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Du Qifeng once said:

always has some people who are unruly, unorganized, rebellious, romantic, and challenging. The phrase

is used to describe the gangster boy who protects his eldest brother in the movie. When I first watched this movie, I felt very strange. Why did these punks suddenly agree to accept this dangerous mission that could be shot at any time?

later discovered that this was not the kind of realistic gangster movie that played knives and guns on city streets. It is more like a romantic martial arts movie that is close to idealism, and contains many unrealistic factors. The main characters of

in this movie are some of them.

is busy all day long, smoothing out all kinds of trivial matters, maintaining harmony and stability in the neighborhood Alai

and his subordinates Asin

Eat peanuts, eat peanuts, and I want to vomit A fat

barber ghost

From the perspective of martial arts novels, their image is more in line with wanderers. Wu Yi is superb, but he is home from all over the world. If there is any reward, they will definitely volunteer.

There are people who are doing money for money, such as ghosts, doing unprofitable business and being wronged by all kinds of pedestrians. I accepted my status as a bodyguard and got the reward I wanted. For the sake of fame, there are some people at

who must be like Ashin. They have been looking forward to becoming famous. It seems that they should be a little brother who has been doing them for many years. It is normal to have the dream of becoming famous.

Mike is to do business all day long in front of the host, be a bodyguard next to Wen, wear a suit, play with a gun, and escort the boss woman without having to accompany the smiling face in front of the guests. Even if you were born to death with your brothers, it is much better than the previous inferior life. Alai

may be the most reluctant among them, and he is also more impulsive. For example, he once said impatiently:

, ​​we are out and mixed, not standing

, but when the ghost helped him settle the rat thing, Only then did he know the benefits of making these friends.

As for Ah Fei, he gives people the impression that he is a loyal and reliable person. He regards the protection of Brother Wen as his mission, and has no other attempts, but in the end when he finds a way to save Ashin, he gains unexpectedly. Here comes a precious brotherhood.

With these foreshadowing, in Du QifengIt appears to be convincing in the "Jiang Hu". The talent of

Du Qifeng lies in that he only uses a few strokes to outline the state or mental outline of everyone. Although very shallow and flat, the positioning is very clear, which is enough for his movies. The so-called Jianghu fancy is the ceremony.

Du Qifeng noticed the little characters in his movies. Although they are on the edge of society in the movie story, the legendary stories that happened to them can touch the hearts of the audience. These moving events are refined and condensed, and then packaged in a personal audio-visual style, forming a simple and important way of film text taste.

In addition, fans who are familiar with Johnnie To know that Johnnie To’s non-commercial films have an unchanging theme: fate

my own concept of survival is fate. Many times people make mistakes over and over again, not repeating it once, but repeating it continuously. This is life. Used in destiny, life is cute, ridiculous, and interesting.

No matter how strong the sense of ritual is, its ultimate destination is still the fate of the characters.

If these people choose to be bodyguards, they will risk their lives to fight with others to protect the older brother.

Every shot, every sentence, every line is carefully designed. The words and deeds of the characters are unified with the ritualized form, and deep or shallow fatalism is naturally revealed. I have to say that "Gunshots" is a Hong Kong movie that people really like to watch.

gun

This is the soul of Johnnie To's work.

Some people say that the gun symbolizes the root of a man, which is a manifestation of strength. This explanation is not bad, it's just too sloppy.

At least in the film, the gun is an important visual element in the creation of the world, which is equivalent to the sword and light sword shadow in the martial arts film is indispensable, and there is also a decent gun in the gang film.

However, Director Johnnie To did not regard guns as a cold weapon to kill people. Another Hong Kong director Wu Yusen is also obsessed with guns, but there are obvious differences between the two. The latter pursues bloody and wild violent landscapes, and the shooting effect tends to be real, often accompanied by strong emotional release.

The former tends to be calm and restrained, the shooting action is clean and neat, does not pursue realistic strike effects, and even has an elegant beauty.

In other words, the film does not pay attention to realism, it is enough to have a sense of beauty. Moreover, this sense of realism can shift the focus of the picture from the cruel gun battle to the thoughts of the people participating in the gun battle, leaving some blank time to feel the fate of them. This is the second key to guns in the movie. point.

And finally, the gun is also an important link between the gangs in the film.

These people know each other because they have guns, which leads to brotherhood between people.

When the ghosts were holding guns to kill Asin, the friendly team relationship they had just formed was about to fall apart. In the end, Asin walked out of the restaurant unscathed, and we knew that these people used guns to Brother Wen. This time, brotherhood defeated the desire for money and power. An unfinished ending is at your fingertips. As a weapon, the gun takes part in the narrative from a large frame. Equal to the existence of the protagonist.

fire

The charm of this film comes from the romantic sense of ritual. From the unmoving shots to the hot gun battles, the film’s delicate concept is reflected.

For example, the protagonist in a movie is occasionally placed far away, small, but feels helpless. The

wide-angle lens is often used to distort the scene in the picture, create a stylized visual space, and highlight the romantic color of the film.

​​multiple characters are arranged in the same frame, which makes the audience produce a kind of psychological tension, which is more suitable for expressing the delicate relationship between each character.

Also, the complicated arrangement of several shootouts also gave way to surprise. How did the

killers start? How does the bodyguard respond quickly by drawing a gun? How do both parties use elevators, pillars, vehicles and grass as shelters?

​​A movie with a unique and novel style is much more important than telling a story with a profound but ordinary theme.

This is "Gunfire", not on the listIt doesn't matter, I just hope that more people can pay attention to this film and discover the movie-watching experience it can bring us in that era.

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