What's the different?

After seeing a lot of post-viewing posts about the departed, the point of view is very simple. This movie remakes Hong Kong Infernal Affairs as "f**king shit". It seems that people who have watched this movie are more likely to say these two words. It's smooth, just like friends who read too much and blurt out oh my god. However, Lao Ma fulfilled Oscar's golden dream with this film after all. If he waits any longer, it is estimated that he can directly win the Lifetime Achievement Award before winning the Best Director Award. That was an interesting scene. It's a pity that Oscar's judges didn't have the courage to write such a script. Lao Ma arrogantly held the statue high on the podium, and the audience stood up to applaud him. This was probably the most brilliant time I've ever seen.
In fact, I prefer to see the departed and Infernal Affairs as two completely different movies, even though the story is the same, the characters are the same, and even some minor scenes are copied. But that's not all of what a movie is about. Martin Scorsese went back to his gangster theme, and re-soaked the whole story in the decay and gore of Boston's lower back streets. Hanging Infernal Affairs in the gloomy slums, cutting off the beautiful soundtrack, cutting off the dramatic techniques such as Morocco, cutting off the seasoning that makes the audience laugh occasionally, cutting off the soothing and relaxed scene editing, Then start pouring buckets of blood, foul language, sex, perverts, and then use quick, direct camera changes to obliterate any gaps that allow viewers to breathe. Fast, accurate, hard. As Shakespeare once said: The worlds were not created to my specifications, and all I can do is show you what they really are. Relatively speaking, Infernal Affairs is much more elegant. That is a gangster world created by the director, which has just been refuted from the betrayal of loyalty and righteousness in the traditional Hong Kong gangster films, and more let the audience pay attention to the pain and contradictions in human nature. And Lao Ma still wants to restore everything to reality, at the very least, it is the reality of what he thinks is dirty, dark, fearful and contradictory.
Frink - "To be a cop or a criminal? When faced with a loaded pistol, what's the difference?"
Billy - "All people kill, and can I be the same as them? What's the difference?"
And when all the tragedies come to an end, is it the reincarnation of fate or is it driven by human nature?
What's the difference?

Leonardo has become Lao Ma's second-generation queen actor, with the impulse and contradiction of Lao Ma's infatuation. There is no melancholy of Tony Leung, but he is better at expressing the fears and impulses that the characters cannot suppress on the brink of life and death and collapse. This is not a mature lonely hero, but a child who is constantly tormented by fear and confusion. Nicholso's gangster boss has nothing to say, this is his cruel, cold, perverted and arrogant temperament. In addition, the screenwriter's lines are really wonderful, and there are some dark humorous adjustments, although the sadness of the film itself is irrelevant.

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