As we all know, director To Qifeng is very good at crime movies, but his movies are different from other crime movies. In ordinary crime films, it is accustomed to use plots and scenes to outline the intricate relationship between people and people and between people and the environment. People play more of a symbol and a characteristic in it. And John To's films focus on people. He uses the evolution of the relationship between people and people and the environment to show the characters' personalities and inner changes, because human nature itself is a complex complex. This kind of movie style is incisive in "Detective".
The plot of the movie "Detective" is very bizarre and strange. After watching the whole film, it feels like the film has added some kind of illusion-like idealism. It attempts to dig out some of the things we really want to peep in our real life through the pathological thinking or abnormal heart of a normal person. The many facets of human nature that are often unknown. However, the normal people in this play, the so-called detectives, are more often like a neurotic patient carrying out weird personality snooping. In other words, the detective's own personality is quite complicated. In the movie, many double or even multiple personalities appear alternately or at the same time depending on the external environment. Moreover, personality can also be gradually formed under the influence of the environment. For example, at the end of the film, beside the little boy, a middle-aged femme fatale appeared quietly, leading the little boy to fall into the abyss of sin. Personality can also be abandoned. For example, a detective searches for the feeling of the night of the crime in the woods, but finds the original nature that the criminal abandoned there, lonely and desperate, which is a loss of humanity.
There was a saying that fear begets anger, and anger begets evil. I think that this sentence is quite appropriate to reflect the personality image in the movie. Because fear, anger, and evil are just the sequence of the three personalities created by the original criminal, and evil can be projected like a light, the weak and helpless boy who is always helpless is easily frightened by evil, and eventually He himself has gradually developed new, multiple complex personalities. And thus, there is the shocking shot of the gun-changing scene at the end of the film. Quiet scenes, gentle movements, gradually magnify the ugliness of human nature, until the final curtain, the gun change continues, because once the evil steps begin, it is difficult to stop, and we must change until we can protect ourselves, even if we sacrifice everything. . Although Du Qifeng did not take out the real result, it was because the result was certain.
At the end of the film, the detective's self-talk as he shoots is quite interesting.
"If you shoot, you will be no different from others."
"I am also a person, why should I be different?"
We know that the difference between this detective and others is that he can see what others can't, so as a detective , he is not arresting people, but one of those different personalities, the one who committed the crime. Therefore, when the detective finally looked at the little boy, the personality who had been desperate to save his own life, turned into the same evil as a criminal, his eyes were full of puzzlement, resentment, resentment and despair. However, no one knew that, A neurotic patient who can see into other people's personalities can't change anything.
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