After ten days of shooting, Zhang Jiahui has already finished filming, and his role is not even as large as other ghost kings?
But Su Ze understood that Han Jiang was just a trigger. His ghost became Wang Weiye's inner demon, his inner self, and a shadow figure used by the director to narrate the self-redemption after the human heart was broken.
This time, Lam Chao-hsien also made a breakthrough. The narrative starts and ends with the gangsters. Greed and desire, robbery and gun battles, such plots have become commonplace in Hong Kong movies.
I was tired of the previous "Informant" and "Witness", so Lin Chaoxian directly skipped the conspiracy and gun battle, and went directly to the human showdown after the gangsters succeeded.
Whether it's Wang Weiye instinctively rescuing the bloody thief king Han Jiang, or Han Jiang letting Wang Weiye escape in the sea of gunfire, or the possessor secretly controlling the crazy infighting among gangsters over diamonds...
At the thought of good or evil, the impulse is like a devil in a bottle that cannot be suppressed.
There are only a few steps at a critical moment in life. Once you make a mistake, you will never be able to look back.
In Su Ze's view, this character is like a ball of ink thrown into clean water, creating an oppressive black silence. During the filming, there were many shots of the ink pen being thrown into the water glass. This drop immediately spread out, exaggerating the entire darkness.
Just like a person's life, stains cannot be erased.
If the fierce battle represents a beam of light, bringing hope and blood to the audience, then the devil policeman is a shadow, a lingering depression in the heart.
It’s not easy to be a good person. On the one hand, you have been whipped by the shadow of childhood, but on the other hand, you always remember your duty as a human being. Isn’t this a spiritual portrayal of many urbanites today?
A 17-year-old police officer is still an ordinary-level police officer. In fact, he is not the kind of person who needs a lot of careerism, nor is he the kind of person who pursues fame and fortune, but he is complicated in nature.
On the one hand, he feels guilty and takes care of his mother-in-law as if he is redeeming himself; on the other hand, his father's death further plunges him into the abyss.
The dilapidated, small and gloomy demolished house is where Wang Weiye derived his sense of guilt. Why he hates others splashing red paint, in the end, it is because of the shadow left by his childhood.
Han Jiang has become his inner demon, wrongdoings are all shared by bad people, and the role of justice is his original intention. Therefore, he is afraid of fire, the kind of raging fire that is deeply imprinted and will not be forgotten, which is the ultimate expression of malice.
Seeing Su Ze's expressionless face, muttering to himself, and whipping himself with a whip, especially the excitement in his eyes that couldn't be concealed...
There are only two words in everyone's mind:
abnormal!
Every time he condemns sin in his heart, he must beat himself, which is as strange as a religious ritual. There is a devil living in his heart, and he knows it but cannot control it.
Until his eyes were dull and listless, the bags under his eyes were dark and heavy, and he looked dejected. All he could do was cry and cry. His mother-in-law's departure completely broke him down.
Because the so-called redemption in the end completely collapsed.
Does Han Jiang exist?
Looking at Su Ze's state, Lin Chaoxian, the director, was a little hesitant. Is it Wang Weiye's own inner demon? Or is it?
Su Ze liked a scene very much, where Wang Weiye drew a grid and a black grid in the middle of the white grid, but he was upset because he accidentally drew out of bounds.
This means that he is very strict with himself and does not allow any mistakes. He will strongly blame himself for the slightest mistake, such as self-harm and self-abuse.
He even suggested that Lin Chaoxian arrange a scene in which Wang Weiye shoots into a mirror during the fire scene at the end. The broken mirror reflects the other side he imagined.
Use your gun to kill your other dark self with your own hands!
"Sometimes, you work extremely hard to do something well, only to find that it gets worse and worse. The final result is something you never thought of. This is obviously not my purpose. Why does it become like this?"
Su Ze took the script, closed his eyes, and murmured to himself.
"It should be that when things go to extremes, they must turn against each other." Xiaotong held her chin, rarely quiet and without chattering, and suddenly said: "The end of extreme good may be evil."
"Huh?" Su Ze opened his eyes, stared at the little girl curiously and said, "Did you suddenly become enlightened?"
"Humph, I'm not stupid to begin with." Xiaotong puffed up her cheeks and said dissatisfied.
Su Ze laughed loudly, yes, he obviously wanted to do well, but in the end not only did he fail, but he also got a very bad reputation?
So let’s look back and ask each of us what our original intention was. Is this what we want?
It can only be said that losing yourself in the process, blindly pursuing perfection, blindly asking yourself not to make mistakes, is like being obsessed.
But no one is perfect. Once a drop of ink drops into your glass of clear water, the whole glass will turn into turbid water. This result is not inevitable, but because you are harsh and cannot forgive yourself for making mistakes.
You can't survive without being crazy, just like Cheng Dieyi in Farewell My Concubine, like Nina in Black Swan, just like Wang Weiye in The Devil...
This is not a police film, at least Lin Chaoxian doesn't want it to become a routine film.
The two main lines are the seeds planted by Wang Weiye's inner demons in childhood incidents, the constant self-examination of the concept of absolute justice left by his father's violent education, and the catalysis of various negative consequences brought about by Han Jiang's rescue.
Under the alternating stimulation of the scenes of fire, his father's words, and Han Jiang's face, he continued to grow and expand, eventually pushing him to destruction.
At the same time, he also takes the audience along in the pursuit of stripping away the cocoons, revealing bit by bit the causes of his character formation, as well as the darkness left in his heart by childhood events.
As for the sub-plot of the Ghost King Party, it is the so-called police and gangster element, with gun battles, chases, conspiracies, and betrayals...
I have to say that an old actor is an old actor, and every character is extremely bad.
This performance was very enjoyable, and it was also the first time I truly portrayed a character with an abnormal mental state.
Refusing to see a doctor, shutting down external communication and suffering a life of split personality and mental pain...
The greatest support is only my father’s admonishment and care for my grandma, the nervous and self-reproaching expression when giving lectures, the feeling of being at a loss after making a mistake, and the trembling state...
When my grandma was critically ill, I suddenly felt like the world was spinning and falling into an endless abyss...
When he heard about his death, his haggard and gloomy face and expression of sadness and despair seemed to take away his entire soul, all his sustenance and the most important things in his life...
Finally, the scene flashed back to the demolition incident 25 years ago: the grandma's son was stunned, the police were stunned, the residents were stunned, and Xiao Wang who fell to the ground was also stunned. Wang Weiye watched his father turn into ashes.
At the end of the movie, when Wang Weiye was sworn in to become a criminal police officer, he and many others, dressed in police uniform, helped his grandmother pick up the fruit scattered on the floor and pushed her home with a smile.
The scene, music and colors are all so warm...
The final ending seems cruel and tragic, but for Wang Weiye, it is the best ending and the greatest redemption.
At the last moment, the hidden illness was completely released, and those suspicions and various things he had done before would cause another deep harm to him in the future.
In this case, it is better to obtain the most complete relief in this kind of salvation. This chapter has been completed!