Du Qifeng's "Banishment" continues the story category of "Underworld", using the original team of "Gunfire", the soundtrack and "PTU" are very tacit, and the photography is still calm and frightening. It's a pure friendship drama between men: after learning that a friend has a child, he puts his mind at ease, throws a coin when he wants to choose, and heroically cherishes each other when he meets someone he admires, and gives up everything for his friend's family... For the killer, exile is a better return, redemption on the other path.
In the film, the killer frequently uses the way of tossing a coin to determine fate and direction, and Du Qifeng can be described as well-intentioned. Life is impermanent, since the problems that you can't solve are handed over to God, killers are generally helpless, they can kill others with bullets, but they can't decide their own fate. Tossing a coin mainly determines three things, one is the wrong way, do not know where to go, the coin determines everything, this is a group of banished people, a group of people who can't find a home. The second thing is the attitude towards gold, do it, or don't do it? Although it can be seen that the four people have a desire for money in their hearts, they still obey the decision of the coin, which is a mentality of exile, and only those who have no interest in everything will let the coin determine their fate when they face such a huge wealth. The third time was the moment of facing wealth and the fate of friends' wives and children, the coin was thrown into the water, the feeling of friendship overcame everything, and the responsibility, the heart of exile found its way in that moment.
From how much a ton of gold weighs to how much a ton of hard work, Du Qifeng measured the value of friendship with a ton of gold, and Xue's few self-asking words proved all this, and the trade-off was obvious, which was also something that Du Qifeng wanted to publicize, especially the trade-off without difference of opinion made us feel the expansion of the blood vein.
Banishment has taken film noir to the extreme. The script framework is very clever and compact, the characters are portrayed with strong personalities, and the language dialogue is less and less expressive but stronger. The narrative of the whole film is quite clean and neat, from the beginning of the five killers meeting, there is a seemingly inexplicable gunfight, the suspense is hung there, as the characters' action dialogue unfolds, one suspense is solved, and another suspense is born, until everyone dies in the final gunfight, the film ends, and the whole process is completed in one go.
Because this is a man's play, Ah He's wife and children have become a highlight of the play.
The killing, fighting, friendship, and righteousness shown by Du Qifeng in the film noir is a man's world, so what does it mean for women and children to appear in this fierce man's world? Is it free, is it vassal? In "Banishment", Ah He's wife and children obviously made a clear explanation: after Ah He died, his wife wanted to shoot the child with one shot, but she still couldn't do it, so she carried the child to find the enemy who killed her husband, but when she found the killer who mistakenly thought it was the enemy, she also couldn't do it, here, Du Qifeng obeyed a basic thing in human nature, that is, motherhood! When men fight each other for something, women, as the other end of reality, represent the existence of love and origin, for men, women are the hope and comfort of this world, women's love and motherhood reflect the absurdity of fighting between men, and children are the hope of new life! So at the end of the film, the four killers put the gold in their hands, but only wanted to rescue Ah He's wife and children. So, in the old hotel, after a can, all the people died, the four killers died smiling, and Ah He's wife and children survived under their protection.
It's a human banishment —
Du Qifeng let men die in a smile, which is a classic.
