There is an article about Hong Kong movies.

The title is "Looking for a Seamless Way Out". I don't know if it is what the landlord wants. The article is as follows: Although it is an era of sluggish domestic movies, there is never a shortage of movies in our visual space. The overall downturn in the industry does not mean that there are no good works. Looking through the catalogue of domestic movies in the last six years, Infernal Affairs is undoubtedly a classic worth savoring. The success of Infernal Affairs lies not only in its complicated and disorganized plot and relationship between characters, but more importantly, it profoundly reveals the confusion and helplessness contained in life. The thrill it brings to people has far exceeded the content expressed in the story itself, and every audience will gradually understand and appreciate the so-called "endless" pain in the film with the growth of age, which may be its significance.

Infernal Affairs reveals the meaning of the so-called "endless" at the beginning of the film, and the nineteenth volume of Nie Pan Jing says that "the eight levels of hell are the highest, called endless hell, which means endless suffering". Inferred from this, "Infernal Affairs" means "the road of endless suffering", which is undoubtedly a road full of confusion and obstacles, and the protagonist of the film is among them.

The main characters of the film are Chen Yongren, an undercover policeman who was sent to the underworld by the police, and Liu Jianming, a member of the underworld who broke into the police station. It seems that their identities are completely opposite, and their status is heaven and earth. In fact, they are the * * * successors of the "seamless" fate. Both of them bear the dual identities of good and evil, and switch between these two completely different roles every day. Everything around them is familiar and strange to them. They always live in an environment that never belonged to them. However, reality is integrating them into their social environment with great power. "What is the road ahead?" The endless entanglement between reality and heart extends from here. One of the questions they face every day is "Who am I?" This seemingly simple question has always plagued their hearts. They have dual identities and personalities, and they have to wear masks every day to perform in justice and evil, and even have no time and opportunity to be themselves. "Who am I?" For them, the answer is both a question and an extravagant hope. In their daily performances, they have begun to get carried away, and their souls are always suffering from the panic of losing themselves. It's not hard to understand why Chen Yongren can only sleep peacefully at the psychologist's place, and why he will show a relieved smile when he says "Actually, I am a policeman" to the psychologist, because his wish of "being himself" has finally found a place to be realized, even if it can't be "perfect". In contrast, Liu Jianming's heart is more contradictory and painful. The long-term police career gave him a strong desire to leave the underworld organization. He wants to be a good person. However, knowing his underworld identity, Chen Han, has always been his biggest obstacle, so that neither the underworld nor the police station can be his spiritual belonging. He must hide his inner world from Chen Han, the police station and his fiancee. He can't show his true self in front of everyone. He will never find his place between good and evil, as his fiancee Mary said in her novel, "He plays with himself every day and even forgets his true character". After Chen Han was killed, Liu Jianming thought it was all over, and he could finally be a good man as he wished. However, an accident made Chen Yongren know his identity, and Liu Jianming was once again pushed back into the gap between justice and evil. He hoped to get a chance to be a good person, but his past made him completely away from this opportunity. He has to face the past that he never wants to face again, and he has to pay for his past. When they met on the rooftop, Liu Jianming, who was also a gangster, shot and killed Chen Yongren and exposed Liu Jianming's identity, which shattered his desire to be a good man again. He doesn't want to go back to the gap between good and evil. He wanted to find his place in this endless world, and he wanted to make a final effort for his wish, so he took risks and killed the gangster's brother. In this film, Liu Jianming is undoubtedly a combination of tragedy and paradox. He can't tell right from wrong in Infernal Affairs. He wants to be a good man, but he is getting farther and farther away from a good man. If he is not a good person, he deviates from his inner desire. Both "doing" and "not doing" are wrong. From the day he embarked on this road, he was doomed to never go back.

The two wounded souls in Infernal Affairs are desperately looking for a way out of the seamless world. No one can really understand their pain, but they have no choice but to endure it. In the film, two people listen to Cai Qin's songs in a video store, which becomes one of the classic scenes. "Who is knocking at my window, who is plucking the strings ..." Perhaps only at this time can they forget the reality temporarily and gain a moment's peace of mind. They have been walking in this infernal affairs for too long. As the theme song sings, "Look at my nonstop footsteps, I have forgotten where I am." ... who can change the length of life, who knows how terrible eternity is, who knows that life is often more cruel than fate, but no one is willing to give up. "In a seamless world, they live for survival and find a way out. They are already tired but unwilling to give up. The same is true of longevity. People wear various masks every day, looking for living space in reality. In order to seek relief, "we constantly forget the way out on the road, pursue occasional satisfaction in disappointment, and we are all freed from the bitterness of falling in love in our dreams and wandering in the dim light." Fate can never be understood, and people are destined to constantly fight against it. Where is the way out? Maybe at the end of life, there is still no answer, but no way out does not mean no hope, and no answer does not mean giving up the pursuit. Many times, what we pursue is actually only the process, not the result. Faith and hope may be the last spiritual pillar of the endless world. " Since we can't reach the finish line, we should go back to the original point and enjoy the endless road.