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How to evaluate the film Depression: The City of Desire?

The film Low Pressure Trough: City of Desire tells the story of undercover detective Qiu Yu (Nick Cheung) fighting against the black hand behind Sin City's Lonely City independently and saving himself. "Lonely City" is a flashy but depraved Sin City. Under the planning of the boss Zhan (decorated), the undercover police successfully deal with various evil forces, and the long undercover life gradually lost themselves.

However, Qiu Yu's inner desire to punish evil has never weakened. He pulled himself together and decided to come back. This time, the task assigned to him by the Afghan War turned out to be to investigate the most evil and mysterious black hand "Boss" behind Sin City.

Through a child kidnapping case, Hezhan finally found out the details of the boss. The other side has controlled the business and underworld, and even infiltrated the police. What everyone didn't expect was that Qiu Yu fell into the trap set by the boss in the process of tracing. Qiu Yu, caught between Scylla and Charybdis, seems to have been pushed into deeper despair in layers of confusion.

The film Low Pressure Trough: The City of Desire, as the third work directed by Nick Cheung, has attracted wide attention from the audience as soon as it was released. The unique temperament of the film is strongly distinguished from other police films. Director Nick Cheung once said, "Maybe I am a melancholy person myself. I think if there is no melancholy in these themes, they may have a faint taste. " .

Nick Cheung defined the film style with his own personality, which also made Low Pressure Valley: City of Desire stand out among many films about police action. It is understood that there are not only a lot of car chasing scenes and gun battles in the film, but also the story focuses on the eternal proposition of "justice" with the audience through the experience of the characters.

The film Low Pressure Trough: City of Desire tells the story of good and evil, life and death, trust and betrayal in a hard-line action scene. Director Nick Cheung once explained the title of this film: "The trough of low pressure is a weather phenomenon. Every time I come, the weather will get worse and I can't escape. Using a low-pressure trough as a metaphor is like fighting evil with people. " The "lonely city" in the film also has its profound meaning. Only in this way can the overhead background "show such a story with rebellious psychology"

The complex plot development is exciting, and many characters and relationships in the film are quite different from the classic images of the police and bandits films that the audience have seen before. He Jiong revealed in an interview that "compared with other police films, it also has many hot action scenes, but its character relationship is very metaphorical".

Low Pressure Valley: City of Desire tells an unusual story in different ways while giving the audience a top audio-visual experience, which is exactly what Nick Cheung pursues: "When watching a movie, if the audience can't guess, they can only satisfy their desire to watch a movie."