Director Lin Lingdong's last two films that he collaborated with the mainland are also very unbearable, but if a wealthy businessman who made movies told him that he had a wonderful idea and wanted to direct him, it would be [Police Story] plus [Prison Situation], I would like to come to Lin The director's reaction would at least be "lost mother" in his heart. In my opinion, the Korean movie "Veteran" is precisely the grotesque combination of these two Hong Kong films, whether the original intention is to pay tribute to parody or innovation. In the beginning, it was an unconventional police story about fighting bad businessmen. [Police Story] was mainly related to female witnesses. Although the guy who jumped from the building was in a coma, he was actually "everywhere". It had nothing to do with the protagonist of the police, but he insisted on helping him. ] in Zhou and Liang. The difference between Lin Lingdong and most Hong Kong directors is that apart from the "calmness" before violence, he is not satisfied with simple binary opposition or blurred boundaries, and often sets up a "third party" such as "Prison Storm". The prison guard Zhang Yaoyang is even Liu Songren, the teacher in [School of the Wind and Cloud]. But unfortunately, this is his most special, excellent, but also possibly the most failure. The reason why the prison guard hates the prisoner is said to have been hacked by hooligans outside before. Regardless of whether the character and motive are too sloppy, what he did when balancing the forces in the prison was the same as or even worse than that of the prisoner. Liu Songren was essentially the same. Although he was forced to the point of being intolerable, what he did in the end was no different from the members of the community. This is not so much the extreme drama as the skepticism or even despair of any form of "belief". And the rich and young in [Veteran] is also such a "third party". He doesn't agree with his father, and even he doesn't care much about crime. The last escape is more like a real car crashing into people and procrastinating. Instead of inciting the taxi drivers to "rebel" collectively, he almost got rid of the binary opposition between the police and the bandit, but unfortunately, he was "forced" to do the same thing as the ordinary villains and the police who jumped out of the routine. In the last scene of fighting each other in the downtown [Police Story], the crowd who didn't shoot the scene [Veteran] The director did this because he probably didn't know how to design the fight and simply made the crowd fight into a "style", maybe he didn't even understand it himself The subconscious motive is because the one who jumped off the building was designed to be in a coma (if he woke up before, he would become a big cliché of killing witnesses in the hospital) and couldn't witness the police arrest (beat) the rich and young [Prison situation] do it all midweek Basically it's all for Liang (although the motive can only be interpreted as brotherhood in general) and the prisoner who is "oppressed" like Liang, so the one who jumped from the building in [Veteran] who can't see the scene of the battle must have the possibility of encountering the same" The onlooker's gaze is enough to "relieve" (Jackie Chan in [Police Story] does not have such an indirect psychological need because he was framed by himself and the villain's crime did not directly present the victim). And the effect of this onlooker-style fight is obviously worse than the old-fashioned one-to-many stage performance that Jackie Chan innovated first The normal reaction should be that you gang of nameless and shameless people deserve to be treated inappropriately by the rich second generation and other forces! But I would like to believe that this should not be the original intention of the director of [Veteran] when they designed this final battle. The reason for this result is precisely because the Korean director for some unknown motive tried to combine [Police Story] and [Prison Situation] into one, so as to force the pros and cons of the film into one It's a pity that the situation is pitiful and even a little ridiculous.
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