bullets flying everywhere

Blanche 2022-10-09 22:04:07

"Let the Bullets Fly" has a lot of bullets, a lot of guns, a lot of bullet holes and blood all over the screen, but this is by no means a grand but kidney-deficiency shootout film. There are a lot of stories about bandits in Chinese movies, and a story full of bandits is expressed with such humor and toughness, instead of just playing with fancy pictures and narrative structure, and decorating it with enough violence and vulgarity on the surface. If it is released legally, perhaps only Jiang Wen can do it in China. He is a standing boss in stories and reality.

This story has a skit-like structure and seems to have some elements of Sichuan Opera, but from the perspective of revolution and materialist deconstruction, the whole story is a process of violent proletarian revolution that breaks the old order and establishes a new order, and this process , From the first day the robbery officer entered the city, it was brewed by an elite bandit like Jiang Wen who had flowed across the ocean. For the cult of violence (innumerable shots of gunshots), for the symbolization of the common people (all of them are shirtless), and for the silent majority's tolerance of evil and cowardly intangible ridicule, these concepts are in fact very Clearly conveyed to the audience, but it is difficult to say too detailed in the movie, but such satire can easily be covered up by the humorous plot, but everyone with ulterior motives will understand what Jiang Wen expressed.

In the story, there are constantly dead people, shooting, and bloodshed, but then again, this is indeed a movie that makes people feel very relaxed, because there are too many laughs, and the three main characters are in the movie. The dialogues flowed like clouds and water, like bullets whizzing out of a machine gun, suddenly bursting the audience's emotions. As for the supporting roles, Carina Lau, who played the wrong woman, reminded me of the coquettish and cheap taste when she and Zhou Xingchi played "The Secret Agent in the Big Inner". This time, she expressed it from the inside out. Although Zhang Mo, who is open to testing fans, has not many roles, it is enough to support the first eye-stimulating climax of the whole movie. As for those fake star faces, it makes the whole movie full of civilian temperament. This kind of temperament is also possessed by Jiang Wen. It is popular but has a style.

Jiang Wen said at the beginning of the movie, let the bullet fly for a while - before hitting the target. The bullet is uncontrollable when it comes out of the muzzle, but whether it can hit the target or not, the superb shooter has already made his own judgment. Many people like Jiang Wen's rough style. After watching this film, you will feel that Jiang Wen is in charge of this film from beginning to end, whether it is on or off the scene, it is very casual. For Jiang Wen, this movie may also be like a bullet for him - let you watch it for a while, but if you watch it, the box office and word of mouth are destined to be mine. Having existed in the Chinese film industry as a legend for so many years, his grasp of the taste and comprehension of Chinese audiences has reached a level of perfection. His "bullet", from the first day, was destined for us wallet and forehead.

At the end of the story, I was suddenly very excited, because for the first time in a Chinese commercial film, you see so much foul language, blood plasma, irony, pornography, homosexuality, black humor and some of those idiots who are always in a hurry "Dangerous metaphors" that we'll never see, holding movie tickets and popcorn from a group buy, watching bullets flying all over the screen, it's a fucking cool thing to do.

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  • Allan 2022-01-19 08:02:52

    Jiang Wen said, I want to stand and make money. he made it. The sentence at the end is very important to me without you. It cannot be overstated.

  • Herta 2022-04-19 09:02:44

    It's not a movie at all, it's just a long comic. No characters, no emotions, nothing. But still have fun.