Diary entries forInfernal Affairs
Infernal Affairs
Yes, I am going to compare it to The Departed. I can't help it. I saw it first, I love it, I think it is one of the best crime movies ever made. An this movie as well, is very well made. It starts off very fast and it is too long into the movie that we already get a pretty big set piece action scenes. And that is the case for most of the movie. Its a very quick moving film, and it also has that cool early 00s fast pace editing to go along with it. Outside of the 2 main characters most of the supporting cast is given very little to do, buts that fine. The 2 leads are excellent in the roles. That last thing I will touch on is that the ending of the film is completely different to that of The Departed. And that is a welcome surprise. Their is apparently another ending as well that had to be filmed for the Chinese Film Board that I will check out later. Also very curious to check out the 2 sequels as well.
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Way more intense and complicated than I remembered it. The mind games played by all the characters are awesome, plus the acting is superb. Visually and aurally, it’s a bit dated with super powerful early 2000s vibes. The way media (movies, games, music) is used both to pull us away from the world of paranoia and backstabbery and as a means of concealment is brilliant. The scene of the two moles listening to music and later discussing the effect of a speaker cable on the audio quality might be among the coolest, most humane ones I’ve seen in a long time. And the fact that I had totally forgotten it is amazing, I guess when I saw it last (on a shit monitor with crappy stereo speakers), I wasn’t yet fallen into the audiophile stuff.
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Asian March Challenge '25 (10/31): Hong Kong 🇭🇰.
Infernal Affairs
Tu t'es pas fait chier Scorsese hein
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15+ years later and I still think this is better than THE DEPARTED.
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A remake of The Departed but Hong Kong and it's kind of better(?) I DONT KNOW both perfect to me. This feels so fast than The Departed (okay the departed is not slow for me but IA feels like 10 minutes LOL while Departed feels like 45 minutes if that makes sense) The score is so GOOD. Andy Lau and Tony Leung are incredible. Standing ovation whenever Anthony Wong shows up. IA to me feels subtle and much more chill I would say while for The Departed feels LOUDER and much more violent but to me both movies are incomparable
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A game of cat and mouse, but the mouse is the cat and the cat is the mouse, but then the cat is the cat again and the mouse is the mouse, but then the cat is still the mouse and kills the cat and then the cat is a cat again but the real cat is dead and the cat now is a mouse.
Infernal Affairs
tony leung. literally tony leung.
Infernal Affairs
couldve been gayer
