Director Zheng Baorui borrowed a place to tell a Hong Kong story, "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City" is a very warm, loving and powerful movie. The ending song is Cen Ning'er's "The Shape of the Wind", "Riding the fantasy of the wind, the story of parting, scattered on the road", a very interesting arrangement, which is very suitable for the proposition that the movie brings out is inseparable, with the last scene of the movie, I am so moved that I want to cry when I see it. Note carefully that the demolition of the Kowloon Walled City commenced on 14 January 1987 and ended on 2 July 1992, which lasted exactly 1997.
The film is set in 1984, the year when the Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed. Because the existence of the walled city was born out of the wrestling between the two countries, when the dust settles on Hong Kong's future, the walled city will lose its political value. In the interview, the director said, "This joint statement not only determines the fate of Hong Kong, but also the moment when the historical task of the walled city is completed." ”
And Lin Feng played Chen Luojun who was smuggled into Hong Kong from the mainland that year, in order to avoid the evil underworld boss (Sammo Hung ornament), he was forced to hide in the walled city, because the walled man Tornado (played by Louis Koo) chose to stay for a bowl of warm barbecued pork rice, and because it was rare to be cherished, he regarded the walled city as his home, and finally even willing to die in Hong Kong.
See hope in despair
The movie is good, it is highly recommended to watch the production special, and the art director Mak Kwok-keung talked about the extreme difficulties of the preliminary preparation, going around the old building to collect props and furniture, demolishing doors and walls, and even frantically turning over garbage, and reproducing without picking up.
The scene where the audience saw the uproar was built in the form of a moving castle, and the project was quite huge.
The movie is 126 minutes long, the main story is simple, it is a duel between light and darkness, and the fight scenes account for eighty percent of the time, all the male characters play the whole time, and the comic-style fight is very exciting. changed his opinion to Lin Feng, who played the most, congratulations on washing off the smell of TV; As for Liu Junqian, who plays Xinyi, he is inseparable from the first scene.
The movie teaches you how to deal with an enemy who knows how to work hard and is invulnerable, that is, to endure and fight for a long time, and the other party will definitely reap the consequences. Finally, the film was shortlisted for the Cannes Midnight Screening Unit, and the director will attend the film festival together with Louis Koo, Lin Feng, Liu Junqian, Hu Zitong and Zhang Wenjie.