In the movie, the gang's drug dealing has already begun. They were dealing with Colombian drug lords — anyway, people in Latin America are almost drug dealers in the eyes of Americans, and Colombia is a place where drug kings are everywhere. There is no problem in choosing them as trading partners.
Sitting in the crowd, seeing the plot advance to this point, he turned his head slightly and watched the people's reactions in the theater.
This episode can be said to be the first climax of the plot and is also one of the places where the rhythm suddenly speeds up in Levi's movie.
In the Hong Kong version of Infernal Affairs, one of the biggest problems is that the rhythm control is slightly weak. This approach makes the movie seem less uniform. Compared with the American version, this is a big flaw.
And Levi wants to correct this shortcoming, so he naturally makes good use of this transaction here. Speed up the pace of this transaction, and then slow down later.
This movie's Hong Kong version is better overall, but the American version of director Scorsese's rhythm control and shooting skills are better in comparison. When Levi made the movie, he used whatever was easy to use. This is his way of doing things.
Obviously, his arrangement was pretty good, and he also saw the satisfied look on the faces of the audience. Commercial movies have to have climaxes constantly, and the first climax came in less than 20 minutes, which is still very satisfying.
At this point, the transaction has already started. Billy and Colin try their best to convey the news, but they can't reach their respective boss. But neither is stupid.
The gang boss separated the place of delivery from the place of payment, making it impossible for Colin to obtain the location of the drugs for a while. At this time, the police captain cleverly changed the signal, making the gang boss think the police operation had been canceled.
The battle of wits between the two sides unfolded. Although there was not a single gunshot, the tense atmosphere still rose. Eric watched the movie at this time and found it quite enjoyable: Compared with the practice of gunfights, this kind of movie has a unique flavor.
Not through gunfights, violence, or heroism to highlight the characters but to portray the struggle between the police and the gang through a battle of wits. This approach is unique.
On the one hand, the gang has already started to inspect the goods, and the transaction on the ship was arranged quite skillfully. On the other hand, at the transaction location, Colin set out the delivery location and sent the news to the police officer. This is also a special arrest operation, which seems successful.
At the last moment, Billy still sent out the signal of his approach.
The signal was sent directly to all the people at the arrest scene. As soon as this signal was sent out, although people still didn't know who was the undercover agent, they also knew that there were undercover agents in the police. A piece of news, two undercover agents were exposed at the same time.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and people also wanted to know what they would do now.
"Throw the goods into the river."
The voice of the boss, played by De Niro, is quite grim. There was apparent hesitation on the face of the younger brother, played by Phoenix, but De Niro spoke again, so he still had to dump all the goods into the river.
Priceless drugs. And so they were all thrown into the river.
In the theater, someone let out a small exclamation. There are too many movies where all means are used for drugs, and this way of pouring the drugs already in hand into the river is completely shocking.
But doing so is the real hero.
This method is simple and violent. All the evidence that the police wanted was destroyed, and the long-awaited arrest turned into a joke.
And this approach also made the gang boss and the police officer all know that there were other undercover agents in their police station. Both sides scanned their subordinates, guessing who was the undercover agent.
The gang boss, played by De Niro, finally showed his cruel side at this time. He stared at the people in the room one by one, examining them. And when Colin approached him, he suddenly grabbed Colin's hand that was in plaster and slammed it hard on the table.
This move makes people feel nervous. One is that people know Colin is holding a phone in his hand with a plaster cast, and the other is that people know how painful it is for the plaster on a severed arm to break. To do it for the sake of one's own unproven suspicions is pretty brutal.
Colin, in the movie, at this time, also had his veins exposed in pain, but he didn't even dare to make a sound under the eyes of the boss. As the boss' eyes shifted to his hands, seeing that there was nothing in his hands, the boss turned and left.
At this time, the camera turned to the outside of the window, allowing people to see the phone that Colin had transferred in advance.
The two undercover agents concealed themselves well and were not discovered. Of course, the police who broke in couldn't find any evidence of the transaction inside the house. This arrest operation was completely over.
The boss who was taken back to the police station had no clue and had to be released.
"I'm really bothering you. It's because you didn't play poker and lost hundreds of dollars."
When facing the gang boss, the captain obviously didn't control his mouth. His provocative words made the face of the gang boss change. Where did he lose a few hundred dollars? He couldn't bear this kind of ridicule.
The two bosses, right in the police station, began to threaten each other with strong hints.
This episode made Eric even more excited: after the dialogue between the two protagonists at the beginning of the movie, this episode is the real drama. After this period, the confrontation between the two sides has officially become clear.
After watching enough gangster movies, one can know that it is impossible for them to resolve it gently. Now, the two heroes are bound to fight; only one side can win.
This time, the conflict between the two intensified. The confrontation between the two bosses is over, and the plot is moving forward.
Billy brought his friends from the police station to work on his new home, and it was at this time his fiancée finally appeared in the camera. The character played by Aniston still has the temper of a vase, but it can make people feel Billy's warm life at once.
The atmosphere of the movie, from the present tense situation, suddenly became warm and calm.
And at this moment, the phone rang.
With one arm around his beautiful fiancée and the other hand on the phone with the boss of the gangster. This state of Billy makes people feel slightly ironic. What's even more ironic is that when he receives an order from the gang boss to investigate the informant, his girlfriend talks to him about the idea of her novel.
"If a person has a dual personality, then every morning after he wakes up, he has to act against himself. Isn't that awkward?" There was still a smile on Billy's face, but the uneasiness in his heart was shown again.
How long will it take him to act like this before her?
At the same time, Colin also woke up in the psychiatrist's clinic. After standing up from the chair, he also chatted and laughed with the psychiatrist.
Eric also understood that the lives of Billy and Colin always intersect.
Compared with the previous emotional scene, this one is obviously more relaxing. Unlike Billy, who had to be perfunctory when talking, although there was no intimacy and affection in Colin's words, a sense of trust was unnaturally revealed in the conversation.
He trusts the psychiatrist before him very much. When he sleeps in her clinic, he will also ask about the confusion in his heart, whether he is a good person or a bad person, and jokes that he dreamed of her.
Both of them are at a loss, but the difference is that Billy has no one he can trust in his confusion, while Colin still has someone he can trust - it's like a light in the dark, which makes people feel more confident. He is strong enough to hold on.
This difference is also one of the important reasons for their transformation: Billy no longer agrees with his undercover status, while Colin insists on his covert status. There is a reason for this.
Immediately afterward, the two sides once again had a battle of wits because of the undercover agent's identity. Colin noticed the whereabouts of the documents and left a mark on the envelope. At the same time, Billy made an appointment with the gang boss in the theater.
On one side, the meeting was on a sunny rooftop; on the other, it was dark and impenetrable. The movie theater with the lights on also explains the difference between the two groups.
And on the screen in the movie, a pretty landscape pattern is played - this seems to imply that the happy life of the gangsters is just a false beauty.
He took a few words and quickly finished explaining, but Billy, who left, didn't realize he had been followed by the thoughtful Colin behind him.
On the street, two people followed one after the other. The surging crowd made Colin almost lose track of the people before him a few times, but he followed, relying on his sharpness.
And in the blink of an eye, just as they were about to grab each other, the phone rang suddenly, alerting them to something.
They both want to know who the other is and hope to get news about each other without revealing their own. And the ringing of the phone let both of them know the existence of the other, and neither of them would risk exposing themselves again.
This is a rather unsolvable deadlock - they all want to know the other party's identity but are unwilling to reveal their own identities. This kind of struggle is something they cannot get rid of.
Colin reluctantly left. And the moment he left, through the hanging wind chime, he saw the reflection - in the reflection, the man in the hat and windbreaker couldn't tell whether it was him or another undercover agent.
What is the difference between the two people?
*****
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