A real case happened between the detective and Hong Kong, which helps to understand the plot

Giovani 2022-04-22 07:01:50

The following is copied from my answer on Zhihu.

Since most of my compatriots are in China, I didn’t know the creative source of the story when I watched this movie. It happened that my relatives were in Hong Kong and often went there. I am also a Cantonese. I have a better understanding of the background when I watch TVB and gossip about Hong Kong affairs.

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Let me talk about the relationship between the movie "Detective" and a real case. In order to increase the appeal, I will tell the story in the order of the news and reports at that time. This way the plot is better (you can Wiki Xu Bu Gao):

2006 In the middle of the night on March 17, gunshots rang out in an underground pedestrian tunnel on Canton Road in Hong Kong, and nearby residents immediately called the police.

When police arrived, they found three men lying in a pool of blood.

Two uniformed police officers fell to the ground, one died and the other was in a coma, and was shot.

A man of Chinese nationality fell on the opposite side and was shot dead.

According to the inference on the scene, it was two uniformed patrol police officers and a Chinese man who broke out in a gun battle and both fell.

In short, two died and one was in a coma.
What happened at the scene can only be inferred.
The police thought it was strange that there were three police guns on the ground!

Why are there three police guns? 2 uniformed police officers are equipped with 2, indicating that the Chinese man is holding a police gun?
The management of police guns in Hong Kong is extremely strict. To put it simply, it is much easier for you to get an AK or a Lai Fu than a police gun.
No need for the underworld!

What's happening here?

A surprising thing happened. After the identity of the Chinese man was revealed, the media and police were shocked!
The Chinese man is an off-duty plainclothes policeman named Xu Bugao!

Plainclothes police and patrolling police shoot at each other in the middle of the night?

What is this situation? ?

When the forensic department waited for the ballistic report to come out, the result surprised Hong Kong even more!

The gun used by Xu Bugao (codenamed A gun) is not his own gun!

It's a lost gun! In 2001, a policeman received a false alarm and was later killed in the stairs of a certain housing estate. The missing gun (referred to as the A gun)
is still an unsolved case! Not broken! correct! Not broken! (I read the news report back then, it is said that the policeman who was killed was killed in a kneeling position, similar to execution)

What, this A gun was lost in the unsolved case of killing a policeman many years ago?

What is this situation? ? ?

and! Don't be surprised!

A gun even robbed a bank! correct! Robbery the bank!
He also killed a Pakistani bank security guard! This is still unsolved.
(There is also a section of robbing a car in the detective)

What! ! ! A policeman grabbed another policeman's gun and then killed the policeman.

Later! Use someone else's gun to rob a bank?

What's up with this again? ? ? ?

At that time, there were also rumors of robbing a mahjong shop (in the end, it could not be confirmed, because there was no shooting, only the suspect wore a mask, used a police gun to frighten him and then took the money and ran away. It could not be proved whether it was a real gun or Xu. But remember, the police Guns are hard to come by in Hong Kong. There are very few robberies with police guns in Hong Kong. There are many AK robberies.)


For a time, the Hong Kong media was in an uproar, and the title of "Magic Police" became Xu Bugao's name. (There is also a movie of the same name) The evidence disclosed now, etc., the plot is more often than the movie.

I am Cantonese, my relatives are in Hong Kong, and I often go there. So when I was in Guangdong TVB, I read gossip magazines when I arrived in Hong Kong, etc., and I watched the progress of this case all the way, and I felt that it would be a waste to not make a movie about this matter. It's amazing....

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After a year of investigation, the result came out.

The magic policeman has some mental problems, extreme, impulsive, gambling, and he wants to track the then chief executive in his diary, etc., which is enough to reflect that this person is abnormal.

In 2001, he falsely called the police and led a patrolling police officer to a certain housing estate. After reaching the back stairs, he grabbed a gun and shot and killed the police officer. Get the A gun.

After robbing the bank with a gun, the bank guard resisted and was shot and killed by him.

get a sum of money. After that, he often went to and from Macau, betting large amounts of money on horses and so on.

In 2006, the money ran out, and the A gun was running out of bullets.
He planned to continue the robbery, what should I do if the guns are running out?

Police: It is inferred that Xu wanted to capture the bullets or guns of the two uniformed police officers patrolling the tunnel that night. The patrolling officers resisted, and a shootout broke out between the three of them. All KO. There is no witness, only inferences.

That night, in the tunnel shootout, Xu wanted to grab the gun, and all three policemen's guns fell to the ground. There was chaos at that time, and it was impossible to tell who shot who.
The police finally figured out the shooting sequence and attribution based on the ballistic report and other issues.

I want to explain here, the inference made by the Hong Kong police, but there is no evidence to prove it. Wiki also mentions it.

During the gunfight in the tunnel, the magic police first shot and killed Police Officer B, captured Police Officer B's gun B, and shot at Police Officer C.

In the end, everyone was KO. However, there is no direct evidence to prove this in the subsequent attestation.

To put it simply, when the demon police and the two patrolling policemen shot each other that night, everyone's guns were messed up, and in short, they picked up and fired randomly.

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I first learned about the policeman's case, and then watched the movie.

So the original source of this movie is actually from the police case. The last shot of the gun chaos actually means putting the reality in a bit, and it doesn't have much meaning.

By the time the shot cuts out, the process of swapping guns isn't complete in the film. Leave it open.

Hong Kong people know about the police case and understand what it means.

Most of our compatriots here don't know that this happened, so there is too much speculation.

Many things in it correspond to the case: South Asians rob a police gun, rob a bank (replaced with a car), rob a mahjong hall, schizophrenia, etc. Several police officers shoot at each other.

Personally, I think these assumptions are out of the original intention.
To add, the above is sorted according to my personal memory of seeing this case back then and according to the reports of the relevant gossip media. It is not ruled out that there is a slight discrepancy.

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  • Inspector Bun: [Bun talks to himself] If you shoot, you will be no different from everyone else.

    Inspector Bun: [on second thought] I am human too. Why should I be any different?

    [Bun pulls the trigger]

  • Inspector Bun: Apply emotions to investigate!