The author of this article: Chuan Meimei
It is said that Hong Kong and Taiwan movies have declined, but "Temporary Robbery", which will be released on January 19, 2024, is eye-catching, the plot design is ingenious, the character modeling is prominent, the three actors are playing on the same stage, and the comedy elements are smeared in a group of noisy waste young characters, which makes people laugh and think about the good and evil of human nature and the deep motivation of social problems, which is full of absurd banter, but it completes the sad song of the era of little people in laughter. Material, deep, creative, good-looking.
This is my basic evaluation of this movie, and then + surprise - the coincidence of the plot, the reversal, seamless connection, so that you can't think of it and impeccable.
Temporary Robbery" is produced by Er Dongsheng and directed by Mak Qiguang, starring powerful actors such as Aaron Kwok, Lin Jiadong, Ren Xianqi, Zhang Keyi, etc., these names are all flashing, and see how they were robbed by others in the robbery, how they temporarily combined into the weirdest existence at the beginning of the new year, to break the jar, to go crazy, and then be beaten back to their original shape.
At the beginning of the movie, the taxi driver Ah Yi (played by Lin Jiadong) picks up customers for business, and on the other hand, he drives ** to deal with the conflict between his wife and mother at home, both women are his favorites, scolding him in cramped housing conditions and demonstrating to him. In fact, his old father has been squeezed out of the house and lived in a nursing home where Murong Hui (Ren Xianqi) works as a social worker.
This led to the embarrassing situation of the nursing home of Ah Hui, a social worker of the abandoned youth, who was overstretched, and many elderly people who were abandoned by their children were often in arrears of rent, with underlying diseases, eating generic drugs, and their lives were also in turmoil. In other words, Murong Hui, who was called "the waste of the waste" by the gangster Mei Lantian (played by Aaron Kwok), was also poor, and he also came up with the idea of "robbery" after working hard at the bottom. He only knew Ah Yi and begged him to buy him a gun. Ah Yi contacted the related household, **li**18,000, he casually increased the price by 38,000, and earned 20,000 in seconds.
But neither of them is a professional robber, and before they could step on time, they were disrupted by the genuine gangster Mei Lantian.
The most brilliant is Aaron Kwok's sunglasses bandit Mei Lantian who is equipped with "buckteeth", he is tough**, and "makes up for a shot" to his brother who was injured in the action, saying "let him suffer less". He spit out the word "sorry" in his mouth, completely ignoring whether the lives of the wounded can still be saved, and he made people's lives whimper, which seemed very cruel. After robbing and sharing the spoils, he did not forget to tell his subordinates to say "thank you", as if he was very righteous and polite. He will also consider the settling-in expenses of his dead brother, but in fact, there is still some kindness in his bones. Was he born like this** cold-blooded?
no！He told the two brothers that he was once an East Asian Olympic wrestling champion, but he couldn't support his family by engaging in sports. His family was bullied, and he killed people to protect his cubs, so he had to take risks to make a living by robbing. was born and died and lost his brother, and most of the money he stole was cheated by the boss. He is the oppressed poor at the bottom. The watermelon he had been talking about was his son, and he was killed in front of him by thunder, and he broke down and was a little nervous.
This robber boss was played by Aaron Kwok, and he appeared in cold-blooded style, with oily black hair combed straight back, not messy at all. He was very accurate in marksmanship, and he was decisive and calm in gunfights with the police. Of the two bags of money he robbed, one bag was thrown by his younger brother into Ah Yi's taxi, and as a result, he and Ah Hui had an intersection. He heard that they were not having a good time due to lack of money, and suddenly had sympathy, and said that I will take you to rob, and temporarily go to the robbery together, showing quite righteousness and discipline.
Lin Jiadong's character is also very three-dimensional, her wife is about to give birth, and he must make more money as a man to meet his own blood and bones. So he was a little cheater, and he took a lot of detours out of the car to trick customers to make money with a bad conscience. He also cheated his friend Ah Hui for many years to buy a gun for 20,000 yuan, and Ah Hui saw through that they were in a mess. When he was caught by the police for robbery with the gangster boss, he thought about the bag of money and walked away alone. He is selfish and cunning, but sometimes his heart is soft and he admits his mistakes.
The social worker played by Ren Xianqi is also remarkable, he is timid and afraid of things, the kind of embarrassment and helpless bitter face that is tossed by life, reminds people of his famous song "Too Soft Heart" "You are too soft-hearted and too soft-hearted, and you carry everything by yourself" Aha, isn't it.
If you want to be a good person, you can't be a bad person, he stumbled with Ah Yi, and accidentally participated in the robbery of the bandits. In the end, they survived, because they were involved in the robbery, they were sentenced to volunteer, and the two "waste wood" are still brothers, and the words on their lips are "both men". Life has to go on, support the family, and continue to live a good life.
The film looks like a robbery, robbers and police are fighting each other, chasing and killing, but it has stepped out of the routine of Hong Kong film heroes and justice, and the fate struggle and panic of the little people at the bottom are on the silver screen, triggering the audience's thinking and resonance about ordinary life and life pursuits, which is very interesting and meaningful.
Some people define the film as "a strange Hong Kong film that is violent and very 'waste'", and I agree. The butterfly effect caused by a bag of money, the hopeless struggle and chaos of life of the little people at the bottom, let us appreciate this chaotic and absurd world through the chaos of robbing money, hiding money, chasing cars, robbing, gunfights, and robbing each other.
Just as Zhang Ailing famously said, "Life is a gorgeous robe, crawling with lice", in our eyes, the life of these three actors, which one is not full of holes, they are poor and decadent, and finally they went to the same place and embarked on the road of robbers.
In the end, the arrogant and domineering bandit Mei Lantian lost his life, and before he died, he still grabbed the bag of money, and the rolls of banknotes that fell out of the pocket behind him had nothing to do with him. At the last moment of his life, his son's watermelon's little face floated in front of him, his wife was very angry, and he didn't know how he got to such a desperate situation.
And the timid and clumsy old boy social worker Ah Hui, the wall of his home is plastered with "Debts, repayment, useless Hui!" He was almost overwhelmed by a hopeless life ......
Similarly, the taxi driver Ah Yi, his life is as his name suggests, he is agile and smart, and he shows off the tattoos on his body with his fists, and wants to pretend to be the boss of the rivers and lakes, but he gnawed out the retired father who was in the gang when he was young. He himself is nothing, he only gnaws at the old, and sometimes he pits brothers, a pile of waste wood, and the temporary scrap youth alliance of the combination, it is strange that he is undefeated.
The boss of the bandits, when he appeared, he bared two buckteeth, shot accurately, killed decisively, and looked ** brutal. But when he heard that the two brothers were embarrassed by the old and the young, he waved his hand, "I'll take you to rob." Haha, absurd charity, the temporary robbery joined by the waste youth was noisy, and it ended up being a flowing water and a fallen flower, the gangster died, these two punished volunteers, okay, fight back to their original shape, continue to live a humble life, this is the law of life, do you accept it?
Walking out of the theater, what flashed back to me was the picture of three waste young people struggling to push the cart on the mountain road (the car ran out of gas at that time), and the ending song "I just want to go with you for the rest of my life" in Annan language floated to my ears, "I would like to silently carry tears and want to go with you for the rest of my life". Even the policewoman who pursued them, Sister Jiang (played by Zhang Keyi), is a little hairy policeman who is about to retire and has not caught a thief, and her life is also gloomy.
A tear overflowed from the corner of my eye, it is not easy for people to live. It is said that waste wood idiot, who understands the taste.
This movie is a sad song of the hopeless struggle of the little people at the bottom, everyone opens their teeth and claws, everyone is powerless, makes a big fuss, leaves in a hurry, leaving a sorry endgame, Gu Ying self-pity.