Although the Hong Kong Film Awards have long been awarded, the controversy has continued to ferment.
For example, after Tony Leung won the Academy Awards 6 times, Wang Jing publicly posted that Tony Leung should follow Alan Tam and Leslie Cheung, announcing that he would no longer accept the award and give the opportunity to the younger generation.
and Cheng Baorui won the Best Director at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards for "Murder".
"Murder" is the creative team of Galaxy Images, produced by Johnny To and written by You Naihai.
As the leading actor, Lin Jiadong's acting skills are very good, but in this Academy Awards, he did not receive any individual nominations, which is a pity.
In terms of story style, "Murder" is a Hong Kong film with a very strong color and crazy work, and the advantages and disadvantages are very obvious.
At the same time, this is also a film about people who do not accept fate and how they fight against it.
(For ease of understanding, the actor's real name is used below.) ）
contributed crazy acting skills, why was he not nominated?
"Murder" has a double meaning in the hands of Zheng Baorui:
One layer is homicide, and the other layer is how to refuse to accept fate as a human being.
Lin Jiadong plays a fortune teller who is happy to help others but is a little neurotic, as long as he calculates whose fate is correct, he will be determined to help people change their lives against the sky.
At the beginning of the story, he helped the prostitute "Sister Meimei" change her life, and Lin Jiadong calculated that she had a death.
But as long as you fake your death and deceive God, this fateful catastrophe can be avoided.
Helplessly, people are not as good as the sky, and it suddenly rained heavily this night.
Sister Meimei was about to be suffocated to death by the mud, so she stopped the taxi and returned to Fenglou to continue to pick up customers and make money.
But the catastrophe was inevitable after all, Sister Meimei was not suffocated by the heavy rain and muddy water, but she waited for the butcher on a rainy night who cut her throat and killed people in Fenglou.
The butcher on a rainy night looks like Sven, and no one can think of him as a serial murderer when he walks down the street.
And Yang Lewen, who was in charge of delivering takeaways, was originally going to Fuhe Building 9A, because the rain wet the takeaway order, and 7A came by mistake.
Surprisingly, witnessing this murder not only did not make him afraid, but on the contrary, he felt extremely excited, pacing back and forth on blood.
Because of a murder, the fates of Lin Jiadong, Yang Lewen and the butcher on a rainy night are connected.
Lin Jiadong committed an occupational disease when he saw Yang Lewen, and calculated that his life was going to a dead end, indulging in killing, and he was imprisoned.
As a result, Yang Lewen drove the car and ran, completely ignoring this fortune teller who looked even crazier than himself.
But then it happened that when Yang Lewen wanted to torture and kill the cat again, he ran into Lin Jiadong, as if it was fate.
But "everything is fate, not by people", can fate really be changed, can people really fight against the sky?
The character of Yang Lewen is a natural antisocial personality.
In Lin Jiadong's fortune-telling words, it is that the eight characters are weak and unqualified, ruthless and extreme, have violent tendencies, and have an increasingly ferocious personality, and even went to prison for abusing and killing cats.
Even if his mother suffered a stroke and was admitted to the hospital, he ignored it, thinking that his family was harming him.
And his sister was scared when she saw him, when she was a child, Yang Lewen took advantage of her sister's nap and surrounded the knives at home and in the tea restaurant around the bed, so her sister was disfigured.
And the time when Yang Lewen was in prison was the most comfortable life for her sister.
And the policeman in charge of Meimei's murder happened to be the policeman who had caught Yang Lewen abusing cats before, and he thought that Yang Lewen was born with a sociopathic personality, with no conscience and no empathy.
is such a person who is considered abnormal by his family and is considered by the police to be bound to embark on the road of crime, so he is always keeping an eye on such a person.
Lin Jiadong still felt that Yang Lewen's life could be changed.
"Since it was born, is it his fault or fate?"
Then Lin Jiadong began to help Yang Lewen look at the ancestral grave and move to the Feng Shui Bureau.
For example, putting a cup of urine at home every day, and pouring out the urine at night is to borrow urine to escape, resolve official wrongs, and modify the clothes at home like a prison to mean that you are already in prison, etc.
even took him to release his life and accumulate virtue, sent porridge to the elderly for free and sent blessings, and did everything just to change his life.
But this time, God continued to oppose Lin Jiadong everywhere and make moves everywhere.
Not only did the ancestral grave disappear due to the landslide, but the released birds also all died on the street that night, not only did not accumulate virtue, but killed a lot of lives and created a lot of evil.
With no way out, Lin Jiadong could only go to the morgue to make a "ghost upper body".
As long as the soul of a kind person is put on Yang Lewen's body, the cruel one will be replaced, and the murderous heart will no longer be solved.
The plot comes here, and it is obvious that they can't fight God.
No matter what tricks they make, God is always one step ahead of them, even if they borrow their souls, they end up borrowing the murderous soul of the "Rainy Night Butcher".
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In "Murder", there are three "neuropathies".
One is a fortune teller with a family history of mental illness, another is an antisocial personality who has no empathy and regards mutilating life as a pleasure in life, and the other is a psychopathic butcher on a rainy night.
Because Yang Lewen doesn't want to go to prison and doesn't want to lose his freedom, he has always restrained his desire to kill, while the fortune teller just wants to help others change their lives.
Even if no one continues to believe in Yang Wenle, Lin Jiadong is still willing to be the withered flower, so that Yang Lewen's kindness can bear fruit.
Therefore, although "Murder" is as bloody and ferocious, for Zheng Baorui, "Murder" does not inherit the pessimistic fatalism that has always been held in the past, but has an inspirational sense of persuading people to be good.
It is no longer "everything is fate, and nothing is up to people", but "everything is the heart, and everything is up to people".
But the fortune teller couldn't change his life even if he tried his best, and finally said that:
"Confrontation with fate is the greatest tragedy of mankind".
Sometimes people are like ants struggling in the water, although they are struggling, a drop of rain is enough to make the ants lose the strength to struggle, and fate is just as Douban commented said: fate is like a crazy dog, chasing you and me relentlessly.
But ants eventually have the option of trying to climb out of the puddle, so flowers can bear fruit, and people can abandon evil and follow good.
Although Lin Jiadong replaced Yang Lewen to injure the police, he did not lose in terms of choice, because this road was chosen by him, and he chose to be a withered flower.
Since God wants people to be crazy about their own fate, then go completely crazy once, let God know that even if he is crazy, he will not admit defeat, and when Yang Lewen finally said the sentence "I was born on the day of the month of Renchen I am the very kind person", it is also a redemption for himself, even if he is not born in the year of Renchen, the month of Xinhai, and the day of Guihai.
The director's meaning seems to imply that the new generation of Hong Kong youths is still looking for their own way.
Even if the fate cannot be changed in front of you, but you still survive tenaciously, even if you have a violent personality before, you can abandon evil and follow good and no longer torture and kill cats, but squat down and say to cats "live a long life".
may really lack a little luck, Lin Jiadong is known as the elected actor.
In 2022, he was nominated for Best Actor at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards for his films "Hand Rolled Cigarettes" and "Wisdom Teeth", but ultimately lost to Xie Xian's "Deus Exodus at Dusk".
In the same year, there was also Wu Zhenyu, which was the sixth time he missed the Academy Awards, although "Drifting in Muddy Water" was not bad.
"Drifting in Turbid Water" directed by Li Junshuo targets the low-level groups in Hong Kong, revealing the arrogance of the high-ranking people in the city and the powerlessness of the low-level.
In 2012, the Sham Shui Po Home Affairs Department and the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) raided Tung Chau Street in Sham Shui Po and removed the personal belongings of a number of street sleepers, who then collectively took the government to court for justice.
Brother Hui played by Wu Zhenyu returned to society from prison after completing his sentence, for him, life in Hong Kong is either on the street or in prison, the high-rise buildings in the city seem to have no connection with him all his life, and the street is his biggest destination.
The street scene in every part of the camera is comparing the rich and the poor, densely packed under high-rise buildings, and the street sleepers are even being driven away even sleeping on the street. The government violently washes the streets, refuses to apologize for its mistakes, and in economically developed cities, there are groups of street sleepers without jobs or homes.
Brother Hui often said: Sham Shui Po is from the slums.
But for real estate developers, who cares if this piece of land is a slum or not? In other words, no one cares if they live or die. Under the oppression of life, forced to compromise everywhere, where can the poor live? The answer is obvious, but the fundamental problem is not solved.
"Drifting in Muddy Water" is not only about the loss and sadness of Hong Kong's street sleepers, but also other regions, where street sleepers are a group.
Nowadays, it is not easy to continue to shoot a good story, and it is even more precious to have good actors who are willing to ponder the script.
Thankfully, in recent years, more and more creators in Hong Kong are willing to write and make films about social reality.
For example, it is adapted from "The Corridor of Justice", which was adapted from the "Tai Kok Tsui Parents Dismemberment Case" on March 1, 2013.
The film brings out more thinking about the system, the relationship between people and the truth, and the composition of the nine-member jury in the courtroom is actually more like portraying a portrait of all beings, and we see the pride and prejudice of human nature in the debate.
Huang Zihua also lost the actor at this year's Academy Awards, and finally "The Poisonous Tongue" won the Best Film at the Academy Awards, and he choked up for a while:
"Although the peony is good, it needs to be supported by green leaves, actors are green leaves, and the most important thing is creation and directing. ”
Tony Leung won 6 Academy Award winners, it is undeniable that he is indeed a good actor.
But for other actors who have not won awards, even if they do not have awards, they will still do their best to play every role in the Hong Kong film industry.