Original title: "Rage · Serious Case", Hong Kong police film opened a new way of thinking
Directed and produced by Chen Musheng, produced and starred by Donnie Yen, and starred by Nicholas Tse and Qin Lan. Steadily ranked first in the single-day box office. With the blessing of the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies, the proportion of the box office and the lineup of movies continued to rise. In addition to the excellent box office, the film has won a high reputation among audiences on all major platforms.
"Everything goes too far, it's crazy." This sentence of film critic David Baudelaire's evaluation of Hong Kong films in the 90s of the last century reflects the spirit of the golden age of Hong Kong films. In the production of police and criminal films, Chen Musheng’s posthumous work "Anger: Serious Cases" rekindled the charm of Hong Kong films with a tone of "anger". A collective tribute to this Hong Kong filmmaker.
The word "anger" is no longer unfamiliar to Chen Musheng. More than ten years ago, "The Stormtrooper's Fury Street" created a very successful shooting scene, which truly marked the formation of Chen Musheng's style. From then on, Chen Musheng began to fully fire in police and criminal films-"Two Heroes", "New Police Story", "Anti-drugs" ... wherever the plot goes, there is not much reason for both sides to say, bullets and grenade have also been defeated. A thousand words. What’s interesting is that young viewers who have been fed by Hollywood blockbusters are more likely to pay for the Chen style, who speaks of “wu ethics”, and often come out a few golden sentences, such as the one by Zhang Jiahui in "Anti-drugs" "Jesus can't keep him, I said!" Amidst the rain of bullets, the characters can still be vividly established. This time, "Anger · Serious Case" continues this trend.
can get a glimpse of the character of the protagonist in "Rage and Serious Case". Action superstar Donnie Yen and "crossover singer" Nicholas Tse respectively played two ordinary policemen of the Hong Kong Crime Squad. Zhang Chongbang, played by the former, is upright and abiding by principles, even to the point of "death reasoning". Qiu Gangao, played by Nicholas Tse, also has a dream of justice, but he is appreciated by the leaders because he understands the internal "rules" of the police station. The atypical character of the latter also laid the groundwork for the future blackening. The appearance of a rich man kidnapping case led to a watershed in the lives of the two-Qiu Gangao's failure due to his superiors caused him and a group of colleagues to be charged by the court and eventually went to jail. In this regard, the "Gods Return" in "Furious Cases", a shootout and drama that disturbed all living beings began to take place. In the words of the audience, the excitement and popularity is, "worth the fare!"
Gunfights, hand-to-hand combat, drag racing, blasting, or abandoned shopping malls, slums, sewers, cathedrals... In the ever-changing scenes, Director Chen Musheng accurately expressed his understanding and perseverance of the Hong Kong police film Hard Bridge and Hard Horse. Among them are the drag racing chase in the busy city, Donnie Yen is shocked by the visual shock of one enemy and one hundred, Nicholas Tse is cruel and cruel when playing a butterfly knife, and the protagonist fights fiercely in the church – every action scene is dangerous and difficult. Coexistence, and finally presented the ultimate manifestation of violent aesthetics. In order to show the "wu ethics" of police films, Director Chen Musheng did not hesitate to cost-fast, accurate, and ruthless fighting, hard, burning, and explosive gun battles, and the double impact of fists to the flesh and bullets, which is the double impact of the audience's vision and hearing. Enjoy, and the adrenaline soars like crazy. A particular audience said with emotion that the sound of the AK47 in the film pulling the bolt is the same as that of a real gun, and the scene can be described as tenIt's so nervous that you close your eyes, and you are so addicted. This feeling is like the "smell" of Hong Kong police films many years ago. The whole movie of
focuses on "anger". It contains not only the anger of Qiu Gangao and others who were abandoned and imprisoned, but also the anger of Zhang Chongbang after the tragic death of his colleagues and his wife being kidnapped, but this anger did not force the characters into A corner between good and evil. Black is not completely black, and white is not completely white, just like yin and yang gossip. And this is exactly what Chen Musheng wants to express: this world is not black and white, there are many gray areas.
Faced with helpless and heavy topics, the film also has answers, not just through the perspective of the protagonist, but more attention to details. Just like Lu Liangwei, who "received a box lunch" at the beginning of the film, Zhang Chongbang's partner, played by Zhang Chongbang, is mellow and both soft and hard, but he also resolutely died when facing the gunpoint of the culprits. Yuan Jiabao, played by Tan Yaowen, was once lost as a police officer, but in the end he still chose to maintain his subordinates and return to his heart. These people are indeed neither black nor white, but in the face of their own gray, they can still make choices and adhere to principles. A heaven, a hell. People should control their inner "anger" and stick to their heart. In "Anger·Severe Case", in the "slight bitterness" of the plot routine, the director's "returning to the sweetness" of the new idea of the police and criminal film is deduced. It's not easy. Unlike the past Hong Kong police and criminal films, "Anger: Serious Cases" is not a heroic triumph of evil, nor is it a villain of tragic destiny. It is more of an equal attitude, communicating in connotation, and telling truthfully. While full of the old Hong Kong flavor, it ignites the new idea of Hong Kong police and criminal films with a tone of "anger". Although the times will pass, the classics are passing on. For Hong Kong movies, we might as well expect more. (Author: Xie Weifeng)
