Bleeding: Unredeemed heroes and embarrassing fulfillment of morality

Buddy 2021-12-21 08:01:33

One: The fragmentation of the Virgin: represents the impossibility of salvation. As a professional killer, Xiao Zhuang's own existence is destroying the unity and integrity of life. When he finished the bloodshed, he also hurt women and children (whether it was meant to metaphorically indicate that the real victims of male sabotage were women and children). This is an irredeemable one; in order to get the money back for the murder, the fourth brother died at him. Under the gun, this is double irredeemable; the fierce battle with Wang Hai’s group caused the police representing justice to participate in this unjust act in the legal sense. , Xiao Zhuang failed to put down the butcher knife in the end, this is the fourth level cannot be redeemed. The impossibility of fourfold redemption affects the formation of Xiao Zhuang's tragic heroic image.

2. The existence of the statue of Guan Yu: it represents the morality of the world. The death of the fourth brother was the result of the moral impulse of Jianghu, and the trust and cover of Detective Xiaoma to the killer Xiaozhuang was also the emotional effect of the morality of Jianghu. The demise of the Wang Hai Group also meant to show that the ethics and justice of the rivers and lakes will only be absent and will not disappear.

3. The opposition and combination of justice and injustice. If the representative of the police detective Xiaoma is the moral justice of the legal society, then Xiaozhuang corresponds to the contract justice of the moral justice. Xiao Ma starts from his status as a police detective, and it is his duty to arrest Xiao Zhuang who committed illegal acts; and Xiao Zhuang starts from his position as a professional killer, and it is the right way to get rid of those who demanded to be killed. The positioning of justice between the two parties differs due to differences in occupations. If each has obstructed and hindered the professional behavior of both parties because of their professional requirements, then a dual sense of justice and injustice has already formed at this time. That is, the justice in Xiao Ma's eyes is the injustice in Xiao Zhuang's eyes, and the justice in Xiao Zhuang's eyes is an illegal act that Xiao Ma thinks. The combination of the two is the traditional expression after the law is blurred (refer to "Seven Heroes and Five Righteousnesses")

Fourth, just talk about the language of the movie. High-contrast lighting and tone contrast, as well as super Du Kefeng-like filters. The soundtrack corresponding to Xiao Zhuang is a harmonica solo with bitterness, tenderness and sadness.

I really wanted to cry this time, probably because I took the medicine too late. I feel that I am a hero and I will be sad at night.

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Extended Reading
  • Alphonso 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    John Woo, how much do you hate Chow Yun-fat, every time he doesn't end well. . . 2013.11.14

  • Clare 2022-03-24 09:02:14

    This one touches me more than a hero. The policeman and the killer are also people who are outside the rules of their own. The fourth brother attaches great importance to friendship and righteousness. It is also because the underworld cannot easily trust others. They are too lonely. destroy. In the end, Xiao Zhuang was blind at the door of the church, like retribution and a joke of fate. He and Jenny were so close to the ground but could not find each other. It was too tragic and cruel.

The Killer quotes

  • Johnny Weng: I'm not interested in any goddamn rules! I want the bastard dead!

  • Lee: Life's cheap. It only takes one bullet... He's no ordinary assassin; I hope we're just looking for one man. If I'm not mistaken, this man is not a cold-blooded murderer.

    Sgt. Randy Chang: It only takes one bullet, cold-blooded or not.