The cast of the underworld

The realistic style is first-class. Although many "three-level" parts of "Dragon City Years" released in the mainland have been deleted, Du's style has been maintained as a whole. The tone of this film tends to be dark gray. At the beginning, a group of senior club members discuss the next boss. This "encounter" appeared many times in the film. It is through the roles that Du Qifeng expresses his personal purpose and inclination of recommending candidates, which vividly reflects the personality development and ideological struggle of each role. The film also describes many details of the intrigue between Yam Tat-wah and Tony Leung Ka Fai, and presents a triad election to the audience in a calm style. Du Qifeng controls the rhythm of the film with unusual restraint, which can be compared with his previous work Flowers of Darkness in terms of style creation. (Sina Entertainment Review)

In 2005, the underworld shined brilliantly and was nominated for the New Taiwan Golden Horse Award 1 1, including best director, best plot, best leading actor and best supporting actor. Of course, this honor is not blown out. It should be said that all sides can represent the higher level of Hong Kong films this year. Du Qifeng's kung fu in directing gangster films is obviously beyond doubt. The plot of the whole film is compact and the clues overlap, which firmly attracts the attention of the audience. Every step is full of suspense and fascinating. In photography, Siu-keung Cheng, the director of photography, has the same style with the director. Although the photography style is somewhat conventional, the overall feeling is still in place. Wang Tianlin, the nominee for the best supporting actor among the actors, is a must in the film, which has raised the level of the gangster by a few points and made people angry. Of course, this kind of civilian design can not but be attributed to Zhang Shijie's modeling design, which has both characteristics and characteristics. In a word, this film set off a climax of Hong Kong films in 2005. (Time Network Review) The context is too complicated. Each character has its own personality and story, but it ends in a hurry due to time constraints, which is likely to make it difficult for the audience to interpret because of the interweaving of personal relationships and events. Before the filming of Dragon City, Du Qifeng wanted to cut the film into a four-hour version and release it in two episodes, but the final version premiered in Cannes in 90 minutes, and the mainland version was cut for about 80 minutes. Due to excessive deletion, the director's original spirit has been weakened, and the rich and changeable context has become a place to be criticized. (Sina Entertainment Review)

The ending ended hastily. The mainland version of the underworld was renamed Longcheng years. Although it was edited for about 15 minutes, the general structure of the film is almost the same as that of the Hong Kong version, except that the beginning and the end have been carefully edited, and Jimmy, played by Louis Koo, a young gangster, becomes a police undercover. Tracing back to the idea of the film, the film chose the name "Choose Brother Block" from the beginning, which can be said to hit the nail on the head, but it failed to pass the censorship in Hong Kong, so it was changed to "underworld"-even changed to "Dragon City Years" in the Mainland. The hasty ending is obviously only for the ultimate goal of the police to "punish evil and eliminate rape", but it is quite abrupt. (Sina Entertainment Review)

The underworld I saw was "Dragon City Years", an abridged version of the underworld. This is a very strange case in the history of film communication. Because the ending has been changed, the identity of the characters, the story structure and the most important "taste" of the whole film have been distorted. (China Newsweek review)