As "Infernal Affairs" became a box office hit, its reputation grew.
The film's influence is also growing.
Although "Infernal Affairs" only received 120 million box office on the first day of its opening, due to its overwhelming reputation, the subsequent daily box office in the first week did not fall below this figure.
At the end of the first week of release, it had a box office of 30 million in Hong Kong Island alone, and it won the annual box office championship in Hong Kong Island in just one week.
And this is only the first week.
In the Mainland, the box office in the first week was even more exaggerated, directly breaking the 1 billion mark!
It also set a box office record for Hong Kong films.
The key is that more than 800,000 people have participated in the rating on Popular Film Critics Online, and the rating is still 9.2. In fact, the movie dropped to 9.1 before, but with the subsequent emergence of various interpretation posts, various interpretations of the film have appeared , as related topics increased, the result score unexpectedly increased unexpectedly.
However, after 9.2 points, it began to stabilize.
However, such box office and reputation have already caused countless media to shout the slogan "Renaissance of Hong Kong Films"!
At the same time, many Hong Kong film directors have begun preparations for new Hong Kong police and gangster films.
Seeing the results of "Infernal Affairs", capital also began to tilt towards projects of the Hong Kong Island police and gangster film type.
The Hong Kong media even exaggeratedly called "Infernal Affairs" Li Yi's true "god-making" work!
In fact, this cannot be said to be an exaggeration. If Li Yi continues to be successful, if Hong Kong police and gangster films are really revived because of this, and the former glory is not to be restored, but just continued, then in the Hong Kong film circle, Li Yi is a real actor. Become a god!
Chen Han, one of the founders of the Hong Kong Island Film Awards Organizing Committee and the most respected old director in Hong Kong, wrote a film review specifically for "Infernal Affairs".
It can be said that to a certain extent, "Infernal Affairs" can be regarded as the official rectification of Li Yi's real name.
"The pinnacle of Hong Kong movies! - "Infernal Affairs"!"
"I watched "Infernal Affairs" over and over again, and the more I watched it, the more I liked it. I was very happy, excited, and excited to be able to see something like this in this era when media fans are shouting that Hong Kong movies are dead. A wonderful video full of Hong Kong flavor.
The vivid and full characters, the superb acting skills of the actors, the ups and downs of the plot, the ethereal and sensational soundtrack, the pure and full pictures...
It is no exaggeration to say that "Infernal Affairs" is a movie that made people all over the world look at Hong Kong movies with admiration. It directly explores human nature from a philosophical perspective and feels the suffocation and feeling of being involuntarily. Greed and selfishness, and so-called good and evil.
The black and white undercover character creation of the entire movie "Infernal Affairs" still adheres to the pattern of Hong Kong police and gangster movies and undercovers, but its modeling of the characters and the layout of the plot are indeed better than similar movies, especially The ambiguity between black and white raises a thought-provoking question. Liu Jianming, played by Chen Weijie, and Chen Yongren, played by Liang Feng, are a pair of black and white undercover agents, symbolizing the similarities and differences between twin brothers. Both are undercover agents, so they are destined to constantly wander between disguised roles and real roles. The overall driving force of the movie is the battle of wits between the two as police/undercover, loyal and traitor, and even involved in the police superintendent/gangster. Liu Jianming's cold appearance and calm attitude made it unclear to the audience in the end whether he fit into the model of a cop and a gangster and acted like a traitor.
What delights me most about "Infernal Affairs" is that the film is different from the previous Hong Kong police and gangster films. It abandons the problem of details and pays more attention to details!
There are only a few scenes in the movie where Liu Jianming's doubts about his identity are shown through details:
One scene was in a flashback scene. When Liu Jianming saw Chen Yongren being expelled from the police academy by the police force, his voiceover said: "I want to change with him!"!
But the problem is that Liu Jianming wants to leave his disguised identity and return to the club's Young and Dangerous identity? Or do you want to leave the club, recover yourself and become a good person? In another scene, after Superintendent Huang was killed, Liu Jianming showed hesitation in his eyes when looking at the photo of his work permit left behind. Does he regret that Superintendent Huang was forced to die by the underworld, or does he understand that sooner or later he will also cause misfortune?
In another scene, when Liu Jianming was stroking his new police ID card, he felt confused again. It seems to be telling the audience that he has a great struggle with being a policeman or an undercover agent, and seems to be considering his transformation from traitor to loyalty. This psychological change has always guided the audience to have expectations for Liu's behavior. However, when Liu Jianming shot Brother Chen and another fellow undercover agent, the movie clearly showed that Liu Jianming used his true identity to kill people and silence them.
It can be said that from the plot point of view, the movie misleads the audience's perception, making them think that Liu Jianming is struggling with good and evil. In fact, he just wants to eliminate the evidence of disguised identity. He has always implemented his "treacherous" premise of profit. character.
Even in the most pressing moments of character and self-decision, his actions are entirely determined by the situation.
On the contrary, Chen Yongren's character was full of grievances at the beginning. He was not an undercover agent voluntarily. His nearly ten years of undercover career forced him to see a psychologist to balance himself. Returning to his identity as a police officer is equivalent to becoming a normal person, and his nature is consistent with his true role. He becomes a man who does not distinguish between good and evil, just for work. His psychological struggle is just to continue to pretend, without the ambiguity of disguise and self. In the end, there was no chance to restore his identity.
The opposition and creation of movie characters are still a struggle between external factors and free will. The mirror-like character setting is also the most outstanding part of this movie. Chen Yongren is forced to work as an undercover agent. He is "treacherous" on the surface but "loyal" on the inside. On the surface, Liu Jianming is "loyal", but inside he is both good and evil.
Just as Han Chen said to the young and Dangerous boys who are about to join the police force: "You have chosen this path yourself!" But these people have never made their own choices since they entered society. From the beginning of the movie, "choosing this path" feels almost ironic. Liu Jianming's selection to join the police force was a no-choice choice, just like Chen Yongren's selection as an undercover agent. On the surface, Chen and Liu have the choice of whether to do it or not, and whether to pretend or not, but the reality does not allow individuals to choose. Just as Liu Jianming said after killing Brother Chen: "You chose it!"
Liu Jianming's inevitable choice to kill Brother Chen happened to force Liu to kill and silence him when he had no choice but to go back. This is also the inevitable cause and effect of Han Chen's choice to be a boss and one day he will suffer misfortune.
It seems that the four characters in the movie-Liu Jianming, Chen Yongren, Han Chen, and Huang Sir have no choice. The only person who has a choice may be Liu Jianming, but the audience can also vaguely feel that his choice to "rape" seems to be forced by the situation. Through the simultaneous intrigues of Liu Jianming and Chen Yongyan, the carefully calculated and balanced editing techniques, and the superb acting skills of each actor, Hong Kong and even mainland audiences have regained their confidence in Hong Kong films. The film uses a gloomy blue tone to highlight the tragic effect of the black and white world with no way out. Among them, the hard-working performances by the powerful Hong Kong actors are simply the finishing touch.
The character's hard work interprets the Buddha's saying: The body is eternal and eternal, and longevity is the great calamity in the endless hell. As the name suggests, the suffering here will never stop or end. It is called "intermittent". Due to the relationship between the two protagonists, the whole story is very solid and symmetrical, often giving people a deeper and infinite space for imagination. However, is Liu Jianming who survived really like what was said at the end of the movie? Survival is the real suffering? This may be based on Liu Jianming's eyes paying tribute to Chen Yongren's tombstone at the end of the movie.
The deeper aspect of "Infernal Affairs" is the handling of double undercovers. The police and thieves have to fight, and it is even more helpless to feel that today is not the same as yesterday. In the past, white roads always met ordinary people, but now the talented police officers are actually undercover agents infiltrated by gangs. , mixed with tragedy; "Infernal Affairs" tells a very Hong Kong story, but the story is still difficult to explain, because Hong Kong people are originally a different kind of sneaky and weak people, who have to endure the lack of glory and rootlessness, but are confident and work hard, always trying to prove own identity.
In fact, the most rare thing is that "Infernal Affairs" does not have the stupid tricks and showoffs of previous Hong Kong films where one man is in charge and ten thousand men are invincible. The gun banged and the man collapsed, leaving only vague uneasiness in the panic. Sir Huang was sleeping in the smashed car, with bloodshot eyes hanging from the corners of his mouth. His still body showed stubbornness in the blood, making people believe that he was a former friend and a serious boss. Han Chen's sinister cruelty is already shown in the first few glances of the film. And he fled to the fire station staggeringly, feeling panic and despair in his heart until he was shot and died silently. As life tells us, the difference between a real boss and a dead person is actually very small.
Undercover, after all, I still like the brightness of the rooftop. The forgotten yesterday has indeed touched the hearts of Hong Kong people, but that forgotten time will return to our hearts slightly. Just like the last shot of "Infernal Affairs", Chen Yongren is still clean-shaven and smiling to the audience, but Liu Jianming, who has been promoted and made a fortune, has helpless tears in his eyes, as if he is confessing to Chen Yongren and saying: "I'm sorry, I am Undercover, but I want to be a good person!”
Police and gangster films have always been the strong suit of Hong Kong films. Two-hero dramas are also a genre of many successful movies. With the idea of two undercover agents, Li Yi's "Infernal Affairs" has indeed won a good battle for the Hong Kong film industry. In addition to its unprecedented box office success, it has also become a major success for Hong Kong. It is the "savior" of Chinese films because it allows Hong Kong filmmakers to see the future of Hong Kong police films.
Good films often have many interpretations. You have to watch and feel them in person to understand them. I hope everyone can go to the cinema and watch "Infernal Affairs" again. This is definitely the pinnacle of Hong Kong movies! "
7017k
