A few days ago, I accidentally watched "The Edge of the City" and remembered the "Mao Deception" crew of that year, this gang is probably the same as me, watching their performance at that time is equivalent to the student's graduation design work, or a nonsensical roadside documentary sitcom, which is the poorest crew, and the costume props can let you play in minutes. But for the plot, it is definitely a tribute to the era when American dramas were popular at that time, "Mao Deception" three seasons down, no worse than the "Prison Break", "Homeland Security" and so on, "The Edge of the City" is equivalent to Xiao Bao's story alone, but the important characters in the gang in "Mao Deception" have cameos, especially the last few of them dinner, more like a class reunion after many years, seeing a few of them or fortune or vicissitudes, as if seeing their own shadow... The Dragon Boat Festival has the opportunity to watch several episodes of their 17-year-old "Kill Not Die" these days, in which nearly 80% of the actors are the original team of "Mao Deception", AnNing, Yang Yu, Shao Zhuang, Xing Dongdong, Wang Xiaoyi, Bao Ge. Feeling extremely kind, Lin Sen is no longer as powerful and astute as Xiao Bao, but more impulsive and soft; Shao Daimei is not as rational and wise as Shao Zhuang, but more weird and romantic. From the perspective of characters, everyone has a breakthrough, compared to the wit and courage of "Mao Deception", "Kill Or Die" is more flesh and blood. In this regard, the screenwriter is also telling a big story composed of many, many small stories, and each story has its logical closed loop, feeling that they have not changed, or insisting on themselves in this era of making quick money, but also feeling their growth, perhaps as the source of the title, Nietzsche's sentence "Those who can't kill me will eventually make me stronger".
