Some people say that Andy Lau's acting skills are all reserved for the movie "Infernal Affairs", and after "Infernal Affairs", I have never seen such a plump role as Liu Jianming.
As the only character that runs through the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy, I have always thought that Andy Lau's Liu Jianming is the real male number one.
However, there is a talented actor in "Infernal Affairs", he is Liang Chaowei.
Although Andy Lau portrayed Liu Jianming very successfully, Liang Chaowei's performance in the film is even better.
As a result, in 2003, the 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards best actor competition, after five rounds of voting, Andy Lau finally lost by one vote.
Despite this, Andy Lau's superb acting skills in the film have been affirmed by the vast majority of fans and friends.
In the following years, Andy Lau has successively starred in many classic films such as "No Thief in the World", "Ambush on Ten Sides", "Ink Attack", "Big Guy" and so on;
He even won the Best Actor at the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards for "Big Guy", but it still did not surpass his wonderful performance in "Infernal Affairs".
It was not until 2007, the birth of a divine work, that everyone realized that Andy Lau's acting skills had reached the realm of pure fire.
This divine work is "Disciple" starring Andy Lau, Wu Yanzu, Zhang Jingchu, Gu Tianle and Yuan Yongyi.
"Disciple" mainly tells the story of the undercover policeman Ali played by Wu Yanzu, who lurks around the big drug lord Kun Ge to collect evidence of his drug trafficking;
By chance, he met the drug addict Ah Fen, played by Zhang Jingchu, thus involving a contest between human nature and justice, and finally completely disintegrating the criminal group.
Director Er Dongsheng is a person who has deep observation and careful thinking about life, and an ordinary life scene can often present different meanings in his lens.
Just like the movie "The Disciple", strictly speaking, this movie has no protagonist.
Because everyone's story can arouse strong social empathy from the audience, and this is the most fascinating place of Er Dongsheng's film.
Andy Lau plays the big drug lord Kun Ge is a character with a very fragmented personality.
He hated and despised those who had lost their homes and destroyed their families because of drug use, but at the same time he was a big drug lord who made and sold drugs.
In his cognitive world, it is not that there is no killing without buying and selling, but that there is killing that there is a later sale.
Therefore, he believes that these people are all scum of society, all deserve it, and they do not deserve sympathy, and naturally they cannot complain about drug lords like him.
Say that he is poisonous, think of the tragic situation of Ah Fen being eaten by rats after his death, he is indeed poisonous enough.
Saying that he is cruel, his brother who has been with him for 8 years can still put the gun on the other person's head without hesitation.
Say that he is good and can sacrifice his life for the safety of his family.
Andy Lau portrayed such a fierce and gentle drug lord with a gentle heart to his family.
In particular, his classic eye killing in the film is simply chilling.
As one of the few villains played by Andy Lau, there are still too many unsolved mysteries in the role of Kun Ge.
For example, there is a scene in the film that reads:
Kun Ge took Ali and his family to Thailand for a vacation, nominally on vacation, but in fact to the Golden Triangle to purchase transactions.
In Thailand's 5-star hotel, families enjoy a French meal.
The waiter brought a bowl of caviar, And Kun Ge saw him weighing caviar on an electronic scale, and suddenly became angry, scolding the waiter for being a fool regardless of the image, and asked the hotel manager to come to a bowl of caviar.
To be honest, Kungo's reaction was a bit overheated.
How can a big drug lord with a decisive personality and a calm attitude lose his temper because of a bowl of caviar, which is not in line with Kungo's personality.
At first I thought that Kungo would just get angry because he thought the waiter dog looked down on people, but it wasn't until I recently brushed up on this movie that I realized that things were not as simple as I thought.
Kungo is definitely not a person who has not seen the world, will not be stupid enough to think that the waiter is simply looking down on him, can live in a five-star hotel, can afford to eat the top caviar will be a few poor.
So Kungo definitely didn't get angry with the waiter because he lost his face in front of foreigners, and that set of words was just to hide his true thoughts in front of everyone.
In fact, there are two root causes of Kungo's anger.
The first is the transfer of contradictions, don't look at Kun Ge is a big drug lord with a lot of money, but his life is a chicken feather.
Their own congenital diabetes plus kidney disease, wife hypertension and high cholesterol, the birth of the youngest daughter is a heart leak waiting to go to a foreign country for surgery, the only normal eldest daughter is in the rebellious period.
Especially this eldest daughter, the relationship with Kun Ge is not harmonious, and she and Kun Ge blow their beards and stare at each other, which makes Kun Ge very angry and headache.
In fact, there are many scenes in the play that portray Kun Ge is not an approachable person, on the contrary, his temper is very impatient and fiery.
The eldest daughter smoked, he questioned whether it was taught by classmates, the apprentice opened the door slowly, he scolded people for being stupid, there was a problem with the raw materials in the factory, he scolded the drug maker for not learning chemistry, and the factory was given a few big mouths by his backhand.
His approachability was left to his wife and children and Ali, and he always treated the people under his hands with an impatient and fierce look.
Before eating caviar, the eldest daughter had already upset him.
Originally he laughed and said that it was best to eat caviar with champagne, but the eldest daughter had to argue about whiskey, although Kungo did not speak, but the expression on his face already explained everything.
A nameless fire in the depths of my heart was worrying that there was no place to vent, and it happened that the waiter hit the muzzle of the gun with a bowl of caviar.
In a sense, Kun Ge actually used this incident to vent all the dissatisfaction in his heart against his eldest daughter on this waiter.
Of course, this reason is only the appearance, and the deeper reason is to hide the trepidation and uneasiness in the depths of their hearts.
We know that Kungo is not only a master of drug trafficking, but also a drug expert with strong professional ability.
But he himself hated drugs so much that he even regarded his eldest daughter's smoking as a drug use.
Ali had once asked him why people took drugs.
Kungo blames all the fault on the drug addicts themselves, believing that they are self-misdeeds, willing to degenerate, and have nothing to do with their drug dealers.
In Kungo's eyes, this is just a kind of business, some people buy, naturally some people sell, and they are just middlemen, making a little difference.
Kun Ge desperately wanted to justify his own drug production and trafficking from the moral high ground, but this set of arguments did not even believe himself.
That's why he uses a tone of double affirmation to dispel his inner uneasiness and strengthen the false pitiful belief in his heart.
The first time Kun Ge took Ali to the factory, he showed his hand in front of Ali, and the professional drug production process made Ali stunned.
In addition to the necessary raw materials, the corresponding poison making tools are also needed.
Tryouts, presses, thermostatic standard maintenance boxes, balances are indispensable.
The waiter used an electronic scale to calculate the weight of caviar, which made Kungo think of his own drug-making process, and the importance of the scale for the entire drug-making process was self-evident.
But among the people here, except for Ali and his wife, who knew that he was a drug offender, the others did not know what kind of work he was engaged in.
The waiter's behavior is tantamount to holding a bowl of drugs in front of everyone, revealing the mask he has been wearing for a long time, and he himself is a deep hatred for drugs, and he does not want his family to be contaminated with drugs, so he will be angry.
The real reason was never because of caviar, but because of the electronic scale.
In other words, if the waiter hadn't pulled out the scale in front of Kungo, Kungo would never have abandoned a bowl of caviar for not being enough to eat.
This electronic scale not only symbolizes the balance he uses to make drugs, but also like an invisible shackle on him, making him uncomfortable everywhere.
Drug addicts have always been invisible, and their lives are filled with all kinds of dark sides.
For Kun Ge, only when he is abroad can he really be a rich man.
In fact, his subconscious has always instilled a thought in himself: that is, what I do is only a business, not a murder and arson business, so the money I earn is also clean and clean without a trace of bloody taste, and the money I earn is at ease, without any psychological burden.
However, it is a pity that a bowl of caviar instantly broke through his psychological defenses, knocked him back to the prototype, and vividly demonstrated his external strength.