Due to the great success of "Dark War 1", two years later, the original team created "Dark War 2", Zhu Yu was full of expectations for this sequel in the front audience, but most of the audience gave a bad review after watching it, the whole movie did not know what it was about, this man went to great lengths to cheat 100 million yuan, just to buy candy for the children?
You're all wrong, but this film actually has a deeper meaning: redemption. There are three typical representative characters in the film who are lost in life, and Zheng Yijian, who plays a magician, uses his unique way to help them find themselves and regain laughter.
01. Chen Jinwei
His job is to be a negotiator in the Force, but he is not addicted to gambling, so he is in debt, nervous, and the solution he can find is still gambling. In real life, there are also a large number of people like Chen Jinwei, but the things they are addicted to are different: games, lottery tickets, stocks, etc., all think that they will become winners, and in the end they find that they have been wandering in the illusory mirage, and eventually they are dying.
The magician first saw Chen Jinwei in the restaurant was chased in debt, the second time was the roof of the building, the magician met Chen Jinwei to play a coin game, using the gambler's most important way to win and lose, knocking on his fragile psychological defense line again and again, until he lost the thirty-third time, he completely began to doubt life, jumping from a tall building became his only way of relief. But in fact, jumping down is not a big problem, because the ground has already been placed with thick air cushions.
The third meeting was in the street, Chen Jinwei was beaten to death by the debt collectors, he followed the magician into a restaurant, asked him if he was out of the thousand, the magician directly handed him the coin, let him check it out, and then began to play a game of coin tossing. After that, every time I came to this restaurant, Chen Jinwei was more seriously injured than the last time, how many times did we play together? "372 times"
The magician has been counting in his heart, the two sides of the coin represent one-half of the opportunity, but also represent the two sides of life, when you really give up the obsession with gambling, is the beginning of your new life. Faced with 372 defeats, Chen Jinwei finally had an epiphany, even if he won the 373rd time? This is just a meaningless game, why continue? The magician smiled and gave him the silver coin, because he knew that Chen Jinwei at this time did not need his help anymore. Chen Jinwei donated the coin, representing a formal breakup with the previous gambling life, a relaxed, full of smiles, no matter what lies ahead, it is a new future.
02. Julie
In order to whitewash her lofty style, the female boss of the insurance company must speak fluent English, must be 100% obedient to her, and power and interests have become synonymous with her. It looks like she has everything: beauty, wealth, status, but is she really happy? No, there was never a smile on her face. She deliberately changed her name from Julie to Angelina, two names one dirt to slag, one noble foreign, she has long abandoned her rustic self, the pursuit of a noble life. She did succeed, becoming a money-making machine without emotion and without flesh and blood.
But when she met the magician, she found that these skills of hers had no effect on him at all, and when the magician first called her real name Julia, he also tore off her thick disguise, and the helpless Julie could only seek the help of the policeman He Shangsheng. In life, she is clumsy, not even left and right, she is accustomed to eating Western food, she can also swallow a bowl of wonton noodles, she felt the pleasure of being a small woman for the first time, removed the disguise, and could actually be so comfortable. For the first time, she felt that people were more important than money, and when He Shangsheng said to her," "hapyy new years julia," she smiled brightly.
03. He Shangsheng
Does He Shangsheng also need redemption? Of course, he is the most typical workaholic in real life, he has an extraordinary enthusiasm for work, and his keen sense of smell can always allow him to catch the clues to solve the case, but while insisting on work, he ignores the friendship and affection around him.
The appearance of the magician made He Shangsheng's blood boil, and he finally had an opponent who could match. In the first rooftop duel, the magician escaped twice, leaving a feather as a clue. The second confrontation was preempted by the magician and took 20 million. The third time, He Shangsheng, who is more and more courageous, takes the initiative to attack and uses the feather clue to find the magician, which is also the most joyful scene in this film, two people like children, chasing in the pouring rain, I am afraid that most people will not find a friend who accompanies you like this after adulthood. This time it was the magician again, but at this time, winning or losing was not so important.
The fourth "game" began, the intimate magician specially prepared lunch for him and his colleagues, the rich food made the colleagues praise, even if the work is busy, do not forget to get together with family and friends, unload the burden, relax, after all, they are the most important people in your life. At the last rooftop appointment, He Shangsheng looked at the retracted wire and smiled heartily, there was no point in capturing the magician.
On Christmas Eve, the three redeemed people have found their way, each with a long-lost smile on their faces, and the magician has donated a hundred million yuan of candy to the poor children, and why not more food? Because only candy will be exchanged for the smiles of children, if anyone can smile permanently, then he has everything.