Watched the first eight minutes and felt I have to write this. This is more like an imaginary story copying or imitating HK/Taiwan/US movies of the time. It would have never happened in Beijing in the 80's. I travelled to Beijing in those days for business and the society was in good order under strict policing.
@susinluo5 ай бұрын
You don't know China, at least you don't know how ordinary Chinese people live. This film does not show Beijing, but the ecology of small cities in northern China. We have all experienced that era. This film is relatively restrained. You don't know that in the 1980s and 1990s, guns were rampant in China, just like in the United States. In the small county where I live, people were injured by guns every day, and people died from guns every week because of gang fights... It was not until the complete ban on guns in the 2000s that the situation improved. It was not until the 2010s that gangs completely disappeared in China, and everything moved towards rule of law and peace. And those former gang members did not become good people, but were forced by the environment to move to Southeast Asia to continue the chaos of the 1990s and 2000s.
@susinluo5 ай бұрын
Cities like Beijing and Shanghai cannot represent China most of the time. Please remember this, my friends.