How to explain and source "killing and setting fire to the golden belt, building bridges and roads without corpses"

It means that people who kill and set fire can enjoy all the splendor, but those who work hard to build bridges and pave the way have no good end and no bones. Used to express indignation at social inequality.

From the movie Infernal Affairs. The original words were said by Huang Qiusheng in the dialogue between Huang Qiusheng (Inspector Huang Zhicheng) and Ceng Zhiwei (Chen Han). Because it exposed the dark side of reality and tragedy, it spread like wildfire, and the film received a good response.

Infernal Affairs has not only become an epoch-making work in the history of Hong Kong movies, but also the pinnacle of Hong Kong gangster movies.

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"Killing and setting fire to the golden belt, repairing bridges and paving the way without leaving residual bodies" comes from the dialogue between Huang and the police officer, which is the origin of the whole series of stories in Infernal Affairs. This sentence is like a spell to open the door to endless hell, which makes people see the undercurrent, complexity, chaos and distortion of the political situation in Hong Kong before the reunification.

The title of the movie Infernal Affairs means "endless hell". The title of the film is Infernal Affairs, which means that the two identities should not belong to them. They almost live in an environment similar to endless hell, fearing that others will reveal their identity in their dreams. There is no reincarnation in the endless hell, only eternal suffering, but the two protagonists in the film are seeking reincarnation? .

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