Crime, wits, police and bandits, films with these elements usually put forward extremely high requirements for the weaving of the plot. But aside from the plot, I want to talk about the film's soundtrack, which comes from the Greek composer Vangelis. Because it is through the soundtrack of a film that you can capture the style and even the pattern of a film. In the dark battle, the aria-style soundtrack creates a grand, distant and profound, highlighting the insignificance of human beings in the face of fate. Whether you are a policeman or a bandit, a man or a woman, in the invisible hand of fate, there is a sadness of powerlessness.
But it is the contrast between the insignificance of individual manpower and the freedom and ease in the face of fate that makes it even more desirable. The scene where the hero discards the red-stained toilet paper and is blown away by the wind can't help but be moved. ? Another example is the dialogue between the doctor and the protagonist: "I don't think we will meet again", "It's just this life."
In addition to the unrestrained and open-mindedness shown by the characters in the face of death, the strong Jianghu spirit in the confrontation between the positive and the negative, and the mutual sympathy of both enemies and friends allows people to temporarily abandon the conflict between good and evil , and devoting ourselves to the pure and beautiful appreciation of human nature, only when we abandon our own position and imagine communication without social identity, can we feel a little fire of the de-identified chivalrous spirit in the real world.
Of course, there is also love. Some people say that the love in the film is good enough to end. But I think the exact opposite. Because of this light-hearted love, it focuses on depicting the most beautiful part of love: encounter and heartbeat. As for ambiguity, holding hands, and passionate love, none of them exist. In the hearts of men and women, the other party is still mysterious and beautiful, and the tragic beauty that ends without a disease further freezes this relationship into a lyric poem. Such an encounter can be called an accident of chance, so we believe that such a heartbeat is pure in pure.
In the end, it is the advanced wits.
Police and gangster movies, I usually only watch them once, and expect more plot reversals and unexpected truths. If there is more reasonable logic, it will be even better. But "Dark War" not only satisfied all of these, but also gave me a divine revelation, like a light tragedy, a tribute to all the possessions in life that will eventually pass away.
This lightness, escaping from the gravitational pull of reality, runs through the film and is particularly captivating. Worrying about people who are heartbroken, respecting opponents, these emotions that should be full of ritual are all contained in the ordinary day at the end of the whole film, on an ordinary bus, in a gossip and homely conversation.
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