Remember such a slogan? "Everyone is for me, I am for everyone", from the old Hong Kong film "New Difficult Brothers and Difficult Brothers" in the Chu Fan played by Leung Ka Fai often said. In fact, this sentence first appeared in the novel "Three Musketeers" published by the French nineteenth-century writer Dumas in 1844, the original English text is: All for one, one for all. Translated as "Everyone for me, I for everyone" or "Everyone for one, one for everyone". This sentence is placed today, if it is a male shouting out, netizens must comment for Jack Sue, and women shouting out, that is Mary Sue. Originally a profound and warm sentence, it is full of speculation and ill will today, and sometimes Kim Ki Ki-jun wonders whether it is society that is too cruel, making us who were once full of good intentions become indifferent, or whether the original evil nature of human beings has amplified the malice of human nature with the passage of time.
Today, Kim Ki Ki-kjun would like to share with you this film, which has a deep connection with this declaration, directed by Chen Kexin and Li Zhiyi, starring Leung Ka Fai, Leung Chao Wai, Liu Jialing, Yuan Yongyi, etc., released at the end of 1993, the Hong Kong film "New Difficult Brothers and Difficult Brothers".
This is a story about family affection and inheritance, from the perspective of the film's intention, is to hope that the new generation can learn the spirit of the previous generation of diligence, mutual help, not afraid of loss, such a seemingly old theme, under the operation of Chen Kexin, choose to start from the perspective of the characters, dun field portrayed the scene of the life of the low-level people in old Hong Kong in the last century, put it today, in a word, very grounded, the film vividly shows the epitome of the era that belongs to that period, the strong flavor of the city, Hidden in the grassroots citizens unity, friendship and mutual assistance of the pulse of warmth.
"New Difficult Brothers and Difficult Brothers" has a high score of 8.0 on Douban, and it can be seen from a certain side that fans still agree with the concept of this movie. The success of the film is first of all due to Chen Kexin's sharp eyes, he is very sophisticated and in place in the casting of the characters, and it is not polite to say that if other actors are replaced to play these roles, not only can not achieve the desired effect, but also may be counterproductive.
The cooperation of the two beams gives the film a quiet aura and brilliance. Liang Chaowei and Liang Jiahui's acting skills have always been obvious to all, the cooperation between the two was relatively close in the early days, just after the cooperation in the movie "Three Heroes of wind and dust", and immediately by the original director Chen Kexin and Li Zhiyi to shoot "New Difficult Brother". In the previous part, the two were still living together as friends, and this part became a contradictory and irreconcilable father-son relationship. In this film, Chu Yuan (played by Leung Chao-wai) is a typical Hong Kong citizen, who is calculating and pursues egoism, and his father Chu Fan (played by Leung Ka Fai) is an idealist who always pursues the principle of "everyone is for me, I am for everyone". But in the eyes of his son, such an old father is a person who loves to brag, talk about morality, do not know good and evil, and do nothing. The communication between father and son is always in a state of collapse, so that the mother Qu Luona (played by Liu Jialing) who is between the two does not know how to be good. Even if Chu Fan was injured and comatose because he let go of the robbers, Chu Yuan, as a son, did not pay attention to his father's injuries, and he also had the leisure to fool around with the female doctors in the hospital.
Seeing this, is it not very similar to us in life, and there are always contradictions of one kind or another with our parents, and there is always prejudice against them, such as "you don't understand me" and "why are you so stubborn". However, many truths can only be understood when we become parents, but when we wake up, our parents are already old and have little time left. In the movie, Chu Yuan was very lucky, God gave him a chance to re-acquaint himself with his parents, on the night of the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival, because of a coin, Chu Yuan fell into a construction canal hole, he traveled back to thirty years ago, came to the Chunfeng Street where the young father Chu Fan lived, and a series of interesting and twists and turns occurred with his young parents and these neighbors.
It turned out that her mother, Qu Luona, was really rich when she was young, fell in love with Chu Fan, who was a worker in the tram factory, and in order to pursue love, she did not hesitate to betray her family. Chu Yuan, who could not find a way to return to the modern method for a while, could only stay temporarily, but a stranger like him, with no money on his body, his identity was unknown, and no one dared to take him in. But his father, Chu Fan, who had been messing around with his morality, took him back to his humble home without hesitation and introduced him to work at the power plant.
Chu originally thought that as a modern person, with advanced consciousness and rich knowledge, in Hong Kong thirty years ago, it was not a problem to mix with a rich man, but he cruelly found that these little cleverness of his own were not as good as Chu Fan who ate here. Slowly, Chu Yuan learned to get along with his neighbors, he re-acquainted himself with his underestimated father, and also left his baggage to call his young father a brother and a brother, and also witnessed the sweet love of his parents, and also met Chu Fan's neighbor Violet (played by Yuan Yongyi), who resembled his girlfriend who had just broken up in modern times, and faced up to what is a single-minded feeling. At the end of the movie, with the help of Chu Fan, Chu Yuan returned to the modern era, his relationship with his father was reconciled, and he also regained his girlfriend, and his life entered the right path.
This is a light, witty and interesting, full of friendship, well-intentioned film, the blessing of the second beam, as well as Liu Jialing, Yuan Yongyi, Li Zixiong and other big coffee to join, but unfortunately do not understand why there was no red up, silently drowned in the torrent of Hong Kong films, when he was a child, Jin Kejijun if not the TV remote control is messed up, luckily transferred to the local station, I am afraid that there is no chance to know that there is such a good movie. In 2017, Han Han's "Riding the Wind and Waves" was released, and it is said that the tribute is this old Hong Kong film, and we do not need to compare the two films, after all, different directors have different styles and have their own good. "New Difficult Brothers and Difficult Brothers" is like the simplicity of Chunfeng Street in the film, warm and down-to-earth, and the most loved is the strong human touch that is lacking in real life, and this film is worth revisiting.