Hong Kong film gave the audience in the mainland an infinite daydream about the outside world when it was just reforming and opening up. Many fans born in the 80s and 90s like Zhou Youjun grew up watching Hong Kong movies and dreaming of martial arts. With the passage of time and the continuous increase of experience, the fantasies brought to the audience by Hong Kong movies have gradually changed from martial arts dreams to boss dreams. The reason why the boss of
is more attractive than the knight is because the image of the boss in Hong Kong movies is usually closer to life. From the perspective of these bosses, the audience can often see themselves struggling in life, or these bosses Sometimes it is an important negative and resistance in life. For example, when Chow Yun-fat played "Little Ma" in "The True Colors of Heroes", when he wiped his eldest brother into a car on the street, when he saw his former eldest brother Song Zihao appear beside him, Song Zihao, played by Ti Lung, played Leslie Cheung. When Song Zijie said "Ah sir, I haven't been a big brother for a long time", the kind of thing about big brother is not prestige and glory, but the messy taste and helplessness of life.
With the success of "The True Colors of Heroes", the bosses of various styles in Hong Kong movies followed one after another, leaving a deep impression on the audience, including Liang Jiahui's domineering Zhou Dynasty in "Black Gold" and Chow Yun-fat in "The God of Gamblers" Gao Jin with a strong aura played in "Underworld", Leung Ka Fai played the arrogant big D in "Underworld", and finally defeated the big D, Ren Dahua played the vicious and vicious A Le, and later Zeng Zhiwei was hailed as Hong Kong Han Chen played in the pinnacle of the police film "Infernal Affairs". Compared with those knights and policemen who have no taint in spirit and behavior, these bosses have a real charm close to life for the audience.
They are no longer the incarnations of ideals, and are no longer the incarnations of justice, but have truly become normal people with seven passions and six desires. They crave prestige, crave emotion, crave approval, behave indiscriminately, and are imperfect in their thinking. But because of this, the audience can find their true self in them, and they can feel that these bosses’ dreams are closer to real life than police dreams and martial arts dreams.
has a unique existence among the bosses of Hong Kong movies. He comes from "Infernal Affairs 2", a Hong Kong gang epic that has been seriously ignored because of the light of "Infernal Affairs 1." The boss is Ni Yongxiao, played by Wu Zhenyu. He changed from the boss's domineering style and put on gentle glasses. The role of Ni Yongxiao is a pioneering existence both for Wu Zhenyu himself and for Hong Kong gangster movies.
"Infernal Affairs 2" is very similar to the combination of "Infernal Affairs 1" and the classic gangster movie "The Godfather". This film still continues the story of "Infernal Affairs" from the perspective of the police and the gang at the same time. In the interweaving and hostility of black and white, the audience feels a kind of true inner conflict. In the whole film, the focus of all entanglements is on the boss Ni Yongxiao, played by Wu Zhenyu.
Ni Yongxiao is very much like Mike Corleone played by Al Pacino in "The Godfather". They all came forward when the family business was in distress and independently supported the overall situation of the family business. Their career struggles are aimed at serving the family, and they all hope to turn the family business from black to white. They all reject violence and advocate more sophisticated methods to resolve the conflicts in the gang. When violence has to happen, they will always preemptive and do not hesitate.
However, the needs of the plot and the different environments destined that Ni Yongxiao's ending is not as perfect as Mike Corleone, or they belong to different tragedies, a dying year, a lonely old age, a sudden passing away, drifting away with the wind.
Like many second-generation gangsters, Ni Yongxiao lacks the rashness of the first-generation gang boss. The belief of these second generations of gangsters to support their careers usually comes from their over-fascination and admiration for their father’s personality. In the process of struggle, they often regard themselves as the continuation and incarnation of their father. All of these can be seen in Ni Yongxiao's body.
When Ni Yongxiao took over the family business, the family business was precarious. His father was suddenly assassinated, and the burden of a huge but crisis-ridden family business fell on Ni Yongxiao. At this time, neither he nor his family had a half-step retreat, because even if they gave up all their interests, they would not escape death. So what Ni Yongxiao could do is to support the entire family.Burden. After the death of his father, he couldn't care about being overly sad. What he could do was to enter the role as soon as possible and settle the bosses who tried to get rid of their family control as quickly as possible.
This wit battle is very dangerous. If you don't pay attention, you will get rid of the gun and cause an irreversible situation. But Ni Yongxiao solved it smartly with just two phone calls. After the crisis was temporarily resolved, Ni Yongxiao went to the place where his father often ate supper, and followed his father's way to pay homage to his father. In the process, Huang Qiusheng, the policeman played by Huang Zhicheng, found Ni Yongxiao and provoked Ni Yongxiao with his father who had just passed away. At this time, Ni Yongxiao's sad and forbearing inner drama was completely controlled by Wu Zhenyu. In the end, if it were not for the policeman played by Hu Jun to clear the siege, Huang Zhicheng would be embarrassed.
In addition to coping with the crisis of the family business, Ni Yongxiao also has to follow his father's wishes internally and unite the brothers around him. Among these families, there is a special person, he is Chen Yongren played by Shawn Yue. From a few details in the film, we can see that Ni Yongxiao knew Chen Yongren's undercover status very early, but he repeatedly warned Chen Yongren that we are a family and we have a common destiny. This is not because he wants Chen Yongren to help him, but he does not want to leave any family behind. This is the ultimate goal of his career.
At the end of the film, he finally found the murderer of his father. But this is also a situation he is extremely reluctant to face. Han Chen is loyal to his family, and Han Chen's woman (played by Carina Lau) obeyed the policeman Huang Zhicheng's words and ordered his men to kill Ni Yongxiao's father. She wanted Han Chen to become the boss as soon as possible and to get ahead. Although Han Chen didn't know all this, Ni Yongxiao had to execute Han Chen together in order to avenge his father. Before Han Chen went to Thailand, he did not know his situation at the time, and the scene in which Ni Yongxiao had a conversation with him was a classic.
In the end, Ni Yongxiao was about to succeed, but he couldn't help but the overall situation was settled. Just like everyone struggling in life, this world will not change because of one of our beautiful visions. Our past, surrounding environment, and current efforts determine our future direction. And Ni Yongxiao's ending was actually doomed the moment he decided to avenge his father. The enemy he faced was too powerful. Huang Zhicheng, a policeman who doesn't take the law as a criterion, a shrewd Han Chen, who has become the top figure of the underworld pyramid from young and Dangerous, plus the undercover policeman Chen Yongren who is half-brother.
In terms of all this, Ni Yongxiao's seemingly near success is actually a destined failure. Finally, when he fell under Huang Zhicheng's gun, he opened Chen Yongren's coat with his hand, showing that he knew Chen Yongren's undercover identity. Ni Yongxiao exhausted all his strength for the family, until the moment he finally fell, he still hoped that Chen Yongren would wake up.
From the very beginning, Ni Yongxiao walked on a life that he could not decide. Because he was not a life of his own choice, Ni Yongxiao felt lonely along the way. All his sources of strength came from his dead father and the family behind him. For his father's vision and for the happiness of his family, he alone faced all the sins in the world. Until the last moment of his life, until he exhausted all his strength, his life was shameless, but shameless. The opposite of
is his undercover half-brother Chen Yongren. Chen Yongren strives to be himself, following his ideals, all the way forward without fear. How many people at
originally dreamed of becoming a hero like Chen Yongren, desperate and reckless, but in the end they all became helpless and regretless Ni Yongxiao.
