450 Blow Up!
Xiangjiang movies have been in decline for a long time.
Although film critics believe in Wei Xun's ability, it is difficult to imagine what kind of way Wei Xun will tell the story of "Infernal Affairs".
In particular, gunfight gangster films, which sound like commercial films, are difficult to analyze and excavate in terms of acting, art, human nature, and character depth.
In terms of box office, no one will worry, after all, this is Wei Xun's movie.
But can a movie involving the underworld really impress the Cannes Film Festival?
At the moment, the critics at the premiere of "Infernal Affairs" have their own thoughts, occasionally glancing at Jean-Besson, who is sitting next to Wei Xun, trying to guess something from the face of the Cannes president.
Jean-Besson, however, was always staring intently at the screen.
For film jurors, it is the greatest respect to watch the films carefully reviewed.
On the big screen, Chen Yongren and Liu Jianming had a brief meeting in the video store, and then the two strangers left separately.
Chen Yongren played by Wei Xun and Officer Huang Zhibin played by Chen Qiuheng met on the rooftop.
As soon as they met, the two actors began to play with each other.
"You said, how many times have you been caught just hurting people, and I tried my best to tell the lawyer that you had a problem in your heart, let you see a psychiatrist, and you beat people everywhere. ”
Officer Huang leaned against the railing of the rooftop, stared at Chen Yongren with a sideways face, and asked, "Are you really psychopathic, forgetting whether you are a good person or a bad person?" ”
Chen Yongren's tired eyes were impatient, and his expression was even more irritable: "Obviously said three years, three years later, three years later, three years later, three years later, almost ten years old." ”
has been an undercover agent for ten years, although he reminds himself that he is a police officer all the time, but after a long time, he himself is a little lost.
The two chatted on the rooftop, and at one point they were about to collapse, but ...... Despite his resentment, Chen Yongren still gave Huang Zhibin triad boss Han Chen's smuggling deal.
Jean-Besson saw this and had some enlightenment.
This Chen Yongren was shackled as a 'good man'.
As soon as the camera turned, Liu Jianming appeared, and the police got the confidence of Han Chen's shipment and prepared to carry out the arrest operation that night. Liu Jianming, who was in the police station, secretly revealed the news to Han Chen.
As a result, an invisible dark line began to emerge.
Liu Jianming and Chen Yongren, without knowing each other, began to become fierce opponents.
At the same time, because of the failure to capture Han Chen before, the two sides realized that there were each other's internal ghosts in their teams. Coincidentally, Liu Jianming got the task of cleaning up the ghosts at the police station, and Han Chen, the boss of the triad, also hoped that Liu Jianren could find out the ghosts in the gang.
The plot suddenly tightens up at this point.
Because the two male protagonists have been given the task of 'finding out themselves'.
Liu Jianming used his position to find out that Huang Zhibin and the 'inner ghost' of the triad were meeting, and quickly notified Han Chen.
Han Chen sent someone to catch the ghosts, Huang Zhibin and Chen Yongren hurriedly separated, but when they met again, it was at the door of the building, Chen Yongren had just gotten out of the car, and Huang Zhibin was thrown off the rooftop.
Bang!
That loud bang not only smashed into Chen Yongren's heart, but also made the entire movie theater quiet for a while.
Chen Yongren subconsciously trembled for a while, then turned around, a pair of eyes suddenly widened, staring at Huang Zhibin's corpse, the complex feelings conveyed in those dark eyes made people's scalp tingle.
And the director didn't seem to realize how difficult such a shot was, and the long shot couldn't wait to slap Chen Yongren's face, and he didn't move it for three minutes.
Jean-Besson sat up straight, his face full of excitement.
Song Ziwen forgot to take notes.
The rest of the film critics also widened their eyes, and everyone looked at Wei Xun's performance on the screen with a deep amazement on their faces.
This three-minute silent film-like plot has no lines, but from the door of the building to Huang Zhibin's corpse, Chen Yongren's tired and moist eyes went from dazed and unbelievable to unacceptable, and the performance was incisive.
It's a pair of talking eyes!
This is definitely enough to blow up the acting highlights for three minutes!
Because of this, when Chen Yongren was so helpless in the movie that his scalp was numb and he couldn't help but scratch his hair, many people who watched the movie were a little numb.
What a terrifying expressiveness and ability to convey emotions!
"Brother Ren, there are policemen, run!"
However, Chen Yongren didn't even have the qualifications to take a closer look at Huang Zhibin, the police and the gangsters were on the verge of breaking out, Chen Yongren was dragged into the car by his younger brother and fled, bullets flew all around, he sat thoroughly, staring at Huang Zhibin's corpse with red eyes.
The tears gushing out, as well as the tired and sad eyes, were projected from the big screen, and the people who watched couldn't help but tremble.
"With this performance, he deserves a Cannes actor. ”
Jean-Besson thought to himself.
But in the final half, the really exciting part of "Infernal Affairs" finally came.
Liu Jianming got Huang Zhibin's mobile phone and contacted Chen Yongren, and the two worked together to kill Han Chen. Chen Yongren went to the police station to prepare to restore his identity, but was shocked to find that the undercover agent sent by Han Chen to the police station was Liu Jianming.
This reversal plot is simply a stroke of genius, which makes all the foreshadowing in the first half instantly elevated!
Song Ziwen almost shouted in the theater.
Even some screenwriters couldn't help but exclaim.
It turns out that reversing the plot can be played like this, and it turns out that gangster movies can also push out the complex side of human nature and dig into such a wonderful depth.
Jean-Besson didn't care about anything else, and was completely immersed in the plot.
This is definitely the most ingeniously arranged and amazing reversal plot that I have seen in recent years!
The two 'undercover agents' had a showdown with each other and made an appointment to meet on the rooftop.
Liu Jianming looked at Chen Yongren and said, "I didn't have a choice before, but now I want to be a good person." ”
Chen Yongren smiled: "I'm sorry, I'm a policeman." ”
Liu Jianming's eyes were deep, and his face was calm: "Who knows?"
Rub it!
This sentence completely angered Chen Yongren, and he almost immediately raised the gun in his hand, loaded the bullet and pressed the void against Liu Jianming's eyebrows.
However, just as tensions were at the surface, a police officer came to interrupt their confrontation.
Chen Yongren relented after all, pointed a gun at Liu Jianming, and decided to leave with the policeman and go to the police station to explain the matter clearly.
However, the three of them walked from the rooftop to the elevator room, and Liu Jianming pressed the elevator and prepared to go downstairs.
At this time, the gunshots rang out.
A sudden gunshot made the entire movie theater stunned.
Then, Chen Yongren fell, his body stuck in the middle of the elevator, the elevator door was bounced open and closed, closed and bounced open, and the cycle repeated.
Liu Jianming looked at Chen Jianming's corpse with a blank face or a daze, and some did not come back to his senses.
He was just about to say 'be a good man', but he was still alive.
However, Chen Yongren, who said 'I am a policeman', died like this.
Not to mention that Liu Jianming is a little confused, even the film critics in the cinema are confused.
The back and forth elevator doors, as well as Chen Yongren's body stuck in the middle, the hearts of those who watched were twitching fiercely.
The good guys are dead, the bad guys are alive.
Live as a good person.
This ending is too unexpected, or what you want to express is too heavy and complicated, so that by the end of the film, the entire movie theater is quiet and scary.
"Wei, you are definitely a genius! a genius of geniuses!"
After a while, Jean-Besson stood up and looked at Wei Xun excitedly, his eyes full of surprise and praise that could not be concealed: "This "Infernal Affairs" is definitely the most in-depth Chinese film I have ever seen, and it is fully qualified to enter the selection of the main competition unit in Cannes!"
And after Jean-Besson's words fell, the whole cinema came to life, and every critic had an undisguised excitement and shock on his face.
This "Infernal Affairs" should definitely be blown up!