It is not difficult to understand if the film changes to another situation. It can be compared with Liu Zhengfeng in "The Swordsman". The boss wanted to wash his hands in a golden pot, but was regarded as weak by his peers, so there was this story.
The director pointed out the theme through the mouth of the protagonist three minutes before the opening of the film.
The film technique is still a multi-line narrative that the director is good at. The advantage of this technique is that through multiple protagonists, each protagonist represents a branch line, which crosses and runs in parallel, expanding the amount of film information. Compared with single-line films, it is not easy for the audience to guess the ending.
The multi-line intersection at the end is even more enjoyable, and it also greatly reduces the deliberate sense of the movie script, because the characters who play a major role in the movie's plot are likely to be just inconspicuous little people on the line. The protagonist of the branch line is also in danger of dying at any time. Unlike the single-line and double-line narratives in the past, the protagonist died in the middle, and the follow-up plot was boring.
However, this method can easily lead to a messy audience. The director lowered the threshold for watching movies through flashbacks from the detective's third perspective, making it messy but not chaotic.
However, I really don't like the character of detective, and the fact is the same. Many people hate the character of detective. Although the director tried to make it interesting, he couldn't bear the character's thinness, and the functional significance was greater than the story.
Returning to the story of this film, the detective collects gang crime evidence for the newspaper, the protagonist sells the marijuana base, and the buyer, the Jewish people, uses the Chinese gangsters to dry up the price.
There is no problem with the story, but I don't like the style. The movie wants to show a gentleman like "The Godfather", especially in the protagonist, a boss who follows rules and principles, but the director's performance is too low-end, a little godfather feeling nothing.
The funny thing is the protagonist in the movie: our marijuana is healthier and more harmless than heroin, our gangsters are disciplined and principled, not like the Chinese gangsters, nor are they greedy like the Jews. Ah, what a wonderful gangster!
so what? Aren't they still gangsters? What's the difference, buy insurance for the other party first when killing someone?
And that inexplicable "coach", the climax of the imagination at least has the scene of the gangsters fighting, and the result is just an office battle, which is so disappointing!
Another theme is Houlang, the confrontation between a group of "dad gangs" and gang rookies,
You guys are unruly, marijuana is the best!
You are out of date, we have Kuaishou accounts, singing and dancing artists!
It ended with an old-school victory, but the rookies also proved their strength and saved the big guys.
Alas, I'm tired of writing this, I feel like the director is getting old
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