Thursday, October 02, 2008
Infernal Affairs
"He who is in Continuous Hell never dies.
Longevity is a big hardship in Continuous Hell",
Says the Buddha,
In the Hongkong movie Infernal Affairs, a movie with two sequels and adapted by Hollywood as The Departed, this quotation appeared aptly at the end of the story. This story is about cops and drug smugglers, about moles and betrayals, killings and living. The leading characters are a mole Ming in the police department serving a triad boss and an undercover police officer Yan in the smugglers den, both of whom felt increasingly trapped in their kind of life.
The story unfolded with the police chief being killed and Ming having to terminate his triad boss to safeguard his position. And when Yan was killed while trying to bring Ming to justice, Ming killed his other colleagues too, wiping out all evidence and became the police chief.
Thus ended the show with the quotation: "He who is in Continuous Hell never dies.
Longevity is a big hardship in Continuous Hell" as a saying of the Buddha.
In ancient Chinese history, all courtiers wish the emperor ten thousand years all the time. In politics people fight in all kinds of way to win. In some countries nearby there are happenings which have a semblance to this movie story.
Wishing for ten thousand years ?,
winning to be in Continuous Hell ?
Longevity is a big hardship in Continuous Hell",
Says the Buddha,
In the Hongkong movie Infernal Affairs, a movie with two sequels and adapted by Hollywood as The Departed, this quotation appeared aptly at the end of the story. This story is about cops and drug smugglers, about moles and betrayals, killings and living. The leading characters are a mole Ming in the police department serving a triad boss and an undercover police officer Yan in the smugglers den, both of whom felt increasingly trapped in their kind of life.
The story unfolded with the police chief being killed and Ming having to terminate his triad boss to safeguard his position. And when Yan was killed while trying to bring Ming to justice, Ming killed his other colleagues too, wiping out all evidence and became the police chief.
Thus ended the show with the quotation: "He who is in Continuous Hell never dies.
Longevity is a big hardship in Continuous Hell" as a saying of the Buddha.
In ancient Chinese history, all courtiers wish the emperor ten thousand years all the time. In politics people fight in all kinds of way to win. In some countries nearby there are happenings which have a semblance to this movie story.
Wishing for ten thousand years ?,
winning to be in Continuous Hell ?
# posted by chunmu @ 1:31 AM 
