From that day on, the protagonist lived a homeless life, rummaging through trash cans for food.
Sometimes his shoes were stolen and he had to walk barefoot on the road. Sometimes he was robbed and he stood up to resist. No police will intervene in disputes between homeless people.
But even so, he always kept his mother's teachings in mind. Be a kind person and don't hurt others, so that the good luck stone will always be effective and protect him.
Until that day, two homeless people mistakenly thought that the stone worn by the protagonist was a valuable thing, and they teamed up to snatch the stone away. The protagonist pursues them all the way to the underground passage and kills two people in a fierce fight.
From then on, he joined a gang, worked hard to complete every mission, and gradually became famous.
He didn’t know whether the good luck stone would still bless him, but he still carried it close to his body.
Then the movie uses a montage technique to explain the protagonist's activities at different stages.
That is, a series of related or unrelated shots are put together to create a juxtaposition to show the behavior of the protagonists in different time periods.
The protagonist receives the task from the contact and performs the task.
The protagonist acts as a connector to issue tasks to new subordinates.
The protagonist was ambushed by other gangs during the mission and narrowly escaped.
The protagonist ambushes other gang members who are performing tasks and kills them all.
The protagonist was suppressed by the powerful firepower of other gangs and could not hold his head up. He rolled in the sewer to avoid bullets like a bereaved dog.
The protagonist gave an order, and his men opened fire on the fleeing enemies. The blood of the fleeing gang members flowed along the drainage ditch.
The original protagonist saw his partner bleeding and dying, and himself being tortured, with a sad expression in his eyes.
The later protagonist stood from the perspective of the perpetrator, watching all this with an expressionless face, and even personally tortured the wealthy businessmen who were kidnapped.
The gang office originally used to interview him has also become the protagonist's private place, and the gang boss has been replaced by the protagonist.
One day, however, he made a huge mistake.
One of his subordinates, who is obsessed with money, stole a batch of goods delivered by Niefeng Logistics. As a result, the corporate army of Tengda Group came to kill the whole gang.
The protagonist was lucky enough to survive, but many years of hard work were ruined.
He reluctantly gathered the few remaining gang members and looked at the armed floating vehicle of Niefeng Logistics that was gradually receding.
The huge Tenda Group logo above brings a suffocating sense of oppression.
This also made him realize that no matter how much he paid, he was still just a rat wallowing in the gutter. Occasional ups and downs can't change anything. If he wants to climb out of the gutter, he has to find another way.
In the middle of the night when I suffered a disastrous defeat,, he raised his head again and looked at the vaguely neon clouds.
The clouds floating on the skyscrapers seem to be like a chasm, completely separating the lower floors from the upper floors.
The reason why this cloud layer exists is also very simple. It’s just that people don’t want to see the rich people living in the upper layers. The squalid and chaotic conditions of the lower levels of the city.
They all travel by float car, from the upper floor of one skyscraper to the upper floor of another skyscraper. For them, the whole world is a beautiful world floating on the clouds. I don’t want my perception of this city to be affected by the ugliness of those at the bottom.
From that day on, the protagonist made up his mind to climb above the clouds to the top of those skyscrapers to see the real sun at all costs.
Following this, the movie spent a long time showing the protagonist’s strong personal abilities and execution ability.
Although the entire gang was beaten to pieces by the Tenda Group, the protagonist relied on his extraordinary ability to organize the street gangsters again and make a comeback.
This time, while he was carefully expanding his business and accumulating necessary resources, he was also carefully searching for suitable target candidates.
He wants to find a rich man who is similar to himself in height and appearance to carry out a plan to vacate the cage and change the bird.
At first, the audience didn’t know why he was looking for these people. They thought he was looking for a protective umbrella among the upper-class wealthy businessmen, but they didn’t expect that the protagonist had more long-term ideas.
Because as a gang leader, you go to these big chaebols to find protection, your business may expand rapidly in a short period of time, but once problems arise, you will be abandoned immediately.
No matter how big the chess piece is, it is still a chess piece. The protagonist wants to become a chess player himself.
Finally, after thorough preparation, the protagonist focuses on a young rich man. This rich man is an emerging rich man. He is not very powerful. He is energetic, active in thinking and full of adventurous spirit.
The protagonist seems to see his own shadow in this young rich man.
The protagonist knows very well that it is this adventurous spirit that allows the young rich man to win business again and again, and this adventurous spirit will also provide himself with an excellent opportunity.
Taking advantage of the fact that young rich people have little security awareness, the protagonist collects a lot of relevant information, finds plastic surgeons and prosthetic doctors, and constantly transforms his body, transforming himself more and more like the wealthy businessman. similar.
At the same time, the protagonist also imitated the walking and talking manners of the young rich man through a large number of videos and audios, and even bought a state-of-the-art voice changer until he completely transformed into the rich man.
Actually, these two people are played by Lu Zhiyao, but their personalities are completely different.
This young rich man always has a bright and bright image on his front, and his eyes seem to be full ofHe is tolerant, kind, adventurous and persistent.
The protagonist, who is now the leader of the gang, has a fierce and vicious image, an out-and-out desperado.
One day, while the rich man was traveling, the floating car broke down and caused a car accident. However, he still attended the meeting unharmed, talked at the meeting, and successfully negotiated the contract.
Just sitting on the floating car after the meeting, he gently touched his chest.
Then the rhythm of the film became cheerful. Instead of the wealthy protagonist, he began to make drastic improvements. On the one hand, he wanted to continue to expand the company's business, and on the other hand, he used the company to continuously launder the black money earned by the previous gangs.
He himself finally got his wish and got rid of the underground gutter and became a master above the clouds.
The protagonist begins to look less and less like himself and more and more like the rich man. The audience will even have the illusion that this is played by two actors.
The protagonist can not only take care of the business that the rich man left behind in an orderly manner, but can even come up with some new ideas and open up new businesses, and the company can further develop and grow.
The protagonist pretends to be a rich man and begins to appear frequently on various occasions. He seems to be getting more and more accustomed to playing this role.
But soon he encountered new problems. Whenever he tried to enter a new field, he would find that Tenda Group was already waiting there.
No matter what he tried to do and exhausted all business methods, he could not cause any danger to Tengda Group's business.
On the other hand, it was easy and even natural for Tenda Group to steal business from him.
In other words, as long as he makes achievements in a certain area, Tenda Group will immediately come to pick the fruits. With Tengda Group here, he would always only be able to eat scraps.
However, there is no impermeable wall in the world. No matter how flawlessly the protagonist does his job, his identity will eventually be revealed one day.
The movie does not directly depict the details and process of the protagonist's exposure. But it is hinted at in many ways, such as the protagonist caressing his chest inadvertently, the protagonist making some omissions in etiquette, or the protagonist having subtle differences in opinions and ways of thinking on some issues with other rich people and the original owner. A fatal difference.
No one knows when the protagonist was exposed, and no one knows which partner or competitor made the report.
In short, on a night of heavy rain, the protagonist was drinking red wine contentedly in the top-floor office of a skyscraper and looking at the rainy scene outside the window.
Suddenly, his subordinates called to say that there was a fight between gangs. The opponent seems to be well prepared and is besieging a very important warehouse of the protagonist.
The protagonist was furious, took his company's bodyguards and hired mercenaries, left the building in a floating car and rushed toGround floor.
The protagonist's bodyguards have strong soldiers and sufficient weapons, so it can be said that they can deal with these gang members with ease.
After arriving, the other gang members collapsed without a fight.
However, just when the protagonist was sitting in the floating car and drinking red wine leisurely, he thought everything had passed safely. Suddenly, densely packed law enforcement units—the corporate army of Tenda Group—appeared in the sky. Everyone was surrounded, and the previous gunfight was also recorded on video.
The evidence is overwhelming, and these law enforcement units immediately open fire on the protagonist's gang members and bodyguards. The protagonist resisted angrily, but the difference in firepower between the two sides was too obvious.
Obviously, Tenda Group wants to wipe out all the protagonist’s forces. Solve the problem in the most appropriate way and do not allow anything to slip through the net.
In desperation, the protagonist launches a floating car and escapes, but the law enforcement unit of Tenda Group is hot in pursuit, and more reinforcements are coming.
The protagonist returns to his apartment on the top floor, takes out his most powerful weapon, and fights stubbornly. With his clean skills, he defeated several law enforcement units of the Tenda Group.
But subsequent reinforcements soon arrived. Facing the overwhelming law enforcement units and drones, the protagonist felt desperate.
He didn’t want to die at the hands of these machines, so he fought and retreated until he reached the rooftop of the top floor and jumped in despair.
He took one last look at the rainy night sky, and then fell rapidly. He could clearly see the clouds below getting closer and closer.
At this time, he no longer needs to play the role of a rich man, and seems to have turned back into the homeless homeless man with nothing. In a daze, he felt that he was still the rat in the gutter. Even if you are lucky enough to climb to the clouds, one day you will be transferred back to the gutter, and you will never be able to stand up again.
His hand groped towards his chest, trying to take out the lucky stone and take one last look. But at this time, the overwhelming law enforcement units had surrounded him in the air and blew him up into a firework.
The stone passed through the clouds and finally fell to the ground, completely shattered.
A homeless man who was shivering from the cold and using a tin bucket to burn garbage for a fire was startled. He stuck his head out of the shed, but saw nothing.
Because the heavy rain has washed away the fragments of the stone.
He looked up at the sky with confusion, but it was still obscured by clouds. He couldn't see what was happening in the upper part of the building. He could only see some faint light.
The homeless man was a little disappointed and retreated into the shed again, shakily lighting up the fire.
At this moment, he suddenly heard footsteps not far away, and hurriedly retreated into the garbage pile next to him.
Several young gang members walked by drunk with drinks in their hands.
“I didn’t expect little people like us to be able to do things for Tengda.”
"Yes, although some adventures resulted in the death of several brothers, we also gained business from gangs in that area."
"One day we brothers will stand out and become real big shots. !”
Several young gang members walked by drunk. One of them raised his head and looked at the skyscraper next to him.
"I wonder when we can also afford a luxury apartment on the top floor?"
Another gang member laughed: "Dream! As long as we have a dream, sooner or later we will You can also climb to the top of that building!”
The camera climbs up from below, across the chaotic streets and dilapidated buildings, and then through the clouds in the center of the building, and finally reaches the sky.
The whole city is brightly lit and a bustling scene.