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The small space is full of tall buildings, which are filled with anxiety of varying concentrations, and from a health and physiological point of view, there are bald middle-aged men and young men and women with constipation, and the only thing that can comfort you is that you are not alone in baldness, not alone in constipation.
Green only represents general business
The noisy bank is like a hunting ground, on the left is a green passage for saving money; on the right is red, used to buy funds, whether left or right, the people who come in are like slaughtered prey, the staff is serving you, and they are also looking at your meat. If there is less meat, it will collect the handling fee of saving money; if there is more meat, it will guide you to buy the fund, and you will be responsible for your own profits and losses, which seems to be your love and my wishes, but there is no principle to speak of. Employees use data and routines to stir up your greed, so that you buy an unknown fund with a high probability of losing money, just to complete their work indicators and not be laid off.
Finance is the food chain on the prairie, with a clear hierarchy and dangers, and if you drink a sip of water, you may have a crocodile hidden in the water; if you are cold, maybe there is a leopard lying in the grass.
The retreating manufacturing industry has also omitted many practitioners of Hong Kong's real economy, and people's desire to get rich has become more and more intense.
But with hindsight, monopoly has long been immersed in every inch of Hong Kong's land, fame and fortune, predators and capital firmly control rules and wealth, the people's class is more and more solidified, the hierarchy is distinct, the circle is different, but only the concentration of anxiety and the intensity of pressure are similar. Hong Kong, finance, is a city full of anxiety but helpless.
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Du Qifeng is one of the few big directors who stick to Hong Kong films, no north, no joint venture, rooted in police films and gangster films, conveying the sense of fate of the impermanence of fate. Whether it is the "Underworld" series, or "Banishment" and "Gunfire", the characters in it all adhere to their own principles and feelings. For conflicts of interest, a bullet plus sincere cooperation between brothers is enough to resolve, the ultimate contradiction is often the brothers stand on the opposite side of the principle, the principle and the meaning of the conflict, and in the end may be sacrificing themselves to complete the love; or by chance coincidence, the brothers are saved, but also the principles are kept.
The times are developing, the rules are perfecting, human feelings have no living space, the way of living according to the principle is becoming more and more difficult, and the so-called weight forward seems not to be the weight given by life, but the confusion and spiritual torture brought by the principle. At the same time, those who use the rules and even exploit the loopholes in the law, the proportion of rich or expensive is increasing, and successful learning has replaced gangster philosophy. A big question hangs in people's minds, how to survive in an era without principles? Transform or stick to it? Movies can't give answers, the times have no right to answer, this is a society dominated by capable people and strong people, the weak eat the strong is inevitable, exploitation is a must, or it can be said that any society is like this.
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There is a lyric in "The Empty City Plan" that reads: "The world is panicked, but the picture is broken silver or two." "But it is also this piece of silver that may be able to relieve the panic in the world."
In "Death Gold", Ren Xianqi and Hu Xing'er play a couple, Ren Xianqi is a senior inspector, the monthly salary is more than 60,000, Hu Xing'er has no fixed income, but its stock is also worth more than one million, the two can be regarded as a decent middle class, but still panicked and nervous, because the property price is constantly rising, the wife's optimistic house is more than 8 million, Ren Xianqi plays the inspector who has a seriously ill father, and the young illegitimate daughter under the father and the mainland girl. Decent compared to pressure, obviously the pressure is much greater.
In the movie, Zheng Xiaojuan is a retired old man with diabetes, she feels that the interest on the money in the bank is too little, even the fruit money is not enough, so at the instigation of the bank staff, bought a higher risk and not suitable for her fund, later, the Greek sovereign debt crisis broke out, the stock fell sharply, Zheng Xiaojuan ran to the bank and asked the staff, how is his money? Knowing that she had lost 300,000 yuan, she asked the staff blankly: "Will it fall again?" Will it rise again? "The only thing that got back was silence. She had to plead with the staff to help her think of a way, and left calmly. This scene confirms the saying: "When an avalanche occurs, no snowflake is innocent." "In the big economic situation, everyone actively or passively participates in it, and is controlled or swallowed up by capital.
The staff knew that Zheng Xiaojuan was not suitable for buying this fund, but still strongly recommended it, because her business could not be completed, and she would be laid off and lose her job. She worked late every day, calling customers to recommend products, but with little success, and even had to endure the abuse of the other party and the disregard of the boss. Life seems to be walking on thin ice, gambling every day, winning or losing only in the blink of an eye.
There is a classic scene in the film, an old man holding a gas canister ready to commit suicide, trapped in the elevator with the inspector played by Ren Xianqi, the gas is leaking, the old man traced his experience in Hong Kong, plastic did not have to be done, it was made of clothes, clothes did not have to be done, it was done electronics, after the factory moved away, it was a security guard. The old man said that he had something to do, that the times were changing, and that he just wanted to find a tile to cover his head. This scene is sad and helpless. Finance has made Hong Kong a success, but it has also forced away the manufacturing industry, high-end consumption is mostly aimed at mainland businessmen, Hong Kong people complain on the one hand that mainland businessmen have raised Hong Kong's housing prices and prices, but they have to rely on mainland businessmen to maintain high-end consumption under finance, and those craftsmen or manual workers have acted as helpless economic cannon fodder.
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There's a line in "Let the Bullets Fly" that goes like this: "I just want to stand and earn money." Guo Degang said that most of the methods of making big money are written in the criminal law. In the film, the businessman Zhong Yuan relies on a loan to get rich, but he is killed by his subordinates. At first, the bank employees who insisted on the bottom line finally resigned and got out of the predicament by stealing the five million temporarily stored by Zhong Yuan. Ah Bao took Zhong Yuan's five million by chance, and the stock speculation actually made a profit.
But I think this is not the correct answer, the correct answer should be Huang Rihua played by Brother Sen, who is seriously doing the business of collecting waste products, earning solid money, and not forgetting the love of the past at the critical moment, helping Ah Bao.
Life needs to be down-to-earth, more need to adhere to the bottom line of the law, but also should maintain affection, human feelings are cold and warm, the gap between rich and poor is so huge, do not be too deliberate to compare money more money and less money, the steadfastness of the heart will let you experience the sweetness and happiness outside the hardships of life.