"The Godfather of Gunfire" Johnnie To's "Galaxy Image" is a Hong Kong film's golden signature. When it comes to police and criminal films, Johnnie To ranks second, no one dares to claim the first place. But this time, "My Boxing Boyfriend" is really disappointing. From all aspects, the film has serious flaws, which disappoints fans.
Johnnie To has shot too many classic works, and movie fans have their own preferences, but when it comes to Johnnie To’s "Detective", it is estimated that most people will rank it in the top three positions of Johnnie To’s best movies.
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Over the years, "Detective" scored an astonishing 8.5 points on the Internet, better than 95% of crime films. Not only in China, "The Detective" was nominated for the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival that year, and was able to be compiled into teaching materials by the New York University Film Major. After "The Detective" was released, word-of-mouth and box office doubled, nominated for the best film of the year and other awards, and finally won the best screenwriter award. The most regrettable thing is that Liu Qingyun, whose acting skills exploded in the film, missed the actor.
Back then, "The Detective" was born at an untimely time, because the genre element was too narrow, and it lost to the popular "Voting Name". The actor was also taken away by Jet Li, who rarely acted in literary drama. Another reason is that "The Detective" is a very pure Hong Kong film, and it was a critical period when Hong Kong filmmakers went north to explore the co-production model. Therefore, the Golden Image Awards awarded a number of awards such as the best film to the "co-produced film" and "Certificate of Name" is obviously meaningful.
The two films are actually not the same. If you want to talk about the "Hong Kong taste" element, "The Detective" is definitely a peak of Hong Kong movies and a masterpiece of Hong Kong police films.
"Detective" tells the story of the detective Chen Guibin played by Liu Qingyun. Because he can see the inner demon in people, he became a generation of detectives. But because of the weird way he solved the case, he was not recognized by most people. Instead, he was regarded as a lunatic, forced to withdraw from the police station early and ended his career as a detective.
The young agent He Jiaan encountered an unsolvable case that he could not solve. By chance, he found Chen Guibin for help. He concluded that another police officer, Gao Zhiwei (Lin Jiadong), was the real murderer. But what is worrying is that Gao Zhiwei is the one with the most demons among the murderers he has ever seen. The complicated inner state and extremely unstable personality made Chen Guibin encounter the most dangerous opponent in history.
"The Detective" highlights the demons of people, that is, spiritual division. This split may come from the suppression of desire, or it may come from the sadness that is unwilling to face it. Not only Gao Zhiwei is full of evil spirits, but even Chen Guibin himself is in the pain of losing his wife, splitting into sad shadows, which have been haunting him, preventing him from starting again and facing the past.
Of course, the addition of schizophrenia to crime films is not the first "Detective". The classic Hollywood crime film "Fatal ID" can be said to have created a precedent for psychological crime films. The film uses the perpetrator's schizophrenic personality as the key to reasoning and solving the case. The reversal of the ending also comes from the final reveal of the hidden personality. "Fatal ID" scored as high as 8.8 points, has an unshakable classic status.
However, why the tribute "Suspect" "The Detective" is still recognized by fans, the key lies in John To's transformation of the story. Although the film draws on the core elements of "Deadly ID", it completely adopts the Hong Kong film model in narrative and characterization, and uses multiple actors to directly express its demons, which is the first. Behind the murderer played by Lin Jiadong,
is followed by many actors such as Chen Huishan, Lin Xue, Zhang Zhaohui, Liu Jinling and Guo Shaoyun. Whenever a character is under pressure, everyone will put pressure on the body, forcing him to make a choice that conforms to the interests of the "collective".
Numerous selves appear in front of the id, making the superego lost. What the detective Chen Guibin has to do is to awaken the self, give the self the ability to control the self, and at the same time make the self epiphany, evolve to the superego stage, and complete self-salvation. The most noteworthy thing about
is that not only is the story brilliant, but every detail can withstand scrutiny. The plot is almost impeccable, and the plot is quite unforgettable. The combination of Du Qifeng's solemn and solemn directing techniques and Wei Jiahui's exquisite plot shows the complex world of "multiple personalities", allowing the originally exaggerated Hong Kong film to push humanity step by step into the deep analysis of the dark cliff for the first time.
In addition, Johnnie To's scene tuneThe degree also makes the film shine visually. Although the last gunfight in the mirror was used in the Milky Way work "Dark Flower" many years ago, it has been upgraded in "The Detective".
Whether it is the number of mirrors, the control of the camera position, and the position of the characters are far more complicated than "Fan Hua". The last overhead shot is dazzling. Every time An Zhijie changes his pistol, it represents how he will arrange this death scene, sublimating the dark theme of the movie to the culmination.
looks like a righteous warrior, a tough policeman on the outside, and may have a cowardly and weak self hidden in his heart. Everyone has a demon in his heart, and it is difficult to overcome and overcome. This is the most tragic place. Johnnie To and Wei Jiahui have jointly created many Hong Kong film classics, but after more, they worked together again but came up with a disappointing new film.
