Movie "The Apostle" Afterthoughts

As a continuation of the TV series "The Apostle", the movie version of the film not only have nail sister, happy brother and other popular roles of the return of the more decrypted version of the drama of the buried mystery. On the first day of release, there were many TV series fans grouped to watch the movie. Unlike the general audience, for them, the movie version of the Actors is more like a nostalgic ceremony, many out of the theater fans said "see cried", lamented: "live up to so like you".

A fan said that Zhang Jiahui "a crow's feet in the corner of the eye are. And Hong Kong veteran actor Louis Koo, Wu Zhenyu every eye is also full of drama. In addition, Zhang Huiwen played the personal assistant Siu Ying has become a highlight of the film, when she threw the iron bar, the audience were stunned "so it is a deep bodyguard!"

It is customary to write an afterthought in the first hour after watching a Hong Kong drama. Whether it's a TV show, movie or book or lecture, if you really want to write something in response to it, make sure you do it as soon as possible, within 24 hours in my experience. It's similar to listening to a lecture in class, where you forget half of what you've learned and lose the feeling that you've got something in mind.

I just finished watching the Apostles finale. In recent years, Hong Kong drama endings have a characteristic of releasing a lot of information and clips within a specified time, which makes us rush and tired like catching a train. Perhaps we are too excited about the ending and want to interpret it according to our own ideas. Unfortunately, we are not writers or directors, so we can only accept it passively. For example, most people want Zhuo Sir to continue to be promoted by solving big cases and catching big criminals to reach a higher position in the police force, and then solving more cases and catching more criminals; or exploding Seed and Nail Sister to get together immediately after catching Qian Rui'an instead of waiting for three years to meet each other by chance. We have too many ideas, but there is only one ending. Luckily, it was a Happy Ending and didn't cause a riot and cursing. It's so hard to make a good drama in this day and age.

Overall, Apostle is a very good drama. Nowadays, TVB is very good at police f dramas, and undercover dramas are even more expert. I am really lucky to be able to use this drama as a gift for my return to HK drama life, and it has rekindled my passion to follow HK dramas again. As long as you watch, you will always see something good. As long as you continue to wait, you will always come across one that suits you. There is something in the words, you can read them, right?

Well, let's talk about my favorite Apostle characters. First and foremost, it's not the ultra-popular Zhuo Sir,although San's performance is really fantastic! Ladies and gentlemen, the answer is revealed, Brother Joy. From the time he appeared, to the development of the plot, I always think Brother Joy is the most in line with the real society, and is the role model for me to learn from. Oh? You must be asking, "Could it be that you want to be a bad guy?" . If you think so, it means you don't understand what I mean, and the fact that you don't see what kind of person Brother Cheerful really is. I like his thoughtfulness and forethought, his smirk, and his cunning. Of course, I will still be a good person, but I can't be like him and do whatever it takes to get what he wants. In fact, when you look closely at the apostles, you will find that only Brother Huanxi belongs to this era, the others are a bit too perfect. I prefer to watch the drama to find characters that can promote my own growth, rather than letting myself live in fantasy to achieve perfection, because I know that the more people want to be perfect the easier it is to detach themselves from reality, the easier it is to hallucinate themselves.

Joyful brother, woodlice, Guo Sir, are all very realistic characters. Their strengths and weaknesses are obvious, and what they want is clear. The most important thing about being a human being is knowing what you really want and what kind of person you want to be. Maybe you want to be like Zhuo Sir, but it's hard because it's hard to exist.

I'm getting more and more realistic, and that's good. As for whether to become good or bad, I believe that I can master, now this society, good people than bad people difficult, difficult also to insist.

Even harder to insist, and undercover agent spirit is very similar. Both have great pain, need to endure the loneliness, need to persist and encouragement.

Who is my favorite undercover agent in the show? This time I choose Kobe, he is the most painful of the five. In the face of a favorite person, but do not know what to do, is in or out? I have the feeling of not being able to say what I'm suffering from and not being able to say what I'm loving, I have it too. Kobe, off topic, the screenwriter is not a Lakers fan? I hope to send a message to Kobe Bryant, who is also experiencing difficulties?Anyway, send your blessings to every Kobe!

Five undercover agents, looking for undercover agents. This time, TVB is going to take the undercover bridge to the extreme. It could totally be renamed Undercover Storm. I like the way the search for the undercover agent is one of the main lines, TVB finally figured out where they fall short, or as I said a long time ago, "creativity". Nowadays, viewers are very picky because they have watched a lot of dramas from all over the world and it's easy to compare them. It's too hard for drama writers to be creative. If you don't innovate? Wait for the scolding. The audience is selfish and free, and will never show mercy if they don't like it.

After watching the Apostle, I was thinking about a question, in the end, what is the purpose of human life? Some people answer, nothing more than to get what they want. If this is the case, then the ending of the "greed theory" that Ryan Qian elaborated on makes a lot of sense. Greedy is Good is a classic that everyone who has seen Wall Street remembers. Should we be more greedy? I don't know, but I'm thinking that what money says may not be wrong.

A person's life can be encountered in the opportunity is not much, whether to seize or another matter, so, in the face of temptation, it is inevitable to move. People are not wrong, the wrong is the arrangement of the world. Let the people who don't want to be wrong see and get what they originally don't want or want to be useless. The so-called greed, greed in the end, and what is the use? How much is too much? Where is the stopping point?

The life of their own, they have to live well, cherish.

I am a little envious of the burst Seed nail sister's love, and desire to Zhuo Sir happy brother's wisdom calm. A drama can leave yourself some forward momentum, enough.

How many friends can you have in your life?

How many friends do you have in your life?

In the early 90s, TV dramas were broadcast on TV sets, but now there are Internet and various terminals, so you can watch dramas all over the world. Lui Chung Yin has a good saying, he was talking about Hong Kong, more or less summarized the decline of Hong Kong culture, "I think Hong Kong is a legend, is a legend of the era, but sometimes your era past is the past," Hong Kong drama, the same, the peak of the era past will not have to hope for the return of the extravagant, in the not one-dimensional pursuit of transcendence and paranoia in the continued In the burden of splendor, Hong Kong drama is still watchable and good-looking, TVB lens flow in the city atmosphere is still there, such as the male big when the marriage of the "loaded with lovers", TVB lens pervaded by the vibrant atmosphere still exists, such as a group of undercover agents are approaching the "Acts of the Apostles".

Lin Feng not long ago announced his termination of TVB, "Actors" has become a Feng temporary farewell to the wireless work, the feeling is just want to change the way of cooperation, he is in the three-color stage dedicated to shooting for more than ten years, only to talk about goodbye, too sentimental, and "the strongest man is gone, not to come back" in a very small, very small showbiz, does not seem to be true. On the other hand, on the same stage, some people leave, some people return, Charmaine appeared on the scene, really gave me too much good feelings after a long time. She came to the mainland to shoot the drama, not that the quality is not good, but always feel that there is something missing, but the only way to see Nail, TVB old neighborhood like familiarity gradually come back. After "The Rainbow" and "The Wind and the Moon", she and Lam Fung are once again working together as a couple, and the tacit understanding must be evident by the sun and the moon. With the addition of Miu Kiu Wai and Lam Fung's 'Chok pairing' after 'Thunderbolt', the main structure of 'Acts of the Apostles' is in good shape.

The drama does not push the envelope in terms of subject matter, and only adds to the traditional Hong Kong-style undercover team, but the footage has a lot of texture, and the pace of the narrative and the overall production is very heartfelt. Kang Sir cause of death is a mystery, to Zhuo Kai threw out the last words of the five undercover agents, bringing out the main story of the drama, coupled with the usual black police and society Big Boss standard, walking in the ordinary way of the "Apostle", the sword refers to the solid story of human feelings. The more heartfelt the battle, the more indistinguishable the opponents, each undercover agent, facing countless enemies, as well as their own struggles and confusion, as well as many accidents and difficulties. One wonders if it's worth it or not, what kind of result one can get in return for one's efforts, and even if this life will last until the day the mission is accomplished. The story begins with a flashback, "better to die together than to die alone" of the explosion of Sed and Nail sister, watching people in tears, the thrill of being hacked by a group of gangsters in the subtitles hit "9 months ago", can not wait to pull the curtain.

Ten episodes later, the identities of four undercover agents have been revealed. Regarding the process of hiding and searching for undercover agents, "The Apostle" has lost a touch of tension and excitement, but added a bit of step-by-step caution. From the nail sister to solve the problem with the body to try drugs to nail to save food poison burst Seed a few paragraphs of the scene, A She and Feng Shao two people work together too wonderful, Lin Feng, and even some of Johnnie To "Drug War" in the Sun Honglei the same scene of the immediate sense, Feng Shao in recent years in TVB bumming around, and finally ushered in such a test of the acting skills of the role, but he wore clothes of the thrifty wind, but also too contrary to the spirit of the old man, and even the little brother Leung Lit Wei wear The first time I saw this, it was a very good time for me to go to the hospital.

The order in which the identities of the undercover agents were revealed is clear, so let's take a look at undercover agents 1 to 4.

Undercover agent No. 1: Ding Xiaojia, a resourceful person, but also quite amusing, bold and meticulous, as long as the increase in money, everything is good, she does not talk about the mission of the police, only talk about the money, for the sake of the money, she can play all the subjective initiative to investigate the case, but in her gold-worshipping appearance, but in fact, quite a heavy sense of justice. The setup of her and her three amahs is very much like the Taiwanese drama "Sin Beautiful", which partly takes on the task of parental bonding very well.

Undercover agent No. 2: Lian Haoqin, Shen Zhenxuan appeared on the scene, I immediately smelled the flavor of the Bakuden, this person's story is very simple, financial talent into the wrongful imprisonment, lost their identity and beauty, only because the undercover agent is, can not be for the outside world also. Kobe ambush in the joyful brother side, can not get the trust of the old fox, looking at the beloved girl is about to tie the knot with the most hated person, he really can not sit still, almost spoiled the big event, there is a kind of his downfall will not be too good feet.

Undercover No. 3: Xue Jiaqiang, burst Seed not only hides very deep, and the sight of the undercover male god has a bitter past, stoic peak less, was beaten like that, look really heartbreaking. At the beginning, it was written that when the undercover information was leaked in 2015, I mistakenly thought that he and Nail were an undercover couple, to the kidnapping of the child, he deliberately picked the drugstore with a camera to buy medication, close-up shots, it is obvious that he felt he was trying to save the child. Then to the identity dissection of the bottom of the flyover Lok Chai can no longer suppress the feelings inside, burst Seed brother really is a great hidden.

Undercover agent No. 4: Xie Anyi, Chen Minzhi's female subordinate, sort of without warning to reveal the true face of this most unassuming female undercover agent's Lushan, a thousand paper cranes appeared, everything in the unspoken, the CIB and ICAC teamed up, is really playing a very big game of chess ah!

Undercover agent #5, who in the world? Or is he already gone, just that Kang Sir didn't receive the intelligence in time to update the database...

This time, the infernal story can be said to have portrayed several undercover agents with very different images, and it is also a feast for the eyes.

The movie centers around who is the real Blackjack to start a long description of the information. Maybe the director finally in order to shock the audience, let the straight line of clues suddenly came to a sharp turn, the painting style of a turn, the unforgivable Cheung Ka Fai has become the real undercover, Louis Koo has been only fooling the Hong Kong police, maybe the director thought the audience will not think of the bill, but think about it seems to be not this way to fool the past.

The movie achieves a heart-stopping effect, all but claiming that the first half of the movie is slow to get into the action, and the climax at the back is constantly updating the direction of the story's plot.

Zhang Jiahui's acting can really be described as one against a hundred, the handling of many small details and in the face of police interrogation process day after day calm and gentle talk, as well as with Louis Koo on the scene of the sentence: If one day I betrayed you, what will you do

Than now rely on the face of the person who can be a male number one, Zhang Jiahui, such a man of nearly 50 years old, seems to be More excellent, not only talented, but also has such a face Gutierrez's smile is simply an enigmatic smile. Whether it is to his brother to his boss or to the police, his smile is different, the director is very subtle to find this, and intentionally let his smile throughout the whole movie thread.

And Wu's acting is in the very easygoing smile and frown. The attitude towards Ding Xiaojia on his deathbed, the affectionate glance and the frowning expression, how it feels just right and loving.

The action director of this film is Mr. Chin Ka Lok. Early years in Hong Kong, a member of the Dragon Tiger martial arts division, 05 years later gradually began some film action director, perhaps because of the qualification style can not be compared with the circle of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, since then it seems to have not won any awards, but in this film: Wu Zhenyu and Charmaine elevator scene, when the elevator door is closed, followed by the upper bullet facing the jammed scene, as well as in the stairwell to hear the elevator inside the sound of gunfire, scene by scene are so buckle the whole scene. is such a buckle the atmosphere of the whole scene, and love the night good at the car scene Qianjiale also will be this element into the film, the end of the film Zhang Jiahui Gu Tianle and the killer duel layer appeared when the sudden attack let people touch the defense, really let the audience straight to the addiction.

The movie "The Apostle" Aftermath Part 5

"The Apostle" movie version of the wind of the release of 12 days, has made nearly 500 million yuan of box office. But to be honest, according to the influence of the original TV series, the box office should have been far more than this figure. The movie version is directed by the same director as the TV series, but the style of the movie is far from the TV series. While the TV series is brutal, coarse and full of small warmth, the movie is full of gorgeous scenes, unnecessary funny moments, weak villains and unprincipled plot design.

The first half hour is very much in the style of Wong Jing, with an undercurrent of pomposity and superficial handsomeness in the plot and images. After the plot brutal up, casually died a few people, and then all of a sudden pulled up the atmosphere to start melodrama, to the end with a sentence "I am a police officer", the end of the whole movie.

The reason why said casually died a few people, really because these people die too easy, first is the bodyguard Ying, from the moment she came out of the scene on the face of the face hung with the appearance of certain death, and then she to the blue Bowen show of loyalty has basically been situated in a certain death, but in the parking lot of the scene was originally a rescue car has been driven over, but she insisted on non-destruction, it is not really very casual?

Then there's the death of Q.sir, who basically died at the wrong level of combat. According to that opening drag race scene, ah nail's hands are good, and Q.sir holding off a killer in the elevator to let ah nail go shows that he's a better fighter, and what he was facing, was just a very average gunman. Who knows that as soon as the elevator door opens, the gunman is certainly dead, and Q.sir soon hangs up as well, literally leaving the audience unprepared, having thought that he was just seriously injured.

Finally, there is the scene where Louis Koo plays the young master and Cheung Ka Fai plays Blue Boon together to face the strong knife hand, not to mention that the knife hand is not that strong or not. The first one is the undercover agent, the young master; one is the real undercover agent of the heart of the blue Bowen, how to choose should be the young gangster died, after all, he posed as a police officer, is to do the wrong thing, and the blue Bowen has been the line of the end of the repeated positive, how is it and capable and righteous blue died it.

Performed here from the end of the movie there are ten minutes, probably the director feels that the good guys are all dead really can not be said, it is arranged to cheer the brother tackled the end of the big boss, but I do not know why at this time came to so many police officers, and the villain of the house a little brother did not, I and other viewers can only be blandly accept such a reality. Anyway, the writers and the director of the Lord want which character to die, who will have to die without saying anything without complaint.

"The Apostles are unidentified lifeforms from the Japanese anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, enemies of humanity and other possible forms of human existence, with humanity itself being the final 18th Apostle."

I believe the writers of Acts of the Apostles were looking at the above meanings and wrote the show from a bad guy-good guy perspective, as Huanqi says in the show, "It's hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys in this society nowadays."

In the past, Hong Kong dramas had at most two or three undercover agents, which already made the enemy's interior very confusing and the plot very complicated, and this time, once launched, it was five, and all of them were the elite of the police force who were extremely capable in various aspects, and it was a hot mess to watch. I wouldn't have watched 15 episodes in a row if it wasn't good, and you may not know that I haven't followed Hong Kong dramas for almost two years. Thanks to Apostle, I've been able to rediscover that obsessive state of watching and consolidate my Cantonese, so it's two birds with one stone.

It's nice to know that there are a lot of people around who watch Hong Kong dramas, so it's good to have an exchange of ideas. A friend asked me what my favorite characters were in the show. My answer surprised her, Charmaine played the staring sister, which is not surprising, she played great! What she found strange was my other choice, Brother Joy. Indeed, at first, I couldn't believe my thoughts. I would not have been so bold in the past, but I am not the same person I was two months ago.

The reason why I like the character of Huanxiu very much, I feel that I am a bit similar to him, I like to use my brain and laugh, and I hope to become a person with a fine mind and a city like him, of course, I don't want to have the evil of him, that's not good to be a human being, and the karma will come back to haunt me. It doesn't seem like the first time I've liked an antagonist, but I really think he brings me closer to reality, or at least a goal in life, and not everyone can be very shrewd.

I was just trying to kill some boredom with this drama, but I didn't expect to have so many feelings. It seems I should be closer to Hong Kong drama, even though it's going downhill, there's no shortage of good works. These two days are relatively free before I can spend a lot of time on resting and a new way to motivate myself, I believe I will learn a lot from the drama and at the same time, better use it in my daily life.

Sometimes, I really don't have the strength to run. Hopefully, I can recover soon and then take big strides towards my goal. Apostle saw the 15th episode, the final ending must be that the bad guys get punished, and the good guys have peace in their lives. Still want to be a good and optimistic person.

I don't want to see my blog deserted, but also to continue, but I will do something in the future to change, no longer consider the so-called increase in the number of articles, I will be more attentive to write, I hope that it is better to become a good friend of my life, in my lonely and helpless need to help when it comes to urging me to take big strides forward!

Zhang Zhang Hui, Louis Koo, can't remember how many movies they have worked together. This time again, there is a clear division of labor between the left and right of Koo and Zhang, taking turns to be the flowers and each other as green leaves.

Louis Vuitton is responsible for the bitterness of the tangled, and not long ago, "Drugs 2" quite a lineage, written on the face of the I was forced to do, do not smile, not reveal the heart, when the break is not ink, the kill on the kill is not ambiguous.

Zhangjiahui is responsible for playing handsome, out of the bus first heard their voices goodbye to their people that lens, dazzling fried to the earth, behind the Spanish Square, kicked a stool to get up and shoot, compared to the "Red Flame Battlefield" Bruce Willis slow-motion get off is no less important, the director also arranged for him to wear a white suit shuttling in the doves in the dance, so that the blood added body more shocking and tragic, simply out of the limelight.

Honestly, compared to this sequel, the first part of "The Apostle" is not really good, but the South American sniper killings are extremely stunning, and I saw it with my fists, and then revisited it several times.

The opening scene of an assassination, tracking, escorting, jumping out of the car, all in one go, and incidentally complete the introduction of the character, the first voice. In the middle of a few scenes of street sniping, all colors of gunfire big excitement, heavy casualties, the level is consistent and stable.

The most colorful is the finale of the car chase, the use of Spain's narrow streets and the Running of the Bulls folklore, creating a unique flash-forward, the same as the end of the life-threatening fight, there is a Hong Kong film in the prime of life as much as the overcooked momentum.

The subtitles of the special introduction of Zhang Yichi played the widowed killer is very colorful, is a Hong Kong film drama many years have not seen the demonic type of supporting role, at any time at any moment of the evil evil smile, the psychopathic personality of the psychopathic killers, reminiscent of the "James Bond GoldenEye" of the Dutch lady killer.

A small regret is that your male third, Francis Ng, has a slightly smaller role, but that line about whether you're doing something is very on point, snapping into the theme of trust that Hong Kong films are so good at wielding.

That is, no matter what they are hair small, fellow soldiers, master and disciple, brothers, teammates in the end are not divided into friends.

True friends have no misunderstandings and do not need any clarification. They unconditionally trust each other will never harm their own, unconditionally for each other all perverse words and deeds, unconditionally will be their own life so easily entrusted.

Those moments of trust make up the most gripping moments in this movie, and are the lynchpin and the winning weapon in this dark war against terrorism.

In the endless game of game within game, mystery within mystery, in the exhausting game of identifying the loyal, the treacherous, the good and the bad, we know clearly that some people will not betray, some people will not pay by mistake, and that feels so good.

The movie "The Apostle" Aftermath Part 8

This movie, the plot alone, I think it is just above the passing line, not a masterpiece, but looking at Wu Zhenyu, Zhang Jiahui and Louis Koo ......, just with those familiar faces, the overall score of this movie I would give 80 points.

However, I would like to start by saying that the actor is Ma De Zhong, to be honest, the first time I took a hard look, I thought it was Cheung Kwok Keung, until after confirming that it was Ma De Zhong, only to feel that the more you look at it, the more it looks like Ma De Zhong ......

I don't know why, I guess most of them are the reason for their age, and I feel that a few of the mainland actors inside the movie always I don't know why, but I think it's mostly because of my age, and I feel that the few mainland actors in the movie are always a bit thin, both the female lead and the pervert guy at the end.

This movie makeup a little heavy, Wu Zhenyu has been almost 60 it, look at the young a lot, Zhang Jiahui make-up also made young, but it is Gu Tianle, basic and his age in line ....... The second half of the film, Louis Vuitton Outlet, white bearded old man disguise really let me feel the existence of "cosmetic surgery" ......

Estimated that it is also shot here, if there is a sequel, it is estimated that it is also to look at the familiar face of the children, the plot is really There's nothing to film ......

Movie "The Apostle" Aftermath Part 9

I feel sorry for those old dudes. This time their makeup was so heavy that I didn't even recognize that Police Commissioner Lok Tat Nin was played by Tak Chung Ma, and it was only after checking the information that I slowly found out that he was Tak Chung Ma, amazing make-up.

In terms of the movie's plot, it's a battle between the police and that organization, and a game to find out who's the undercover agent. It's another reunion of brothers separated 30 years ago, competing, confirming, and then working together until they die for each other.

Wells Jinxian (Louis Koo) is the kid who was kidnapped by the organization, when he was able to run away, in order to save Cheng Tao (Cheung Ka Fai) returned, the result is that Cheng Tao has not been kidnapped he was kidnapped, and after that, he has been controlled by the organization, once he escaped, and the result is that the other side in front of him to his wife to kill. Now the organization's Mr. Dong (played by Huang Zhizhong) is using his daughter to threaten him with death if he doesn't cooperate.

Since Cheng Tao suspected that Jing Jinxian is his childhood good brother, he has been trying to find Jing Jinxian to talk about, Cheng Tao to sell the hard disk and Yao Ke Yi (Jiang Peiyao) information in the name of the appointment of Jing Jinxian to meet, they used to be the teacher of the Yip Chi-Fan (played by Wu Zhenyu) suddenly ran to the results of the organization of the people on their hands the two sides began to fire fight, Yip Chi-Fan sacrificed.

In the end, I thought the movie was still watchable.