A special police department in Hong Kong-PTU Mobile Unit, commonly known as the Blue Hat.
The members of this force are randomly transferred to training by each different police force member. The training includes anti-riot, action tactics, physical strengthening, etc. After training, they are assigned to different police districts.
PTU’s job is to patrol the streets. Generally, there are four people in a group, when riots or any situation occur, to assist the police in controlling the scene. When other troops need police support, they will also be mobilized. Simply understand, it is our upgraded version of the association. police.
In the past, the police and gangster films were mainly based on the two forces of good and evil, mostly showing the contest between the two parties. But in 2003, Johnnie To brought PTU, an unfamiliar subject matter, to the screen for the first time, a portrayal of the real environment of PTU in Hong Kong under the dark night.
Plot (with spoilers)
fat sand accidentally lost his own gun one night, and all this was discovered by the patrolling mobile unit. The police losing the gun is a very serious matter, and one of the members intends to report it. Finally, through consultations, it was decided to help Feisha find a gun. This resulted in a disagreement among the police officers.
MADAM Zhang took over the murder case of Jianghu character Mawei when he suspected Feisha the most. The night passed quietly, and the contradictions and conflicts between people were exposed one by one within a limited time. Everyone was working hard to find it, but everyone was not sure about it. Things are still going on. When the truth of everything becomes clear, it turns out that everything is beyond the control of someone's power.
"PTU" has been filmed on and off for several years. If you look closely, you will find that Xue Lin has changed from the beginning to the end. When Du Qifeng was filming "PTU", there was no script at all. He immediately notified the actors to come to the scene to shoot when he thought about it. Due to insufficient funds, Ren Dahua also borrowed his own car to the crew, but it crashed during the filming.
Johnnie To is such a director. Without a script, he can make such a meticulous movie. But I believe that although the script is not written, John To has already conceived the whole movie in his mind. When it's a good way of performance, take it out immediately.
The night scenes of Hong Kong in "PTU" are all made of artificial lighting. The crew covers all the original street lights and uses white and blue lights to express a different night scene of Hong Kong, mainly to show the psychological activities of these members of the mobile unit. .
Why does Du Qifeng’s police and gangster movies are of their own, and we can’t make such movies, geographical? theme? Or is it a cultural difference? These factors do exist, but they are definitely not the main factors. I watched the movie again with these questions and sorted out it slowly.
The way of expressing the relationship between police and bandits
Johnnie To is a famous director in Hong Kong who can use the lens. The first hot pot scene vividly describes the identity of each character, the relationship between the characters and the image of the society. Coming out is impressive.
Mawei took a group of hands down to eat hot pot, because the roof leaked, he was directly changed to a common citizen's table, forcibly occupying the citizen's table while dining, and the boss also nodded and bowed to the Mawei group. There is not much dialogue here, only a few shots show the oppression of the citizens by the black forces, and a kind of social relationship is presented in front of everyone.
Then, Feisha also came to the restaurant. Without a table, he chose to sit directly at the table of Mawei's group. After the two sides looked at each other, Mawei and his group had no choice but to switch to another table, and Feisha also forcibly gave Mawei a table. A group of beef is his own.
In a few minutes' play, three groups of people from different forces vividly portray the characters by grabbing the table, and the power relationship between the characters and the image of the social environment are also shown. If their identities are covered, through In these scenes, can you tell who is the police and who is the bandit? This is the difference. Our police films do not describe the police in this vague way.
police boundary
fat sand accidentally lost his gun. Kat insisted on reporting the situation, and Feisha was promoted soon. If he knew that he had lost his gun, then the promotion would be hopeless. Azhan stopped Kat and promised to help Feisha retrieve the gun one night. The police officers showed up. Serious disagreement. In terms of system and favor, Ah Zhan chose favor.
The film starts with gun hunting. It mainly shows the process of gun hunting. It can also be understood as a person’s loyalty and chivalry in order to help a friend. If understood in this way, "PTU" can be regarded as one. A modern martial arts movie.
A Zhan and his teammates came to a building. Only A Zhan went up with a flashlight. The light of the flashlight suggested that the building was perilous. It also showed that A Zhan was alone. Due to previous differences, the other team members did not follow. The team members below
used the light information of the flashlight and finally decided to go up together. There are no lines here, and several team members are engaged in a psychological struggle between going up and not going up.
The last three flashlights represent the unity of the players, and they decided to stand on the same front. In the scene of
in the Chinese ice room, Inspector Zhang questioned the situation of the team members, but all the team members agreed that they did not know. At this point, the police officers’ disagreement from the beginning to the unanimous opinion here is that each police officer puts aside the shackles of the system and decides how to handle the incident through his own personal judgment. This also has a sense of loyalty. inside. Our police and gangster movies can’t see how it is handled here.
cold violence
Azhan came to the video game city to find Aman to find out the whereabouts of the ponytail. After the other party chose to be silent, Azhan took the little brother he collided with him aside and asked him to wipe off his tattoos with his fingers. Doing is just a slap in the face. Aman took out his mobile phone to contact Mawei when he saw it. After learning the news, Azhan said: Thank you.
A Zhan has a clear stance on his colleagues’ attitudes and gangsters. Wearing a uniform, he is his own person. He can block his own prospective gang members without following instructions. But dealing with gangsters is a kind of soldier and thief attitude. It also uses unconventional means to deal with them. Our police act according to the rules and distinguish between good and evil.
In the final battle
has always been a serious, aggressive, and just image of Inspector Zhang. In the last gun battle, he was so scared that his guns were dropped. The police and criminals who did not follow the rules showed a kind of courage to regard death as home.
After the gun battle ended, Feisha fell and picked up his gun. It turned out that his gun had not been robbed, but began to fall and fell in the same position. After taking the gun back, Feisha acted like a hero, and said to Inspector Zhang: Shoot twice, sir, the report will be easier to write.
All this started because the gun was lost, and in the end it was found in the same position that the gun was not lost, and the gun had not been moved from beginning to end. Inspector Zhang, A Zhan, Feisha, the bandits had not lost one of them. Gun, busy all night, this sounds very intriguing. The lens language of
is the signature of Johnnie To. There are many details that deserve to be savored. The humanity and values reflected by each character lens are the problems that Johnnie John left us to think about. If you look closely, you will find "Rashomon" The shadow of is in it. After all, Johnnie To is Kurosawa's number one fan, everyone knows.