Unlike "The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes" and this summer's popular Japanese drama "Detective Galileo 2", the former two will allow the audience to directly follow the perspectives of Sherlock Holmes and Yukawa to explore the case, but in the blind detective, the audience will be in the first place. For a while, I chose to follow Zheng Xiuwen's single stupid police perspective to gain insight into the plot. Whether in the emotional line or the case line, Zheng Xiuwen's role made the audience feel more intimate.
Zheng Xiuwen's last big-selling work starring was "Dragon and Phoenix" in 2004, and his opponent was Andy Lau. Due to the relationship between life and semi-retirement, Zheng Xiuwen, who was in a semi-retired state, declined in both career and film in the next nine years, and the past ten years have also been a decade of decline in Hong Kong movies.
In 2000's "Lonely Men and Widows", "Slimming Men and Women" in 2001, "Infernal Affairs" in 2002, "Dragon and Phoenix" in 2004, Zheng Xiuwen's box office performance has always been the first among Hong Kong female artists. And this classic work in the hearts of countless fans has Andy Lau.
So will this "Blind Detective" smash the golden signs of Andy Lau, Zheng Xiuwen and Du Qifeng at the same time?
Fortunately, I was not disappointed at all.
It's a masterpiece that makes you feel like you're back in the golden age of Hong Kong cinema from start to finish. Not a second makes you feel procrastinated, every minute is carefully crafted. It can be said that To Qifeng has been presupposing the audience's emotional point, and such presupposition has never failed. The moment you start playing the subtitles, you'll be thinking to yourself when you'll see the next Hong Kong movie of such high quality.
For fans who love Hong Kong movies, we have really missed this blind detective for a long time.
In terms of performance, Andy Lau is a blind detective who is constantly exaggerating, but when this exaggeration reveals his true temperament, he will still touch the soft part of your heart inadvertently. The stupid Shan policeman played by Zheng Xiuwen has all the skills, but only when he protects his loved one will he let you see how terrible and how much you care about the attachment from a stupid single woman. You can't say that Gao Yuanyuan is a vase, because the characters in the plot are so dry, but in the scene with Andy Lau, there should be room for self-development. When you are given such room for self-development, Gao Yuanyuan's performance is indeed not good. Guo Tao doesn't have many scenes, but the right plot setting makes his performance very comfortable. As the only friend of the blind detective, at least people feel that this is a kind and righteous guy from the bottom of his heart.
The plot adopts the pattern of Russian nesting dolls. It is planned in the middle of the ring, and it is laid out all the way. It will not show you the truth until the last second. For the audience, this is a very sincere work. Among them, Andy Lau and Zheng Xiuwen's simulation of ten sad disappearance cases is the most impressive. Zheng Xiuwen complained in the play: I have been dumped by you ten times in the past few days, and I have been sad ten times. The two who kept changing scenes seemed to have really been in love ten times. Andy Lau also contributed a golden sentence with an exaggerated expression: Even if you fall in love again, breaking up is like this, turning your face and not recognizing anyone.
I like you, but I don't want to tell you, just stay with you silently. Since 2000, every Liu Zheng's work has been this way. Until the blind detective, Andy Lau said i love u twice, and finally let people see the warm heartbeat 136.
What made my heart water the most was the one sentence that Zheng Xiuwen said stupidly: Huh? It's embarrassing for you to know that I like you, but fortunately I'm dying.
Sure enough, for this couple who have been dating for 13 years without confessing, not letting the other party know their hearts is really more important than the sky.
After Zheng Xiuwen became a minister of hate songs in 2005, he fell ill, and only his own heart knows the hard work and struggle during the period. The 2008 "Big Search" had average box office and word of mouth, but Zheng Xiuwen's transformation can already be seen in the big search, and a more refined Zheng Xiuwen is about to emerge. 2012's High Altitude 2 was as tepid as the co-productions of the decade. Until this "Blind Detective" in 2013, chance is equally important to actors and directors. You will find that Andy is still the same Andy, just more flexible. And Sammi has become, in all respects, capable of challenging the actress with such a comedy.
There are so many people who have been supporting Hong Kong films at the most difficult time for Hong Kong films, spending time and effort to polish better films, even if the box office shrinks again and again, even if the audience keeps losing, even if the general environment is getting worse and worse, but Kung Fu is this. This kind of thing is that the more you pay, the more stunning beauty you can precipitate in time.
What kind of answer sheet has Du Qifeng handed in in the past ten years?
"The Big Event" and "Dragon and Phoenix" in 2004, "Underworld" in 2005, "Underworld 2 Peace is Precious" and "Exile" in 2006, "The Detective" in 2007, "Wenque" in 2008, 2011 2009's "Death Gold". The increasingly stylized Johnnie To has become a benchmark for Hong Kong films, representing Hong Kong again and again in Cannes to show the highest level of Hong Kong films today.
The most difficult thing is not to be the most dazzling one on the gorgeous stage, but to be the hope in the eyes of others in the most embarrassing times.
You only have one life, so there are never the best times.
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