Director Zheng Baorui, who left the Xinghao version of "Journey to the West", finally launched a large-scale crime new film "Wisdom Teeth" this year. This is his return to the field of violent Hong Kong films after "Dog Bites Dog", "Accident" and "Kill the Wolf 2", and the dirty and tattered Hong Kong under the black and white images, the police and bandits are bloody, which shows the huge ambition.
Adapted from the novel of the same name by mainland novelist Remy, it tells the story of two police officers investigating a serial body dumping case, but they did not expect that the case was not solved, but it caused a series of accidents. In particular, Wang Tong, a young girl who has just been released from prison, is actually the male protagonist's wife-killing enemy, and the perverted murderer is also secretly approaching step by step, making the story very interesting.
Brother Zhan played by Lin Jiadong belongs to the kind of explosive criminal police who are burning in anger, after all, he once watched his wife being knocked to death, but he could not get revenge, and now he can't solve the murder, and it is even more depressed. Just like he chased after the girl Wang Tong, and also threatened with a gun, abusing lynching, it was completely a beastly behavior.
Big director Li An's son Li Chun, played the newcomer policeman Ren Kai, who once intervened to stop the emotionally out-of-control Brother Zhan, took away the pistol to save Wang Tong, did not expect that he could not accompany his pregnant wife, and also lost the gun, which was more and more difficult to clean up. After all, the screenwriter is Ou Jian'er, which is also reminiscent of the "ptu" he wrote in the galaxy before!
Liu Yaser plays Wang Tong, a weak little girl who lives on the street and lives with her life, and her vivid bitter performance is slightly stunning. After all, she mediated between the police, gangsters, and murderers, and also experienced car crashes, beatings, machetes, jumping off buildings, rape, kidnapping, and being tortured to death by various people, but she wanted to survive.
Wang Tong, as a low-level girl, has the escape instinct of a near-death animal, hoping that she can kill a piece of the sky, in addition to her eyes full of indomitability and panic, she also repeatedly cries and shouts: "I want to live!" I want to live! ", let people praise her struggle performance, have been full of praise.
"Wisdom Teeth" deliberately uses black and white pictures, a bit like the heavy image stylization of "Sin City" + "Lighthouse", which is very amazing. The city is like a mess of ruins, the mountains are full of garbage, drug dealers, perverted murderers are rampant, coupled with large-scale shots of limbs and corpses that appear from time to time, the oppressive atmosphere is like hell.
In the film, the girl Wang Tong leaked the gang information to Zhan Ge in order to save her life, so that the latter arrested various drug dealers, smugglers, casino bosses, and fake credit card sellers, which also made the girl hunted down and killed everywhere. The perverted murderer also took the opportunity to arrest her, and the two major policemen also returned to the gloomy underground world and fought with their lives to save people.
In the second half, the disabled drug dealer played by Liao Ziyu betrays everything, and the scavenger played by Nei Bozhi likes to spoil women and kill them, but is instantly counterattacked and escaped by Wang Tong; the two major police found clues, Shunten touched the melon to launch a shocking rescue, everyone staged violent hand-to-hand combat, and the girl finally killed Lin Jiadong by mistake, all of which seemed familiar.
The intuitive feeling of "wisdom teeth" is "pain", and Brother Zhan is obsessed with the revenge of the pain of bereavement, Wang Tao is obsessed with the struggle of self-redemption, and the murderer is obsessed with deformed maternal love and perverted killing, all of which are abbreviations of large scale and human nature. In today's increasingly scarce stylized works, "Wisdom Teeth", which has many shortcomings, is extremely precious.
From planning to production, it took 8 years, daring to shoot naked violence, but not talking about aesthetic shooting, which is also the characteristic of Ye Weixin's "Wisdom Teeth" directed by Ye Weixin + Zheng Baorui! In the final analysis, this clichéd crime violence film is still very sincere.