The salted fish that is dying to the end turns over [cat]

Duane 2022-03-24 09:03:32

This article was published in the "Youxi" column of "The Paper" in 2014. If there is any reprint, please contact me and indicate the source. Spoiler cat style is spoilers.
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Officer Gao is really failing, while the prosecutor is smashing the lock on his desk, which contains a few drawers of bribes that he usually receives, making a mess The police brother was in a hurry for the unidentified incident. While rushing to attend his mother's funeral, he ran into someone in a hurry, stuffed the body into the trunk, and was blocked by an unknown patrolman on the road to check for drunk driving. His heart was so nervous that he trembled. He also had to pretend to talk and laugh with the dead face patrol officers, trying to get in, and seeing the trunk to be opened, he had no other way than the police instinct to fight back with agile action, and the patrol officers would gang up and attack them again——Bad It's over! But they immediately discovered that the person who was knocked unconscious was indeed a superior police officer, so no one dared to touch the trunk - salted fish turned over! For the new Korean film "To the End", this is the head. It only opens for ten minutes. The heart of Police Officer Gao must have a strong endurance to survive this nearly 110-minute drama. When will Police Officer Gao's bad luck be a problem Head, we couldn't believe he could roll over until the end!
Since the general decline of Hong Kong films, Koreans consciously took over the mantle, and naturally took over the common Hong Kong film types such as crime films, gangster films, and police and bandit films. In addition to shooting gunfights and car chases, they also took over Hong Kong-style commercial films. Brotherly love, the contradiction between black and white is elevated to the style of a literary film. In "Huayi: The Child Who Devoured Monsters" (2013), a very demonic Zhengtai Huayi singles out five adoptive fathers who have murdered their fathers. , the sadistic emotional drama that slowly superimposed to the climax and the superb acting skills of the actors made us almost forget that this is a commercial film with a large number of superb car chase scenes. Good black humor films in Hong Kong films are not common, but in 2000, Lin Chaoxian's "Jianghu" is a favorite of many Hong Kong film fans. The coat of gangster films, the core of black humor films, Liang Jiahui learned that Ma Zi Zhang Yaoyang was born and died for himself. It's because after having a crush, there is a widely circulated funny joke like "Brothers do what they do, but I won't kill chickens with you again". As above, subverting the norm is a joke of black humor. Just as when Zhang Yaoyang was about to say his last words to Tony Leung, the audience silently said in their hearts, "Don't say those three words, don't!" But what should have happened still happened, the director Kim Sung Hoon It is also wise to seize the point of "don't, don't, don't" everywhere. So Officer Gao really wanted to hide the corpse in his mother's coffin, and the toy soldier used to guide the rope to drag the corpse got stuck in the middle of the road and had to shoot a gun before he was willing to continue. The mysterious insider is really a policeman... Every step the audience can easily guess, but they keep
shouting in their hearts, "No, no!" Enter the play. His setting of hiding the corpse in his mother's coffin is really dark enough to challenge the bottom line of South Korea, the largest Christian country in Asia and a traditional Confucian country; after hiding the corpse, he also properly placed the cross on the corpse and restored it. ; When the cell phone in the coffin rang, the funeral home driver was so frightened that he immediately sang a hymn... Of course, what's even worse is that the Korean police are blackmailing their subordinates, giving and taking bribes to their subordinates. Miss prostitutes, in order to protect the face of the police, the police killed the police, confiscated the drugs and turned them into drug dealers, but they kept covering it up as if it never happened... Because the blackness is so thorough, "Although we are not model police, we are not As for the fall into this, the line can make the audience laugh, and the flower of humor blooms on the black dung.
The scene scheduling design and editing of this film are also quite good. People inside the funeral home raced against time to hide the corpse nervously. People outside the house thought they were swindling the corpse and were nervous to find the key to open the door. The cross editing of the situation on both sides brought the audience’s emotions to a peak; when the villain played by Zhao Zhenxiong had a ticking time bomb, we were very worried When he drove over to molest Officer Gao, the bomb exploded suddenly, and he was so worried that he couldn't help laughing; the scene of the two heroes fighting to the death was a parody of Jack Nicholson's bathroom break in "The Shining", but Officer Gao worked hard to climb out of the window. The wall actually sent himself back to the wolf's mouth again, "Did you fly here?" As soon as Zhao Zhenxiong opened his mouth, we laughed again. In the "Hua Yi" mentioned earlier, Zhao Zhenxiong played the stuttering father with a yellow mouth, evil but pitiful. It is indeed worth nominated for the Best Supporting Actor in the 34th Korean Film Blue Dragon Awards, but in "The End" Zhao Zhenxiong, with his skin and flesh but not a smile, even combs his hair narcissistically at the mirror in the middle of a fight. He seems harmless to people and animals, but kills people without blinking. Do I have to be nominated again?
The literary and opera performance of the movie is propped up by the two leading actors in the two-hero mode. Li Shanjun, who plays a high police officer, is also a popular actor in South Korea in recent years. His trembling voice and body, his bluff to conceal his inner panic, and his cold sweat can make this role the most useless and deceitful in 2014. He had the last laugh when he got to the vault that opened out of the chrysanthemum.

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  • Merle 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    Cover up all the ugliness quickly and cover up all kinds of loopholes with a fast pace. The male protagonist is like Zhao Youting with raised eyes, and the camera keeps close-ups...

  • Roel 2022-03-27 09:01:20

    Although the rhythm has been in a tense state, it is also a patchwork of various clichés. Many plots are very deliberate, and the more we get behind, the weaker and weaker. In the end, we have to fight hand to hand to finish the work, black out the police and the black government. Although the stick films have developed rapidly in recent years, the same routine is always exhausting~

A Hard Day quotes

  • Park Chang-min: There are 2 types of humans. One who lowers his tail before the alpha. And the one who tries hard after a beat. Which one are you?

    Go Geon-soo: Are you a cop?

    Park Chang-min: Didn't I give you a jolt? That sinking feeling.

    Go Geon-soo: What do you want?

    Park Chang-min: That was the most important and smart thing you've ever said. What I want? It's simple.