I haven't watched a Hong Kong movie for a while, but today I watched Tsui Hark's 2000 work "Down with the Current".
In the impression, Tsui Hark gives people the feeling of more chivalry in the rivers and lakes, accompanied by the martial arts movements of flowing clouds and flowing water, and the martial arts atmosphere of pleasure and hatred. However, this work of the new millennium era instead incorporates his thinking about the new century. The film also reveals unknown confusion and style transformation. Now it seems that it is still a unique existence.
Two men and two women are involved in the whirlwind of confrontation for the sake of life and family. The story does not seem to be old-fashioned now. At the same time, Uncle Ji played by Huang Qiusheng has the feeling in "Gun Fire", but is only hired by South America. The part when the army came back is not very clear. In addition to the narrative style of the story, interspersed with character narration, the use of color is also very strong, the dark night, the gloomy screen of the evening negotiation, these all show a very special style. But what I like the most is the perfect fusion of the entire action scene flow and dubbing. The movie does not simply use the hot gun battle scene, but cleverly designs many different scenes to better show the characters' own qualities. . Whether it is the first game in the building or the duel at the end, the killer played by Wu Bai makes use of the characteristics of space and the fluency of the action, and the soundtrack is not simply ambient sound. In some special scenes, specific The sound of musical instruments expresses the psychology of the characters.
Among them, what impressed me the most was that A Zheng, played by Nicholas Tse, was trapped in the carriage of the truck. With every time the lighter was turned on, Xu Ziqi, who had just released him on bail, appeared, accompanied by Wu Bai's singing. This scene really like. "The you in front of me made me sad, and my eyes were red..." The two actors who were young at the time were very beautiful, and the movies at that time always made me feel a special texture, able to make the actors real It's really good-looking, not only won't let me resist, but I'm very fascinated. At that time, Xu Ziqi was only 18 years old, but he was able to play the role of a pregnant woman quite brilliantly. Of course, good looks have been added.
In recent years, there have been some Tsui Hark's new movies released, but they are not very interested. Many movies seem to use special new technologies. I hope that such an old monster Xu can tinker with more interesting works.
---2019.12.29
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