The competition in the May 1st file is quite fierce, and "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City" (hereinafter referred to as "Kowloon Walled City"), which has a score of 7.5 on Douban, has increased from less than 10% of the scheduled films on the first day of release to the current 12.4%, and the box office has exceeded 200 million in 3 days of release, and it has achieved a reversal decline.
The vast majority of viewers have watched "Kowloon Walled City", and they will think that this is an action movie with a simple plot and wonderful fights, and it is based on comics, with a lot of bizarre and exaggerated elements, especially Wang Jiu's setting, the hard qigong of "Iron Cloth Shirt" who is not afraid of fighting is barely acceptable, but in the end, eating coals and swallowing blades is too bizarre, and Chen Luojun was blown to the roof by a gust of wind It is inevitable that it is out of reality.
The plot of the movie is simple, bright, and the main line is clear, Chen Luojun played by Lin Feng evaded Wang Jiu's pursuit and fled into the Kowloon Walled City, breaking the tranquility and balance of the Kowloon Walled City, leading to the three-way battle between Tornado, Big Boss, and Di Qiu, as well as reawakening a piece of the past in the rivers and lakes.
If you follow Chen Luojun's perspective into the story, you will get the cool film impression mentioned above, but there will also be some questions. But combined with the original comics, carefully pondering the plot and lines, and eating the characters thoroughly, you will have a new view on "Kowloon Walled City", which is by no means a brainless film that only focuses on action, but has a lot of room for interpretation. Here are five foreshadowings of the movie.
Foreshadowing 1: Where does Chen Luojun come from?
For the story of "Kowloon Walled City" to be established, character motivation is the key. The movie only explained that Chen Luojun smuggled to Hong Kong by boat, and he was desperate to earn money to get a Hong Kong ID card, and after entering the Kowloon Walled City, he felt that it was good to stay in the Kowloon Walled City for the rest of his life, he just wanted to seek stability and live a peaceful life of making money by working hard, but he did not explain his "prehistory", even in the end, he only told the audience that he was Chen Zhan's son. So where did he come from, and what did he go through?
The detail of smuggling into Hong Kong by ferry is very important, and in Hong Kong films, if you show that the mainland used to hide in the bilge of small fishing boats. The director also interpreted in the tidbits that Chen Luojun was smuggled over from Vietnam.
The Kowloon Walled City was a real siege in Hong Kong in the early years, demolished in 1993, although Cheng Baorui took over the director's baton, he did not follow the original idea to make a serious historical theme, but still retained the historical background. The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in 1993, and Chen Luojun smuggled to Hong Kong in the mid-to-late eighties, when Vietnam sent troops to Cambodia and was reckless, so there were financial problems, and the people were miserable, with a per capita GDP of less than 100 US dollars, and they were very poor.
At that time, it was very difficult for ordinary people to live, and in order to survive, they even tried to escape from Vietnam by manual demining, crossing mountains and mountains, and smuggling by boat. And the news in the movie also gives details that Hong Kong is accepting refugees. This can be explained, Chen Luojun went to Hong Kong to find opportunities because his life was unsustainable, so at the beginning of the movie, he was in a state of desperation, he was quite satisfied with getting an ID card, having a job, and being able to eat a full meal.
Foreshadowing 2: When will Tornado know Chen Luojun's true identity?
There is a relatively clear explanation in this movie, Tornado shaved Chen Luojun's beard, looking at his face and thinking of his good brother Chen Zhan, the movie inserted a paragraph where he shaved Chen Zhan's beard, the intention should be here.
But the problem is that the rule in Hong Kong is that children are born with a "birth paper", which is the one shown to the audience in the movie, which records the name of the child and the name of the parents. Chen Zhan entrusted his wife and children to Tornado before his death, and after Tornado's death, Tornado sent the mother and son out of Hong Kong, and he must have known the child's name.
In the movie, Di Qiu invited him to dinner and mentioned Chen Luojun's name, and Tornado's face and eyes changed, and this paragraph personally felt more like a misleading, or the screenwriter and director made a mistake.
When moving into the attic, Chen Luojun told Xin Yi that his name was Chen Luojun, and it stands to reason that Tornado should know his name, and he used a shave to cover half of his face, confirming that he was Chen Zhan's son. These two settings echo Di Qiu's banquet later, Tornado does not let the younger brothers eat at the same table, but goes outside to order another meal, which also has the meaning of protecting Chen Luojun. Therefore, Tornado already knew that Chen Luojun was Chen Zhan's son a long time ago, before shaving him.
Foreshadowing 3: Where did Sizai's girlfriend go?
Chen Luojun's previous history has not been explained, let alone other supporting roles, "Kowloon Walled City" portrays "Walled City F4" very three-dimensionally, because every scene is not wasted, and every detail is very helpful to the characters. In the scene where I watched a small movie on TV, my girlfriend was sold to make a film, but I didn't talk about it later.
Here is to combine the original work, in the comics, Sizai was originally a model, offended the villain Lei Gongzi, his girlfriend was arrested and forced to go to the sea in Japan, and was finally tortured to death, and then caught Sizai, not only forced him to watch his girlfriend being tortured, but also asked him to watch his girlfriend being harvested organs, which created Sizai in the movie, and these contents are not suitable for showing in the movie, so they were deleted or not filmed at all, so they can only be skimmed in this way.
Foreshadowing 4: Where is Wang Jiu's life?
Wang Jiu has the indestructible body of King Kong, and can swallow coals alive, and it seems that there are iron walls inside and outside. In the end, Wang Jiu broke the gong, and in the movie, he explained that after passively swallowing the broken sword, he pricked it out of the stomach, but this is obviously an accidental situation, and there is no way to do it in a normal fight.
Referring to Yuan Heping's "Reflecting the Iron Cloth Shirt" in the early years, those who practice the golden bell cover iron cloth shirt will have a fate, and under the lens of the eighth master, they will shoot the back of the head first and then catch the "egg", in fact, "Kowloon Walled City" is also explained in detail.
The big boss played by Sammo Hung saw the arrogant Wang Jiu sitting on his chair, saw his ambition, and knew that he wanted to sit in his own position, so he used a cigarette butt to flick his eyes, which is to imply that Wang Jiu's "life" is the eye, the big boss knows where his weakness is, and flicking it with a cigarette butt is to warn him to restrain a little. So in most of the fights, Wang Jiu wears glasses to protect his life, except for his eyes, he is not afraid of fighting.
And this also leads to another problem, Wang Jiu is so powerful, the reason why he surrenders to the big boss is that in addition to his own life being known by the other party, the big boss's own force value should also be above him, so he can be suppressed.
Later, Wang Jiu rebelled and killed the big boss because the big boss was seriously injured when he fought with the tornado, but Wang Jiu was still afraid, so the scene where he killed the big boss was not designed to be a face-to-face competition, but a sneak attack from the shadows and strangled the big boss to death.
Foreshadowing 5: Use details to set off a sense of fate
There are three places in the movie that are either abrupt or bizarre, but in fact, the screenwriter and director have "ulterior motives" to set off the sense of fate of the movie.
The first is the joke before the decisive battle in the walled city, obviously the atmosphere was very tense at the time, but Tornado joked with Shinichi, saying "I'll follow you in the future", here is actually Tornado entrusting the walled city to Shinichi, because he knows that he has come to the end of his life and will die in a vicious fight with the big boss. So then he closed the door and bought time for Xinyi, and finally died under the king's nine knives.
The second place is that Chen Luojun was blown up to the rooftop, and several brothers worked together to solve Wang Jiu, and the tornado that blew him up was actually echoing the tornado played by Gu Tianle.
The third place is that Chen Luojun finally got his ID card, how can it not make people sigh? The plot has made a big bend and gone through a big reincarnation, because with that birth paper, Chen Luojun can go through the normal procedures to get the ID card, and the birth paper is found by the big boss, if the big boss doesn't pit Chen Luojun at the beginning, seriously help him make an ID card, or hand over the birth paper to him, everyone can live the rest of their lives peacefully.
Foreshadowing 6: What did Di Qiu eat?
The character settings in "Kowloon Walled City" are really interesting. Tornado suffered from cancer, but he didn't go to the hospital and didn't take medicine, he smoked desperately every day, he had no goal to live, and dying might be a relief;
Hate is actually a punishment for himself, Di Qiu is rich, powerful and healthy, but he is not happy, and the tornado that sees everything is happier and more free and easy than him. After the battle, Di Qiu entered the walled city, picked up the tornado's cigarette from the ground, and gently put it on the table, he should regret paying such a big price for revenge!