The movie I watched this week is Dark Flower.
I haven't watched a Hong Kong movie for a long time, but this time I have found the feeling of watching a Hong Kong movie that year, and the classic gangster story is gripping.
Recently, many people have compared gangster movies of Hong Kong films and mainland films, saying that compared with Hong Kong films, the gangsters filmed by the mainland are too fake, and the gangster movies in Hong Kong feel very real.
Of course, it is true, because the mainland does not have much real environment, and Hong Kong did run amok in the past, which is incomparable, just need to reflect the reality. Looking at them in the movie is like the real them, Liang Chaowei is a bad cop, Liu Qingyun is a killer, and the gangsters are also real.
The two gangs in Macau have been on fire for eight months, seriously affecting business, and when they are preparing for peace talks, Mr. Hong, the boss behind the scenes who has not returned to Macau for many years, returns and threatens to clear the scene. At this time, the news came out that the gang boss Brother Chicken had paid 5 million secret flowers to kill Sashi. Who is sending the Dark Flower message? This is a puzzle at the beginning of the movie.
The protagonist, Liang Chaowei, is a policeman, and another identity is Brother Chicken's right-hand man. In order to keep the two gangs in peace talks, Liang Chaowei protected ZuoZhi according to Brother Ji's orders, at least until the day when the Dark Flower ended, to save Zuozhi's life. The killers who received the news of the dark flower came to Macao one after another, and Liang Chaowei recognized and beat them up one by one.
At this time, another protagonist, Liu Qingyun, appeared, he was ostensibly to kill Zuozhi with dark flowers, and his real identity was a pawn laid out by Mr. Hong, who had come to clear the scene. Mr. Hong's layout is very clever, until the end was revealed, and if it was revealed in advance, it was simply designed to let Liang Chaowei kill or blame him for killing Brother Ji and Zuo Zhi.
As for why Liang Chaowei was chosen, he himself also questioned in the movie, why choose me, I am not a good policeman, just give money? Liu Qingyun dragged and said that he did not believe in Mr. Hong's ability. Maybe he had despised Mr. Hong before, or maybe he was smart enough, capable enough, and had the conditions for a pawn.
Liang Chaowei is a tragic figure, wearing body armor every day for 7 years, although the means are cruel and evil, but life is not easy, he often takes a towel to wipe sweat, exposing his anxiety and nervousness. He struggled among the police station and the gangsters just to survive, and he could not escape death with all his heart and soul, and he became a pawn of others.
Liang Chaowei's acting skills really have nothing to say, his performance is fierce enough, his temperament is melancholy enough, and he interprets this role to the fullest. As soon as Liu Qingshan appeared on the scene, he had his own aura, cool, and the tattoo of the back of his neck was both dark and mysterious, and his style was decisive and bold, and the ball in his hand also interpreted his fate in advance, and the fate was not in his hands.
Obviously it is a gangster movie, but it has made a kind of fate, and the people in the bureau, whether they are big guys or little brothers, are involuntarily. Just like the old saying, people in the jianghu, involuntarily. Liang Chaowei was already smart enough and capable enough, he saw through the calculation and broke out all the way, but he still died at the last moment.
We are now far away from the gangster society, but this sense of powerlessness and fatalism still exists in a different form. Now there are no gangsters and no killers, but there is another thing that forces us to run for our lives, or human sophistication, or social rules, or mortgages, all of which give us pressure to struggle to survive.
Weekends without overtime are rare, and you can breathe a small hole under the cascading oil curtain. But this gasp can only be half a mouthful forever, because of the presence of work, it is difficult to get real relaxation even when it is most relaxed. 996 and Size Week were explicitly abolished, but the hidden 996 and Size Week remained.