Wangjiao related film and television

Night in Mong Kok

Mong Kok is known as the most densely populated place in the world, a sleepless world. Every day, there are stories of drunken dreams.

abstract

A new immigrant () came to Hong Kong to work, looking for his missing girlfriend Sue. He found his first job after being introduced by the mysterious old six. Unexpectedly, he was tricked into being a killer and involved in a vendetta between two gangs. In fact, Lao Liu is also an informant of the police in secret, and it is paid to provide information on gang vendetta. Knowing that he became the scapegoat of Liu, he took the bounty and pistol given by Liu and embarked on the road of death under the pursuit of black and white. During this period, I met Dan (Cecilia Cheung), a prostitute who came to Hong Kong from the mainland. At first, Dan just wanted to come up with an idea for the money. Later, when they learned the story behind each other, they sympathized with each other and decided to pursue Sue's whereabouts together. Hong Kong dancer Su was seriously injured in a gang vendetta car accident, and her life was dying.

The police's anti-gang activities are also in full swing, but unfortunately many actions are in vain and can't escape. Encouraged by Lai, Dan decided to stop being a prostitute and return to his hometown to start over. At the same time, the police learned that the vendetta on the rivers and lakes had subsided and everything seemed to be over ... Frye, a new immigrant from Mong Kok, was looking for a way of life in this place known as the most densely populated in the world. In this sinful city that never sleeps, there is a story of getting drunk and dreaming of death every day. Frye had to stay in Hong Kong in order to find his missing girlfriend Sue. After being introduced by the mysterious old six, he found a job, but he didn't know that he had already been tricked into being a killer and was involved in a vendetta between two big gangster societies. Sue was actually a dancer. She was seriously injured in a gang vendetta car accident and died. With the passage of tears.

This is the first film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai. In order to do a good job in this creation, Wong Kar-wai once made friends with some underworld people and made a thorough understanding of their lives before directing this film. Although the material of the film is popular, the "anti-implication" of the story itself makes the film not popular in the end, but has a special sense of reality. For this kind of characters, the director did not portray them as black and white people according to the general Jianghu movie mode, but as people with flesh and blood and shortcomings, which made the film quite contemporary and set off the romance and passion of youth. The film reduces the old routine used by ordinary Hong Kong films, and it is good in both interest and connotation.

This film is Wong Kar-wai's directorial debut. Wong Kar-wai combined his unique image style with the traditional Hong Kong underworld action movies, and brought the MTV-style abstract vision and poetic romantic feeling into this movie, thus showing a different style from other action movies. The chivalrous feelings and warmth between the characters are elegant but not stagnant, and between the broken story and the messy color images, they are more sensual. This emotional film performance has broken through the rigid defects of Hong Kong underworld action films in the past, which is refreshing. The artistic sense added to the commercial elements became a creative new action film among many action films of that year. At the same time, Tears Run fully shows the mystery and beauty of Wong Kar-wai's later films. He extracted this film from an extremely secular and patterned Hong Kong film, which won more than a dozen nominations for the Hong Kong Film Awards. At that time, the film also made people see another kind of acting charm of stars as idols. Wong Kar-wai discovered the unique and mysterious feelings of several idol stars.

That the Year of the Loong, that 27-year-old Andy Lau, that 27-year-old Jacky Cheung, that 24-year-old Maggie Cheung, that 3 1 year-old Wan Ziliang, * * * all gathered under a big brother named Wong Kar-wai and started a Jianghu story. At that time, Andy Lau was like a real idol, invincible in youth. At that time, Jacky Cheung was like an uninhibited young man, generous and lovely. At that time, Maggie Cheung was like a fragrant pale yellow flower. At that time, Wan Ziliang was not as juryman as he is now.

Most importantly, Wong Kar-wai was wearing a pair of ordinary black-rimmed glasses instead of sunglasses. I also caught a glimpse of this in the trailer of the DVD appendix.

At first glance, this movie doesn't look like a Wong Kar-wai movie with a strong personal style, but it may be considered as an ordinary Jianghu gangster movie, with vendetta, eldest brother and younger brother, women around eldest brother, loyal love, which seems to be no different from those ordinary Jianghu hero movies in the 1980s.

Otherwise, in fact, the protagonists are marginal people, and their strong sense of fate has already taken on the tone of Wong Kar-wai's later films. This film is not so much a propaganda of loyalty to the rivers and lakes as an expression of disgust and helplessness to the rivers and lakes, which is quite different from ordinary rivers and lakes films.

Of course, in the image processing of Wang Dao's fame, the style is not particularly obvious, but there are still several examples and slow mirrors that reflect a personal style that he began to pursue in the future.

The voiceover monologues of the characters in the film don't appear at all, which is probably the least Wong Kar-wai-like place in the film. to live and die in mongkok

This film combined Nick Cheung, the winner of Witness, Bao Xiqing, the winner of Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai, and Liao Qizhi and Chen Liyun, the strongest actors in the Hong Kong Film Awards in 2008, and made a film "Mong Kok Prison" belonging to Hong Kong, starting from real people-released prisoners, gangs, police bandits and prostitutes, which never sleeps.

Jing Wong, a genius, won great praise for his performance in Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai. In 2009, he co-directed Mong Kok Prison with Zhong Shaoxiong. In the film, he plays a schizophrenic ex-prisoner Hui. The teenager was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a policeman for a society. Later, he was released on parole with the help of a member of parliament (Chen Liyun) because of his long-term influence on schizophrenia. After 30 years, Mong Kok has been unrecognizable, and Hui will set foot in her old place again, just like in prison, and she can't escape this demon any more ... In the play, Paw Hee-ching plays Hui's mother, who has a different mother-child relationship because she can't even recognize her son. "Half Sea and Half Flame" Monica and "money empire" Meng Yao took the lead, playing a "skilled" woman from the mainland and a mentally retarded sister respectively. Deng Debao from Besieged City and Liang Jinlong from Days and Nights in Tin Shui Wai also participated in the performance, and their acting skills were impressive. Loyal and treacherous detectives colluded with Wei and other underworld forces to kill Hui. The whole movie is full of real feelings, with strong gunpowder and black-and-white drama.