Before 1997, Hong Kong made a lot of "play to the end" Hong Kong films, if the degree of madness, 1993's "Dark Rat Confidential Files" can be said to be second to none. The story makes a cruel assumption for the audience: if you accidentally say the wrong thing and do the wrong thing, you may not only have no chance to correct and make up for your mistakes, but also invite the disaster of killing yourself and even your family.
The protagonist Ah Xiang is an ordinary person, but also the owner of a gas shop, he is honest and dutiful, timid and cowardly, one day accidentally bumped into his wife Red Apricot out of the wall, although his heart is full of anger, but the first thing he turned his head was to blame himself for doing something wrong.
That night, the depressed Ah Xiang went to the bar to buy drunk, and accidentally met the nightclub girl Fanny, after hearing about Ah Xiang's encounter, Fanny took the initiative to help him introduce the middleman Wu Qiming, and also suggested that he could borrow the strength of the other party to "teach" the cheating wife.
In the drunkenness, Ah Xiang reached a "cooperation" with the other party in a daze, and also shook out his home address, and when he woke up the next day and returned home, the Y Nan gang thugs invited by the middleman had come to the door, resulting in a tragedy of two deaths, and Ah Xiang was also knocked unconscious at the scene.
After waking up, Ah Xiang has no memory of the bar that night, but the destruction of the family overnight has become an established fact, and it is inevitable that he will regret it, but the top priority at the moment is how to settle the huge honorarium owed to the Y Nan Gang, for this reason, he has to ask Ah Hua of the Wu Rat Gang to come forward to solve this matter.
Ah Hua found the Y Nan Gang and got into a fight, but as a result, he was imprisoned because he was outnumbered and his life was in danger. Soon after, his brother Cheng Feng rushed to rescue Ah Hua and told Ah Xiang that if his brother had something three long and two short, he would definitely pay a huge price.
Ah Xiang knew that Cheng Feng's attitude was not a joke, so he tried his best not to let Ah Hua breathe, but because the other party was too seriously injured, it did not take long to fall to the ground, and Ah Xiang also rolled down the cliff in panic and temporarily avoided a disaster.
And how could cheng feng, who was fierce and fierce, let go of Ah Xiang so easily, so a series of retaliatory actions also began, so that Ah Xiang's old mother and daughter became victims one after another.
Ah Xiang, who witnessed the death of his relatives one after another, was greatly stimulated and almost collapsed, so he launched a mad resistance, and although he successfully pushed Cheng Feng into the sea of fire after a fierce fight, the huge trauma he had suffered mentally could never be recovered.
This film is another strange case type film after the success of "Doctor Lamb" at the box office, it is strange that the protagonist is involved in a series of processes in the murder is too bizarre, although the box office was not high that year, but the victory in the horror atmosphere to create excellent, the scale is bold, it can be described as "all overheated, all crazy".
And this movie also tells us that we must be careful in our words and deeds, otherwise the consequences may be beyond your imagination, just like Ah Xiang in the film, he chose to use one trouble to solve another trouble, and finally not only did not solve the problem, but also pushed himself to the abyss of disaster.
Although the cult flavor of the film is very strong, it runs through a lot of family affection and fatherly love, like Cheng Feng's motive for committing murder is for his brother, and the driving force that finally prompts Ah Xiang to fight back is also an instinctive reaction inspired by the murder of his daughter. It can be seen that director Deng Yancheng is not only good at shooting cult scenes, but also has a set of insights into human nature.
In terms of actors, the role of Cheng Feng was not difficult for Ren Dahua at that time, and he only needed to maintain the crazy state when filming "Doctor Lamb";
Among them, the most surprising thing is Ah Xiang played by the fat cat, who cringed and shrinked from the beginning to the performance of the final hysterical fight with Cheng Feng is simply like two people, and it can also make the audience easily feel the collapse, despair and loss of control of the character at this moment, this role, let me look at the fat cat from now on.
However, with the changes of the big times, such a film is impossible to see again, even if it is assumed that Ren Dahua and Fat Cat are re-enacted, they may not be able to find the same performance state as they did back then.