Section 202 Light in Confusion
In the movie, the gangster's drug trafficking deal has already begun. It is the Colombian drug lords who trade with them -- anyway, Latin Americans are almost all drug dealers in the eyes of the Americans, and Colombia is a place full of drug kings, and there is no problem at all in choosing them as a trading partner -- compared with the American version of the deal with the Chinese, this arrangement is obviously more appropriate.
Sitting in the crowd, seeing that the plot has advanced here, I also turned my head slightly to look at the reaction of people in the theater.
This episode, which can be said to be the first climax of the plot, is also one of the places in Levy's film where the pace suddenly accelerates.
One of the biggest problems in the Hong Kong version of Infernal Affairs is that the rhythm control is slightly weak. When the director shot this movie, the pace can be said to be getting faster and faster, which makes the movie seem to lack a uniform plan, which is a big flaw compared to the American version.
And Levy wants to correct this shortcoming, so he is naturally ready to make good use of this transaction here. Fast-paced this trade, and then you can slow down later.
This movie is indeed better in the Hong Kong version, but the American version of director Scorsese's rhythm control and shooting skills are indeed better.
Obviously, his arrangement is not bad, and from the faces of the audience, he also saw a satisfied look. Commercial movies have to constantly have climaxes, and the first climax comes in less than 20 minutes, which is still very satisfying.
At this point, the transaction has already begun. Andy and Tony are trying their best to deliver the news, but their bosses are not stupid at all. The gang boss separated the delivery location from the payment location, so that Tony had no way to get the drug location for a while, and the police officer cleverly changed the signal at this time. It also made the gang boss mistakenly think that the police operation had been canceled.
The battle of wits between the two sides unfolded, and although there was not a single gunshot, the tense atmosphere still rose. Colin watched the movie at this time and felt quite enjoyable: compared to the practice of gunfights at the beginning, such a movie has a unique flavor.
Instead of highlighting the characters through gunfights, violence, or heroism, it is through wits to portray the struggle between the police and the gangsters. It can be said that it is unique. There are these big experts in methodological acting, and this approach is undoubtedly the best approach.
On the one hand, the gang had already begun to inspect the goods, and the transaction on the ship was quite cleverly arranged, and on the other hand, at the place of the transaction, Tony set out the place of delivery. The news was sent to the police officer, and this was also an arrest operation, and it was about to be successful.
At the last moment, Andy still sent the signal.
His approach. It was sent directly to all the people at the scene of the arrest. As soon as this signal was issued, although people still did not know who the undercover agent was, they also knew that there were undercover agents in the police. A message, two undercover agents were exposed at the same time.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense. People also want to know what they're going to do now.
"Throw the goods into the river."
The voice of the boss played by De Niro is quite cold, and there is obvious hesitation on the face of the younger brother played by Phoenix. However, De Niro spoke again, and he was forced to pour all the goods into the river.
The priceless drugs were all thrown into the river.
Inside the theater, someone let out a small exclamation. In too many movies, unscrupulous means are used for drugs, and pouring the drugs that have already arrived into the river like this, this kind of strong man breaking his wrist is completely shocking.
But in doing so, he is the real hero.
This is a simple and violent approach, and all the evidence that the police want is destroyed, and the long-awaited arrest turns out to be a joke.
And this practice also made the gang boss and the police officer all know that there were other people's undercover agents in their police station. Both sides glanced at their men, guessing who the undercover agent was.
The gang boss played by De Niro finally showed his brutal side at this time, staring at the people in the room one by one, looking at them. As Tony approached him, he grabbed Tony's plaster hand and slammed it against the table.
This move makes people's hearts tighten. First, people know that Tony is wearing a plaster cast and holding a newspaper tool in his hand, and second, people know how painful it is to break the plaster on the broken arm. Doing so for the sake of one's own unsubstantiated suspicion can be described as quite brutal.
Tony in the movie, at this time, was also exposed to the painful green tendons, but under the eyes of the boss, he didn't even dare to make a sound. As the boss's gaze shifted to his hand, and seeing that he had nothing in his hand, the boss turned to leave. At this time, the camera pans to the window, allowing people to see the teleportation tool that has been transferred in advance by Tony.
Both undercover agents disguised themselves well and were not discovered. Of course, the police who broke into the house could not find evidence of the transaction, and this arrest operation was completely over.
The boss who was taken back to the police station had no handle and had to be released.
"It's really bothering you, and you lost hundreds of dollars because you didn't play poker."
When confronted by the gang boss, the officer apparently did not keep his mouth shut. His provocative words made the gang boss's face change. Where did he lose a few hundred? He couldn't stand this kind of ridicule.
The two bosses, just inside the police station, began to suggest extremely strong threats and abuse.
This plot makes Colin even more excited: following the dialogue between the two protagonists at the beginning of the movie, this part is the real drama. The confrontation between the two sides, after this paragraph, has also been officially clarified, and after watching enough gangster movies, you can know that it is impossible for them to solve it gently, and now, these two sides are strong, and one side must fall.
This time, the contradiction between the two people intensified. The confrontation between the two bosses is over, and the plot is moving backwards.
Andy and his friends in the police station are busy with their new home, and it is at this time that his fiancée finally appears in the camera. The character played by Aniston is still a silly big sister's temper, but it can make people feel Andy's warm life at once.
The atmosphere of the movie, from the tension just now, suddenly became warm and flat.
Just then, the phone rang.
With his beautiful fiancée in one hand and the phone in the other, he was talking to the gang boss on the phone. Andy's state makes people feel slightly ironic. What's even more ironic is that when he received an order from the gang boss to ask him to go undercover, his girlfriend talked to him about the idea of his novel.
"If a person has a dual personality, then after he gets up every morning, he has to act for himself, isn't it awkward?"
Those who speak are unintentional, but those who hear are intentional. Andy still had a smile on his face, but the uneasiness in his heart was once again aroused.
How long will the days of acting in front of yourself like this pass?
Meanwhile, inside the psychiatrist's office, Tony wakes up. After getting up from his chair, he also talked and laughed with the counselor.
Colin also understands that Andy and Tony's lives always intersect, the front is Andy's life, and the back is naturally your life.
Compared with the previous relationship scene, this one is obviously more relaxed. Unlike Andy, who had to speak perfunctorily, although Tony's words did not have that kind of intimacy and affection, a sense of trust was unnaturally revealed in his words.
He trusts the psychiatrist in front of him very much, and can even trust her, sleeping in her clinic, he will also ask the confusion in his heart, whether he is a good person or a bad person, and will joke that he dreamed of her, obviously trusting her very much.
Both of them are confused, but the difference is that Andy is confused and doesn't even have someone to trust, while Tony still has someone he can trust - it's like a light in the confusion, so he can hold on.
This difference is also one of the important reasons for their transformation: Andy no longer identifies with his undercover identity, while Tony insists on his undercover identity, and there is a reason.
Immediately afterwards, the two sides once again fought wits because of the issue of undercover identity. Tony senses where the documents are and leaves a mark on the envelope, while Andy meets the gang boss in the theater - one on the sunlit rooftop and the other on the dark movie theater with no lights, which also illustrates the difference between the two groups. And on the screen of the movie, a rather beautiful landscape is shown - which seems to imply that the happy life of the gangsters is just false beauty.
A few words were quickly explained, but Andy, who left, didn't realize that he had been followed by Tony, who was thoughtful behind him.
On the street, two people followed one after the other. The surging crowd made Tony almost lose the person in front of him several times, but he all relied on his acumen to follow. And in the blink of an eye, when they were about to catch each other, the phone rang suddenly, which alerted both of them to something.
Both of them want to know who the other person is, and they both want to be able to get news from each other without revealing their own news. And a phone ringing made both of them aware of each other's existence, and neither of them was willing to risk exposing themselves anymore.
It's a rather unsolvable dilemma - they both want to know each other's identities, but neither of them wants to reveal their identities, and this struggle is something they can't get rid of.
Tony reluctantly left. And at the moment of leaving, through the hanging wind chimes, he saw the reflection - in the reflection, the man wearing the hat and the trench coat, it was not clear whether it was him or another undercover agent.
Two people, what is the difference? (To be continued......)