The day is still crazy, has always been a very interesting topic.
Whether it's in reality or in the movie, you never know, a guy with a clear brain, the next step is a clever hand or a vulgar hand.
I can't guess whether he wants to save the earth or go down to the ground.
This kind of very horse-grabbing story seems to be nonsensical, but it has a unique charm.
For example, Liu Qingyun's "Divine Detective" used the divine reversal of schizophrenic police detectives, plus a douban 8.5, which explained to us what is called "the first half of the god's head grimace, the second half of the intellectual crushing".
Fifteen years later, Liu Qingyun once again came to the battlefield and made a comprehensive commercial upgrade to "Detective":
Detective Wars
Don't rush to brush up on "self-salute".
"Detective" in 2007 was to let Liu Qingyun restore the murder scene from the perspective of the murderer.
After the upgrade, "Detective Wars" chose a more difficult method.
That is to use the characteristics of schizophrenia to explore the truth of the murder from the perspective of the victim.
The case involved this time is not an ordinary case, but a serial murder case related to more than ten unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.
Among them, the "magic police case" in which two policemen were assassinated in a small alley is the most famous.
Police bosses Fang Lixin and Ouyang insisted at a press conference that the murderer had been identified.
Li Jun, an ordinary citizen detective who has already seen through everything, said that Fang Lixin was nonsense, but he was completely ignored, and the elder brother simply made a big fuss about the press conference.
It turned out that Li Jun suffered from severe split personality, mental trance and severe hallucinations.
Li Jun, who was still on the front line at the time, was transferred from the front line by the police force because of the hallucination in front of him when he was on a mission.
This big fuss at the police station, coupled with the suicide of his depressed wife, made him gradually become a homeless man with a small quilt under the bridge hole.
A few years later, a killer group called "Detective" suddenly appeared in Hong Kong.
Several people were brutally murdered, and each crime left a set of mysterious codes.
As soon as this incident came out, it not only alarmed the Hong Kong police, but also attracted the attention of Li Jun.
Li Jun is crazy, but his judgment is still online.
According to observation, Li Jun keenly found that the recent homicides are related to the cases that have occurred in recent years.
The code left by "Detective" is the number of each old case file.
Most importantly, through Li Jun's reasoning, those ancient cases are all unjust, false and wrongly decided, and the people who were recently killed by the "detective" are likely to be the real murderers of the unjust cases in that year.
In other words, the "Detective" thinks of himself as Robin Hood.
The serial murder case is a large-scale "lynching" led by them.
Although there is nothing wrong with the judgment, Li Junren is slightly soft-spoken, and it is indeed a little difficult for him to rely on himself to redress the unjust case and arrest the "divine detective".
At this time, Li Jun will launch his traditional skills:
"Summoning victims".
Of course, Detective Wars is a serious crime action movie.
The essence of "summoning" here is still based on the evidence accumulated by Li Jun over the years of investigation, with the help of the characteristics of split personality, to do case review, reasoning and prejudgment in the brain.
This kind of performance method that seems to be a whole job, but in fact is not divorced from reality, can also be regarded as a major feature of old-school Hong Kong films.
In addition to the somewhat crazy detective Li Jun, the Hong Kong government also sent police detectives Fang Lixin and Chen Yi, who had the title of "Detective Couple".
Coupled with the murderer "Detective", the three forces spiraled upwards, which can be regarded as the title of "Detective Wars".
As all parties continue to deepen the case, the mysterious "detective" has gradually revealed its feet.
They are the orphans of the victims of previous unjust cases, because of their hatred for the murderers and the police, they have formed a large criminal gang.
Perhaps empowered by hatred, this group of guys is fierce and abnormal, and every time they commit a crime, they take a step ahead of Li Jun.
Moreover, the "detectives" with guns in their hands even broke out in gun battles with Li Jun and the Hong Kong police detectives, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.
The "Divine Detective" successfully killed the target again and again, and successfully escaped the pursuit.
Li Jun not only failed to solve the case, but because he appeared at the scene of the crime every time, and mentioned the contradiction with the police station mentioned earlier, he was instead identified as the leader of the "detective" and was arrested in the detention center.
Just when the stalemate was reached, Li Jun suddenly broke away from prison.
And in the meeting with Chen Yi, he found the most important clue in the case.
Li Jun joined hands with Chen Yi and attacked decisively.
Finally, a decisive battle began in the night.
The war between the detectives has finally entered a white-hot situation.
So, who is behind this mysterious battle, and how will the endgame end?
Interested partners, you can brush a wave of original films, here I will not spoil.
As a film with a full Hong Kong flavor, "Detective Wars" can be regarded as more sincere in 2022, when the criminal action police films are not in full swing.
Look at the lineup alone:
Wei Jiahui directed, and Many Hong Kong stars such as Liu Qingyun, Cai Zhuoyan, Lin Feng, li Ruotong and so on all appeared.
The acting skills of the old drama bones, I guess I don't need to say more.
For me, an old TVB audience, the sentiment bonus must also be given.
Of course, this kind of thing belongs to the opinion of the people, serious talk about the film, we still have to watch the plot and scenes.
As I mentioned earlier, "Detective Wars" is an upgraded version of the classic Hong Kong film "Detective".
While inheriting the "schizophrenic" creativity of the previous work, the work has made many improvements in rhythm, story and visual effects.
The idea of "Detective Wars" is not the classic linear detective model of case-collection-solving.
Instead, the two cases of "butcher" and "magic police" were used to lead to more than a dozen unjust cases in the past, as well as the serial murderer case of "Detective".
However, in the arrangement of the follow-up plot, the plot does not overly revolve around the "reversal".
Instead, the unjust case is used as a clue, while pointing to the origin of the killer gang code-named "Detective":
They are the relatives and children of the victims of unjust cases.
On the one hand, through the unjust case, find out the real boss who controls the "detective" behind the scenes.
And do not forget to explain from the side, why Li Jun cracked the unjust case early, and even found the murderer very early.
However, due to many reasons, the case still cannot be wronged.
This practice of telling the audience half of the answer first solves the problem of choosing between the content and rhythm of the film.
Use the unjust case to quickly explain the life of Li Jun, the "detective", and the story background of the entire movie.
After the audience is brought into the rhythm, then turn on the reversal, step by step to uncover the true face of the boss.
This will not make the first half of the film too procrastinating, but also will not expose the real boss prematurely, making the reversal of the second half boring.
Finally, the twist of the main plot is connected by crisp and clean gun battles.
A set of combination punches down, so that the pace of "Detective Wars" is bright, and the story line is relatively clear.
Due to its compact structure, Detective Wars also leaves enough space to deal with the foreshadowing of human design and sublimation themes.
Like Li Jun's repeated mention in the film, "Fight with monsters, be careful of becoming monsters", in my opinion, it is a line that declares the main theme of the film.
On the one hand, this line corresponds to the villain of this work, "Detective".
They were once victims of social injustice, but in the process of resistance, they went astray, went crazy, and became murderers who abused lynching.
Defenders became infringers, and the endgame died as a "suspect" under gunfire.
From this point of view, the "divine detectives" are somewhat of the taste of "dragon slayer teenagers eventually become evil dragons".
The opposite was Li Jun, who was on the front line.
Although Li Jun is crazy, he can always maintain his bottom line.
As a veteran detective who was fired from the force, he lives on the streets and still does not forget to explore the distorted truth.
In the face of the truth, he is not afraid of death; Outside of the case, he is a mentally ill person with flawed personality.
In the face of his daughter's death in front of him, Li Jun was furious in his heart, and even threw out "I am also a human, why can't I turn into a monster" and ask myself.
But at the critical moment, he still gave up using lynching to get revenge.
The "detectives" are emotionally vengeful, taking pride in exchanging violent massacres for so-called "justice", while Li Jun is based on the duty of the police.
This binary opposition in values, although not large, is enough to make the role of Li Jun more vivid.
To raise the value a little, we can say something like this:
Li Jun is the most crazy person in this film, and at the same time the most sober person.
In addition to the case and character relationship, the gunfight and chaos of this film is also worth mentioning.
As we all know, Zhongmen Gang Battle is a reserved program of Hong Kong police films.
The three chaotic battles before and after "Detective Wars", from drawing knives to fighting each other with guns and cannons, can be summed up in eight words:
Crisp and clean, the funds explode!
Compared with the Hong Kong-style gun battles in the early years of ancient times, "Detective Wars" inherits the tradition of "gunpowder can be used at will", and since the gun is drawn, it must be shot to the cool.
What the middle door to the sniper, C4 fried ship, all arranged.
At the same time, it does not overly strengthen or weaken the combat strength of both police and bandits, and will not appear that the bandits are invincible in the early stage of the world, and the wisdom of the antenna baby in the later stage.
This kind of setting that the combat power does not collapse, in addition to looking cool and has an inner flavor, also leaves enough room for the plot reversal and the upper value.
It can be said that Teacher Wei really grasped the crime of police bandits.
In addition to the avalanche of combat power, "Detective Wars" also retains the sense of story that crime films should have in the overall story arrangement.
It has achieved "gun battles in the service of the plot", and the clues left by each battle are the driving force behind the case.
Simply put, it is not to fight blindly, not to fight for the sake of fighting.
At the same time, whenever there is a breakthrough in the case, the tension created by the film will make the next battle appear unobtrusive.
In the film and television industry is becoming more and more subdivided, crime films tend to watch the drama "Tu Yi Shuang" and watch the investigation of the case "Tu Yi Le" two choose one or the present.
It can take into account both the investigation and the big scene at the same time, the scale is large, the pace is fast, and the logic is relatively smooth.
"Detective Wars" is not a unique copy, at least in the theater market in recent years, it is still very valuable.
The classic raw setting of the old Hong Kong film, coupled with the technical blessing of the new era, I directly called "Ye Qing Hui".
Based on this, as a criminal action police film, it can cut 9.0 and 9.2 respectively in Cat's Eye and Ticket Taobao, which is also deserved.
Of course, all of the above is only part of the film, plus a little bit of my personal opinion, it is a throwing stone.
For more interesting information, it is still necessary for the friends to watch the film in person.
Here's also a little bit of a guide to watching movies.
If you can adapt to the rhythm of Cantonese, I personally recommend watching the original version, so that it is more original.
According to director Wei Jiahui, there is only one version of "Detective Wars" in the world, and the small partners who look at the national match can also be assured.
That "Detective Wars" let's talk so much first, like the little friends remember to like, watch and walk.