This is a comedy directed by Li Bingxian.
The film tells the funny story of a five-member gang facing a crisis of dissolution and pretending to open a fried chicken shop in order to overthrow a criminal organization. Who expected the fried chicken shop to become a gourmet restaurant.
On March 2, 2019, the film became the box office champion of various Korean movies for 136.95701 billion won.
If you introduce a movie in the form of three-sentence news, you will be surprised by the above three paragraphs and can't wait to know what a magical movie this is. Don't worry, now, why don't you order a plate of fried chicken too, and watch the story of this group of people in the movie.
I have always had an illusion about how ordinary people change their lives against the sky. First of all, he has to fail enough, it is best to fall to the bottom. Then, he had to be careless enough to obtain a secret of some kind of peerless magic. This process requires not only the protagonist's torture, but also the balance of the audience's emotions. It is too painful for people to watch. Too easy is not enough, because it does not conform to the values of hardship and joy. So after the protagonist carefully walks the tightrope, he can get the cheats. Then it is to return to the world, to reach the pinnacle of life, to complete the counterattack.
This routine gave birth to countless movies, TVs, and novels. It perfectly allows ordinary people to complete the "pain and happy" intracranial orgasm. The problem is that there are no valleys where immortals are waiting in reality, there are no dazzling martial arts secrets, and there is no exciting happy ending. Reality is pain, reality is monotonous, and reality is repetition. So we are eager to change, to be different, and to achieve worldly success.
So, there is a new question: If your dreams come true, are you still you?
"Extreme Career" tells such a story for us.
If this is a bitter movie, then everyone in the anti-drug investigation team in the film will have a miserable life, and in the end they will not be brought to justice.
If this is an action drama, then everyone only needs to become a murderer and hit the end of the world.
If this is a Korean traditional crime film, then elements such as betrayal, undercover, split, sex and violence will be added to it.
But "Extreme Profession" is neither. He is a comedy movie, which determines that he must use another way to tell a convincing story, a story with a sufficiently powerful tragic core.
The reconnaissance team in the film, from the team leader to the team members, are ordinary or even mediocre police officers, because they have not made any achievements. Even the entire scout team may be abolished. This is the beginning of the crisis. The so-called "organic in danger", they learned about the factory where the drug lord was hiding. Naturally, a hidden observation was needed, so I went to the fried chicken shop opposite the warehouse, hoping to use this as a hidden spot. Unexpectedly, they were the only customers in the store. The boss was unable to manage and planned to close the store. After gritted his teeth, several people decided to pay for the business out of their own pockets.
However, all gifts given by destiny have already been secretly priced.
Soon they discovered that since they wanted to open a fried chicken shop, they had to deal with the customers who kept coming. The police kept their mission in mind, and the customers naturally pushed in because they were restaurants, and the drug lord’s men were still lurking in the factory. The demands of the three parties began to collide and entangle because of the little fried chicken.
The film then began to show how this group of Luthor rescued themselves. They started by ordering takeaways for packaging, but this couldn't satisfy the increase in orders, so they had to make real fried chicken, just like opening a fried chicken shop in order to ensure the authenticity of the lurking. The police officer Ma in the team used the recipe of ribs at home to make fried chicken. Unexpectedly, the effect was amazing, and the ribs-flavored fried chicken became popular.
As the saying goes, "Intentionally planting flowers but not blooming, unintentionally planting willows and willows to make a shade", the planting is still chicken fillet.
The fried chicken shop's business is booming, but the drug lord is still lurking. The team members who started to be busy with business also became confused. Is this still what we want? Don’t we just want to lurch catching drug dealers? Why are you doing it now as if you are really doing a fried chicken business? No one knows, just like the group leader can only make money and buy a good bag for his wife that he didn't even dare to think about before.
This is not in line with our usual imagination. In our imagination, the protagonist who is against the sky must be bitter and enmity, with a clear goal, he will suffer but will not be confused. Only on the road to success one by one will go to the black. But reality is not a movie. In reality, we will encounter many forks. After every effort, we are faced with different choices. Just as the faith of the police is slowly shaking. This is the gradual assimilation of the role and the inner attitude. Questions of life.
So this is by no means an ordinary funny movie. We have watched enough movies that make people giggle with vulgar and boring shit. We are eager to see in the movie, when ordinary people face a choice, what kind of end will they go to? .
What embarrassed Chinese audiences a little bit about this movie is that this is a Chinese and Korean movie "One Book, Two Shoots" movie project, and we also have a "Lobster Detective". But the box office word-of-mouth hit the street, the reason is that the protagonist in it is too magnificent.
A true hero will be afraid, tremble, and hesitate, but a true hero will also use the courage to defeat the cowardly person because of a sense of responsibility and mission. This is also a hero who is born to be an ordinary person, and an ordinary person can. Reasons to grow into a hero.
This is a movie made for us ordinary people. This is a movie where you eat fried chicken and watch them make fried chicken and laugh out loud. This is also a movie you can cry out when you watch them fight with drug dealers.
The film uses the protagonists to unintentionally lead to a certain kind of success, so that we can see that even if there is a choice, it is very painful. The business of the fried chicken shop is so good, so from the past, being a criminal policeman could only be scolded and no one cared about it. Now it is too busy to spank and greet customers with smiles every day. Isn't this the life we face? You can’t do the things you like, do something you don’t like but are good at, and tire yourself into the bustling crowd again and again, and then return to your empty home alone. The police inside is simply another time-space self.
It's no wonder that this film can become the box office champion of all generations of Korean movies.
Because the power bred in the ordinary is great.
The reality in the movie is still the movie, but it can resonate with the audience in reality. This is why people cry for movies and laugh at movies, and why we always try to find some metaphors. He told us that ordinary people can also have different choices, and they can also have opportunities you can't think of. Even, if you want, this road of mishandling and collision can lead to success in line with secular values. However, you still have not forgotten your identity and mission. When you embark on this sinister road with difficulty, you will find that the way of salvation is in it.
Forgive me for having spoiled enough, but the movie still has a very interesting second half. I hope you can take a look. If you are a movie lover, you can also find a lot of interesting Easter eggs in the second half. Maybe you She is a post-80s who loves Hong Kong movies, and you might even have tears in your eyes for paying tribute to one of them.
Now, order yourself a fried chicken and start your movie watching.
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