Film Name:黑白森林 / Colour of the Truth
Personally, I think this film is one of the more impressive Hong Kong police films. The story begins with a picture of a family of a policeman’s father, a policeman named Chik Hei (Lau Ching Wan), who is playing on the streets with his son, when suddenly Chik Hei tells his wife and son that he has to leave for a while. Seven Happiness then finds the black boss Blind Chao (Francis Ng) and tells him that he can take him away. Meanwhile, on the other side of the street, a police force led by Wong Kong (Wong Chau Sang) comes to the door, Seven Happiness runs into Wong Kong while escaping with Blind Chao on a rooftop, and the three of them get entangled. Seven Happiness insists on taking Blind Chao away, but Wong Kong refuses to let him go, and then a gunshot is fired, and the beginning of the episode officially comes to an end.
This is followed by footage of Qixi’s funeral, where Qixi’s son is told by his mother that his father was killed by Huang Jiang and that he should remember him for the rest of his life. When he grows up, Qixi’s son gets into the police force and gives himself a name that reminds him of his father: Cola (Huang Haoran). As fate would have it, Cola and Huang Jiang meet again and Cola is transferred to work under Huang Jiang. At this time, Blind Chao’s son, Wai (Chan Siu Chun), approaches Cola and says that both of them share a common enemy who killed their father: Wong Kong, asking Cola to wait for an opportunity to kill Wong Kong. In order to eliminate his rival, Fire Eye (Wan Ziwei), gangster Wang Kun (Hsieh Hsien) requests Huang Jiang to lead his men into his house to protect his daughter, while Huang Jiang takes this opportunity to investigate the evidence of Wang Kun’s crimes. During the operation, Cola has many chances to take out Wong Kiang, but since in his usual contact with Wong Kiang, Cola realises that Wong Kiang is a decent and kind-hearted person, he refrains from doing so. Wei was very disappointed with Cola and said that he would kill Huang Jiang himself. In the end, everyone realised that Wei had paid off Wang Kun and Fire Eyes, and that all the moves were just for the sake of killing Huang Jiang, and Cola found out that Huang Jiang had already known that he was the son of Qixi. In the end, Wai failed to kill Huang Jiang as he wished. After some firefighting, when Cola pointed his gun at Wai instead of Huang Jiang, Wai asked Cola why, and Cola said, “Because you’re black and I’m white.” Huang Jiang also unravelled the truth of ten years ago: on the rooftop Huang Jiang shot and killed Blind Chao, and saw Seven Happiness move slightly thinking he was going to draw his gun, so he killed him by mistake.
The film suspense design is very intriguing, in the storyline design is a twist and turn, everywhere buried ambush, for example, in the Wang Kun home dog, not into the dog house to sleep but who is on the lawn, pushed the aftermath of Huang Jiang in the dog house to find the drugs hidden under the Wang Kun. The characters in the film are also very rich, Chan Siu Chun played by Wai, a very good performance of the inheritance of their own triad boss father ruthless and cunning character, Huang Hao Ran played by Coke and Wong Chiu Sang played by Wong Kang also shows the integrity of the police and goodness. The film’s plot also expresses the title well: black and white are intertwined in the forest, but the absence of black and white are two extremes that cannot be intertwined, as Cola says to Wai, “Because you are black and I am white.” Regardless of whether his father was killed by Huang Jiang or not, Cola recognises that he is a policeman and Wai is a yakuza, showing very well that, “Since ancient times, good and evil have never existed side by side.” The connotation of this line.
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