As the façade of Hong Kong police films, Du Qifeng has created countless classic police films.
Including "Gunfire", "Detective", "Dark War" and so on.
But among Du Qifeng's so many works, the only movie that most amazes me and amazes me the most is "Mobile Force" released in 2003.
The film starred Ren Dahua, Lin Xue, Shao Meiqi, Huang Zhuoling and others, and the cost was not large, and it was filmed for 3 million Hong Kong dollars.
However, the box office of this movie was really miserable, only selling more than 2 million yuan that year, which means that Ben did not get it back.
But fortunately, this movie has won numerous awards, Du Qifeng won the best director award, Ren Dahua also won the first film emperor in his life with this film, and Lin Xue also won the best supporting role with this film.
Why can a movie that hit the street at the box office 18 years ago win countless awards, and why has it been regarded as a classic by countless people until now, especially on Douban?
Watching "Mobile Force" 18 years later, I have a new interpretation!
1, indicating that it is a police film, in fact, it is still a jianghu film!
Although this "Mobile Force" is classified in the category of police films, and the protagonist is the mobile unit played by Ren Dahua.
But if we look closely, we will find that this movie is still a "jianghu film" in its bones.
There are a few details that can prove this.
In the first scene, Fat Sand is beaten and wakes up to find that his gun is missing.
As soon as Shao Meiqi's team of PTU saw this situation, they immediately wanted to report it to their superiors.
However, Fei Sha begged Ah Zhan, and Ah Zhan immediately agreed to keep it a secret for him and to find a gun for him.
The reason may be like Ah Zhan said, they are all their own people, they can help, but then his behavior is a bit like a policeman who helps his colleagues.
First, he ran to the game hall and forced the old watch of the ponytail to call the ponytail.
If the other party doesn't fight, he will fight until the little bastard fights.
After that, he grabbed a small gangster on the street to inquire about the news of Ma Wei's subordinates, and it can be said that Ah Zhan's series of behavior styles are not like a policeman, but more like a jianghu person, but more like a big brother with a righteous word.
One of the most interesting scenes is that when Ah Zhan goes to the abandoned building to find The Horsetail's men, when he wears a uniform and walks into the night, the shadows on his face are bright and dark, which really perfectly interprets the connotation of this movie.
Perhaps Du Qifeng is still wearing the skin of a police film and telling a traditional jianghu story.
After all, in Hong Kong films, the jianghu and righteousness itself are an eternal theme.
Of course, this story also perfectly explains what it means: "Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes!" ”
This is also why the female police officers of the serious crime team later ran upstairs to the Chinese ice room to ask Ah Zhan and his men, and no one gave her the real answer.
Because in this small society that Ah Zhan has built, in this small group that he maintains, righteousness is what they believe in and maintain.
2, a scene that shows the ugly side of human nature!
One of the best things about the movie "Mobile Force" is that the story of this movie takes place in one night.
From the opening scene of Fei Sha clashing with Ma Wei at the hot pot restaurant, to the later time he loses his gun, to ah Zhan finding a gun for him, they are all completed at night.
And at night, the ugly side of human nature is indeed vividly displayed.
For example, in the first shot, when Ah Zhan and PTU's brother were still in the car, news came from the radio that a gang of robbers had robbed money during the day, and a policeman had been shot and killed.
In the car, when they heard the news of the death of their colleagues, the police of these PTU were sneering.
It wasn't until Ah Zhan made a sound that they stopped talking.
On the other hand, Fei Sha, the sheriff of the anti-black group, is also particularly "vicious".
I went to the hot pot restaurant to eat, because there was no place to sit, I squeezed into a table with the gangster prince's ponytail.
The ponytail was forced to have no choice but to change positions, and what was more important was that the ponytail dishes were all on, and Fei Sha arrogantly snatched the dishes over.
Ponytail bullies passers-by, and fat sand bullies ponytail.
This is the whole class chain of a big fish eating small fish, and small fish eating shrimp rice.
There is also a very interesting character, that is, the PTU led by Shao Meiqi, she knows that Ah Zhan is ready to help Fei Sha for the sake of righteousness.
But her credo in life is that it's good to go home safely.
So she was probably the safest, least nervous line of the night.
Because she's catching a thief who smashes a car and steals money.
The police, in the darkness of the night, all have their own little calculations.
Gangsters, in the darkness of the night, have their own plans.
For example, big eyes, when he learned that his men had taken matters into their own hands and killed the ponytail, he wanted to contact Fatsha and go to the police station for a while to ensure safety.
There is also bald head, as the big brother of the jianghu, his son is dead, and he has to go alone to find face.
In the darkness of the night, when these little evils, when these little abacuses, are intertwined, they really send this "Mobile Force" to the altar.
3, in the face of great evil, small evil is not important at all!
As mentioned above, a team of people and horses led by Shao Meiqi wanted to catch the thief who smashed the car and stole money in the dark of night.
And Shao Meiqi did wait for the car that smashed the car, that is, the child who had been riding in the dark.
But who would have thought that it would be such a coincidence.
Fei Sha made an appointment with two vengeful gangsters, Bald Head and Big Eyes.
And it just so happened that the wave of bandits on the radio also happened to be carrying AK through here.
What's even worse is that Ah Zhan has temporarily figured it out, and he feels that he is still a policeman after all, and he can't just commit a crime for the sake of so-called righteousness.
There are also female police officers of the serious crime team who chased after the bald head.
Seven gangs of people and horses, in the same place, in the same scene, suddenly met.
In the end, I don't know who fired the first shot, and in the end I don't know what it was for.
There was a scuffle in the streets.
The end result, in particular, has connotations:
All the bandits were killed, and the two gangsters killed each other.
And the living police, whether it is the PTU led by Ah Zhan, or the PTU led by Shao Meiqi, as well as the female police officers of the fat sand and the serious crime team.
Their final result is: "Rejoice and reunite!" ”
One of the most profound shots is that the thief that Shao Meiqi wanted to catch before rode into the night on a bicycle.
It turned out that in the face of great evil, in the face of bandits, this kind of behavior of thieves was nothing at all.
It turned out that Whether it was Ah Zhan, Shao Meiqi, or the female police officer of the serious crime team, they were all the same.
Although they all talk about justice, in fact, they are the same as the fat sand that flaunts their might in the hot pot restaurant.
After all, from the beginning, all the stories that happened on this night were because FatSha lost his gun.
All of them were brought into this bureau by various coincidences.
And this is Du Qifeng's film art, everything is fate, everything is fate.