At the Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony 23 years ago, Wong Kar-wai swept the best films of the year with his "A Fei Zheng Biography", allowing Zhang Guorong to sit on the throne of the film emperor, while the "Blood Street", which is known as the extreme of Wu Yusen's violent aesthetics, only won a few nomination awards and returned home.
The film introduced this time is the uncrowned king in this movie.
To be honest, I have seen a lot of films with the theme of brothers against the same purpose. But this one really makes me feel nostalgic.
At the beginning of the film, Ah B (played by Leung Chao-wai), Ah Hui (played by Jacky Cheung) and Ah Rong (played by Li Zixiong) are three young brothers living happily in Hong Kong. The friendship between the three people is incomparably deep, and in order not to let Ah B worry about his wedding, Ah Hui found a loan shark to pay for his brother's banquet. Who wants to be beaten by the underworld, A B saw that his brother was hurt for himself, his heart was very uncomfortable, regardless of the wedding night, the two went to the underworld to settle accounts, accidentally killed the underworld big brother, and embarked on the road of no return, just at this time the good brother Ah Rong was also tired of the poor life, the three of them hit it off, decided to go to a very chaotic place to break in, the three were introduced to Vietnam in the war.
After arriving in Vietnam, the three brothers saw a different world, the death of civilians, the cruelty of the army, the ingenuity of the underworld, and the former Hong Kong singer Zhen Xiuqing, who had become a prostitute. The helplessness of society was placed in front of them, and the three of them at this time had clearly shown their personality characteristics in the film, Ah B was fascinated by Xiuqing and promised her that she must take her back, Ah Hui fully exposed his kindness, and Ah Rong's greed was also fully revealed.
Vietnam is not Hong Kong, and there is helplessness everywhere.
The three brothers, aided by a man named Ah Le (Ren Dahua), killed the local gangster in a bloody gunfight, successfully rescued Xiu Qing, and planned to escape back to Hong Kong. Under his desperate protection, Ah Rong got a box of gold from the underworld gangsters, for this box of gold, Ah Rong forgot two friends for more than ten years, in the army's suffocating pursuit, he only cared about himself, while the two "stupid" friends were still helping him.
Although he escaped the pursuit and got on the boat, but helpless Xiuqing died of serious injuries, Xiuqing drifted farther and farther in the water, Ah Hui A B and Ah Le had infinite sadness in their eyes, all three of them were deeply fascinated by this painting-like woman, but there was too much helplessness, especially Ah B, he promised to take Xiu Qing back to Hong Kong, although he was married, but in his eyes he could see how much he hoped that Xiu Qing could also live a stable life. Only Ah Rong, holding the gold in his hand, was ecstatic.
Helpless boat was quickly chased up, Ah Le was honored to run away, the three were taken prisoners, the inhuman Vietnamese soldiers took prisoners to do a killing game, this time let the kindest Ah Hui to kill those unarmed American soldiers, Ah Hui could not get his hands down, crying and shouting no, next to the hanging Ah Hui knew that Ah Hui would definitely be killed, in order to survive, Ah Hui encouraged Ah Hui to kill, "You are awesome Ah Hui", "Save your life", "We want to return to Hong Kong alive". Ah Hui finally pulled the trigger, and one soldier after another fell. At this time, the Vietnamese soldier asked Ah B to point a gun at Ah Hui, and Ah B laughed and said to the Vietnamese soldier, "I make you happy." "Bang", A B hit the bullet at the Vietnamese soldiers, at the same time, Ah Le came back with American soldiers and another faction of Vietnamese soldiers, the two sides fought bloody again, in the chaos, Ah Rong found the box of gold, and fled, anyway, in Ah B and Ah Hui's heart, although Ah Rong had disappointed them, but still could not rest assured of him, Ah B Ah Hui went to find Ah Rong, now think about it, this may be the most regrettable thing in his life. In order to protect Ah Rong, Ah Hui was shot, the pain was unbearable, and he kept moaning loudly, for fear that the Vietnamese soldiers would find out, Ah Rong was like a criminal bullet, hitting his brother, a friend of more than ten years...
The battle was over, Ah B was also seriously injured, Ah Le broke an arm, and only Ah Rong fled back to Hong Kong with gold. As for Ah Hui, almost so little, the bullet did not kill him, but ruined his life, from then on began to take drugs, endless madness, when he saw Ah Hui again, Ah B burst into tears, but he could not bear to see his brother suffer so much, crying and ending Ah Hui's painful life with bullets.
After Ah B returned to Hong Kong, the former bride was still so beautiful. The family is still so kind, and I have one more son who has not been a certain year. But Ah Hui's revenge has not yet been repaid, it is his other brother, the current rich man, the big boss, Ah Rong...
Ah B took Ah Hui's cremated skull in the street to have a final duel with Ah Rong, and the scenes of the past came to mind, and after the fierce fight, Ah B ended ah Rong who was already damned..... Crying in the light of the fire.
Liang Chaowei was absolutely a beautiful man without 2 when he was young, and Wei Zai in the film touched the audience again with his clear smile, melancholy eyes, and helpless crying.
On the fleeing boat, A B constantly threw Ah Rong's gold into the water, Ah Rong pointed the gun at Ah B, the brothers turned their eyes from then on, at this time Ah B was extremely cold, said a classic line, "For the box of gold even friends do not have to do, will you still say friend 2 words." Yes, there have been more than ten years of friendship, but for this box of gold, drawing knives to each other, friend 2 words at this moment seems so fragile, Liang Chaowei's eyes are full of disappointment, in fact, not only disappointed, or the sadness of losing friends. This kind of look is Liang Chaowei's signature and has been presented in many subsequent film and television works.
It is true that using money to measure feelings is unacceptable to many people, throw away the film, in real life, there are also many friends who see profit and forget righteousness, and even betray friends, and the real brotherly feelings, it is necessary to see Ah Hui and A B, both of them are very upright people, although they used to love to fight, but there is no bad eye, are good people, Ah Hui has always listened to Ah B's words, has always called him a big brother. In the section where the Vietnamese soldiers forced Ah Hui to kill people, Ah Hui could not kill those innocent people with his hands. Jacky Cheung's acting skills exploded, all kinds of helplessness, fear, in the face of the god of song performance vividly, the way of performance of the whole film is a bit like the same "exciting" Zhang Guorong.
Ah B knew that if Ah Hui did not kill people he would die, he knew that it was wrong to do so, but he still encouraged Ah Hui to shoot, because he wanted Ah Hui to live, that is his brother.
After a long time after the war, A B and Ah Hui did not meet, when goodbye, A B could not help crying, that is his best brother, but became inhuman, Jacky Cheung put the crazy Ah Hui also played out of the mind, A B helplessly he could not change Ah Hui, the most touching place in the film is that Liang Chaowei cried bitterly to Jacky Cheung about the past, the replay of the past scene after scene, sad ...
For Jacky Cheung's understanding, most of them are from the field of music, but this film Jacky Cheung has also shown his acting talent to the fullest, and even some people say that Jacky Cheung is the male number one of this film, and it is not surprising that he also received the nomination of the film emperor of the year, although he eventually lost to his brother. But since then, people have a new recognition of the god of song Zhang. His acting skills are really good.
I believe that many people like me to understand Li Zixiong from "The True Colors of Heroes" after Ah Cheng, it can indeed be said that it is the leader of hong Kong villains, a little more evil than the late Zou Zhaolong, this evil comes from the heart of the character. So Ah Rong and Li Zixiong of this film have completed the task of making fans hate.
It should also be said that another role, Ren Dahua, who played Ah Le, who debuted in 75 years, also has rich acting skills, playing A Le with a beard and a cigar, a white suit sexy and righteous, although he won the title of film emperor in the next few years, but at that time in the industry, Ren Dahua also had a good reputation, and a large number of appearances.
As for Wei Zai, it is not necessary to say more than 5 Times Golden Film Awards Film Emperor, 3 Golden Horse Award Film Emperor, or Cannes Film Emperor, it can be said that it is the first chair of achievement in the Chinese film industry, 28 years old when filming this film, but it looks so sunny and handsome, but it is very precipitated a man, in fact, Wei Tsai is like this film Fierce Gun Battle Film is not much, this film really interprets the comprehensiveness of the Film Emperor. Classic, timeless A B.
There is also the classic soundtrack dandelion, yes, life is like a dandelion, seemingly free but involuntary, the most memorable for every fan is the nameless harmonica song, which appears in every sensational plot. This film is like this harmonica song, when it was released, the word of mouth was general, the box office was dismal, and it was slowly forgotten, but it was indeed the peak of Wu Yusen's violent aesthetics.
I really feel that this film should not be buried, it should be seen by more people who have not seen it, although it has been 24 years, but just like that harmonica song, good things should be retained by the world. No matter how old he is.