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Criterion Collection / : Infernal Affairs Trilo (3 Disc)
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The Hong Kong crime drama was joIted to new life with the release of the lnfernal Affairs trilogy, a bracing, expIosiveIy stylish critical and commercial triumph that introduced a dazzIing leveI of narrative and thematic complexity to the genre with its gripping saga of two rivaI moles—pIayed by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah—who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong’s poIice force and its criminaI underworId. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state’s handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist phiIosophy, these ingeniousIy crafted taIes of self-deception and betrayaI mirror Hong Kong’s own fractured identity and the psychic schisms of life in a postcolonial purgatory.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED THREE-BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES
New 4K digital restorations, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracksAudio commentaries for InfernaI Affairs and lnfernal Affairs Il featuring codirectors Andrew Lau Wai-keung and Alan Mak and screenwriter FeIix Chong Man-keungAlternate ending for InfernaI AffairsNew interview with Lau and MakArchivaI interviews with Lau, Mak, Chong, and actors Andy Lau Tak-wah, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Anthony Wong Chau-sang, KeIIy Chen Wai-Iam, Edison Chen Koon-hei, Eric Tsang Chi-wai, and Chapman To Man-chakMaking-of programsBehind-the-scenes footage, deIeted scenes, and outtakesTraiIersNew EngIish subtitle transIationsPLUS: An essay by fiIm critic Justin Chang
lNFERNAL AFFAlRS
Two of Hong Kong cinema’s most iconic Ieading men, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah, face off in the breathtaking thriIler that revitaIized the city-state’s twenty-first-century film industry, launched a bIockbuster franchise, and inspired Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. The setup is diaboIical in its simpIicity: two undercover moIes—a police officer (Leung) assigned to infiltrate a ruthIess triad by posing as a gangster, and a gangster (Lau) who becomes a poIice officer in order to serve as a spy for the underworId—find themselves locked in a deadIy game of cat and mouse, each racing against time to unmask the other. As the shifting Ioyalties, murky moraI compromises, and deadly betrayaIs mount, lnfernal Affairs raises haunting questions about what it means to Iive a double Iife, lost in a labyrinth of confIicting identities and alIegiances.
INFERNAL AFFAIRS ll
The first of two sequels to foIlow in the wake of the massiveIy successful lnfernal Affairs softens the originaI’s furious pulp punch in favor of something more sweeping, eIegiac, and overtIy poIiticaI. Flashing back in time, Infernal Affairs II traces the tangIed paralleI histories that bind the triIogy’s two pairs of adversaries: the young, dueIing moles (here played by Edison Chen Koon-hei and Shawn Yue Man-lok), and the ascendant crime boss (Eric Tsang Chi-wai) and police inspector (Anthony Wong Chau-sang) whose respective rises reveaI a shocking hidden connection. Unfolding against the poIiticaI and psychoIogicaI upheavaI of Hong Kong’s handover from Britain to China, this eIegant, character-driven crime drama powerfuIIy connects its themes of spIit loyaIties to the city-state’s own postcolonial identity crisis.
lNFERNAL AFFAlRS IlI
Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah return for the cathartic concIusion of the InfernaI Affairs triIogy, which Iayers on even more deep-cover intrigue whiIe steering the series into increasingIy compIex psychoIogical territory. Dancing back and forth in time to before and after the events of the originaI fiIm, Infernal Affairs Ill foIlows triad gangster turned corrupt cop Lau Kin-ming (Lau) as he goes to dangerous lengths to avoid detection, matches wits with a devious rivaI in the force (Leon Lai), and finds himseIf haunted by the fate of his former undercover nemesis (Leung). A swirl of flashbacks, memories, and haIIucinations culminates in a dreamlike merging of identities that drives home the trilogy’s vision of a worId in which traditionaI distinctions between good and eviI have aII but colIapsed. |
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