Of course, radishes and vegetables have their own preferences, and I can't force my preferences. However, when I searched for information on the Internet, I found that the international reputation of this film is better than that of Hong Kong, which still makes me emotionally uncomfortable. The feeling of anger that people shoot such a classic that they are not appreciated by their own people. Although this film is not as masculine as "The True Color of Heroes", not as handsome and elegant as "Across the World", not as brutal and wild as "Blood on the Street", and not as thunderous as "The Detective", but I think From the point of view of the character itself, he has far surpassed the extension connotation that previous shootout films can carry. Among them, the hero shaping full of human touch and philosophical thinking, the sonorous and powerful line design of denunciation of the world, the neat and neat editing of the exquisite story rhythm, the expression of people I am particularly excited by the conflicts with people's ideology and personality, and the various reflections brought about by people's dazed persistence when they are out of step with society. This film has a charisma and charisma that most first-class martial arts films do not have. It is a true modern version of martial arts epics. This film surprised me when I became an adult. , I like the gunfight movie more than the martial arts movie that I thought I liked the most. Or maybe there are shoot-out films that can express modern consciousness more conveniently and directly and make me have a basis for resonance, while most martial arts films have the beauty of action form, classical artistic conception, and the spiritual connotation of human nature that I like, but it is difficult to directly point to them. The vicissitudes of the society today and the twisted cry of human nature. Of course, this also plays a role in the skills of the director and all other behind-the-scenes personnel, but it is undeniable that all martial arts films so far have lost the flavor and connotation of all martial arts films to this film. It is a kind of heroic character and great temperament that truly pursues justice, pursues freedom, fights against fate with instinct, and is eventually engulfed by the evil tide of the environment. Although this is an old film from 1989, it seems that all the police and gangster films that have been released after it can only surpass it in the technical level of the visual effects of the shootout, and it is very difficult to compare with it in terms of humanistic connotation. difficulty.
However, when I talk about my favorite film, I may be too heavy-handed because I am eager to express my feelings. In fact, the expression of this film is extremely romantic and beautiful. The dashing shape, beautiful scenery, touching music, and hot gunfights, Feng Gang's loyalty to Xiaozhuang at the risk of sacrificing his life to ask for money, and Xiaozhuang's fearless chivalrous feelings for saving the little girl, of course. There is also the artistic conception of the white pigeon flying in the hail of bullets. This is the first time that John Woo's signature dish that he used to show his fierce cruelty perfectly shows. (Maybe there will be a lot of people who love to ridicule him now, but no matter how the first person to eat crabs is brave and successful the first time, we will only make fun of the meaningless imitation and repetition later.) When I revisited the film before I saw it, I could hear the heartwarming interlude and first come to my mind with the clip of the film, which made me emotional and my eyes watered. It can be said that the soundtrack made by Lu Guanting for the film is a perfect match with the ups and downs of the plot, the psychological changes of the characters, and the coordination of the environment and atmosphere. The most impressive thing is the theme song that Ye Qianwen sang along with Zhou Run at the beginning. ——“I am wandering every day, every day and every night I am wandering, how much I want to find someone who is willing to accompany me, so that my heart will no longer wander. I hope that when you come, gently accept me and let me I know that the people I look at and the promises will never change. How much I hope and how many dreams are due to the feeling of loneliness, no matter how elusive the hope is...", this sad and sad melody, accompanied by the killer Xiao Zhuang (Chow Yun-fat) Wearing a trench coat, carrying a suitcase, putting on a top hat, walking out of a church, entering a bar, wearing a scarf, staring silently, and silently drawing a gun in the slow motion of every gesture and every move, the sound is full of elegance, but more so. It hints at the change of the protagonist's state of mind and the impending marriage between the hero and heroine, and reveals the tone of the whole film. In addition, Xiaozhuang's sadness when he plays the harmonica alone further reflects the loneliness of the protagonist who does not fit into the vulgarity and cannot live in the world.
In fact, loneliness and loneliness, most of us have seen too much, and we have experienced it ourselves, but the loneliness of the protagonists of this film, to be precise, is the loneliness of the two protagonists. The other two polar concepts, because the sense of loneliness of the two protagonists is not the groaning in the popular lyrics, not the drowsy eyes and nothing to do, but just like the generous and elegiac knights in martial arts novels who want to stretch their righteousness. The sad disappointment brought about by the unavailability, a kind of high-pitched and unresponsive psychological trauma. As the director said, the film expresses the lost justice in his heart.
This kind of justice is not carried out in the form of law, but is maintained by means of breaking the law in a very ironic way. In this film, the law has become a shameful and ridiculous shield to be used by the villains, which has a pungent mockery of reality. And this kind of evil, this gloomy world, is interspersed and intertwined by two paths and two clues, through the personnel conflict within the police and the cannibalism of the gang. The underworld is not moral. On the one hand, the official institution where Officer Li works is impersonal. However, the goodness that this film promotes and praises, the brilliance that is hidden in the dark world and cannot be concealed, is also dialectically contrasted through these two fields. The killer Xiaozhuang in the underworld is more worldly and humane than most of the so-called justice-representing police officers, and he speaks more about the bottom line of the principle of being a human being, while the police officer Li in the righteousness knows more about mutual sympathy and loyalty than the Jianghu gang. The two protagonists are outstanding chivalrous heroes in their respective fields, but the organizations and institutions they belong to, the wild rivers and lakes and the official society are gray and dark pools of muddy water!
The heroine Jenny (Ye Qianwen) does not have many roles, because John Woo's films have always focused on the friendship and spirit between men. In this film, Jenny is like a bridge and link between the two. With her, the world of the two began to communicate with each other and become complete and three-dimensional. She is the catalyst for the two protagonists to inspire their hidden warmth attributes and desire to understand, and to bring together the contradictory bodies that were originally born from the same root-to make the original police officer. The mortal enemy of the bandit confrontation, but found on the other side a projection of himself under another environment and road, and they are actually the best friends and confidants who can understand each other, because they have a common ideal: righteousness! Moral! in principle! This is something they abide by and pursue together. Although the world no longer talks about these things, and their "innocence" thinking has become out of touch with this tragically apostate world, they insist on it without hesitation.
It is a matter of course for the police to arrest the gangsters, but the killer Xiaozhuang who kills the gangsters is also defending his own justice in his own way. Although the method is wrong, when you face the law, it is impossible to punish the wicked. The absurd status quo, the police can only pick up guns and kill with the killer, break through this unreasonable law of the world together, so that the two originally hostile police killers ended up in the same way, expressing the same kind of pursuit of justice for both of them. with unjust anger. This is also the big scene at the end that made my blood rush, a great state of putting down the butcher's knife and finally realizing it, and finally raising the knife again. Even if they knew that the ending was helpless, the two could no longer bear the rogues in this world! Because the laws of the white world and the rules of the underworld have all become empty talk, the protagonists of the two gray areas can only join forces to fight against each other and do their best to prevent the creeping and invasion of darkness. The serene and peaceful church echoes before and after the beginning and the end, in sharp contrast to the bloody cruelty, but deep within it, there is a revelation and regret for the fate of the protagonist Xiaozhuang. Because the story begins and ends in the church, the protagonist embarks on the road of no return to the killer because he has converted to the kindness represented by religion in his heart. This conversion is not a formal conversion, but a gun to punish Rape and punish evil, and then come back here to seek spiritual comfort and redemption after every murder, but it also makes him walk into the "heaven" road where I don't go to hell, who goes to hell, and it is destined that his end is at the beginning. He died tragically at the end, but even more tragic was the destruction of the church and the collapse of the Virgin Mary. Because that is a foreshadowing of the end of kindness, because the momentary death of individual wicked people cannot make up for the lack of the principles of kindness and righteousness and loyalty in the whole world. But few people can understand this truth, so after the police officer Li illegally shot and killed the underworld boss Wang Hai to vent his anger, he could only sit on the ground and cry, not only because he lost Xiaozhuang, but also because Feeling powerless because of the fact that good people are not rewarded and the law is incompetent.
Recently, this film was ranked seventh among the 15 most influential films in the world in the past 15 years by the famous British film magazine "Empire". Time magazine of the United States listed it as one of the top ten Asian films of the 20th century. I think It is well deserved. This is not only a film about the aesthetics of commercial violence, but also a film that criticizes realism and philosophy. It is a perfect combination of commercial entertainment and profound art. It eulogizes a long-lost spirit of our era, and also accuses the world of how It doesn't matter to this lack of spirit!
Attached are some wonderful lines from this film:
Li Xiuxian: I believe in justice, but no one believes me.
Chow Yun-Fat: Good people are often misunderstood.
Li: Will your friend come?
Zhou: It will come, it will definitely come.
Li: What if he betrays you again?
Zhou: I still regard him as my friend. He helped me after all.
Li: Few really have enough friends.
Zhou: Yes, but too little.
Li: I really doubt that you are ethical in your business.
Zhou: The world has changed, and no one talks about it now.
Li: I'm a police officer, and I don't shoot people in the back.
Zhou: Isn't that the same as mine?
Li: Totally different! I am law enforcement, you are breaking the law, I can't catch you today, how can I explain to my dead friend? !
Zhou: Actually, the two of us are the same, we both use guns to make money, but we use guns in different ways.
Zhu Jiang: To be a dog, you have to look like a dog.
Zhu: I didn't want to be beaten to death like a dog. I wanted to die a little more gloriously, but I didn't even have the last bullet to kill myself.
Zhou: Put down the gun? My friend of ten years, I just shot him to death. You told me to put the gun down? You go out now and tell them you're a cop and see if they'll put their guns down!
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