Film Review 丨 "The Detective War": There is only a thin line between genius and neurosis

[in one word]: Reproduce the true character of "Detective", live up to the reputation of "War" In the horror comedy " Night of the Soul " in 1995, Zhou Xingchi plays an extraterrestrial expert who is regarded as a neurotic. Similar concepts can also correspond to Liu Qingyun 's role setting in " Detective Wars ", it looks crazy, but what he said is actually right! As for why genius is always regarded as a neurotic? Perhaps it is because ordinary people, who are mediocre, can never understand the thinking of geniuses. This film uses the word "magic detective" to emphasize the true nature of reasoning and suspense, and uses the word "war" to emphasize the hot action style. Judging from the content of the film, it is completely true to its name, but many Hong Kong film fans are inevitably curious. What is the relationship between this "Detective War" and the 2007 "Detective" also directed by Wei Jiahui and starring Liu Qingyun? In fact, apart from the same director and actor, the plot and characters have nothing to do with each other at all. At most, it can only be said that the concept is similar. They both tell how a detective who is regarded as a neurotic helps the police solve a case. However, if you want to compare the above The difference between the two works, the old version of "Detective" in 2007 was shot in the way of a literary film, which looks more restrained. Now this "Detective War" is a 100% action film, which looks more exciting and more exciting. Entertaining. Since is an action movie, of course, it focuses on the design of police and gangster shootouts, large-scale explosions, and the design of various hot action scenes. These are the strengths of Hong Kong police gangster movies. There will be less characterization of the heart, and many characters have backgrounds or mood transitions that are only covered in dialogue. It may be difficult for audiences who don't like "interpretive dialogues" to adapt, but using action movies to perform detective and inference movies is a good thing. A very interesting design, a large number of fast-paced case explanations, and the constantly stacked amount of information make the whole film not only compact and exciting, but also test the audience's concentration and understanding. Might not be able to keep up. The biggest highlight of this film is of course Liu Qingyun. His character seems crazy, but he has amazing reasoning ability, and he can even see the monsters in people's hearts. Similar to 's multi-personality 's interpretation method, the audience repeatedly doubts that he has fallen into madness. , or it is actually this world that is crazy, and the heroine Cai Zhuoyan breaks away from her sweet image and plays a hot-blooded policewoman. Even if she is pregnant, she still charges into battle, and even gives birth to a child in the hail of bullets. After giving birth, you can continue the gunfight immediately. It can be called in history. The strongest pregnant women, these seemingly unreasonable but very dramatic plots remind me of American film theorist David Bordwell in the book " Entertainment Kingdom: The Secret of Hong Kong Cinema" , to describe Hong Kong movies as "everything goes too far, everything is crazy", this kind of crazy movie language that is vigorous, exaggerated, and unrestrained is the biggest feature of Hong Kong movies! The "Rainy Night Butcher", "Magic Police Case" and other cases mentioned in the film are all strange cases that actually happened in Hong Kong. The plot deliberately links these cases together, and also allows the killer group that calls itself "The Detective" to pass through. They kept killing people to provoke the public power of the police, and they were actually the families of the victims of these cases. Because the police handled the cases hastily, they made these cases unjust, and the real murderers were still at large. The real murderer” came to take revenge and protested the incompetence of the police. The police have always regarded the people who helped to solve the case as the murderer, but did not find that the real cancer came from within the police. This is the biggest irony. Hong Kong movies have been under strict censorship recently, most of them have a tacit understanding to avoid criticizing the police or the government, so as not to cause trouble, but this film strikes a balance between "passing censorship" and "creative freedom", which is really rare The whole film is not only bold in subject matter, but even bluntly criticizes the bureaucratic system and reflects on the arrogance and stupidity of power. Liu Qingyun dismantles the last line of the word "magic detective": "We are not gods, just detectives", as if to persuade the powerful Don't treat yourself as a god, or you will easily become a demon, and this is also considered to be the implication of the words in the words.