Nick Cheung has a movie in which he plays a punk, and then his eldest brother forces his wife to sell white powder.

Director: Lin Chaoxian

Actors: Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung, Kwai Lun Mei, Liao Qizhi.

Informant: Old wine in new bottles.

First of all, this movie is great. I took my father and aunt to see it, but fortunately I didn't disappoint them. In 2009, both the Golden Horse and the Golden Statue were beautiful. Under the combination of the original team, it was made into the film Informant. Among Hong Kong movies, police action movies are one of the most popular. Since Infernal Affairs, almost all police action movies are undercover, but people who are used to watching Hong Kong movies should be familiar with the word "informant".

Before watching this movie, I didn't really think about the real difference between undercover and informant. Although there were many informers in previous films, there were few descriptions of informers. This time, Lin Chaoxian directly took the informer as the theme, and interpreted the whole story in the darkest and cruelest way, exposing the deepest human struggle between the police and the informer.

The whole movie is interpreted with a smooth content, and I want to appreciate the integrity of this script. Completely following the ancient pattern, almost everything has been said. 1 hour 53 minutes is enough to make the story clear.

At the beginning of the story, it is a scene of drug dealing. The police received secret reports long ago, including "informants" and "undercover", so the police can accurately grasp the situation at the trading site, but there are also undercover in the underworld (anyone who has seen Infernal Affairs will know). Before the transaction began, the underworld boss had got the news and ordered his younger brother to pour all the drugs into the sink in an attempt to annihilate the evidence. Inspector Li Cangdong (Nick Cheung) assured the informant that he would not arrest anyone in the act and ordered that action be taken to prevent them from losing all the evidence. As a result, the identity of the informer (Liao Qizhi) was exposed and the informer was greatly threatened.

In 2009, Liao Qizhi, a veteran actor who won the Best Supporting Actor in the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards for Witness, performed the most complete elegy of an informant in The Informant. At the beginning, he was betrayed by Li Cangdong, but he was also afraid of being hunted by the underworld. He will become a police informant, and his position in the underworld will not be too high. When there is a gunfight at the scene, the informant always hides first ), for the benefit, I have to be caught between the police and the underworld. As a gangster, accepting money from the police to betray my brother is actually more cruel than being an undercover policeman.

Liao Qizhi played the role well. He is a timid informer, confused and angry after being betrayed. Faced with the pursuit of the underworld, he just wants to live regardless of his dignity. After the trauma, he lost his courage and his family didn't want to be dragged down. He became a crazy tramp, and he did his duty as an informant.

After reading the notice, I really feel that Nick Cheung is an inhuman policeman who only focuses on solving crimes, but I want to rehabilitate him, which is actually not so bad. What is commendable about this film script is that everyone in the film has a story of their own, and the director and screenwriter have not finished everyone's story.

The action at the scene of the drug trade was advanced by Li Cangdong's order, so the identity of the informant was exposed. Although the money was given, he was hunted down and finally lost his mind and lived on the streets, but Li Cangdong did not feel strongly guilty. Because of this case, Li Cangdong was promoted, but he got carried away for a moment and made an irreparable mistake (the plot didn't come out, but it can be scrutinized after reading it).

Li Cangdong changed his way of doing things and tried to make up for his previous mistakes (learning to dance and taking care of the informant), but the relationship between the police and the informant could not be broken. This situation will only produce one unfortunate informant after another?

Informant fees have always been an important item in the police budget. Money is spent in invisible places, but it has invisible influence. The informant signed a contract with the police and collected money on a monthly basis. In addition, there are extra bonuses for other cases or intelligence. The relationship between the police and the informant is known not only by the police themselves, but also by the police's immediate superior, and there will be a contract deposited in the judicial department (similar to the prosecutor in Taiwan Province Province), which can prove that the informant participated in the operation in order to obtain information. Moreover, the restrictions on informants themselves are much stricter than those of undercover police. They can't shoot, and they can't participate in criminal activities, otherwise the charges are likely to be counted.

According to reliable information, Baba (Lu Yi), a criminal wanted by the police, sneaked back to Hong Kong to rob a gold shop. Li Cangdong's boss asked an informant to infiltrate Pakistan's group, and he was bound to be brought to justice. Li Cangdong finds the goblin (Nicholas Tse) who has just been released from prison, but he doesn't want to promise, because the goblin knows the danger of being an informant and the consequences he must bear. But when the goblin went to prison, his sister was forced into prostitution to repay her father's usury. Genie in desperation, had to promise Li Cangdong, such as good things settled, he can get one million informant fee, help my sister also usury.

On the one hand, we should weigh the problems faced by informers, on the other hand, we should also be alert to the doubts of people in the Pakistani group. As a driver, the ghost has established a different friendship with Baba Ba's wife Adi (Kwai Lun Mei). Artie is pregnant, but Baba doesn't want to stay. In fact, Bababa already has a second woman outside, so Bababa also officially broke up with Adi, saying that after this vote, it is obvious.

A group of people successfully robbed a batch of gold and escaped smoothly. Baba had already made plans to dissolve and recast all the gold, and the goblin secretly sent a message to Li Cangdong to follow, but Baba Group took the lead in rebellion. Adi teamed up with one of the gunmen to temporarily stop others, robbed the gold bars and fled. In the gunfight, Baba was arrested by the police who carried out the key attack, while Adi escaped with the goblin, and two other members of the group also escaped.

At this point, because the robbed gold has been dissolved, and there is no evidence to accuse Bhagavan of robbing the gold bank, Li Cangdong's boss ordered Li Cangdong to try to get the goblin to testify against Bhagavan, but in this way, the identity of the goblin would be exposed, leaving Li Cangdong in a dilemma.

Adi and the goblin escaped, but the goblin was shot. He secretly called Li Cangdong because Baguan had been arrested, but two other members found their hiding place and killed them directly. Finally, they had to launch a series of escapes. Although Li Cangdong arrived, he still failed to save the fate of the ghost's tragic death.

The whole story tells the story completely, but it gives people a very heavy feeling. After watching it, I suddenly want to watch a comedy and have fun. Chasing the murderer on the street, there are no fewer pictures of bloodshed. Ou's face was covered with blood, screaming and the bloody violence index soared. Probably, it will almost become a restricted level.

Finally, I want to mention the performance of the actors. Several leading roles and supporting roles in this play are very wonderful, which adds a lot to this script.

First of all, the performance of Nick Cheung and Nick Cheung, the best actor in the Golden Horse Awards the year before last, was still above standard. As a senior police officer who collects intelligence, Li Cangdong, who he plays, stays awake and calm at any time and place. He has his own set of rules and even sacrifices everything to achieve his goal, until his mistake causes his wife to have an accident and lose her memory. Li Cangdong slightly changes his way of doing things. But what happened in front of him challenged his bottom line again and again until he broke out. When he saw the ghost die in front of his eyes, he went crazy to kill the gangster. Finally, he took the informant's fee to help the ghost repay the usury (misappropriation of public funds, that is, the informant died, can the police informant's fee be saved? Is this black eating black ... = = "), my wife died in front of her and was finally taken away by the police.

Nicholas Tse, who is in his thirties, is a Mesozoic actor, but he is surprised that he has such excellent acting skills at a young age. This is an actor's professional attitude, and it is not difficult to see Nicholas Tse's progress in recent years. Compared with Li Cangdong, Xia Gui's inner turning point is not so strong. After he got out of prison, he learned that his sister was forced into prostitution to pay off debts, but there was nothing he could do. He promised to be an informant and almost gave half his life to death. In fact, he didn't know where he was going, only that Baba was going to be arrested, so that he could get 1 million informers' fees.

No one likes traitors by nature, and being an informant is also forced by the situation. But in the end, he died tragically to save his partner. I think this result is a good ending for an informant's work. The ending is sad but true. If the ghost survived and successfully testified against Baba Ba, then I doubt ... is there such a god!

The third important role should be Kwai Lun Mei's Adi. After a rough childhood, she was rescued by the gangster Baba and gradually moved on, but the result was forced abortion and breakup. Although she feels sad and resentful, this can only be attributed to the helplessness of women. No! The power of women's anger is terrible. They joined hands with the gunman's younger brother, and finally almost disintegrated the whole group, resulting in the arrest of Ba. Finally, everyone died. Desperate, they told the police the truth and became the most favorable witness to correct Baba Ba.

Kwai Lun Mei has the opportunity to participate in this performance. I think it is a very good exercise for her, but I don't know if I am too sensitive. I always feel that she and Nicholas Tse are competing in acting. Kwai Lun Mei is really a little green, but her performance is still worthy of recognition.

In addition, there are some small surprises. The more I watch it, the more familiar I become. It turned out to be a mainland actor Lu Yi; The Nursery, which plays Nick Cheung's wife, is actually dubbed by Nick Cheung's real wife Esther. King Kong really went to Hong Kong to develop. He appeared in the Hong Kong film again in The Last Break-up Club, and Adi chose King Kong directly to find insiders (because Taiwan Province hung up XDD). In fact, there is my favorite Wu Haokang in this movie, but he is a good man. He plays Yang Caini's brother in "Never admit defeat". I think he is all bad in the play ...

Finally, let me show you: they are all informants.