Infernal Affairs 4K 2002 CHINESE

If Alfred Hitchcock in the 50s created the foundations of detective suspense, in the 60s the Europeans developed it, in the 2000s the Americans almost killed it, then Hong Kong filmmakers have reanimated this rare kind of thriller. Thousands of detective thrillers have been made over the past 20 years, but in them (for the most part), it all boiled down to one thing. A sea of blood, ridiculous police reasoning, boring chases and shootouts, and the eternal capture of the criminal. Of course, in the sea of this horror there were and are works worthy (but they are very few) of the style of the great master of "suspense". And it seemed to the world that the genre was dead.

As in the late 90's Japanese directors resuscitated horror films, infusing them with new ideas and style. Hong Kong directors did the same.

A new style of storytelling (after the atmosphere of a police action film created by John Woo), a minimum of gunfights, a maximum of mental confrontation between the gangster and a cop, in this it (the style) helps cameraman and composer, who create the appropriate atmosphere. During the viewer is in constant tension, and when the denouement comes he (the viewer) understands that he has just watched a masterpiece.