To Qifeng is bone, Wei Jiahui is meat

Daija 2022-01-24 08:02:57

Du Qifeng, who has been away from Wei Jiahui for a few years, has maintained his standard but tends to be formalistic. No matter how strong You Naihai, Ou Jianer and Situ Jinyuan work together, they are still not worthy of Wei Jiahui.
Wei Jiahui, who has left Qifeng To, has been thinking about a decadent and desperate outlook on life for the two of them. end.
John To’s breakthrough in recent years is that although the form remains the same, he is eager to break through and seek film literacy; Wei Jiahui’s breakthrough is that pessimism has slightly changed after a few mischievous comedies, and it is no longer as desperate as [Fanhua], and the heavier the Zen machine.
【Detective】Through the Xu Bugao incident, he is talking about the principle of thinking about heaven and hell. The will changes destiny and the will is usually complicated. Even the detective himself will inevitably have a ghost in his heart in the end. In this play, Wei Jiahui abandons his lover You Naihai and joins forces with Ou Jianer, completely abandoning You Naihai’s rational factors, the drama structure is crazy and unusual, and the imagination is outstanding. It is a wonderful reappearance of Wei Jiahui's soul after [the birth of a prefix]!
As a whole body connected by flesh and blood, Johnnie To’s narrative framework and Wei Jiahui’s scripts are quite suitable. The activities of Lin Jiadong and his seven ghosts are cut into each other, and they are carried out in an orderly manner in the [Detective], recreating the original [Judo] Dragon Tiger List] The aura of multi-person conversation in the bar, except for the director who is good at multi-character narratives like Du Qifeng, who has the ability to control the second person, and Du Qifeng brings his good at strong contrast between light and dark into such a story. It is the best choice. In the final mirror battle, Lao Du’s heart of playing with the old skills reappears again. There are many characters, the mirroring is complicated, and the gunfire is unanimous, wonderful!
Wei Jiahui, who likes the Buddha’s meditation machine, never forgets to borrow objects to chant in [Ghost Rhapsody], not to mention movies like [The Detective]. Wei Jiahui uses the concept of unpredictable people’s hearts to differentiate the "multiple wills" into multiple roles. The old hero of the Galaxy and the TVB drama bones are wiped out. The ghost's will becomes a kind of group force in the movie, contradicting one after another, and externalizing the inner struggle of the characters themselves, the drama is outstanding, especially the performance of Liu Jinling is quite brilliant, and use it The unknown nature of ghosts creates countless suspense, which is unexpected. The struggle between evil thoughts and good thoughts has always been the theme of Wei Jiahui’s movies. [Detective] seems to be as completely black and desperate as [Fanhua]. As a result, even An Zhijie also appears Gu Zulin’s ghost, but in fact [Detective] inherits [Big Only] The forgiveness theme of Liu Qingyun, the detective played by Liu Qingyun focuses on the ghosts in other people’s hearts, clinging to various emotions, but he still died under his own will. The overhead shot at the end shows that An Zhijie’s The hesitation and hesitation of how to place the pistol is exactly the hope of the whole film.
He finally put the gun in the hands of the South Asians and Lin Jiadong, which is the last kind thoughts, and the aftertaste is endless.
[Detective] Afterwards, Wei Jiahui became more and more like an optimistic pessimist, while Tou Qifeng's demeanor became more and more fierce.

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  • Inspector Bun: [Bun talks to himself] If you shoot, you will be no different from everyone else.

    Inspector Bun: [on second thought] I am human too. Why should I be any different?

    [Bun pulls the trigger]

  • Inspector Bun: Apply emotions to investigate!