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Chapter 59 Infernal Affairs

Hearing Lin Yu's confident voice, Li Hong was slightly startled at first, and then couldn't help but exchange looks with the people around him. The others didn't say anything, but at this moment, a look of contempt flashed in their eyes.

Do you want it to be simple?
They had also read the script "Infernal Affairs" before, and after reading it, they couldn't help but be amazed.

Not only does this book represent the pinnacle of domestic police and gangster films, but it also contains aspects that go beyond police and gangster films, which cannot be performed by just anyone.

So after reading it, they only had one feeling in their hearts.

it is good!
However, it is almost unrealistic to photograph such a good thing!
Without him, you would hardly be able to meet such high requirements and gather so many actors with top acting skills at the same time!
Because if you really want to capture that flavor, you have to find four people, two pairs of young people and a middle-aged spy!
This request is too high!
And once the actor's acting skills fail to reach this level, the effect of the film will be greatly reduced.

This is why Liu Wei forced himself to go to Li Hong to find actors.

This kind of person is hard to find!

If he really can't find it, then he may have to find some powerful big-name actors to absorb the heat.

Otherwise, this film is so good, even if it is a castrated version, it will probably shock the world!
So, what is this play about that can shock people to this extent?

Very simple, three words "Infernal Affairs".

Some people will take the word literally and think it means 'traitor' or 'spy', but this is not the case.

Even if Sun Tzu's The Art of War mentions the five uses of spies, "the cause, the inner, the counter, the dead and the living", anyway, there is no word "infinite".

So what does Infernal Affairs refer to? It is the Asura Hell, the last level and the most painful of the so-called eighteen levels of hell.

Some viewers will say, ah, isn’t this a police movie? The title of the movie is actually Hell?
Yes, even the beginning of the movie uses a lot of Buddhist dubbing and ancient Buddha statues as metaphors.

No, it's an explicit statement. I'm afraid that the audience won't understand it if I express it clearly, so I might as well tell you clearly and clearly, with the following subtitles, "Nirvana Sutra No. 19, [The most of the eight hells is called the Infinite Hell, which means suffering without interruption. It means great suffering, hence the name.]"

Of course, when many viewers saw this subtitle, they probably just passed it by and didn't care at all.

I don’t even think that a nonsensical Buddhist saying can be remotely related to a police movie.

After watching it, I no longer feel that there is any connection, but in fact... it is just because the actors did not show enough tension that the deeper aspects of the movie were castrated.

Only the elements of a police film are left.

All in all, the word Infernal Affairs has nothing to do with spies. Except for the overlap of the word "Jian", it itself is synonymous with "Asura Hell".

Why is this?Because the core of this movie is to explore a kind of character, the "lurker"!
The lurker is on the opposite side, and my heart is filled with anxiety, as if I'm in the eighteenth level of hell.

Hey, when you put it this way, it seems like it’s nothing, but it’s not. For example, let’s take a look at the character Liu Jianming.

As the undercover agent sent to the police by the boss 'Han Chen', what kind of image and role does he have?
As a stark contrast, he is perfect, someone else's child, the top student in school, a genius surrounded by halo, and the star of hope for the future of the police department!
He has a bright future, a perfect career, and a loving wife, but only he knows that his heart is dirty and his origin is shameful and humble.

Everything he has now is like a flower in a mirror or the moon in the water.

It can become a bubble at any time.

He lives to pretend to be a genius, to pretend to be perfect, to pretend to be a good colleague in the eyes of his colleagues, a capable person in the eyes of his boss, and a perfect husband in the eyes of his wife.

But he was trembling with fear, fearing that a single word he said while dreaming in the middle of the night would make everything he had gained come to nothing!

He is in such a mental state, so it is called endless hell, endless torture!

So, what will this person’s character be like?He will be afraid of Han Chen, hate Han Cheng, and long to get rid of Han Chen.

All the efforts he made were to consolidate his position. At this moment, he had this "squeaky clean" identity with boundless radiance!
Therefore, under such high tension and high pressure, he could hardly tell whether he was a human or a ghost. He longed to be a real policeman and a real 'human being'!
Only after you understand this can you understand that in Infernal Affairs 3, Liu Jianming held a gun and shouted, "Liu Jianming, you are under arrest!"

Then, what was released on the tape was his own evidence of guilt.

Many people think that this kind of exposure and reversal is a bit nonsensical. In fact, this is his inevitable destination. If you understand his inner desire, you will understand how crazy, eager, and persistent he is in that scene. and schizophrenia.

Some people think that Liu Jianming went crazy because of the bullet that hit his skull.

No, in fact, he had already gone crazy in the first part.

In the kind of environment he was in, day after day, he longed to clean himself up and was cautious every step of the way.

He is a villain and a completely pathetic person.This is his inevitable destination in the endless hell, and he cannot escape his inner demons.

In contrast, Chen Yongren is a crazy ruffian, a ruthless man who likes to fight evil, and a madman who even the police would frown upon looking at him.

That's why there are so many lines, "You said that you have intentionally hurt people several times. I tried every possible means to tell the people at the Department of Justice that you had a mental problem and asked you to see a psychiatrist."

"You still hit people everywhere."

"Are you really a psychopath?"

why?Because of his high psychological pressure, his mental condition is no better than Liu Jianming's.

That's why he finally got a good night's sleep at the psychiatrist's office.

Only then can he reveal his true feelings, peel away his stinking surface, and reveal the brilliance underneath.

"Actually, I'm a policeman."

On the street, when he meets his ex-girlfriend, who he once fell in love with, and now has a child, at this moment, Chen Yongren may feel evasive and ashamed of his current identity.

What was going on in his heart when he turned around is beyond our ability to consider.

Until the end of the play, Liu Jianming is eager to clear his name and go ashore, and Chen Yongren is also eager to close his net and live an upright life. They are too eager to be innocent because they have too many things that need to be cleared before they can do it. Both of them have their own Crazy reasons.

Thus, the fates of these two poor people were intertwined.

This is why even though Han Chen dies, the drama is far from over. Some people may think that this is just a police drama about catching the eldest brother. The eldest brother is already dead, so it is necessary to go through a lot of trouble just for a little spy. Shoot down so much?
Because at least in 1, whether Han Chen dies or not has never been the key. The fate of the two poor people is intertwined, and whether they can get ashore is the key.

Therefore, from a macro perspective, Infernal Affairs is a delicate and silent film that conveys the two periods of life of two people who fell into madness and were anxious day after day.

The plot of a police movie is the outside, and the feeling of Infernal Affairs is the inside. This is the castrated other half of Infernal Affairs.

This is just like the drama Farewell My Concubine. It is essentially a drama, but the underlying emotion running through it is actually a drama about male-male love.

Cheng Dieyi's twisted character and unavailable love are what this drama wants to illustrate. The changing background of all eras only adds to the driving force of this tragedy.

Obviously, Infernal Affairs is also on this level. The driving force of all plots is just the driving force that ultimately leads to the collision of two poor people with intertwined destinies.

It tries its best to show you, and what it wants you to know is the inner collapse of the two of them, which is progressing every second.

This can even be seen from the direction of the entire plot.

Chen Yongren wanted to go ashore, but his boss was dead and the information could not be retrieved.

We are finally going ashore and the information has been deleted!

Liu Jianming wanted to go ashore and went through all kinds of troubles, killing his boss and boss, but in the end, he was caught again. The feeling of torture and collapse is actually what Infernal Affairs hopes the audience will feel.

Rather than just watching it as a police movie.

For example, Liu Jianming shot his colleague in the end, because he didn't want to be the boss of a mole at all. This was not what he wanted at all, because he was afraid.

He is afraid of anyone who knows his identity, and he urgently needs to be cleansed, completely cleansed.

He needs to protect everything he has now.

A rising star in the police force, a reliable colleague in the eyes of his colleagues, a capable subordinate in the eyes of his superiors, a perfect boss in the eyes of his subordinates, and a perfect loving wife.

He wants to protect these, he just wants to live a clean life!
Therefore, he shot the other party who was also a mole, and he didn't need anyone to know his identity.

These two people couldn't get what they asked for, and the feeling of living in inner torment every second of their lives is exactly what the movie's title is.

Infernal Affairs.

The most of the eight hells, the endless hell, means suffering great suffering without interruption.

(End of this chapter)