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Chapter 663 How are you?police!

Compared with He Si, he commented on "Infernal Affairs" from the general direction of Hong Kong Island gangster films!
As Li Yi's official film critic, Du Xianghai's film review is more direct and in-depth interpretation of the content of the film.

Of course, this is also because a movie like "Infernal Affairs" is not afraid of spoilers, because this kind of movie is really wonderful, and only when you really watch the movie can you deeply understand it.

"How are you? Police!"

This is the title of Du Xianghai's film review.

"Hong Kong island gangster films have become a genre. Over the years of development, the characteristics of Hong Kong island gangster films are gangster and righteous, and good and evil are often inseparable from good and evil!

And "Infernal Affairs" undoubtedly inherited and further sublimated this feature of the Hong Kong Island gangster film.

The beginning of the film quotes the "Nirvana Sutra" No.19 volume: "The most of the eight hells is called the endless hell. It means suffering without interruption.
Hence the name! "

On the surface, it introduces the origin of the movie's name, and also implies that the protagonist of the movie wanders between black and white, and is constantly undercover and tortured by life.

In fact, using "Infernal Affairs" as the title of the film obviously has a profound meaning.The two identities should not belong to their own people. They almost live in an environment similar to hell, and they are afraid that others will reveal their identities in their dreams.In this world, what is the truth of life and the truth of life?

There is no reincarnation in hell, only eternal suffering, but the two protagonists in the film are seeking reincarnation.

To paraphrase the lyrics of the movie's theme song: We are all on the go and forget the way out!
Yes, they are all seeking reincarnation and liberation, but they don't know that the more they seek, the deeper they fall!
Only death can be liberated, but in the face of death, who can be calm?

There are actually four people at the core of this story: Liu Jianming, Chen Yongren, Huang Zhicheng, and Han Chen.

Let's look at them one by one, and each of them is a person suffering in the endless purgatory.

First of all, Liu Jianming, he can be said to be the person who concentrates the most core contradictions in the movie. He is Han Chen's undercover agent in the police force.

"I didn't have a choice before, but now I want to be a good person!"

This line that left the deepest impression on me was said by him to Chen Yongren on the rooftop, and he must have said it to himself countless times in his heart.

Liu Jianming has the moral dilemma at the core of this movie. Liu Jianming doesn't know what is a good person and what is a bad person. He is a person who wants to be a good person in his heart but is forced to do bad things. So is he a good person?
Should the things done when fate has no choice, those things that are forced to do, be morally judged?The question of ethical dilemma, the question of the contradiction between "fate" and "choice", neither of which he can answer.

On the other hand, his inner struggle process also shows his self-awareness dilemma, "An unruly person, like him, get out, does anyone want to change with him?" This sentence appeared twice, He always answered "I want to change with him" in his heart. Whether it was at the police academy or at the end of Chen Yongren's grave, it can be seen that his inner struggle has never been relieved. He wants to be a "good person" from the beginning. ", to get rid of the predicament of self-knowledge, even if he was finally buried in the building, but the ridiculous thing is that he didn't even get the chance to suffer punishment, and finally he became the one who lived to the end. The black screen subtitle at the end of the movie: "Buddha said: Those who receive the Infinite Body will never die, and longevity is a catastrophe in the Infinite Hell."

Longevity is a catastrophe in the endless hell. Liu Jianming has to accept the catastrophe of endless suffering in his heart every day he lives.

Let’s talk about Chen Yongren again.

In fact, he is the purest person in the movie, he is a policeman, even if he dies, he still insists on finding his identity as a policeman.

"It's clearly agreed to be three years, three years after three years, three years after three years, almost ten years, boss."

In most people's minds, Chen Yongren is a more impressive character than Liu Jianming.

In his words, he almost forgot whether he was a policeman or a young and Dangerous boy. He was put on a mask and acted as a young and Dangerous boy for nearly ten years. He couldn't even tell the truth when he was sleeping. Only then dared to say to her with a little pride: "Actually, I am a policeman."

This policeman who couldn't sleep kept saying that I almost forgot whether I was a policeman, but when he pointed a gun at Liu Jianming on the rooftop, he said without hesitation, "I'm sorry, I'm a policeman." .”

But since he embarked on the road of being an undercover agent, he has no turning back. Every day he can only worry about his identity being discovered and how to better obtain information for the police. The pressure is unimaginable. will lose their lives.

Sorry, I have no choice, I have been a young and Dangerous boy for nine years, and I still haven't forgotten that I am a policeman.

"Obviously I have walked the road ahead day and night, why the other side of my dream has not arrived yet?" The most sympathetic person in Infernal Purgatory is this policeman who has not been a policeman for a day. He thinks he is a policeman. He is real. police.

Huang Zhicheng, this is a very special policeman.

I believe this is a controversial figure, he seems to use any means to achieve his goals!

On the surface, Chen Yongren's identity was only known to Inspector Huang and a deceased principal, so whether Chen Yongren was an undercover agent or not, and when he could recover his identity, only Huang said it would matter.For Chen Yongren, while exerting pressure, such as threatening to revoke his file, he also played the card of tenderness, such as giving Chen a birthday present-a watch, to comfort him, which seems to be scheming.

But in my opinion, this person is just, and the undercover arrangement is only because of what people in his position have to do. Only when the gangsters disappear, society will be peaceful. Maybe the approach is not very bright, but the starting point is good. , This is an undeniable fact. As for giving Chen a gift, I don't want to speculate maliciously. His method is to win people's hearts. Chen Yongren is an undercover agent and a policeman. Only Huang Zhicheng knows his identity. Therefore, in this society, everyone When everyone thinks that Chen Yongren is a bad guy, only he can constantly remind Chen Yongren of his identity, only he can remember Chen Yongren's past, he is the one who watched him grow up little by little, and gradually become a gangster's capable subordinate, so Huang Zhicheng's love for him is a kind of inner love in the way of elders, not scheming.

He felt sorry for Chen Yongren and knew the pain he had endured, but his identity and his persistence made him have to do this.

"The policeman was tough. They arrested him and beat him for 10 minutes, 10 minutes."

When Sha Qiang said it, we can imagine why he is so tough?

After he and Chen Yongren met, he left himself and chose to take the elevator to leave, and let Chen Yongren go first, and was finally killed. At this time, it is hard to say that he was not out of the purpose of protecting the nine-year undercover agent.

Therefore, he is a just policeman, because from the beginning to the end, he is doing what a policeman should do!
Han Chen, it can be said that in this movie, is a very key character, Huang Zhicheng let Chen Yongren continue to go undercover in order to catch him.

Liu Jianming was unable to escape because he fell into the endless hell.

Therefore, he is a starting point, but not an end point. Han Chen is a very simple character, simple bad, drug dealer, murderer, black boss, and ruthless character. When he first entered the police station, he said to Superintendent Huang: "Have you seen this?" Is anyone going to the funeral parlor to shake hands with dead bodies?" But he never expected that the undercover agent he cultivated to enter the police station would eventually betray him, and he would be killed by this undercover agent in the end. Among other people, he is such a pure and biggest villain, but in fact, he is not the focus of the contest between good and evil.

In the end, when Liu Jianming shot him dead in the underground garage, he said that he had chosen it himself.This is what he said to Liu Jianming many years ago, let Liu Jianming choose whether to enter the police station, but being a black boss is Han Chen's never-changing choice.

For Liu Jianming, he didn't want to walk in the dark anymore, so for Han Chen, he had to walk in the dark on the path he chose.

The tone of the whole movie is sad and heavy. No matter which character it is, it is shrouded in sadness, Infernal Affairs, the bottom of the eighteen hells.Those who are cast into the endless hell have no hope of liberation.In this group of people, we can't find the hope of reincarnation, and we can only struggle with them in the story.

(End of this chapter)