first saw the name of this movie, it was hard to imagine how To Qifeng would portray a blind detective, but when I watched the movie myself, I had to say that it was so successful, so I knew what to do. It was Director Du who handed in the most satisfactory answers to the audience. The comedy is filled with horror and the suspense is filled with love. This is my first feeling after watching this movie. So many elements are just right integrated into one film. In the movie, the 130-minute movie made me feel that time really flies too fast, which may be the magic of John To, and what this movie made me see more is the change of his movie style.
The first work that came into contact with him should be his "A Lang's Story". The realistic film style truly reflects the microcosm of the Hong Kong society at that time. I deeply fell in love with this director's film style. Later, his films More involved in the themes of police and bandits. Compared with To Qifeng's previous films, "Blind Detective" has to be said to be a brand new film style of To Qifeng. , not like the commercial love movie he occasionally got involved in. Although we can feel To Qifeng's consistent style in this movie, it is novel and unique that this movie left the deepest impression on me. To be precise, this is a movie A comedy movie under the detective film, Johnston (played by Andy Lau), a foodie detective who is blind and discharged from the army, and He Jiatong (played by Zheng Xiuwen), a wealthy rookie police officer. Interspersed with the auxiliary lines of the solving process of multiple cases, Johnston, who is arrogant and greedy and has great detective power, has a great spirit and admires He Jiatong, who loves this blind detective. With a series of funny events, the whole play gives people a very relaxed and pleasant feeling. It will not sink the audience into a sense of depression from beginning to end like a traditional police and gangster movie. Of course, this movie is also interspersed with It's just the right amount of thriller and suspense, but compared to the tragic ending of Director Du's previous work "Drug War", I prefer the final great ending of "Blind Detective".
In fact, when it comes to transformation, Director Du's works have given me a new exploration since "Drug War". The transformation of the new style of "Blind Detective" has laid the foundation. The shortcoming of "Drug War" is that it is not as obvious as that of "Blind Detective". It did not change the soul of Johnnie To's filming. Basically, any of his films will have certain thoughts. Andy Lau pointed out this movie at the end of the movie: "Blind and ignorant, it will kill people" The deep meaning is that the focus of this film review is to share with you the style of the film, rather than focusing on the ideas expressed in the film. Of course, this film also has certain problems, that is, its film style. There is a lack of plot logic in the transition, so this may be a good comedy, but it is not an excellent detective film. In fact, we sometimes don’t need to be so persistent when watching a movie, because a good movie is the most important thing. .
The transformation of Du-style style is a microcosm of the Hong Kong film era. The golden age of Hong Kong films has passed. No matter how much our generation loves Hong Kong films, the stereotyped Hong Kong film model will eventually be eliminated by the times, and transformation will take place. Have new life!
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