Today I would like to share with you a cruel, violent, dirty movie, it is - "Wisdom Teeth".
The film was shortlisted for the special screening unit of the Berlin Film Festival and won the Asian Film Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Sound.
The film is adapted from Remy's novel of the same name, a series of murders that are painful under the apocalyptic black and white images,
This film is enough to highlight the wild nature of old Hong Kong films.
The story begins with a serial murder in Hong Kong.
After the old criminal police officer Zhan Ge and the young police officer Ren Kai learned of the murder, they decided to join forces to investigate.
After a preliminary investigation, it was determined that the murderer had singled out the prostitute who had sucked du.
So on this day, a group of well-dressed policemen began to look for clues in the stinking garbage dump.
Guan Gong, Guanyin, Yuelao, all kinds of ceramic gods sat around the mountain.
Some people come here to pray for incense, others come here to throw garbage, and even throw corpses here.
In the environment of flying flies, the old police detective Zhan Ge slowly opened the newspaper,
Lean over and sniff the rotten broken hand wrapped in it—the smell of garbage.
This is the first clue the police got, and the first crime scene should be full of garbage.
On the way to investigate the case, Brother Zhan suddenly went crazy and chased after a girl.
The girl ran upstairs on a mission, and Brother Zhan drove behind him on a mission-chasing drive.
Brother Zhan seemed to forget his identity as a policeman and pushed all the way in the direction of the girl, as if to kill her.
The girl was eventually grabbed by Zhan Ge and pressed to the ground with a gun to her head.
Immediately after, he not only punched and kicked the girl, but also almost shot and killed the girl on the verge of losing control.
Fortunately, his partner Ren Kai arrived in time to stop Brother Zhan and let this thin and injured girl escape.
The girl who made Zhan Ge lose his mind was called Wang Tao.
Once, because she was driving after taking drugs, she hit Brother Zhan's pregnant wife, which not only caused Brother Zhan's wife to miscarry.
Also become a vegetative person who is never bedridden.
Therefore, even though Wang Tao later served his sentence in prison for the crime, Brother Zhan still could not forgive Wang Tao for hurting his wife and his stillborn daughter.
After Wang Tao was released from prison, in order to make up for the sins he had committed,
She found Brother Zhan, volunteered to become a police informant, and gave all the criminal intelligence in her hands to Brother Zhan.
After beating Wang Tao badly, Brother Zhan finally accepted her information.
Brother Zhan did not let Go of Wang Tao because of this, he and Ren Kai arrested many criminal leaders,
And deliberately let those criminals know that the informant is Wang Tao.
Let Wang Tao be hunted down and killed, and left homeless.
After knowing Brother Zhan's relationship with Wang Tao, he returned to the case.
By tracking down the deceased's subway card, the police find the child who picked up the card,
A naked female corpse was buried inside.
The deceased was sexually assaulted before his death, his left hand was cut off with a blunt object, there is no immigration record, and he is an addict to help his sister.
The case continued to follow, and the atmosphere became more and more tense.
Brother Zhan found Wang Tao and asked him to help find the drug dealer and continue to investigate the clue that the deceased was an addict, and Wang Tao had to agree.
In the narrow residential buildings, it is a demonic land that the law has never set foot in.
They successfully find the clue to the murderer from the drug dealer Coco, a Japanese man who loves to have his left limb broken.
However, the accident occurs, and coco takes the road and flees during the escort;
When Brother Zhan found her again, she had been killed by a serial killer.
Wang Tao showed the way to the police, and was chased and killed by the underworld halfway,
Panicked, she was trapped in the car.
Ren Kai, who rushed to the scene, did not dare to shoot, but was thrown to the ground by the gang, Wang Taoyin mistakenly picked up the pistol, and after a few gunshots, he took the road and fled.
Brother Zhan and Ren Kai quickly caught up with Wang Tao, but the pistol was lost.
Overnight, the informant was killed, Wang Tao was kidnapped, and the gun was lost.
Revenge and redemption are staged on a never-ending rainy night, a city of sin filled with garbage.
A statue of a bodhisattva on a screen full of broken walls,
Dummies with prosthetic arms are scattered everywhere, and piles of garbage are scattered all over the mountains.
It seems that the dirty secrets and truths of the whole world are here.
What's even more frightening is that even if the film uses black and white tones, it is still more shocking than the color looks.
Who is the murderer? No spoilers are provided here.
When I arrived at the murderer's residence, the scene in front of me was simply shocking.
It's full of different garbage, and in these garbage heaps, there are countless prosthetic hand models,
Female fruited corpses and severed limbs and severed arms.
The seemingly brutal murderer has a picture of him and his mother hanging around his neck.
It turned out that the murderer had an Oedipus complex.
It's a hell on earth.
It corresponds to the English name of this film, Limbo: Edge, Hell on Earth.
Where did Wang Tao go?
It turned out that the dying Wang Tao was taken away by the murderer. What the final result is, leave a suspense.
It is not so much that the scene in the film is Hong Kong, but rather that it is a wasteland originally written by the director.
A terrible place by the wasteland.
Mosquitoes and flies are everywhere, and garbage is everywhere.
The coldness of the black-and-white picture strips away any warm colors and makes Hong Kong incomparably strange.
A city without a hint of hope and a little faith, a ruin on earth after the end of the world.
The place where the camera is aimed is not the hell of the struggle of people on the fringes of society,
It's a dirty street corner that no one cares about.
Garbage and marginal people undoubtedly correspond in the film, constituting a disgusting environment in the film.
Whether it is garbage or marginal people, they have a unified synonym - wisdom teeth.
The most straightforward appearance of wisdom teeth in the film is Ren Kai's wisdom toothache, and the incessant pain is finally beaten out in a fight.
Wisdom teeth manifest themselves as a pain, a long pain that is difficult to relieve by taking medicine.
The foci of the city's depravity, Brother Zhan's family is broken, Wang Tao's remorse is beyond reach, and even the murderer's motives are all different hidden pains.
Built on each character's pain, there is the ultimate in endless bloody violence.
The bloody severed hand, wang Tao, who is constantly tortured and hunted down, and the blunt and explicit rape scene.
Death hangs over this ruined city like a cloud, and everyone longs for their own salvation and survival.