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With the arrival of the May Day holiday, the longest holiday after the Spring Festival, the competition for cinema films has begun to fierce, after all, in addition to the Spring Festival and National Day, the May Day holiday is the top priority of the year.
Especially in this year's May Day holiday file, the comeback of traffic Xiaosheng Wang Yibo, Huang Jingyu, 85 Hua Yang Mi, comedian Jia Bing, Tan Zhuo and Louis Koo's veteran Hong Kong star, covering different genres such as main theme, suspense, comedy, martial arts, etc., the audience can be said to be dazzled.
Judging from the pre-sales and the first day of release, it is too early to say that the movie will have the last laugh.
But among the many films, the most competitive are the main theme movie "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" and the Hong Kong martial arts movie "Kowloon Walled City".
On the first day of the release of the Spring Festival movie, in less than a day, the movie market data exceeded 400 million, of which the single-day box office of "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" exceeded 130 million, and the total box office of "Kowloon Walled City" exceeded 130 million.
Because the movie "Kowloon Walled City" was made for a few days at the beginning of its release, it was on a par with "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" at the overall box office.
As two popular movies, I went to the cinema to watch them again, let's taste them together, which of these two movies is more worth watching.
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Let's take a look at the movie "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team", which broke 100 million at the box office on the first day of release.
To be honest, watching this movie is largely because of Wang Yibo, and the reason why I say it is because of Wang Yibo is because before the release of this movie, the TV series "Wind Chaser" starring Wang Yibo and Wang Yang really made the audience addicted.
In the TV series "Wind Chaser", I was pleasantly surprised to find that Wang Yibo's performance and character creation have made certain breakthroughs, coupled with the ups and downs of the plot, so Wang Yibo's filter and favorability have increased a lot.
But in the movie "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team", the overall feeling is that the gimmick is greater than the content.
First of all, this subject matter is a great plus.
This film, like "Ten Thousand Miles Home", has some scenes that depict the cruelty of the war, the precarious status quo of the people, and even the heartache of the children displaced in "What is Home".
After watching this movie, one of the biggest feelings is the sadness for the fierce situation of the people living in the war country in this world, and the other feeling is that I feel fortunate and moved to be born in a peaceful country.
Secondly, Yang Zhen played by Wang Yibo is indeed with the enthusiasm and courage of young people.
Especially in the final stage of escorting witnesses, in order to protect his teammates, he bravely stood up and acted as a sniper, regardless of his own life and safety, so that his companions could take the first step.
Wang Yibo has the courage and uncompromising of young people, which is also the source of goodwill for the character.
However, on the whole, the plot of the film as a whole is sparse, the focus of the movie is on sensationalism, and when the depth of the content is not enough, the touching becomes more superficial.
The most touching part of the whole movie is the village that was slaughtered, on the way to the court, passing by his former home, looking at the desolation of his home now, and recalling the smell of grass in the wind when his home was once peaceful.
And as a Chinese soldier, Yang Zhen played by Wang Yibo, because he did not obey orders, he almost put his teammates in danger several times, if the peacekeeping police are such discipline, it is hard for us to believe how strong the combat ability of Chinese soldiers can be.
After watching this movie, one of the biggest feelings is that I miss "The Battle of the Red Sea", "Soldier Assault" and "My Regiment Commander, My Regiment", in those TV series, the appearance of the Chinese soldiers we see is even more awe-inspiring.
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Let's take a look at "The Siege of Kowloon Walled City", which has been screened.
The reason why I chose to watch this movie is because the word-of-mouth after the release of this movie is called the return of Hong Kong films, which is said to have added a lot of confidence to the weak Hong Kong film market.
After watching this movie, the biggest feeling is that there is finally hope for Hong Kong films, this hope is not in terms of content or form, but that this movie made me see that Hong Kong filmmakers concentrate their energy and energy to support the spirit of the next generation.
In this movie, there are many veteran Hong Kong stars, such as Louis Koo, Sammo Hung, Ren Xianqi, Aaron Kwok, Huang Debin and others, but these people are willing to match and carry a sedan chair for Lin Feng, who is not famous and powerful.
"From now on, it will be the world of you young people."
When I heard Ren Xianqi say this sentence in this movie, I was still very emotional, the replacement of the old and the new in the Kowloon Walled City seems to be a metaphor for the inheritance of the generations in the Hong Kong film industry.
This movie is based on Lin Feng's character Chen Luojun as the main line.
Chen Luojun fled to Hong Kong as a refugee, and in order to survive, he was forced to get involved in the struggle between several major gangs in Hong Kong.
Although Chen Luojun did not know his true identity before he was involved in the struggle between several major gangs. But since he was a child, his parents died, he was adopted and abandoned one after another, his life was turbulent, and he never felt a sense of security, but he felt a sense of security that he had never felt in Kowloon Walled City.
When he was cornered, Tornado (Louis Koo) played and took him in. When he was hungry, it was the other people in the Kowloon Walled City who gave him a bite to eat and a sip of water to drink.
When Chen Luojun was working hard for an ID card, it was Tornado who bought him the first bowl of barbecued pork rice in his life, and let him move from sleeping on the canopy to a small attic of his own.
Gradually, he slowly integrated into the Kowloon Walled City, and in the process of getting along with Tornado, Xinyi, Twelve Shao, and Sizai, he found a sense of home, and Chen Luojun wanted to join and protect here.
Tornado did not hesitate to take his own life in order to protect this realm, which was defined by the outside world as "three regardless", and in order to protect Chen Luojun, the son of his good brother Chen Zhan.
Judging from the vision of the tornado, he is already old, and sooner or later the Kowloon Walled City will be handed over to the next generation, and it is fate for him to lose his life in order to protect the next generation.
"What can defeat money and power is always the determination to protect it."
The first half focuses on Chen Luojun's feeling of finding a home in the "Sin City" Kowloon Walled City, and the protection of the people in the city by the Tornado in the Kowloon Walled City.
When the tornado died, the four people represented by Chen Luojun gathered together to fight to recapture the walled city and regain the warmth of humanity.
In the second half of the martial arts portrayal, we can see that the wind is howling like a tornado, just in response to the dead tornado (played by Louis Koo), and the kite that was once released by the tornado before his death became a wind.
Several young people stand on the tower of the city where their predecessors have struggled, fighting for the people in the walled city, fighting for the future of the people in the city, this spirit of fighting for protection, can radiate the most powerful vitality.
From this movie, we can also clearly feel that the soul of Hong Kong movies is back: the pain of the body, the pain of the bottom, the pain of Hong Kong, the pain of the current situation, and the pain of identity.
Although the whole movie is dressed in the shell of a martial arts movie, the humanistic feelings and care of Hong Kong films finally see hope.
Although Hong Kong films have declined in recent years, fortunately, there are always seniors like Louis Koo and Sammo Hung in the Hong Kong film industry, who are willing to contribute their own strength to the development of future generations and the industry, and actively promote the continuous inheritance of the industry.
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Epilogue:
After watching the two movies "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" and "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City", as the two movies with the highest degree of discussion and topic in the May Day movie file, they are not quite satisfied.
The theme of "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" is the main theme of the movie and the market appeal of traffic actors Wang Yibo and Huang Jingyu, but the forced sensationalism, as well as the director's sparse film lens language and storyline, make people can't help but swipe their mobile phones when watching the movie.
"The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City" runs through the action of martial arts throughout the movie, but the more you watch it, the more you look at it, especially the humanistic care that runs through the movie, the living conditions of the people at the bottom, and the warmth between people, all of which make the soul of Hong Kong classic movies return.
Regardless of whether it is in the play or outside the play, the replacement between the old and the new is full of emotion, and it is precisely because there is such a group of practitioners in the industry who have done their best for the development of the industry, allowing the audience to see the hope of Hong Kong films.
At the end of the movie, Lin Feng and several brothers stood on the canopy of the Kowloon Walled City and looked at the glowing ahead, as if they were not only looking at the future of the people of the Kowloon Walled City for a better life, but also looking at the glorious future of Hong Kong movies.