One of my classmates, a policeman, mentioned during a gun knowledge popularization that their director once had a pistol, and in wartime, there must be at least two bullets in it, one reserved for the enemy and one ready for sacrifice.
Even in peacetime, the police face many risks, especially the criminal police, who are often prepared to sacrifice in the face of countless vicious gangsters, for whom the pistol may be their closest friend.
In China, because of gun control, it is basically impossible for us to touch pistols, but there is such a movie that reacts to the police losing a gun, released in 1992, and it is also the first feature film directed by Lu Chuan, "Looking for a Gun".
In the months that followed, Hong Kong director Du Qifeng also handed over an answer sheet, although the name "Tactical Unit" (Full English name political unit, abbreviated as ptu) could not see the content of the lost gun at all, but by finding a clue to the gun, unveiled the face of the Hong Kong mobile force that we were not familiar with, they wore a blue hat, subordinate to the Operations Enforcement Department of the Hong Kong Police Force, equivalent to the explosion-proof police in the mainland, and it can also be seen in the movie that in addition to the explosion-proof task, maintaining law and order, counter-terrorism, Anti-black is also their duty, which may be the meaning of mobile troops.
Mention these two films, and have to say about their originator, Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's 1949 "Nori Dog", starring the young Toshio Mifune and Shimura Hashi, when the handsome Toshio Mifune and the mature Shimura Hashi have not yet become popular with "Rashomon", tender can pinch out the water, but through this film, you can fully reflect the prototype of the genre film that Akira Kurosawa has insisted on for the next thirty or forty years, in his lifetime, he has cooperated with Shimura Hashi 29 times, and has cooperated with Mifune Toshio 25 times. Although this is not the first time they have cooperated, it can be seen that Akira Kurosawa's love for the two lovers, from youth to middle age to old age, seems to have a feeling of Wong Kar-wai to Liang Chaowei, Ning Hao to Huang Bo, it can be said that Akira Kurosawa is a model in the film industry, and all subsequent gun-hunting films have the meaning of borrowing and even paying tribute to it.
Article 44 of China's "Firearms Control Law" clearly stipulates that where a firearm is stolen, robbed, or lost, and is not reported in a timely manner, the public security organs shall give a warning to the person in charge and other directly responsible personnel who are directly responsible for the individual or unit or detain them for not more than 15 days; Where a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility is to be pursued in accordance with law. It can be seen that the guilt of theft of police guns is very serious, but imagine that once the gun is lost, the instinctive reaction of many people is to look for it first to see if it is due to negligence or forgetting.
In "Looking for a Gun", the loss of the gun occurred in the southwest town, and Ma Shan, played by Jiang Wen, was drunk at his sister's wedding and couldn't remember where the gun was placed, so he first suspected that his eight-year-old son had taken it, or forgotten it in the unit, taken away by his comrades-in-arms or others. After checking it out, Ma Shan still reflected the problem to his superiors (bureau chief), and the answer was that "the nature is very bad, it must be taken away by people with ulterior motives, and it needs to be found as soon as possible", because there are three bullets in the gun. This point was first reflected in "Wild Dog", there are seven bullets in the gun, and with the prisoner Yousa committed the crime, every time someone was killed, there will be one less bullet, which is the "suspense hook" of the movie, in order to solve the case, the pistol must be found as soon as possible, which does not deliberately emphasize the bullet in "ptu", but sets up a colleague to help conceal the loss of the gun and does not report, setting up a suspense for him to be found at four o'clock in the morning.
Regarding the reason for the loss of the gun, "Wild Dog" was directly stolen by thieves, and Murakami was a newly hired criminal policeman, so he was inexperienced, so he set up a resignation report, but was directly torn off by his superiors, this responsibility is not on his own, so he can be forgiven. And "Looking for a Gun" is drunk, "PTU" is their own fall and lost consciousness, subjectively they do not want to lose the gun, but they have unshirkable responsibility.
"No Yoshinori" shows us Japan's perfect file system and tracing system, 70 years ago, all the criminal files were stored in the archives, even with photos and clear records, and because of the help of experienced Sato Director, Murakami quickly locked the criminal suspect Yusa, so the suspense was changed to whether he could retrieve the gun to prevent more people from being victimized. Although "ptu" also locks the gun bearer, the whole film is full of various accidental scenes, the police officer FatSha and the murderer pass by several times, the drug dealer and the police shoot each other because they are weak-minded, and finally the pistol is found in the same place where the gun was lost. "Looking for a Gun" is always looking for suspects, because there are few personnel, it is easy to investigate, but the prisoners also slipped away under the eyes several times, and Ma Shan successfully cracked the case by relying on his wit, and his death reflected the responsibility and responsibility of the police.
The theme of the three movies is completely different, the theme of "Wild Dog" is "choice and fate", Kurosawa Akira does not believe in fate, he believes that everyone is in the choice of life, so Sato and Yusa, who have experienced the baptism of war together, have embarked on a completely different path, the same wallet was stolen on the train, but one of the two became policemen and one became a murderer, and Yusa escaped and shot murakami, killing is also a choice under his misunderstanding, this evil thought makes him step by step into the abyss, We also see the importance of strengthening ideological education.
The theme of "PTU" is "accidents and misunderstandings of life", which begins with a shooting case and ends with a real case, and Fatsa thinks that Ma Zai wants to take revenge with a gun, but in fact, he faints, the gun slips out, and he actually touches the gun when he is killed. The horsemen rubbed shoulders with the boss, did not find the boss with a knife inserted in his body, and the fat sand rubbed shoulders with the murderer who called, and did not find the real murderer. Big Eye mistakenly thinks that the child who flips things in the car is Fat Sha, Bald Mistakenly thinks that Big Eye killed his son, drug dealers mistakenly think that the police are going to arrest them, all because of accidents and misunderstandings, and finally found the pistol, cracked the case, and "ptu" became a very successful work in Du Qifeng's film attempt, in "Hong Kong Movie Night and Fog", there has also been mentioned the antagonistic relationship between positive and negative characters, sometimes two people, sometimes three people, and even many people's movies, no doubt "ptu".
The theme of "Looking for a Gun" is "Dream and Reality", there are many unsatisfactory things in life, Ma Shan often has various fantasies in his mind, his son and him talk, lovers talk to him, the result? In the face of reality, no one can help him, he needs to speculate according to doubts, fight with bandits with intelligence, although he never saw liu stuttering, but still let him escape again and again, and the reason why Liu Stuttering wanted to kill people seems to be very legitimate, because Zhou Xiaogang sold fake liquor to kill people, but he had no culture, did not think of using the law to uphold justice, but fought with a passion for the gangsters. The film also criticizes this idealistic feeling, and it is a reality that people need to be down-to-earth, arm themselves with knowledge, and learn to solve problems with the right methods.
"Nori Yoshinori" reflects the very hard side of the police, Sato tells Murakami that "this is your first case, you will remember it for the rest of your life, it may fade later, but it is crucial." Although it was unfortunate to lose the gun, murakami gained growth and experience, in the face of the last three bullets of Yusa, he did not flinch, and the soundtrack was very cheerful, the gun sounded the music abruptly stopped, did not shoot and continued to play, people were terrified but could not help but be funny. "ptu" reflects the trust between the police, for the future of colleagues, can be appropriately concealed, this concealment is to take their own responsibility as a bet, this degree of mastery is particularly critical, fortunately the film gave a happy ending, and the whole process of solving the case is still full of tension and suspense. In "Looking for a Gun", the son threw Ma Shan a copy of "Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection", let him study well, in addition to Lu Chuan, a big reason for this movie to be brilliant is Jiang Wen, his grasp of the character is very in place, this movie is too Jiang Wen's personal characteristics, the comedy and suspense elements added to the movie are very successful, three bullets are finished, the tension in the audience's heart is also released, Ma Shan is dead or alive are glorious.
The three works are actually the "experimental works" of Akira Kurosawa, Du Qifeng and Lu Chuan, which are undoubtedly very successful and have a strong personal style, which has played an indelible role in their subsequent career development. I personally like "Wild Dog", although it was filmed 70 years ago, but Kurosawa Akira has made a master-level display in the lighting arrangement, shooting skills, scene scheduling, background music, and now it is still very ornamental, and the name of the master is not empty talk.