Fate and loneliness

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2020)

A strong taste of Hong Kong-style gangster films.
The lens seems to be immersed in the deep blue sea, the night view of the city in the distance, and the endless sea outside the window of the protagonist's house. All the scenes reveal a sad and fateful feeling of loneliness. The film jumps out of the binary opposition between right and evil, depicting the protagonist's process of continuous tearing between the family and individual choices in the rivers and lakes, and each character is full of tension.
What is interesting is that the policeman played by Al Pacino is crazy and arrogant. Instead, he is like a criminal on the edge of the society. The sense of justice in his heart is like a parasite. He continues to grab his mental power, making him The pursuit of justice is alienated into an animalistic stubbornness. The leader of the gang played by De Niro, Bin Bin, is polite and gentle, but like a senior white-collar worker in an office building. The contrast of the temperament of the two characters is also one of the film's dramatic tensions, and at the same time expresses the director's perception of the complex aspects of human nature, making the film's ideology more diverse.
In the first half of the film, the rhythm was dull, and in the second half, the feeling of conflict from the official confrontation between the two was more intense. It reached its climax in the final duel of the forbidden two. At the end of the two, I was defeated, The emotions that had been foreshadowing broke out. Although the director still used the genre film to tell and lay out one at a time, the cold and swaying lens texture and the actor's personal charm made the film have a clear stylistic tendency, which is one of the attractions that attracted me.