【Supplementary and Recollection】"Victoria No. 1"

Kelsie 2022-12-15 00:12:44

Owning a car and building is the dream of every urban white-collar worker. And her dream since childhood was to buy a sea-view house in "Victoria One". In order to buy a house, she works in the bank during the day and has to do two "secret fishing" at night. In order to save money, she even quietly sold the bank customer information, but each time the income was only more than 1,200. This is a drop in the bucket for a person who wants to buy a property in Hong Kong.

Fortunately, she saw a low-priced unit with a sea view, and the owner was priced at 5.2 million. Although she was willing to pay 18,000 a month to buy a house for 30 years, unfortunately, the bank manager refused to grant her the loan.

At the same time, due to technical reasons, the insurance company informed her that her father had to pay for the hospitalization and surgery due to lung disease. On the one hand, she blamed her father for not reporting her condition in time; on the other hand, she was reluctant to use the money she was planning to buy a house for to treat her father's illness.

God gave her a chance to breathe. That night, her father had a lung attack, and she, in order to defraud insurance compensation. He turned his back to his father in front of the bed and let him die. She thought to herself that with the two hundred indemnity, she could have her own Dream House.

But the owner backtracked on the day of signing the contract, claiming to increase the price by 50%. She finally broke down, took the knife, and started a bloody killing jab. Her murderous plan was improvised, but from the beginning, she was on target. Killing stamped out of control.

In one night, eleven lives were lost. The real estate agent called early the next morning to renegotiate the purchase of the property, and she asked the owner to reduce the price by 1.3 million in one breath.

The words her father said to her back then directly planted the seeds of "study hard, go to university, and buy a big house in the future". However, the craziest killing in this crazy city is a petty citizen's accusation of a "bull market in property prices".

There is a price to pay for the realization of desire, and this society is full of media and advertisements, but it constantly inflates our desire, and finally we can't go back.

"Victoria 1" addresses serious social problems. In the end, the crazy killing of the heroine was triggered. This method of revenge is full of black humor in addition to the madness. The beauty of the film is that it is not only empty of this dark theme, but full of ingenious narrative expression mechanisms.
●All female characters in the film "Victoria 1" are in a state of being objectified. The heroine's father favors sons over daughters and is too biased towards his younger brother. A female colleague of the heroine was able to control her boyfriend only because of "good service at night".
In the female role played by Michelle Ye, her husband did not return all night, either to mess with the mistress or to recruit prostitutes in the mainland. The character played by Eason Chan in the film also cites jokes made by Korean clients mocking Korean women, which reinforces the disadvantaged position of women. In general, in this film, women can only survive if they are dependent on and completely dominated by men. Therefore, there is no hesitation for a woman to cut off a man's lifeblood.

●Pang Haoxiang is a director with a strong personal style who emerged from the collapse of Hong Kong movies at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century.

"Buying the Killer and Shooting People" is a successful black humor, while "The Husband", a spoof of gangsters, is quite ingenious and nonsensical. A "Dream Factory of Youth" is full of creativity and attracts countless fans. It has been a huge success in Hong Kong. ", is the dawn of the rise of Hong Kong films.

Then there is the "Zhi Ming Chun Jiao" series, which is very popular on both sides of the strait and three places, and there is also a seriously underrated "Human World Small Reunion".

"Victoria No. 1" is also one of Peng Haoxiang's most detailed video language works. There are many wonderful image ideas in the film. The occasional double or even triple mirror image of characters in the film is a symbol of a split or transformation of a character's identity. During the slaughter, there will also be an overhead shooting angle, which has a strong sense of judgment.
This is where the critical function of the violent images of "Victoria 1" finally gets its most legitimate release. In addition, the cast of the film is also strong enough. In addition to He Chaoyi and Eason Chan, there are also many old actors who are familiar to everyone, such as Xu Shaoqiang, Bao Qijing, and the long-lost "Ximen Qing" Shan Liwen.

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