In 2006, Liu Weiqiang and Mai Zhaohui directed the film
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"Hurt the City" is a film directed by Liu Weiqiang and Mai Zhaohui, starring Liang Chaowei, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Xu Jinglei, Shu Qi, etc.The film was released in Hong Kong on December 21, 2006.It tells the story of two policemen with sad memories: Liu Zhengxi had a hatred of killing his family. In order to revenge, he would marry the daughter of his enemy and kill his wife's family;Qiu Jianbang was so upset about his girlfriend's suicide that he resigned from his police post to investigate the cause of his girlfriend's death. However, he accidentally found out a massacre in Macao 20 years ago.CCTV-6 Good Film Appointment was broadcasted on February 2, 2008>>>
It tells the story of two policemen with sad memories: Liu Zhengxi had a hatred of killing his family. In order to revenge, he would marry the daughter of his enemy and kill his wife's family;Qiu Jianbang was so upset about his girlfriend's suicide that he resigned from the police to investigate the cause of his girlfriend's death. However, he accidentally found out a massacre in Macao 20 years ago[1]。
CCTV-6 Good Film Appointment was broadcasted on February 2, 2008[11]
On Christmas Eve 2003, Qiu Jianbang, an agent of the homicide team(Takeshi Kaneshiro)A serial rapist was arrested.On the morning of Christmas Day, I returned home and found Rachel committed suicide in bed. Rachel was his girlfriend.After the autopsy, Qiu Jianbang learned that she had just been pregnant for more than two months.After that, Qiu Jianbang changed his profession and became a private detective for three years. At the same time, he became an alcoholic.
In 2006, Liu Zhengxi, Qiu Jianbang's best friend, the best opponent on the table and the most trusted supervisor of the Murder Team(Liang Chaowei)Murdered his wife Kim Sook jin(Xu Jinglei)The father of the invisible millionaire Jin Yuansheng.Having worked as the leader of the homicide group for many years, the design of this murder case is of course flawless.Liu Zhengxi deliberately left every evidence, pointing to two unemployed vagrants Chen Weiqiang and Huang Bin.One week after the crime, Chen Weiqiang and Huang Bin lay dead in the village house in Saigon. The evidence showed that the two men were not evenly sharing the spoils and killed each other. The police and the Justice Department quickly closed the case.
The development of the case is all in the calculation of Liu Zhengxi, but he has never been at large. Jin Shuzhen will doubt the case for a senseless reason;Not counted, Shu Zhen went to Qiu Jianbang to investigate the case;Never mind, I have been monitored by a mysterious person.Liu Zhengxi did not count, life is impossible to count;Since it is impossible to calculate, there is only walking.
Although the situation of drinking is very serious, she and her new girlfriend Sifeng(Shu Qi decoration)The relationship between Qiu Jianbang and his wife is complicated and confusing, but for the murder case, Qiu Jianbang is the only one who wakes up when everyone is drunk. He is pressing to the truth step by step.On the one hand, Liu Zhengxi changed the plan and cleared up all doubts that were detrimental to him. On the other hand, he pursued the true identity of the mysterious person, pushed Jin Shuzhen to the edge of mental collapse, and then carried out the unfinished plan.
He successfully led Qiu Jianbang to the corner of reasoning and captured the mysterious man.Once again, Liu Zhengxi laid an impeccable trap to kill Jin Shuzhen, kill her for money, and seize the three hundred million industries of Jin family. The plan was all in his calculations.Jin Shuzhen's life is in danger, but Liu Zhengxi miscalculates again. He has not calculated his true feelings for Jin Shuzhen.Emotional mistakes made the case turn from bad to worse. When Qiu Jianbang found the identity of the murderer, he knew that there was another truth hidden in the truth. Liu Zhengxi and Chen Weiqiang were inextricably linked.When Qiu Jianbang revealed the truth to Liu Zhengxi, another killing of Liu Zhengxi began.
Liu Zhengxi is the Chief Inspector of the Murder Section of the Hong Kong Police. He is resourceful and calm in handling cases, has strong analytical leadership, is good at layout and is well known in the police circles, and is also loved by his subordinates.In ordinary days, Liu Zhengxi is calm and calm, never emotional, and stresses discipline and legal procedures.Liu Zhengxi is a typical versatile person. He is gentle and elegant in front of his colleagues and family, but he is ruthless in the face of suspects and enemies.He used his professional skills to exterminate his wife's family and get away with it.But when the carefully designed revenge plan finally came true, Liu Zhengxi was not happy at all, because the love between him and his wife had been established unconsciously.
Sha Zhan, the former homicide team, is the top talent in the action team.With both wisdom and courage, the patient and endurance are amazing, and the idea is unconstrained, which is different from ordinary people;When investigating cases, we will never stop until we reach the truth.He had a cheerful personality and rich feelings;But because his girlfriend committed suicide, he gave up himself, became addicted to alcohol, and left the police force to become a private detective who investigated the affairs of love affairs and sought people to collect debts.In fact, the pure heart never dies, and has been struggling to find out the truth about his girlfriend's suicide;On the other hand, he pursued the Jin family's extermination.
Jin Shuzhen is the daughter of a wealthy family and the wife of Liu Zhengxi.As a reporter, she has a strong personality, is outgoing, and is very persistent about the truth of the world, but is gentle and tender to her husband.Her originally happy life collapsed in an instant because her father was killed.After her father was killed, she kept thinking about the mystery and tried hard to trace it.However, her husband Liu Zhengxi's careful care made her regain the will to survive, which was the prelude to another killing game for the people beside her.
Beer salesgirl, who shuttles around bars every night, has a hard time meeting all kinds of people.He knows how to make a living by using his talent, but in fact, he is single-minded.She is eloquent, lively and shrewd.She was obedient to Qiu Jianbang. After a night of romance, she thought she had fun on the spot, but unexpectedly she could not extricate herself from falling in love with a person she should not love.
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Music soundtrack
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Album Information
Artist: Chen Guangrong
Issue date: December 20, 2006
Issuing company: East Asia Entertainment
song
1、Silent Night
2、Apres Un Reve
3、Suicide
4、Blood
5、Confession
6、Lost In Macau
7、Battle
8、Love Hurt
9、Remember
10、After The Fire
11、Pain
12、Church
13、Killing Night
14、Alley Chase
15、Tracking
16、Cop Teaser
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Behind the Scenes
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"Hurt the City" is the first time that Shu Qi and Takeshi Kaneshiro have cooperated to make a film. Shu Qi said Takeshi Kaneshiro would thank her every time after shooting a shot, and would often say sorry after shooting a passionate scene, taking care of her feelings very much. Moreover, both of their Cantonese are now available.
Leung Chiu wai changed his positive image in the film and played the role of both good and evil.Liang Chaowei chats with the staff gently at the scene, but as soon as he puts on his glasses and prepares to shoot, he immediately turns into a beast criminal policeman with a gloomy face.
Takeshi Kaneshiro, who is an agent in the film, wants to break into the house to catch the rapist and murderer. Although some people help him break into the house, he suffers when he rushes into the house, because his leather boots are very easy to slip when walking. Fortunately Takeshi Kaneshiro keeps rubbing his leather boots on the ground, making it not so slippery.
Shu Qi often played with electric toys on the set during the shooting process, and didn't stop until the director wanted to confiscate her electric toys.
In the play, Takeshi Kaneshiro's girlfriend, Yiwen Huang, committed suicide and was admitted to the hospital. Takeshi Kaneshiro ran into the emergency room with his girlfriend in his arms. However, Takeshi Kaneshiro was very prone to fall when he walked because of his injured foot. Every time Takeshi Kaneshiro was about to fall, Liu Weiqiang would laugh and say, "Get down on the street, get down on the street."(Cantonese means falling)。
Director Liu Weiqiang, Mai Zhaohui and screenwriter Zhuang Wenqiang are known as the "Iron Triangle" group because they have co produced the film Infernal Affairs.In order to create the movie "Hurt the City", the three people cooperated again.The nature of the story in Traumatic City is quite different from Infernal Affairs. The story in Traumatic City is mainly about reasoning and detectives.In 2003, SARS caused great damage to the hearts of Hong Kong people, and people's hearts have also undergone great changes. Therefore, "Traumatic City" is a story of pure Hong Kong, and the title of "Traumatic City" refers to the sad city of Hong Kong.
shooting process
"Hurt the City" started shooting in July 2006, and the whole film was shot in the hot summer with a temperature of 30 degrees Celsius. However, in order to match the winter background in the film, the actors kept a professional attitude. Liang Chaowei, Jin Chengwu, Xu Jinglei and Shu Qi all wore winter clothes, and no one complained.The room where the crew filmed the scene was stuffy and stuffy due to its small location and the fact that the radio on the scene could not turn on the air conditioner, which made Liang Chaowei in sweater and suit and Takeshi Kaneshiro in leather coat feel very hot. In addition, Takeshi Kaneshiro, who was an agent in the film, had to break the door and pull out his gun. Every scene was sweating heavily, but he could still smile and mutter to himself from time to time,Practice Cantonese slang repeatedly with his impure Cantonese.
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Positive comments
Compact story structure
The whole story of the film is not only compact but also closely linked.Zhuang Wenqiang's play seems simple, but its structure is complex, and several clues intersect in time and space.Although the truth was revealed at a very early stage of the film, the director used the Hitchcock style detective story reasoning technique to separate the context of the case layer by layer, arranged it carefully and step by step, and at the same time, the complicated emotional clues between several pairs of characters brought in were also neatly arranged,Make the subtle psychological confrontation and changes between the case and the characters' emotions convincing but not far fetched(Sina Online Review)[6-7]。
Unique plot design
The theme of "Hurt the City" is "injury", which is a sad story happened in the city. The director has grasped the concept of "injury" forcefully and created a proper sentimental atmosphere.The film unexpectedly shows Liang Chaowei's killing scene at the beginning of the film, which is equivalent to pushing the audience into an omniscient perspective, which is very consistent with the "McGovern" in Hitchcock's film. It seems to reveal the answer, but it actually adds another suspense to the audience,This design fully reflects the writer's originality in plot design(Sina Online Review)[8]。
Breakthrough in expression techniques
The surreal paragraph of the film uses the expression method of blending black and white with color, which has never appeared in the previous film. This reflects the director's exploration in exploring the film's performance ability, which can be said to be a major breakthrough of the director."Traumatic City" focuses on the haze of the characters' hearts and the ambiguity and complexity of the city background, and makes the breathtaking and moving trace to the incomplete human nature the biggest selling point of the film.The portrayal of love between men and women in the film is more exquisite and in-depth than Infernal Affairs.Another major feature of the film in terms of expression is the use of many close-up shots, which more subtly shows the psychology of the characters(Sina Online Review)[8]。
"Hurt the City" told the audience who was committing crimes at the very beginning, and the director team proudly showed the attitude of "Don't worry, I will finally justify myself".Because they were afraid that exposing the ending of the story prematurely would be criticized as a "tiger's head and snake's tail", Liu Weiqiang and Mai Zhaohui were particularly careful about this, fearing that there would not be enough buried lines. Here and there, the foreshadowing was left stretched behind everywhere.As a result, although it avoids being top heavy, the last 20 minutes of the film are always slow, tedious and chaotic(Bi Chenggong)[9]。
The performance of actors is not up to standard
Xu Jinglei's performance in the film is a failure, and the problem is quite obvious.First of all, Zhou Shuzhen, the wife of Liu Zhengxi played by Xu Jinglei, should be a scheming woman. She would not say anything until the end, so the performance of the actors should be hierarchical.However, Xu Jinglei's performance is too pretentious, and her struggle is not enough. She completely vasses the characters who are undercurrent in her inner world(Bi Chenggong)[9]。
Production and distribution
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Release date
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Country
December 20, 2006
Taiwan, China
February 8, 2007
Germany
December 21, 2006
Hong Kong, China
April 12, 2007
U.S.A
December 21, 2006
Malaysia
April 12, 2007
Thailand
December 22, 2006
Mainland China
May 31, 2007
the republic of korea
December 28, 2006
Singapore
June 19, 2007
Japan
Box office
On December 22, 2006, "Hurt the City" was released in the mainland of China and scored 24 million yuan at the box office on the first weekend.As of January 3, 2007, the box office of the film has exceeded 60 million yuan in mainland China[10]。
