Evaluate the movie "Eavesdropping"?

The eavesdropping storm is really rare in form. At present, a work mainly financed by domestic sources, but retaining the pure Hong Kong flavor, seems to be a rare variety.

However, the Hong Kong flavor of eavesdropping is only relative. Hong Kong films have always had the tradition of "sandwich people", and people and things rooted in this colonial land are always full of helplessness and irresistible meaning. This borderline gesture of black and white confusion further developed into Infernal Affairs in the 20th century, and put forward the theme of identity in the form of gangster films. Hezhuang, who inherited the mantle, is more familiar with this. Both the subsequent Story of Wounded City and Search for Asia University have painstakingly played the fuzzy zone of Yi Jiao and Loyalty, exploring the sandwich state of human nature with contradictions and changes, and enhancing the drama taste and theme depth.

On the surface, The Eavesdropping Storm is as rich as ever with two-faced characters, which is rendered by various difficulties in life, but in essence, it can achieve compromise during the editing and directing period. In fact, the characters in this play are not as "exhausted" as Liu Jianming in Infernal Affairs or Huo in A Chinese Odyssey. And Huo finally chose a road of no return, so the ending is always a little sad, and the three protagonists in the eavesdropping storm are all there.

Compromise is inaction. In fact, no one in the film with the slogan "Out-of-body experience for greed" is really greedy. They didn't destroy the body, nor did they kill Li Zixiong's mistress Zhu Huimin, and they didn't really deserve Liu Qingyun's dialogue "cheat to the end if you want", but the last three people ended badly, as if they were not greedy enough. In this case, how can they be positive? In fact, their greed has just begun to appear in the middle of the film, but it was snuffed out inadvertently and they began to redeem themselves. The theme of the story then shifts to the struggle between the ICAC and Wang Minde. Their beautiful thoughts are looming in the film, which can not form a strong dramatic contrast and human contradiction. Since there is no persistent "greed", the meaning of "redemption" will naturally decrease, and the teachings that I hope to convey to the audience will become powerless. Therefore, after the whole movie, the story with compact narrative is always like a dose of seasoning, and it doesn't feel enough.

Liu Qingyun, who took the initiative among the three people, always played the role of "compromise" and "inaction" to the extreme. Until the end, he couldn't get rid of the identity of the virtual third party, and even Zhang Jingchu didn't dare to set foot in the house. The scene of proposing marriage outside the window is not so much touched by emotion as by the form of "dialogue through the window" In the final analysis, the victory of the sense of form only embodies the golden mean victory of "governing by doing nothing" and strengthens the sense of helplessness.

It is still such a plot arrangement, as Zhuang said in an interview, projecting his cowardice and helplessness to life on the role. However, under such a current situation, such vague values and undisclosed plot settings make people wonder whether it is because Hong Kong films have to take a "sandwich" step between systems after they are unable to be bilingual. Survival between cracks has always been the survival skill of Hong Kong people. From then on, Hong Kong-made films no longer need to pursue the concepts of "original flavor" and "uncut", but the determined picture is the final product. Even if both ends are helpless, there is only one.

Although the theme is vague and the technique is flawed, The Eavesdropping Storm is a wonderful work worth seeing, even in the hearts of Hong Kong fans, it has been desecrated for a long time. The appearance of faces such as Yang Ling and Ou Jintang in the film is a miracle in today's Hong Kong films, not to mention a group of men with a great sense of drama such as Luo Yingjun and Zou Kaiguang, and even the appearance of Zhang Jingchu in the film is not abrupt. As a southerner, her appearance in the film also diluted some "irreconcilable" between North and South. Anthony Pun, who once filmed "Fork Road", is a mirror in this film, especially for Maizhuang, in terms of the shift of perspective and the overall control of the changes in the relationship between people.

Even compromise is a noble compromise.

Eavesdropping: only compromise has no truth.