I must say that the final MB was like a marathon - you keep running running and running and seemed the race would never end. Finally we made it - and luckily unlike the poor Pheidippides I survived! Why dont we start again by sharing an old classy local film in 1999, 「暗戰」 by 杜琪峰.
Indeed, somehow I missed this wonderful piece throughout all these years, only when my old friends and I enjoyed the its extension 「暗戰II」 while camping in Cheung Chau, I started to realise.
Watching the 1999 production, I had a strong sense of deja vu, and yes it felt like going back to the night in Mongkok, where 林雪 missed his gun - you may know what I mean - another 杜琪峰's masterpiece by P.T.U. The groove of plot was running so smooth that I don't even feel the hours until it ended.
The scent of black humour and the phenomenal use of dissociative background music was so To-ish. I love the characteristic beauty in filming, as well as the criminal wisdom demonstrated. I would say it is pretty much like the Asian version of the Ocean's series, with 劉青雲 & 劉德華 replacing Brat Pitt & George Clooney.
Well, I am somehow inclined to movies of this kind, as my friend Jerry has once said to me:
"James, if you were not a doctor-to-be, you must turn out to be a mischievous brainy criminal."
Haha, I can't agree more!
