The background of the film is that before the return of Hong Kong, gangs and police were corrupt.
The last part tells about Wu's revenge on his brother and his brotherhood with the mayor.
His younger brother was wounded by British Superintendent Hunter and was unconscious in the hospital. He may become a vegetable, and his intelligence will decline when he wakes up.
In a horse race, Hunter and another character tried to help a foreigner win the race, but the horse Wu bet on won.
The mayor advised Wu not to kill Hunter because Hong Kong was under British rule at that time. One wants to kill, the other refuses, or shares weal and woe. This is the trend of the contradictory plot of the characters.
In order to carry out anti-corruption work, the Independent Anti-Corruption Commission (ICAC) was established. The mayor resigned as chief inspector Hua, intending to escape, and hoped that Wu would go with him.
When Wu refused, he took someone to kill Hunter. All his men died, leaving him alone, so the mayor came back for Wu.
Wu didn't listen to the mayor's advice and shot Hunter. The mayor shot himself, wiped off his fingerprints and put the gun in the hands of the dead hunter.
The mayor should have helped Wu in his own capacity, but on the same day, he was still Inspector General Hua, shot himself and pretended to defend himself.
Wu was sentenced to prison and convicted of drug trafficking, and the mayor wanted to escape because he was corrupt as a policeman. The last plot was mentioned at the beginning.
Two people, a gangster and a white man, work together.
Wu Laigang, a native of Chaoshan, Guangdong Province, made a living and began to feel helpless at the lower level. It's good to be a man. Paying back the money for the debt seller, in fact, what he wants to save is the sold girl; Save the brother who stole money and gambled.
Because he can be beaten by gangsters and fat boys, help him work, and don't buy drugs. Wearing glasses and a white shirt, he looks like a "four-eyed boy" in his school days.
Dramatically, Wu himself did not take drugs, but his younger brother was polluted. He asked his brother to give up drugs and told his people not to sell drugs to his brother.
Hunter met Wu's younger brother, and he begged people to sell medicine. He mixed several kinds of wine with a cup, added his urine to Wu's younger brother, and drank it to take drugs.
Wu's younger brother refused to knock off the cup and was seriously injured, which led Wu to try to kill Hunter.
The mayor is ambitious. It can be seen from the details that he can speak English and play tennis. Presumably, he studied it to facilitate communication under British rule, which was conducive to his promotion.
It manages pornography, drugs and gambling as an enterprise, collects and distributes money in a unified way, and avoids interest disputes. It is said that it has more money than Li Ka-shing.
The first part of the black biography is very infectious. After watching the second movie, I also had an idea that they could escape without being caught.
However, the two of them went the wrong way. At the end of the film, I got off the phone with Mayor Wu. Looking back, he said with emotion, "I can't take it with me, only I can take it with me."
I suggest watching the Cantonese version, which is more authentic. If you don't understand, you can read the subtitles.
If you are interested in the Hong Kong period in the film, you can watch Fallen, money empire and Chasing the Dragon, which should be the same theme.