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In recent years, some people have always said that "Hong Kong movies are dead".
This is not alarmist talk.
For example, last year, the highest-scoring movie with Hong Kong film attributes was Qiu Litao 's " bomb disposal expert 2 ".
(a score of 7.5 points, not above or below)
In 2019, the best work of a Hong Kong director is "You are a teenager".
But apart from the fact that some of the main creators of "You are from Hong Kong", this movie has no Hong Kong flavor at all.
(The film was shot in Chongqing, and the story told also took place in the mainland)
This year, the performance of Hong Kong directors is not optimistic.
In the fifth file, Wang Jing painted "Chasing the Tiger and Catching the Dragon". The film kings gathered to retell the story of the establishment of the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
It is a pity that the four actor can't support the crappy script, and the score of "Chasing the Tiger and Catching the Dragon" is 5.1...
There is also a Hong Kong director in the same period 2spanspanspan " Dynasty Warriors".
Anyone who has watched this film will feel that it is a foolishness under the guise of a game adaptation, and in the end it has only 4 points.
With such a stroke, Hong Kong movies do seem to be exhausted.
At this juncture, a movie called " wisdom teeth " was born.
Looking at the poster, I feel quite bluffing.
Take a look at the director, Zheng Baorui .
He has filmed the "Journey to the West" series before, and also shot three in one breath, the highest score is 5.6...
(also the poster is quite bluffing)
Feeling pitted, I watched "Wisdom Teeth" cautiously.
After reading, just two words:
Bull beer!
Unexpectedly, after the "Journey to the West" series, Zheng Baorui had learned his lesson and came to a jedi fight.
, to put it bluntly,"Wisdom Teeth" is probably the most exciting Hong Kong movie this year!
(the lineup is also a strong lineup)
The story of "Wisdom Teeth" starts from the garbage dump.
In the movie, there are frequent strange cases in Hong Kong-in the many garbage dumps on the street, a few women's left hands popped up.
These left hands were all cut off by blunt instruments.
According to the experience of the police, it is inferred that these victims whose left hand was cut off have a high probability of being killed.
Finding their bodies is the key to solving the case.
Brother Zhan, the police detective, is the person in charge of this case.
He has a special skill:
can remember the taste of evidence, similar to a human-shaped hound.
With this special skill, Brother Zhan really found the victim's body by smelling left and right.
They are mixed with a bunch of abandoned mannequins, and most people can't find them at all.
Through anatomical analysis of one of the remains,The police found that the victim was an addict before his life.
Brother Zhan rolled his eyes and decided to visit the young drug gangsters in the block. They may know the dead.
Maybe the murderer is among them.
During the visit, Brother Zhan met a short-haired girl who ran when she saw him.
When Brother Zhan saw the short-haired girl, he also triggered some dark memories, and turned on the violent mode.
When he catches up with the short-haired girl, he will kill him.
Fortunately, a colleague nearby pulls out brother, and the short-haired girl escaped.
There must be something in the past between Brother Zhan and the girl with short hair.
(The short-haired girl is played by a mainland actor Liu Yase )
The original short-haired girl was also a "addict".
After some indulgence by the short-haired girl, she ran into Brother Zhan’s wife by a drug drive.
(Brother Zhan witnessed the whole process)
This collision,Brother Zhan's wife became a vegetable.
Her legs were also amputated.
For Brother Zhan, the short-haired girl is an absolutely unforgivable enemy.
The short-haired girl is not well. After the accident, she lost a lot of money and went to jail. After she was released, she became a street gangster.
Under the pressure of life and self-destructiveness, she started petty theft and even stole the car.
In such a muddle-headed day, the short-haired girl closes her eyes every day and remembers the moment of a car accident.
This time I met Brother Zhan and saw his collapse. The short-haired girl didn't want to continue to escape. She wanted to redeem her sin.
The short-haired girl inquired that Brother Zhan was looking for a drug dealer, and she just happened to know some.
So she volunteered to be an informant for Brother Zhan.
Brother Zhan will not easily accept this way of atonement.
He asked the short-haired girl to tell a lot of drug dealer information, and then he deliberately let the drug dealers know that it was the short-haired girl who informed the secret.
Out of the police station, the short-haired girl was beaten to death by the drug dealers.
Brother Zhan, cruel!
Even so,The short-haired girl who was determined to redeem her sins and completely settled her grievances, still gritted her teeth and continued to help Brother Zhan.
With her tireless help, Brother Zhan and colleagues found a girl who may be related to the murder case.
The girl is thin and has dishes on her face.
She usually lives in the garbage dump and takes drugs all day long.
Coincidentally, this girl does not have a left hand either.
However, her left hand was not amputated, but caused by accident when she was a child.
Brother Zhan used a trick to put the blame on, suggesting that the girl is the murderer.
His reasoning logic is: if the girl loses her left hand, she cuts other people's left hand to revenge the society.
Of course, the girl did not recognize her, she said that the real culprit in the murder case might be her boyfriend.
This boyfriend is very mysterious. He is a tattered boyfriend who met the girl in the trash.
At that time, the girl was paralyzed on the ground after taking drugs. The wind was cold and rainy, and she was picking up ragged ones and covering her with a coat.
This is the first time I have received such warm care from a girl who has been eating and sleeping in a small breeze.
Since then, the two have become a couple.
One day, the boyfriend gave the girl a special gift, which was packed in a lunch box- is a hand .
The plot is here, and the murder case is about to come out.
According to the information provided by the girl, this boyfriend doesn't meet her often and usually wanders around.
And he doesn't speak Chinese very well, he seems to be a Japanese.
Brother Zhan asked about the most frequent places of the homeless people, and wanted to go directly and search first.
Brother Zhan and the others left, leaving the girl with short hair to go home alone.
As a result, she met the drug dealer who had been called to the police station for questioning because of her, and was beaten again.
This fight, the short-haired girl couldn't stand it, she accidentally moved the knife.
Someone was stabbed as a result.
Brother Zhan and his colleagues who came after hearing the news have not yet understood what is going on.
When escaping, the short-haired girl snatched the gun of Brother Zhan’s colleague.
But on the way, she threw it casually because of fear.
The colleague who threw the gun went crazy and caught up with the short-haired girl, handcuffed her to the side of the road, and quickly went back to find the gun.
At this moment, a tramp came over in silence.
He went straight to the short-haired girl curled up by the road...
It was the police gun he picked up.
In order to prevent spoilers, let’s briefly summarize the following plot:
A short-haired girl who is caught by a tramp.
Brother Zhan tried every means to save her, and started a fight with the tramp.
To tell the truth, many shots of the story behind this will make people feel uncomfortable.
For example, a short-haired girl is ruthlessly killed by a tramp.
For example, a short-haired girl who has been mutilated has explosive bloody resistance.
Fortunately, the whole film is treated with black and white tones. will be a little disgusting after watching it.
The vigor of "Wisdom Teeth" is reminiscent of Zheng Baorui's " dog bite dog ".
In this movie released in 2006, Edison Chen plays a killer.
He also lives in the rubbish dump, and he is like a vicious dog.
Li Cansen The police officer played by Li Cansen, has a rough life and is also a mad dog.
The two fight and bite each other in the movie. The scale of the action scene is huge.
Because of this movie, Zheng Baorui is called a "ferocious man".
The hunk director, the must-have candy for filming (lower right corner)
In addition to "dog bites the dog", the action drama " _span" is also the man who killed the wolf Masterpiece.
is called the "Rider" of the Chinese version of "Quick Excitement", which he took.
The crazy version of you have never seen before, Shawn Yue , also appeared in his "Army Chicken", which made people tremble.
It is not surprising that such a hunky director made "Wisdom Teeth".
It seems that he has been misunderstood and frustrated for too long because of the three "Journey to the West" series.
Fortunately, the spring will always rebound.
Zheng Baorui finally returned to his original path.
If there is a declining reality in Hong Kong movies, perhaps one of the ways to save it is to "return to the original heart" of .
Under the tutelage of Du Qifeng , Zheng Baorui, who came from the "Galaxy Image" company, should have realized this long ago.
After all, Du Sir and the Milky Way image are a beacon that has always stood by Hong Kong.
At this point, it could have been finished, but there may be some doubts:
This movie seems to be called "No Wisdom Teeth". Ah?
You have got the idea.
Actually there are wisdom teeth in "Wisdom Teeth", but I didn't say, because it is not important at all.
In the plot, the colleague of Brother Zhan who threw the gun is played by the son of the lead director Ang Li, Li Chun .
He is a new star sent to partner with Brother Zhan.
When handling the case, he had been growing wisdom teeth, which made him uncomfortable.
Later as the plot progressed, this wisdom tooth was knocked out.
The function of wisdom teeth in this film is nothing more than that.
This is actually the failure of "Wisdom Teeth"-as an image, it has not been used well.
Li Chun's performance in the film is also far inferior to Lin Jiadong , who is increasingly becoming the mainstay of Hong Kong stars.
and Liu Yase, who performed amazingly.
Moreover, "Wisdom Teeth"'s portrayal of murderers and tramps is also superficial.
At the end of the movie, although there was a huge reversal, why the tramp had to cut a person's left hand, and why he was a Japanese wandering in Hong Kong is unclear.
(The Japanese actor Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, who played the homeless man, played "Ip Man")
But overall, "Wisdom Teeth" is worth watching.
In it, you will find the bursting and overwhelming taste of Hong Kong movies.
Just do this, you will not be disappointed.
(some of these lenses are very particular)
In the current era,Revisiting Johnnie To and the image of the Milky Way is very meaningful.
It is both a remembrance and a prospect.
Because of Johnnie To and the Milky Way image, they are not dead yet.
Hong Kong films and Hong Kong directors have not all hit the streets.
(for example, I am looking forward to Zheng Baorui’s "Kowloon Walled City")
See you tomorrow.
Wow a prayer.
The pictures in this article are from the Internet
Editor: Kang Meng
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