The plot of the whole film is not complicated, and the director cleverly creates dramatic reversals and conflicts from the simple storyline from the perspective of the new policeman Jack, making the plot coherent and compact, and the characters are extremely expressive. The specific plot is not shown. The scene that I remember most is the despair and fear in the expression and emotion of Alorzo after the conspiracy bankruptcy badge was seized.
Alorzo is paranoid about the nature of power. This is the root of his journey from the police to the end of destruction. However, what is interesting is that when the stolen money he prepared was robbed by Jack, he did not choose to escape, but still chose to go to the appointment and died under random guns. This almost self-defeating faintness also seems to show his deep instinct for fear of higher and stronger power, and faintly echoes his abnormal perception of power.
As a newcomer to the anti-narcotics police, Jack was confused when he first met Alorzo, because his past experience made him seem to understand and doubt the "Philosophy of Reality" emphasized by Alorzo. In a hurry, he quickly stepped into Alorzo's trap based on his trust in his seniors. And his awakening and resistance to evil are rooted in his strong bottom line consciousness.
We often say that when evaluating someone, we must observe what they say and check what they do. Alorzo's so-called "confrontation with poison" theory seems reasonable, but in the final analysis it is just an excuse for murder, robbery, planting and framing.
From this we might as well explore the relationship between substantive justice and formal justice. Formal justice certainly serves substantive justice and is a necessary guarantee for achieving substantive justice. However, if in some way, the necessary formal justice steps can reach substantive justice, can the pursuit of formal justice be abandoned? If under certain circumstances the pursuit of formal justice will lead to a huge consumption of legal resources and does not necessarily achieve substantive justice, should we still adhere to the upholding of formal justice?
The author also has no answers to the above questions. However, I insist that legal problems should not be solved simply by legal thinking. Dealing with legal relations with an isolated vision and attitude (many times manifested as legal professionalism) sometimes only brings about processing logic that is unimaginable by the society. This is the case for the above-mentioned speculation of formal justice and substantive justice. In reality, questions that are difficult to answer can not escape Alorzo’s text and non-essential. When we combine the bottom line of law and the high standard of morality, we should look at it realistically. When someone has something, they may not be able to understand Alorzo's specious truth, but he will eventually get Jack's awakening and courage.
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