There is a film in the history of Hong Kong cinema, released in 1987, 7 years later, Quentin made its story into "Falling Water Dog", 15 years later Liu Weiqiang and Mak Siu-fai made its story into "Infernal Affairs", its name is "Dragon and Tiger Storm", its director is called Lin Lingdong.
Every year, the Hong Kong Film Awards will have a link to commemorate the late filmmakers, no matter how many years the Hong Kong film has been called dead, Hong Kong filmmakers are paying tribute in their own way to those who have accompanied Hong Kong films all the way through these hundreds of years of ups and downs, and this year, this link has one more name - Lin Lingdong.
Many people are unfamiliar with the name Lin Lingdong, and you will not be unfamiliar with the films he directed - films such as "Prison Storm", "Double Dragon Society", "Dragon and Tiger Storm" have left a strong mark in the history of Hong Kong cinema, and the film I want to talk about today is the last "School Storm" of his "Storm Trilogy".
What is the hottest film in the second half of 2019, which will definitely have the name "Young You", the scene facing the violence in school, so that this phenomenon is once again exposed to the audience.
As early as 1988, when Lin Lingdong's "Prison Storm" and "Dragon and Tiger Storm" were very successful, he began to shoot this "School Storm". Bluntly aiming the camera at the reality of the underworld infiltrating the school, because the subject matter is too sensitive, it was forced to paint not long after the release, it is said that the film was later released in Taiwan, it was deleted to only sixty minutes, Lin Lingdong was angry, announced that he would no longer shoot such realistic subjects that he was best at, in a sense, this film is also the beginning of Lin Lingdong's fading out of the jianghu.
The script of the whole film is controlled by Nan Yan, and the plot continues the consistent popular story setting of the "Fengyun Series".
From the plane that is taking off from the airport, to the place where the story takes place, Southeast Middle School, where students read yellow novels in the corridor, Yuan Jieying plays Zhu Wanfang, who is sought out, which leads to her good friend Guo Xiaozhen and Guo Xiaozhen's boyfriend George East.
Not long after the film began, because Zhu Wanfang had a fight at the school gate, the gang member Scar Brother because he liked Zhu Wanfang, helped her out, beat her bad teenager in the morning at the school gate to find stubble, the bad boy was not a good stubble, the face was covered with blood, he took out a knife from his bag and chased after him, chased after Brother Scar with a machete, and was hit by a car in the middle of the chase.
The story unfolded from this, a series of characters have appeared, scarred big brother Xiao Xiao brother, police Hai Brother, and Zhu Wanfang's teacher Teacher Wen, and although these roles are not first-line actors at the time, but for friends familiar with Hong Kong films, they are all names that cannot be bypassed, Zhang Yaoyang plays Xiao Xiao brother, Lin Zhengying plays police Hai Brother, and Liu Songren plays Teacher Wen.
Brother Xiao sent someone to warn Zhu Wanfang not to go to the police station to recognize people, Teacher Wen and Brother Hai advised her to have a sense of justice, and as a result, Zhu Wanfang was targeted by the underworld because of her own temporary justice, and when Brother Xiao rushed to the school to take her away, he always righteously stated that he would definitely help his Teacher Wen, facing the threat of Brother Xiao, he could only watch her being taken away, but it did not play any role.
Forced to strip naked, but the knife scar saved her, this time Zhu Wanfang completely lost confidence in the teacher, in the face of Zhu Wanfang's questioning, Teacher Wen was also speechless for a while, remorseful.
Guo Xiaozhen, a girlfriend who has been doing aid and friendship, because she knew that Zhu Wanfang was threatened by Xiao Xiaoge for 30,000 yuan of legal fees, took out the money she had accumulated, wanted to help her, and advised her: one is better than two.
In such an environment, the father's weakness, the teacher's incompetence, the police's inaction, Zhu Wanfang, who does not know what to do, feels the warmth of her friends here in Guo Xiaozhen, the two people work together to repay the loan, and the knife scar helps from it, which also makes Zhu Wanfang slowly accept him.
As a result, when Scar was chased by the police for drug trafficking, Zhu Wanfang realized that such a life was not as good as she thought.
At this time, Guo Xiaozhen was heartbroken because of her boyfriend's cheating, talked back with the teacher in the classroom, and swallowed psychedelic drugs, was expelled from the school, rode a motorcycle and shouted that I would not play, and collided with the oncoming truck.
Zhu Wanfang's world completely collapsed, watching Guo Xiaozhen's boyfriend George East at school triumphantly, she set fire to the school library, shouting in the flames: I don't read.
At that moment, it was almost desperate for her, she didn't understand the use of the school's hard work, this campus could not protect them, could not teach those bastards, and when she fled the hospital, she lost the image of the well-behaved woman she had always had, a sharp short hair, as if she could see a lot of things.
But the trouble has not been solved, Xiao Xiao brother is still forcing them to pay back, if the knife scar does not want to embarrass himself Zhu Wanfang must continue to help him sell white powder, in order not to let the knife scar sell white powder, Zhu Wanfang chose to do aid.
After his father found out about this, because he beat Brother Xiao, he was hacked to death by Brother Xiao's men in the street, and watching Brother Xiao be taken out of the police station by the lawyer unscathed, Zhu Wanfang angrily slapped Brother Hai.
Even Teacher Wen looked at this picture and had to sigh: They all say that evil is better than right, and I don't know if it's right or not.
Zhu Wanfang carried the knife herself to fight for The Scar, knowing that her girlfriend was raped by the Dashing and forced to help the knife scar, she also aimed the spearhead at the Dashing, the dim light of the bar, under the gaze of the Guan Gong statue, the Scar questioned whether the Brother was a woman who was on the brother, the Brother questioned the scar, the brother was important or the woman was important, everything looked so ridiculous.
A scuffle, Teacher Wen, Zhu Wanfang, Scar, Brother Xiao, all ran into that seemingly bright campus, Teacher Wen, who has always existed as an intellectual, watched Brother Xiao once again prepare to rape his students, angrily raised his machete, and roared at the slashed Brother Xiao: The school is my territory, here, I am the boss, you step on my chassis, I hack you to death!
Xiao Xiao is eventually killed by Hai Ge, and it seems that everything has been resolved, but the story does not end in the way we want, a group of people are forced to the end, and finally end all this by countering violence with violence, and the justice is not as if it should be.
Lin Lingdong's film world is gray, this story is too social this sentence, this school, not black nor white, the white school uniform world invaded by the underworld, has become a hopeless gray, no light, in the face of hateful characters, the only hope, whether it is a teacher or wonderful, seems powerless.
Lin Lingdong's first two "Fengyun Series" have zhou Runfa such a big coffee to help, this "Campus Storm" is basically the golden supporting role of the golden age of Hong Kong films, when Lin Zhengying was not the future Dao Chief, Liu Songren was not the chief helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Association, Xiao Xiao brother was not the East Star Crow, Yuan Jieying was still a young and active girl in the public's impression, each of them gave a wonderful performance in this film, Zhang Yaoyang's portrayal of The Dashing Brother, bad to the extreme, compared to the crows after him, it is more annoying. In the face of those who cannot afford to provoke themselves, they can be cunning and treacherous, and in the face of those who cannot afford to provoke themselves, they will show their fierceness and kill them all, thinking that they will obviously have a more three-dimensional image than crows.
Zhu Wanfang, played by Yuan Jieying, forced the step by step from kindness to desperate situation, forced to degenerate, and changed the image of the living wave girl she created, especially the scene of burning books, the desperate cry, which made people feel sad.
The cruelty of this youth, full of despair, is more thorough than the other two films in the "Wind and Cloud Series".
It has been rumored that the original ending was that after Xiao Xiaoge fell from the building, his body was pierced by an iron railing, and blood flowed to the school card, so the violent picture did not appear in the public version in the end.
Thirty-one years have passed since the movie, and the stories that happened in Lin Lingdong's most desperate movies will occasionally happen around us, and what does more Zhu Wanfang rely on to save herself?