#Today's Classic Movie # Original debut
In 2012, Du Qifeng's alternative police film "Death Gold" was released, which revolved around the financial investment at the bottom of Hong Kong, giving the audience a refreshing feeling.
The whole movie is divided into three main lines of characters, police inspector Zhang Zhengfang, gangster character three-legged leopard, and bank financial adviser Teresa. These three figures also represent the three kinds of people in Hong Kong's lower class, civil servants, workers and unemployed people.
No matter what position you are in in society, making yourself better is the most important thing. These three characters are also in their own worlds, working hard for this ultimate goal.
1 In the face of the temptation of money, few people can stop it.
Zhang Zhengfang's wife wants to buy a house, Teresa's stock loss is unbearable, and the three-legged leopard and the bulging eye dragon are even more because of the stock market crash, and they returned to the pre-liberation period overnight.
They all have a common goal – money, and it's a lot of money.
At this time, there are 5 million cash in front of them, which is a naked temptation, and it is difficult for everyone to choose when facing this temptation.
Of course, the three-legged leopard of the underworld snatched 5 million first. As a public official, Zhang Zhengfang, even if he moved a little carefully, he could quickly let his rationality be defeated.
The most difficult choice is Teresa. She also represents most people, tired and tired of going to work every day, and now there is such a large amount of wealth in front of them, in exchange for me, I will definitely be moved. Because for the rich man Zhong Yuan (a boss in the movie), this little money is nothing at all.
But for ordinary people, this money can make themselves live a good life, Teresa finally squinted at this money.
In fact, I myself understand Teresa very well, because I am also a stock investor, experienced two rounds of big bear markets, at that time I was thinking about where to get money every day, quickly diluting my position, and finally unwinding it as soon as possible.
But the financial game of stocks is originally designed according to the shortcomings of people, and few people can resist its temptation, and can only sink deeper and deeper.
2 In the face of the pressure of money, anyone can take a wrong step.
The whole movie is different from Du Qifeng's police films in the past, there are not too many fight scenes in it, and more is to describe people's psychology.
The three-legged leopard, the most righteous underworld boss, but he is also worried about money every day. Joined the black market fund of the Bulge-Eyed Dragon. It may be that he is too unlucky, just joined the Hong Kong stock market plummeted, bulging eyes dragon loss of bullets.
There was no way he and the three-legged leopard had planned to rob Jongwon. In the end, I got five million by mistake. But for Mr. Song, this money is simply a drop in the bucket.
In the end, the bulging-eyed dragon was pierced by Mr. Song with a steel needle to come out, and the three-legged leopard made a lot of money by buying and selling the futures finger contract, but when he came out to find the bulging-eyed dragon, he was already dead on the street.
When the three-legged leopard saw him, he didn't know whether he was regretting it or being dazed, running for money, but when he really had money, there was no one.
I remembered the words of Teacher Zhao Benshan, "When people die, the money is not spent." For the three-legged leopard, the brother died and the righteousness was gone, which was perhaps the greatest sorrow of his life.
In contemporary society, we are not like this, constantly running for life every day. Mortgages, car loans, children's counseling classes all of this pressure on us breathless, in the end our own body collapsed, but what else can stay with us? Staying in a hospital once will wipe out your life savings.
3 The happy ending is a reversal in reality.
Zhang Zhengfang, who was auditioned by Ren Xianqi, was black-faced every time he appeared, and his facial expression was too single.
Zhang Zhengfang is a good policeman, but he is not a good husband. He didn't know what his wife needed. The whole movie is aside from the fact that he's in the elevator and the old man with the gas canister, I really don't know what else this character shines in the movie.
Although the three story lines of the whole movie revolve around Jongwon's five million, they are not closely related to each other, as if each one is an independent individual. This is also the shortcoming of the whole movie.
Originally, when investigating Zhong Yuan, the three-legged leopard, Teresa and Zhang Zhengfang were able to be well linked, but the director did dilute the storyline in this place, mainly writing about the psychological and behavioral changes of these three people.
In the final finale, although everyone's problems have been satisfactorily solved, this consummation has brought the audience a bit far-fetched.
Teresa, in particular, since she had already taken five million, how could she wait for the police to come and investigate, if it was replaced by the normal thinking of people, she should have gone away with the money a long time ago, otherwise she would not have submitted her resignation letter.
Although the director wants to make the film more humane, in the face of reality, Teresa cannot turn herself in.
epilogue
In our daily lives, many people will have the idea of having money to make money. However, as long as it is an investment, there will be risks, and before choosing your own investment varieties, you must recognize your own risk-bearing ability.
Although "Death Money" is about Hong Kong in 2012, we now deeply feel this pressure, and each of us is busy with money all the time.
Many people also have the dream of getting rich overnight, to buy lottery tickets, speculate in stocks, speculate in futures, and even gamble, and in the end not only did not live a rich life, but many people also ended up with two personal wealth.
Money is not a panacea, and it is impossible without money. As the saying goes, "A gentleman loves money and has a way", people in this life rely on diligence for small money, and rely on life for big money. When an inexplicable wealth is in front of you, you have to have a life to spend. "Kill the gold", take the life in the front, grab the gold in the back.