghost-seeing" skills. It's no longer the suspense movie that was originally expected.

The real world is full of lies and disguises. South China tiger photos, pornographic photos, and photography award photos. Under the predicament of increasingly distrusting official statements and conventional logic, people began to laugh at or listen to crazy talk seriously. It seems like Song Zude The big mouth can really see the ghost in the star's heart. Of course, the detective Chen Guibin is not Song Zude with a big mouth. Liu Qingyun's crazy performance gives this character a curious charm. He does not have the meticulous insight into the surrounding clues like Sherlock Holmes, but directly re-enacts the crime scene with the flesh, or The fast-paced tension of imitating criminals attacking banknote depositors with "hand" guns, or imitating victims into boxes and burying them in the ground, firmly attracts the eye. Coupled with the sci-fi and mysterious "power of prophecy", this made the audience believe in the detective's neurotic judgment early on, and let go of guessing other possible murderers with suspense film thinking.

"Detective" abandons the suspense in the plot setting, and at the same time abandons the gang identity and the police and bandit mode from the role position, so the type of this film can be described as vague. Of course, we can replace these police officers equally with the gangsters in "Underworld". They are all concentrated in batches, and then fight openly and secretly in the cramped streets and living rooms, so can there be a new type called "police gang films"? Although the genre has been blurred, the film's low-key lighting, cool costumes, sudden gunfire, and highly purified sounds are still clearly stylized to indicate that this is produced by Galaxy Images. However, it is necessary to analyze the possibility of the case for the audience and the attempt to promote the climax of the drama, so "The Detective" is not allowed to carry out modeling and symbolic attempts like "Exile" and "Gunfire". Therefore, the "police gang" No posing on the street, no kicking cans to pass the boring time. The gangsters punished the civil unrest by stomping their fingers, and the "police gang" saw the future by cutting their ears.

Don't believe the movie, especially those readers who do not have the capacity for civil conduct. Cutting your ears may not allow you to see a "complex personality", gain insight into the future, and become a detective. Of course, our responsible electric inspection bureau has already obliged to cut off the "ear cutting" lens. The detective Chen Guibin in the movie almost became Spielberg's supercomputer judge ("Minority Report") who could "predict crime" with his insight. He issued an accurate death warning to his colleague He Jiaan: If you are worthy of The gun will be killed by Gao Zhiwei, the culprit. Fortunately, his prediction is not so predestined and inevitable, which also means that the logic of the film is not as complicated as that of a Sci-Fi film, and it can focus on the "complex personality" in Chen Guibin's eyes.

The climax of expressing the "complex personality" is also perfectly integrated with the explosive climax at the end of the film that To Qifeng is good at. The mirror image, the magnifying glass of the inner demon, which is keen to use from 007 movies to horror movies, is once again cleverly and appropriately placed in the most appropriate place. where it appears. The seven complex ghosts in Gao Zhiwei, the cowardly coward in He Jia'an, and the overwhelmed daring ghost in South Asians all appeared in the mirror array. Just when there was danger, the audience was confused in the chaos. Suddenly, a few The hearty sound of gunshots knocked the ghost back to its original shape and turned it into a dead man. Perhaps, the last attempt of the detective Chen Guibin was too conventional, and he had to kill the most complicated villains to reluctantly rest in peace, but as a lunatic who cut himself off his ears, we the audience should have a good view of him, he is different from us .
(Originally published in Southern Metropolis Daily on February 23)

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