On January 1, 1965, a little boy was born. His father was a policeman. Coincidentally, an uncle policeman lived in the neighbor's house next door. Therefore, in the boy's growth experience, the police have great significance and influence on him. For example, when he was five years old, the police uncle next door shot himself. Therefore, the boy's head is filled with various police stories. Finally, one day, these bizarre twists and turns and dangerous stories were written by the boy into a script that seemed to satisfy him. The script's name was "Infernal Affairs", and the boy was Mai Zhaohui. Although the script for
has been written, no one wants to try to shoot it. Fortunately, Mai Zhaohui still waited for the person with wise eyes and beads, this person was Zhuang Wenqiang. After reading the script, Zhuang Wenqiang thought that although the story was a good one, there was something missing. In the original script, there was only the story line of the police going into the underworld and acting as an undercover agent. Would the story be more interesting if there were also triad people in the police station who were playing together inside and outside? With the concerted efforts of the two people, the film "Infernal Affairs" was born in 2002 and became a milestone in Hong Kong police films.
first use a set of data to illustrate how good this movie is: In the year it was released, "Infernal Affairs" won the Hong Kong Film Annual Box Office Championship with a box office of 55.05 million Hong Kong dollars; at the 22nd Academy Awards In the competition, "Infernal Affairs" won six awards, and the 40th Golden Horse Awards were successfully included in the bag; on Douban, after 740,000 effective evaluations, "Infernal Affairs" scored as high as 9.2, Douban Movies The list ranks 20th.
From the content point of view, "Infernal Affairs" is also a classic masterpiece worthy of re-appreciation. As a police film, logical reasoning and narrative foreshadowing are basic. In this regard, "Infernal Affairs" is also excellent, and there are many scenes that will make life sigh "it turns out to be like this". For example, in order to spot the police undercover lurking next to him, Han Chen set out to collect basic information about his men. Chen Yongren, played by Tony Leung, wanted to help Shaoqiang write the correct "dart", but he forgot to write the pen. After half of the radical was crossed out, he rewritten a wrong "mark" on the cover of the kraft paper portfolio. The scene of Chen Yongren's writing was given a long enough time, but the audience is not clear about the meaning of this scene. Until the story is about to end peacefully, the wrong word becomes the only clue that makes the story take a turn for the worse. The audience realized that the original lens was used to pave the way and advance here.
There are a lot of detailed reasoning like this in the movie, especially with the increase of age and experience, there may be different discoveries every time you watch it. For example, Chen Yongren asked his first love girlfriend "how old is his daughter", and the other person replied "five years old", but after Chen Yongren left, his daughter retorted that "she is six years old". When I was young, I thought that Xiao Yaxuan's first love had indeed forgotten his daughter's age, but when I watched it again, I suddenly realized that the daughter is Chen Yongren. Otherwise, the mother-daughter dialogue would be meaningless in the movie. Moreover, at the funeral of Chen Yongren, she came with her daughter and burst into tears.
It is true that letting the audience repeatedly scrutinize the details is a very successful point of "Infernal Affairs", but it is not the arrow that hits the bullseye. As a police film, it doesn't have too many bloody fighting scenes, but it is closely linked to the "human love drama". The Renqing drama is the scene in which Superintendent Huang was thrown downstairs by the opponent in order not to expose Chen Yongren. The background music of "Goodbye Police" is sung. It is not only the undercover Aren, but also ourselves as the audience. The humanity drama is Although Silly Qiang knew that Chen Yongren might be an undercover agent, he still helped the other party to hide it. These are two scenes in the movie that I personally think are very moving.
However, compared to the role of Chen Yongren, I am more attracted to Liu Jianming, played by Andy Lau. It's not that either of the two has better acting skills, but Liu Jianming has strong contradictions. There is a passage on the gravestone of British novelist Graham Green: "What I love is the edge of danger. Honest thieves, soft-hearted assassins, and atheists who fear heaven."
I think Zhuang Wenqiang must be well versed. This is why Liu Jianming has the role. He entered the gang at a young age, but when he was arranged to be an undercover agent in the police station, Chen Yongren, who saw him leaving, thought, "I want to change with him." At that time, maybe he simply didn’t want to be an undercover agent. He didn’t know that the person who left the police station in front of him would also be an undercover agent.I went to the gang.
At the end of the movie, Liu Jianming took the lead to salute Chen Yongren’s tombstone. When he retreated to the team, he said: "I want to exchange with him." At this time, he already knew the end of Chen Yongren who was a good man, but I also want to be a good person, a good and upright person, even if he will die in the end. But every time it was so life-and-death that threatened his own interests, he flinched again. Between the good and the bad, Liu Jianming has been pulled and grilled. The
film begins with a quote from the "Nirvana Sutra": "The most of the eight hells, called the hell without interruption, is the meaning of suffering uninterruptedly, so it has this name." At the end, the sentence "the one who suffers infinite body will never die "Shouchang is the great calamity in the infinite hell". Liu Jianming survived, and this happened to be the most painful, because he was in hell.
