Looking at the name and director, I thought it was an excellent genre film dedicated by a famous director and a famous actor, and the sense of anticipation was like suddenly receiving a gorgeously packaged gift box one day. But after opening, the things in the gift box are not preconceived things that will appear in front of you, but they are even more gratifying and shocking. "Detective" takes a police and gangster film as the shell, but explores a philosophical proposition about human nature: the human heart is a ghost. I thought there would be at least some fantastic and unrivaled case-solving performances in this film to echo such a reverie title as "The Detective", but that's how good directors are, never let routines limit the extension of a movie's life, Camere Lun's film made me feel that way, Nolan's film made me feel that way, and this movie made me feel the same way. I can now evaluate it this way, this film is a film that is thoroughly human in the guise of a crime. There is no element to solve the case, which makes the film simpler and the focus of human nature more prominent. This also made me recognize To Qifeng as a director even more. I used to recognize him as violent aesthetics, gangsters, police and bandits, gunfights, crime, and bloodshed. He conquered the audience in such themes. After watching this film, I saw that he was actually Very talented and very thoughtful.
The role of the detective is played by Liu Qingyun, who is in charge of acting. This film shows his extraordinary acting skills and allows him to create a classic role. The detective does not rely on experience, not intelligence, not prudence, not reasoning, but his special ability to see through the human heart. He can see the evil thoughts in people's hearts, and even evil thoughts will materialize and become living people. Just from such a standpoint, this movie can be called great, and such a screenwriter can be called bold, but such an idea is not too weird and is easily accepted by the audience. We often say: You have a ghost in your heart, and you know if you have a ghost in your heart. There are many words like this. In many film and television works, when characters are thinking about problems, two fighting villains will pop up above their heads, one dressed as an angel and the other as a devil, arguing endlessly. People who do bad things, we often say they are instigated by the devil. In this movie, a big fuss is made around this point. When the screenwriter thinks of the idea of turning the evil in people's hearts out, he is not far from winning the award for the screenwriter of the film, but how to make this point out? Story, designed as a movie with ups and downs, this is what film directors and screenwriters must consider to achieve greatness. And in this movie, this is handled very well.
With such a policeman, he can see the evil thoughts in people's hearts, and all the evils are exposed in front of his eyes. Of course, he will become a detective who has repeatedly solved major and difficult cases. I believe that many people have dreamed of having such a special ability to see people's hearts, but this movie is not a YY fantasy film, so this special ability is not a superpower worthy of showing off and enviable, and the detective has become an incomprehensible person. , a psychopath with bizarre behavior, who cut off his own ears like Van Gogh, and has also become a marginal person abandoned by the world. In order to solve a major case, the hot-blooded young police asked God to come out of the mountain. Like the young policeman, I was overheated, waiting to see the ultimate confrontation between justice and evil. The young policeman grew up step by step with the master and became indispensable to the confrontation. Witness, what a drama. One is a detective who has solved countless cases and does not follow common sense, and the other is a murderer who has seven evil spirits. Black and white, who can stand on the side of fate?
We always complain that the plot is too bloody and the movie is too routine, but in fact, it is us who are the most routine. We see it as a police and gangster movie, so we always find it unsatisfactory, and the logic is confusing. Who committed the crime, who killed who, how did the detective solve the case, what does the detective do, and what does the criminal do? So we trap ourselves. It was not until I saw the end of the film that I knew the director's intentions and what the film was talking about. The murderer in the film is a vicious man with seven evil spirits in his heart. The young policeman is cowardly, and the ex-wife of the detective is selfish and ruthless. Everyone has evil thoughts in their hearts. There are ghosts, the only difference is the degree of ferocity and the number of ghosts. That's why the ending of the movie is so ironic, a detective who is different from the world, and finally said that everyone has bad things in their hearts, why can't I have them, and then resolutely shot; the young police full of enthusiasm, if they say that they are not old enough, they feel cowardly and immature in their hearts If the side of the movie can be understood, the director tore the veil of tenderness at the end, and let the most calm and ruthless image of a woman live in his heart. He was indifferent, dealt with the scene, forged evidence, and arranged solutions. Coherent, bold and meticulous, it's not hard to imagine things going in the direction he designed, and here the film comes to an abrupt end. The fooled audience has to face a real and cruel problem: face the ghost in their own heart. The movie is both poignant and tolerant to point out that everyone has ghosts in their hearts, making us feel ashamed but relieved. The movie also shows the polarities of good and evil. We have to think about it. As people living with evil thoughts, how should we deal with ourselves and how to cultivate our hearts. The ending of the movie is exactly the test of everyone's conscience. In such a situation, you will let the woman live in your heart, and you will still admit the result magnanimously. Whether you are affirmative, acknowledging your evil side; denying, firming up your good side; or hesitating, thinking about your own nature and the consequences of good and evil, this movie wins. People's hearts are ghosts, but the choice is yours.
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