I wrote a very confusing movie review before, in order to cross. I didn't fully understand what the film was about, the details and the handling of the plot. Watching it for the second time now, it feels really heavy.
Movies are not funny, or there is deep sadness behind the appearance of being funny——
The female spy played by Yuan Yongyi, because the so-called family background is not good, so there is no open and upright growth path that can be provided to her, she is distorted, misled, used, and finally abandoned.
Zhou Xingchi has excellent ingredients, but due to the limitation of height and body shape, he was eliminated from the People's Liberation Army team that likes to do face projects. He was suppressed, buried, blackmailed, and finally wronged.
This is the setting for the protagonist. The film is mocking and exposing people who are not good enough to be reincarnated. How easy is it to get ahead in such a land and system? Look, even on the big screen with a comedy background, it's very difficult.
Why is the boss the biggest villain? This movie does not explain the background, but looking at the few portraits hanging on the background wall, the handling of movie details here is also extremely subtle. The flag of the party under Chairman Mao's leadership has become the background wall and the title screen, so corruption is not so surprising for this villain - a nest of snakes and rats, and a life of grass-roots - in his position, he does not seek his job, just like In the scene where Zhou Xingchi appeared, the word "morality" was missing. If a society has systems but no morals, and laws but no character, then is this an extremely rational and objective society, or a chaotic society with black and white reversed? The film answers through thick dark humor.
Don't underestimate this comedy. (This is what I said to myself) A comedy, if it can recall a few of its classic lines after the end, it is a good work; a comedy, if it can continue to provide the audience with a period of time after the end. Joy and a positive and optimistic mood should be the best; a comedy film is very deep if you laugh when you watch it and think deeply when you watch it.
More and more I found that Stephen Chow and the Hong Kong filmmakers at that time had deep thinking, paying tribute to these thoughtful and vigorous people of that era.
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