Liu Jianming, an 18-year-old gangster, entered the police academy under the order of the bigwig Han Chen and became an undercover gangster who infiltrated the police. At the same time, another student at the Police Academy, Chan Wing-yan, was arranged by the police to join the gang as an undercover agent.

After graduating from the police academy, Liu Jianming entered the police station smoothly, and his position rose step by step, becoming a member of Team A of the Criminal Intelligence Bureau, during which he took advantage of various opportunities to provide Han Chen with a lot of information. And Chen Yongren has gained Han Chen's initial trust over the years, but because Han Chen's case has never been solved, he can only stay in the gang forever, and only Inspector Huang has one-line contact with him.

One night in 2002, according to Chen Yongren's undercover intelligence, it was learned that a batch of drugs was about to be traded, and one party to the transaction was Han Chen, but because Liu Jianming passed the news to Han Chen in time to escape, but the two sides found that they had "internal ghosts" inside, so a fierce gladiatorial battle began.

In the final ending, after deep thought, Liu Jianming decided to be a good person and asked Chen Yongren to give him a chance, but Chen Yongren did not believe it and tortured Liu Jianming. In the end, Chen Yongren died under Han Chen's other police undercover gun, and Liu Jianming also killed the undercover agent who fired the shot.

The 97-minute movie is very exciting, and Sun Ziming's words before the screening made the guests and professional fans pay more attention to the humanity in the film, and invisibly cast a veil on a film that should have been a police film.

When Liu Jianming and Chen Yongren stood on the rooftop, they said those two classic lines, 'Liu Jianming: You undercover agents are really interesting. Old meet on the rooftop. Liang Yongren: I'm not like you, I can see the light', Tino looked at his grandson next to him thoughtfully.

'Bang', after a gunshot, Chen Yongren collapsed in front of the elevator door.

"Don't be afraid, we are brothers."

After a few gunshots, the closed elevator door opened, and Liu Jianming, who was in a suit and leather shoes, came out of the elevator with his ID card in his hand and under the watchful eyes of the heavily armed police.

The good guys are dead, but the bad guys are all right?

The stunned audience woke up like a dream when they saw the subtitles on the screen and the lights in the theater turned on.

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I have to say that Sun Ziming's remarks at the premiere are very effective, alluding to the Chinese tradition of 'articles are written for the time', and elevating a commercial film into a work of art of personal perception. Fa Ge's acting skills are not comparable to Liu Tianwang, the struggle of human nature is just right, and Liang Chaowei perfectly interprets the irreplaceable pathos rendered by fate.

The next day, the mainstream media and professional film critics were full of praise for the rare classic police film, and positioned it as 'a literary film dressed as a police film that explores human nature':

Yesterday, at the kind invitation of Mr. Sun Ziming, I watched his latest masterpiece "Infernal Affairs" and had a dream that seemed to be true.

The nineteenth volume of the Nirvana Sutra: The most of the eight hells, called the Infernal Hell, means to suffer great suffering without interruption, hence this name.

Liu Jianming and Chen Yongren, two men in the Infernal Hell, have been doing what they should do and always playing the role they should play, so they have never been able to distinguish which is the real themselves. Time keeps slipping by, slowly forgetting who you are, every day when the sun rises, you start to put on a mask, start acting, live forever in lies, and only in dreams can you get temporary relief.

Jizo Bodhisattva Sutra 2: If you fall into this prison, you will enter it from the beginning. Up to hundreds of thousands of eons, one day and one night, ten thousand deaths and ten thousand lives. Ask for a thought, and you can't stay temporarily. Unless the karma is exhausted, you will be born. In this way, it is called inseparable.

When you choose, the outcome is already predestined. Liu Jianming and Chen Yongren, two similar but different people, are both walking on the road of this Infernal Hell, and they both want to escape from this Infernal Hell. The two of them struggled in this infernal hell, and finally Chen Yongren died, got the identity of a policeman and lost his daughter; Liu Jianming kept the secret and will definitely be promoted, but he lost his wife's love and lost his unborn child.

The two of them went on the same path, their karma was exhausted, and they were reborn. ——Ming Pao

Maybe you are used to the victory of good over evil, a happy ending, or a lose-lose situation. This ending is like a withered flower, but it has not died at its most beautiful, but has come to an abrupt end when it is about to wither. In the end, Officer Liu didn't figure out whether he wanted to be a good person or a bad person, and killed his subordinates, except for the treacherous expression on his face, he was obviously the biggest boss - "Hong Kong Island Daily"

"I didn't have a choice before, but now I want to be a good person," he said. ”

He looked at his back as he left the police academy and said, "I want to change with him." ”

Which is black and which is white, only the gray eyes make people empty and melancholy.

When Chen Yongren died, he didn't know how he died. But he died above board. As he said, "I'm not like you, I see the light." ”

May took his daughter with her, attended his funeral, and she didn't say that it was their child. And how much has he paid and sacrificed for justice in the past ten years?

Liu Jianming wants to be a good person, but is this really the case? He just chose a more decent and nourishing way of living, if he was now the boss of the underworld, would he still want to change his ways?

After he shot and killed another undercover undercover undercover agent, he didn't recover Chen Yongren's identity, did he. Everyone who knows his true identity is dead, now he can rise to the top, just coax a few words from his girlfriend, Mary will definitely forgive himself, and his life can still be very comfortable.

Is that really the case?

Perhaps the subtitles at the beginning and end of the film give us the best answer.

The nineteenth volume of the Nirvana Sutra: The most of the eight hells, called the Infernal Hell, means to suffer great suffering without interruption, hence this name.

The Buddha said: Those who suffer from infernal life will never die, and longevity is the catastrophe of infernal hell.

It's so shocking and moving. For example, when Superintendent Huang died, for example, when Silly Qiang was dying, he believed that Chen Yongren was not a policeman.

Death is not a relief. The ignorant are the happiest, right? And those who survive in the end will endure the eternal pain of Infernal Affairs. - "Film Fortnightly"

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may be because the film is dressed in the cloak of thinking about human nature, and even the gossip media, which has always been responsible for exposing the inside story, not only praised the film, but also gave a rare professional evaluation.

"Infernal Affairs" starts with twists and turns and bizarre psychological confrontations, and in addition to a lot of entertainment elements, there are also some thought-provoking things related to philosophy. In the film, Liu Jianming wanted to be a good person, but he was full of helplessness and hesitation, and finally he went to a split personality.

In the endless black and white, it is difficult to make the right choice for yourself, and this is the most painful moment of life. What touches people in "Infernal Affairs" is not the every move of the big people, but the inner struggle of the little people. I want to be a really good person, but the past can't be erased, it's really a person in the rivers and lakes, and I can't help myself. ——Oriental Daily

The biggest credit of this movie is the director Mr. Sun Ziming, who made the narrative of the film completely serve the plot, without any side details, and completely in one go. also abandoned the previous gangster films in Hong Kong, no longer putting the righteousness of the rivers and lakes, grievances and hatred in the first place, but focusing on portraying the psychological changes of the characters; No longer blindly pursuing big scenes, big explosions, but focusing on describing how things will go.

In the film, Mr. Sun uses a lot of close-ups to express the inner thoughts of the characters, which strengthens the tension of the film and makes people hold their breath - "Apple Daily"