" Drug
War" is the first police and gangster film after John To led his Galaxy battleship "landing". The environment, characters and plots of Hong Kong and the mainland are intertwined in the play and outside the play. This master of violent aesthetics of Hong Kong films brings exciting viewing experience and reflection to the audience of mainland police and gangster films with tense and gripping plots, cruel and realistic realism, and vivid characters.
Du Qifeng, a master director with ease and ease, is
known as "the last big shot of Hong Kong film directors". The keynote of fatalism, the strong experimental color, the cold and biting images, and the twists and turns of the plot are typical characteristics of Du's films. After 1997, Hong Kong set off a wave of going north. Many Hong Kong works either lost the essence of Hong Kong films, or did not grasp the mentality of the mainland, and created various four dissimilarities. "Drug War" is the first landing of left-behind director John To. It is a step-by-step work, but it is easy to handle before Hong Kong and the mainland. On the one hand, the background of the mainland is accurately grasped, and the essence of Du's film is retained. It is indeed worthy of the title of a master director.
The first thing I said when I introduced the film to people in Black Destiny
was: All people are dead. From the beginning, the resourceful and calm policeman Zhang Lei, the unscrupulous Cai Tianming who will do anything to survive, the ordinary policeman who diligently stalk the drug dealers, the big deaf and the deaf who are fighting on the table, the seven drug dealers who make their debut, all the main actors who have shown their faces. all died. The wise police officer Zhang Lei, from arresting the drug dealers, arresting the drug dealer Cai Tianming, and conspiring against Haha, step by step, found out the seven gentlemen behind Cai Tianming's drug dealers. When the police set up the net and waited for the net to be closed, the twists and turns began, and the gun battle took place. Suddenly, the righteous and evil individuals fell one by one in the crisp sound of gunfire, and in the end, the drug lord Cai Tianming, who betrayed his brother and killed the police in order to survive, was also injected to death in his begging. In general movie ideas, the protagonist of wise and martial arts will not die, the young men and women who are ambiguous with each other will not die, neither will the humane accomplices, there is nothing left here.
Survival by any means
In mainland law, drug trafficking of more than 50 grams is punishable by up to the death penalty. In order to survive, Cai Tianming escaped from the hospital and did not hesitate to hide in the cold storage in the morgue. This was the first wave of escape, and it was human nature. Betrayed the client and brought Zhang Lei to set up a condom for Brother Haha; betrayed his subordinates and led the police to find a drug factory in the suburbs; betrayed his brother and led out the seven gentlemen of the drug dealer. The anti-water police, provoking a gunfight between drug dealers and the police, and the third wave of escape are surprising and unforgivable. The most outrageous thing is that, after occupying a favorable position in the shootout with the police, in order to let the police and other drug dealers kill each other, he actually aimed the gun at his former brother. The most ruthless and ruthless side of human nature is vividly displayed.
With a vivid character, the
wise and martial officer Zhang can be said to be the leader of the people's police on the front line of anti-drugs. He was meticulous and calm in arresting Cai Tianming in the hospital mortuary, experienced in interrogating Cai Tianming, calm in intelligent anti-drug scheduling, and witty in pretending to be Uncle Biao and Brother Haha. , in order to solve the case, he did not hesitate to test the drug, his fearlessness during the shootout, in order to hold back Cai Tianming's death, is the most interesting character in the play, although the ending is doomed. The policemen, armed policemen who were killed in the drug factories, and the policemen who fell one by one in the street shootout are the representatives of the policemen who died during the drug control process, and their lives disappeared like a mustard. The big deaf and the small deaf are two strange creatures in the drug dealer's fighting capacity. They escape from the siege with the strength of the two, destroy the armed police, and severely damage the protagonist in the street battle. The seven gentlemen of drug dealers wear headphones, connect with each other, and the image of collective decision-making is clear and full of rhythm. As long as the characters in the film, big and small, miss their faces, the character traits and ideas that can be found in just a few words are never the same.
Harshly realistic details
in the video
To Qifeng's films have always been evaluated as "violent aesthetics", using the techniques of music, lighting, and photography to incorporate aesthetic elements into violence. During the street shootout, the bullets were shot bang bang, and the protagonists and supporting actors kept pouring out, and the cruelty of fate was vivid and vivid. A close-up shot of the hidden drug during the transportation of the hidden drug in the body: the virus particles were cleaned after being taken out of the body. After watching the video, many anti-drug and anti-drug police officers shouted the truth. In the middle of the night, the drug dealers in the drug factory burned one hundred yuan bills one by one in order to pay homage to Cai Tianming's deceased wife, which made people feel the human touch. The police who tracked the drug-carrying vehicle did not stop for a day and a night. After the shift, the first thing to get out of the car was to urinate on the side of the road. Various detail shots are seen from the small to the big, depicting a true and cold story.
Unprecedented scale
In the police and gangster films we have seen so far with the mainland as the background, without exception, the police will eventually defeat the gangsters, and there may be small sacrifices, but at the critical moment, the police will definitely appear in front of the criminals majestic and majestic. , arrest the criminals and bring them to justice, and everyone is happy in the end, this is in line with the image of the people's police and the scientific concept of development. But this time, two breakthroughs have been formed: the social order is not very good; the police will also be killed, or even destroyed by the regiment. Under such an outcome, it is an unprecedented miracle for police and bandit films to pass the film censorship, and it also brings new hope to the innovation of Chinese police and bandit movies.
Let’s talk about drug trafficking
, pornography, gambling and drugs, which are known as the three poisons.
Drug addiction is a road of no return. According to friends who have worked as police officers, although there are many drug rehab centers across the country, the probability of truly quitting drugs is basically 0. The physical and psychological dependence of drug use on people is basically no one. Those who can resist, even special forces who have received special anti-torture training, will not be able to hold back what to say under the temptation of drug addiction. Those who feel curious or have the most self-confidence in self-control, don't be self-righteous. Try, never come back.
On the line of drug trafficking, there are far more drug dealers and anti-drug police officers who die every year than are exposed in the media. Many of them are concealed for the sake of social stability and unity. The anti-drug police officers and their families are suffering The pressure is far from normal. After the release of "Drug War", many police officers on the front line of anti-drugs also watched it and felt that the filming captured their feelings and aspirations.
Finally, once again I hope you all cherish life, the principle of drugs
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