"Life and Death" is a gangster film. It is a very long film about the struggle between the police and the Italian mafia. There are dozens of episodes from the 198s to the 199s. When I first watched it, it was intermittent, starting with the vicious police officer Katani in the first film, until he was shot dead by the mafia in front of a wall. The second part became a female prosecutor Silvia, who inherited Katani's legacy to investigate the mafia and finally caught all the bad guys.
The film is made of film, and it is very well-made. Although it is a TV series, it is entirely a film shooting method, and the quality of each episode far exceeds that of domestic and Hong Kong and Taiwan police films. Every character has a distinct personality, especially the various struggles within the mafia. Although Italians are romantic, Italian films are realistic. For the real mafia, the depiction of Life and Death is equally true, which is far beyond the scope of police films, but more similar to social films. It reflects the problems of modern society from grandeur and microcosmic-but hides many evils on the surface of glamorous civilization. From government departments to big enterprises to every detail, the mafia is as ubiquitous as a spider web.
There are always few people killed in the whole film (unlike Hong Kong's gangster films, which kill dozens as soon as they fight, and the hero is even more murderous), but it still makes a thrilling feeling-in recent years, starting from Infernal Affairs, Hong Kong-made gangster films seem to be close to Fighting. However, for those who have seen "Life and Death", infernal affairs is nothing more than that.
Every villain in the play is portrayed with humanity and impartiality. I still vaguely remember a guy who liked to fold paper crane, and he folded countless paper cranes in prison-in fact, he was the biggest villain.
Like all European TV series, the film is a little out of order, but the real slow shots depict the realm pursued by the director in detail-when I saw the tragic death of Chief Katani, I felt a deep depression in my heart at that time-the whole film was full of that kind of depression from beginning to end, and a large number of cold-toned shots made people unable to see the way out and hope.
At that time, I was the most perplexing and sad age in my life. I remember that I wrote a short essay on "Fight for Life" in my notebook at that time. At the age of sixteen, I vowed to fight for justice like Sheriff Katani-I hope this oath has not changed today.
I don't know if there is any DVD of "Fight for Life" on the market now. It's the only police film that deeply touched me.