It is hard to imagine that a Hong Kong film that seems to have no Taste of Hong Kong can become a Classic of Hong Kong Films.
What is the taste of Hong Kong? Hong Kong flavor is utilitarianism, in other words, to double out what the audience wants.
The film is called "The Disciple", which belongs to the tradition of Hong Kong films and is good at police films, but it has endured with textbook drug production, drug trafficking, and drug abuse.
The "textbook" is the Hong Kong flavor of "Disciple", allowing the audience to see the drugs of hunting and the drug kingdom behind it, so as to know the world with one leaf.
"Disciple", a textbook "poisonous" film, has three major points of view.
One is how drugs come about; the other is the consequences of drug use; and the third is to throw out questions that explain why people use drugs and how human nature is lost.
That's how drugs come about.
Kun Ge (played by Andy Lau) has a complete and mysterious drug ecological chain.
The Golden Triangle seeds opium, which cost less than a hundred dollars a year in exchange for a tenfold profit, is shipped to a drug factory in Hong Kong after obtaining raw materials, diluted from US dollars to Hong Kong dollars.
At the step of selling goods, the people who manage the car, the warehouse, and the transportation do not know each other and are independent, and only use the telephone card to contact each other single-line when delivering, and then the telephone card is destroyed and replaced with a new one, so as not to leave traces.
Warehouse owners, transporters, and buyers should be separated from each other with their feet, feet and feet cannot meet, and the owner commands remotely, so that even if caught, the big guy behind them will not be exposed.
The goods are sold to receive the money, and then it is to go to the underground money bank to wash the money, scatter the money in different areas layer by layer, and after many reversals, the money can circulate normally.
This set of processes, tightly sewn, almost no loopholes in the drug production, drug trafficking of the full set of network chains carry nearly half of Hong Kong's drug market.
The consequences of drug use are worse than eighteen layers of hell.
"The Disciple" has a nuanced description of drug addicts, and after reading it, in addition to the horror is the fear of drugs
Ah Fen (played by Zhang Jingchu) wants to quit drugs, but when the drug addiction attacks, the whole body is full of excitement and itching, like thousands of ants crawling in the stomach, scratching and scratching.
Simply smoking can no longer be relieved, only a needle in the inner thigh can feel the pleasure of entering heaven and sublimating to a dreamlike pleasure, a head-to-toe orgasm.
After the injection, the whole person became nervous, unable to distinguish between reality and hallucinations, and did something contrary to common sense according to the excitement in the skull, like a ghost upper body.
Ah Fen's embarrassment before his death and the tragic situation after his death were also like purgatory, which was unbearable to see.
Her husband (played by Gu Tianle) mixed up a new product, and Ah Fen, who was already desperate, let him inject directly into his neck, and then his face was vicious, his pupils were dilated, he sighed long and short, and his hands kept scratching on the sofa.
It was this experience that cost her life, and when Ali (Played by Wu Yanzu) went to look for her, she saw an unforgettable scene.
Ah Fen was lying flat on the couch, her body stiff, the corners of her mouth covered with blood, and dozens of rats crawled up and down on her, enjoying the rotten flesh of the meal.
This scene happened in front of my eyes, except for the eight words "cherish life, stay away from drugs" echoing in my ears, and there was no other thought.
Four questions thrown out.
In Thailand, the waiter calls caviar, why is Kungo so angry?
Because this practice met his reverse scales, as a drug lord, Kun Ge was very jealous of weight, and others would be furious when they mentioned him.
This is also the manifestation of his personality, emotionally unstable, he does not have absolute patience for anything, and he is very determined and fierce.
Who the hell is Ah Fen and Ah Fen's husband lying?
It can be seen from the movie that Ah Fen and Ah Fen's husband both said that each other smoked first, in order to admonish each other and prove that drug use can be quit, only to accompany each other to smoke, resulting in addiction, but according to the analysis of related clips, Ah Fen lied.
"The Disciple" begins with Affen injecting drugs into his arm, which is the usual way many drug addicts use.
However, over time, the needle hole will heal, the skin will harden, and the blood vessels will not be easy to find, so it is necessary to inject them elsewhere.
When Ali fell asleep at Affen's house, Affen began to swallow clouds and vomit, and after satisfying her addiction, she injected it into the root of her inner thigh.
When Ah Li and her Wushan were in the rain, Ah Li's hand touched Ah Fen's knee, and it was obvious that there were many pinholes in Ah Fen's knee part.
It can be seen that Affen has been using drugs for a long time, and there are two more places that can confirm this.
One is that when Ah Fen's husband injected, the place where he hit was the arm, indicating that his time of taking drugs was shorter; the second was that when Ah Fen's husband tried new drugs for Ah Fen, he wondered if he could find her blood vessels.
If you were Ali, as a disciple of Kungo, would you choose to succeed Kungo to become bigger and stronger, or would you return to your police status?
As far as the film is concerned, the result given by the director is that evil does not suppress the right, and drug trafficking should not be an excuse for exoneration no matter how many legitimate reasons there are.
For example, when Ali asks Kun ge why he sells drugs, Kun Ge's sophistry will feel very reasonable at first glance, but it cannot withstand careful consideration, and it is not established after scrutiny.
As far as the audience is concerned, it is more inclined to have Ali succeed Kungo.
Because Kun Ge did not believe in anyone in his life, he only believed in Ali alone, treated him as a brother, and handed over the entire drug kingdom to him, leaving him with sufficient start-up funds.
The police side only use Ali as a tool for promotion and salary increase, and Ali's psychological condition and life and death have little to do with them, and they are reused when useful and discarded when they are not.
For example, the customs knew that Ali was undercover and insisted on beating them, so he let him take them to the drug factory, just for promotion, regardless of whether Ali was dead or alive.
And at the end of the film, Ali helped the police to destroy the extraordinarily large drug trafficking gang in Hong Kong, and what he got was that he couldn't sleep well for eight years, and it was difficult to live a normal life in the future, and he learned more foreign languages with his boss.
Until the pigeons that pinned his feelings were all captured due to bird flu, Ali's spiritual world was empty, so he thought of trying drugs and eliminating emptiness, which raised the fourth question, is it the horror of emptiness or the terror of drugs?
Why do people take drugs? Because of emptiness.
Why are people empty? Because desires are not satisfied.
Emptiness is the root cause of crime, drug use is a way of crime, and with the terror of emptiness there will be the horror of drug use.
The reason why drug addiction cannot be stopped is because the emptiness cannot be filled.
How exactly should emptiness be filled? Use love, because love is something more worthy of protection than emptiness.
At the end of the film, Ali turned over the drugs that Ah Fen had hidden under the table, and was about to inject them, when the little girl came over and threw the syringe into the trash can, hugged Ah Li, and Ali suddenly woke up.
Although love sounds ethereal and contrived, every detail of life is love and the power to change.