"I really don't understand love, and I lack interest, so I asked Wei Jiahui to help me when I was filming a romantic comedy."
Listening to Johnnie To's jokes, Su Ze also laughed. Whether Johnnie To is so good in reality is unproven, but his gangster gang movies are often abstracted from daily reality, and most of them focus on male characters, focusing on showing the friendship and wrestling between them.
This is true.
Of course, the romantic comedies produced by Galaxy Video may be an exception. In these romantic stories, the hero and heroine will stage courtship and pursuit in the city. They are humorous, crazy and exaggerated, and there are also tear-jerking life and death farewells, gaining more recognition from the audience.
Blind Detective is just such a work. If you are a viewer, just from the title of the film, you will be reminded of the detective. Even the method of solving crimes is similar to the detective.
But this time Johnnie To is obviously having more fun, not forgetting to flirt with the constant thrills and suspense, making it an out-and-out comedy.
The opening immediately brings the audience into a familiar urban scene. In the bustling Mong Kok market, someone is planning a crime, and Zhuang Shidon is also acting. Behind him is He Jiatong.
In the storyline related to the detective solving the case, the style of the Milky Way image is still preserved: the crowds in the bustling city of Hong Kong Island, the characteristic rooftop corridors, the remote suburbs isolated from the real law...
Plus articles around food, clothing and cars, details about horse racing, gambling and immigration, low-key lighting, sudden and shocking violence...
These contents are enough to keep Galaxy fans entertained, not to mention that the supporting characters are still very clever and super funny.
At the same time, Johnnie To took the initiative to break these things, which was manifested in the active elimination of the thrilling atmosphere, which was broken down time and time again by the emotional and personal affairs of the male and female protagonists.
What's more, the simulated scene and the murder scene represented by surreal techniques will create a series of funny actions, and the successive destruction scenes are very unserious.
As the case moves and the case deepens, the performance will uncontrollably fall into reality, and Zheng Xiuwen will completely turn into a heartbroken woman, forgetting that she is just simulating.
This emotion truly reflects the emotional projection of the audience in the cinema, and also makes the film slowly fall into a tragedy, and finally eliminates the shadow of her growth: the unsolved mystery of a missing friend.
It was a repressed emotional experience, and the person involved, Xiao Min, was a victim who grew up in a tragic family. In her, the extreme fatalism that Wei Jiahui was good at was clearly visible, and no one in the four generations of the family could escape.
On the surface, Xiao Min's love tragedy is just one of many cases, but because he killed someone because of love, it echoes the main line of love in the movie.
The self-created Zhuang Shiton felt good about himself. Even though he was blind, he still regarded himself as a police idol star and accepted the love and worship of the heroine. However, he suffered emotional setbacks, and the goddess in his mind was preempted by someone else.
Fortunately, they know how to stop thinking, unlike Xiao Min's family, who are obsessed with making mistakes again and again. It seems to tell the audience: forced melons are not sweet, and forced love will suffer disaster.
The true meaning of love is not to find a good god, but to meet the right person at the right time.
Just like the crimes in the film include the madness of men serially killing women, and the horrific madness of women who are unwilling to let go of their prey. They are both positive and negative, mirroring each other.
In most movies, the male protagonist uses accurate marksmanship and a generous body to protect the female protagonist. This time, it was deliberately reversed. He Jiatong saved Zhuang Shiton many times, resisting sulfuric acid and being hacked by a knife.
In Su Ze's opinion, Cheng Xiuwen has thrown away the homogeneous image of Hong Kong girls and Chinese girls in the past ten years. On the basis of the silly big girl temperament, she is more innocent, simple and cute, with flesh and blood and charm, which can be classified as a galaxy image.
The most loving heroine in the work.
From the perspective of a foodie, this work can even be regarded as a gourmet movie.
Food serves as a auxiliary line to promote the plot throughout the whole story, making it more life-like and the image of a foodie is cuter. No matter when, where or what you do, you should never forget food. Even when handling a case, you must first choose a place with a lot of delicious food.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t have enough money and you get angry, a big meal can comfort your mood; whether it’s shark fins and abalone in high-end restaurants, or stinky intestines from street stalls, you can find amazing food and eat it emotionally...
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This is the deep love and understanding of life that a real foodie can have. Of course, it is also because Sir Du is also a foodie, otherwise where would there be so many vivid details?
In "The Tasteless Detective", Li Ruotong and Liu Qingyun cook each other's home-cooked dishes, in "Heroes", one glass of wine follows another, and in "The Big Brother", the night food stalls are endless.
A meal was eaten a hundred times in "The Detective", a reunion dinner in "Exiled" brought mixed emotions, the gangsters were in charge and the hostages ate happily in "The Big Deal", and whatever was eaten in "Slimming Man and Woman" was dehumanizing...
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Johnnie To is indeed the biggest foodie among Chinese-speaking directors!
For the Galaxy Iron Triangle, Zhuang Wenqiang had already collaborated with him, and this time it was Johnnie To, and in the end only Wei Jiahui was left as the screenwriter.
This time, as a stunt used by master screenwriters to close the gap, the script and director's control, including the joint cooperation in editing, were taken into consideration. The movie starts with the interruption of the entire story, while on the other hand, time advances normally, such as case diagnosis.
On the one hand, it goes back in time to trace the truth, giving out part of the facts and part of the conjecture each time, allowing the audience to feel the same sense of loss and frustration along with the plot, and then continues to slowly approach the starting point and truth of the story.
Su Ze was surprised to find that as long as it was a work co-directed with Johnnie To, as long as Wei Jiahui had half of the control, the story would often have to incorporate exotic elements from outside Hong Kong Island?
The crimes committed in Southeast Asia in "The Killer", the clavicle magic and the weird Indian guy in "The Big Brother", and the travel around Brazil in "Blind Detective", Portuguese is used to transition the plot.
Presumably Wei Sheng's world view is greater than that of Sir Du after all, so every trip is at public expense?
Of course, I also discovered the little quirks of many gold screenwriters, such as repeating one point over and over again.
I like to have the protagonist repeat a certain action tirelessly, and get the truth of the incident from this accumulation process. In "Detective", Liu Qingyun was disgusted after eating, and in "Blind Detective", he smashed the TV until his hands softened, and hit people on the head until he hit himself.
Dizzy, cutting my wrists to the point of becoming addicted.
He Jiatong, who has been broken up in love more than ten times, provides only a trivial clue, but in the end the truth can indeed be revealed. If the audience is not bored, the character naturally cannot be bored.
His stories often put depth into the revelation of human nature. The multiple personalities played in the masterpiece "Detective" are analyzed and depicted from a horizontal perspective. The villain's seven-fold personality covers the dangers of the world, but the biggest evil comes from the weakness of good.
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In "Blind Detective", this kind of personality becomes a vertical continuation, that is, the fate of three generations of women in Xiao Min's family who killed their fathers, and their blindness and ignorance revealed their murderous intentions.
Reincarnation or death! This chapter has been completed!