Perhaps in the eyes of most people, 1 and 2 are the best in the heroic character series, and 3 seems to have little to do with the previous two. But True Color 3 is one of my favorite movies. People who say they don't like this movie are actually because many people don't understand the profound historical background behind this movie. Maybe you don't know that after the reddening of Southeast Asia, those overseas Chinese in Saigon who tried their whole lives to get a shop and seek a living, were inexplicably named as asset compradors after the discoloration in South Vietnam, and the tragic history of raiding their homes and beheading them. Maybe you also don’t know that those refugees flee to the sea of rage and flee, in order to seek human dignity and breathe free air... In the film, Saigon fell, South Vietnam changed color, and refugees flocked to the airport The scene of fleeing for my life made me have mixed feelings. It reminded me of the fact that after the discoloration of South Vietnam, the Viet Cong liquidated the property of the overseas Chinese (the overseas Chinese mostly belong to the "bourgeoisie" who do business in Saigon), leaving millions of overseas Chinese with their families destroyed and fleeing to anger in order to survive. The scenes of the sea... And the poor compatriots still in South Vietnam were confiscated and sent to labor camps, and they lived a miserable life as cheap as ants. In addition, my family is in Hainan, across the sea from Vietnam. Since the 1950s, the state farms on Hainan Island have accepted hundreds of thousands of Indo-Chinese/Southeast Asian refugee compatriots.
In addition, it is said that 3 was shot by Tsui Hark and used the name of John Woo. Tsui Hark and Christy Chung are Vietnamese Chinese. Maybe only they will have a deeper understanding of such a movie. Of course, the profound historical background reflected in this film is also worth exploring. People say that Hong Kong is a city without roots, and the plot deepened after the Sino-British Joint Declaration was just signed in the 1980s. The historical anti-communist ideology, coupled with the discoloration of South Vietnam in 1975, made Hong Kong at that time uncertain about the future. Many film and television works at that time reflected the Vietnam War, such as the earlier "Fight to the Furious Sea" (Andy Lau, Lin Zixiang starring) "Oriental Condor" (Yuan Hua starring) ... And the true color of the hero 3 is also a reflection of this trend of thought. I personally think that the main theme of Heroes 3 is that even heroes cannot control their own destiny in that turbulent era. This film is
a concentrated reflection of the mentality of Hong Kong people at that time.
View more about
A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon reviews