That was the big problem with infernal affairs.  A big question mark.
I mean I get it.  I get all of it.  Im not the dullest knife in the
box.  I cut with the sharp edge.  But its a classic: "I get what your
saying abut I dont know why your saying it".  None of these people
would pass any psych evalution or polygraph screening.  Not in the
least bit.  Someone with no morals and no values, ostentious or not,
will read like someone that has a cause, has values, has some meaning
other than playing a perpetual game of the shell game meets poker.  Did
anyone get the plot to IA?  Maybe because it was 6 disks.  3 vcd's.
Maybe because I didnt watch all three back to back...  (maybe not) but
I really didnt understand what was happening.  Mole here, mole there,
double agent.  You have to be somebody before you can play a role.
Actors know that, directors probably know that.  But if your going to
make a movie about people pretending to be this or that, it helps that
the writer and the producer and the actors know what the characters are
supposed to be living as the most important thing.  It came off wrong.
The american version is probably basically a completly different movie
and done in 2 hours.  Maybe its 3.  Who cares.  The point is its
totally implausable like those movies like "under seige".  You cant
just hijack a battleship like that.  It doesnt work.  They are desgined
to prevent one man from running things.  Soilders are trained so they
dont suddenly 20 years downt the road grow a brain and start being
crypto-anarchists that want to live always outside the envelope of
rules and regulations.  It just shows that the writer does bad research
or has the same issues that the movie is expression.  Be something, be
somebody before you start inventing roles for yourself or others.  You
have to be who you are, not who you want people to think you are or who
you want to be.  Respect people that deserve respect according to your
fixed viewpoint of what respect is.  Or none at all.  The problem with
the chinese is they are too busy worrying about giving and saving face
then to take a stand and tell someone the f.ck off.  Law requires
judgement, judgement requires morality, morality requires ownership.
The condition of ownership is maintenence and sustinence.  A bad guy
pretends to be a cop but does the work of a cop, but he's okay with the
bad guys cause he's one of them, and a good guy is bad because he's a
cop but pretends to be a bad guy and never really acted like a cop
except to give some info to cops which any lowlife street informant can
do and still hang out with lowlifes.  Ok yeah sure im totally clear on
which way is up here.

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