#Police Story 2

[nine-frames]

警察故事續集 (Police Story 2), 1988.

Dir. Jackie Chan | Writ. Jackie Chan, Paul B. Clay & Edward Tang | DOP Yiu-Tsou Cheung & Yu-Tang Li

[pacingmusings]

Seen in 2023:

Police Story 2 (Jackie Chan), 1988

[mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves]

Police Story 2 (1988, Jackie Chan, Hong Kong)

[moviesiveseenandwanttoremember]

Jackie Chan’s “警察故事續集” (Police Story 2) August 20, 1988.

[asweetersapphic]

y’all do realize that the statements “police brutality is abhorrent and never acceptable” and “i feel bad for caitlyn kiramman arcane in s2” are two statements/thoughts that can coexist, right?

[solar-eclippse]

"We're all upset about cop!Vi"

No we're not, personally I love watching victims become perpetrators and characters becoming the very thing they sought to destroy

[blueinkjpeg]

Finn if he slayed

[buccellato]

Fucks me up to think about how Legato's legacy in-universe after his death in Trimax (and presumably Tristamp) is probably gonna be how much he sucked and nothing else....

Like, nobody will like Knives but Vash will be long-lived enough to be able to eventually talk about his good qualities from when he was a child and his quasi-redemption in his last days. But who remembers Legato? Livio and Vash are the only living people with any extended memory of him and neither of them would have anything nice to say (and rightfully so). Neither of them probably knew he was a slave, either—as far as Vash can tell this dude showed up one day and hated his guts, for all he knows he's just another survivor from July! Outside of Knives, Elendira, Legato, and maybe Conrad, I don't think any other character knows his actual life story.

And to add on to that, there's no way of looking up that past either—he had no name or personhood before he was effectively rescued, so who could investigators or reporters or archivists track down for information? The human being that was Legato only existed for as long as he knew Knives, before that he was something to be kept and abused as an object. There's presumably no surviving family they can reliably contact, nobody to really say "yes I knew him, here's what his life was like, here's how we can prevent something like this from happening again".

His entire existence will be reduced down to "a human weapon that was freakishly loyal to public enemy #1" without any reflection on the mechanisms that made him the way he was because there's just no actual knowledge of his life.

[millionsknives]

im watching death note and this image is the only thing beamed into my empty skull the entire time

[ask-the-sagents]

First Previous Next

[boardsdonthitback]

Happy 70th Jackie Chan!

[koko-heads]

they have my heart

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Michelle Yeoh retired for acting in the late 80s and then came back five years later and did like seven movies in the space of a year.

What a legend.

[faaun]

thinking abt when i was in iran before getting femto LASIK at this insanely good eye clinic and the receptionist, without looking up, was like if ur nervous take one of these and pointed to a candy bowl full of beta blockers

[mieczyhale]

The problem is.. when you think you've been without monsters for so long sometimes you forget what they look like. What they sound like. No matter how much remembering your education urges you to do.

It's not the same when the monsters are gone.

You're only remembering shadows of them. Stories that seem to be limited to the pages or screens you read them from. Flat and dull things. So yes, people forget. But forgetting is dangerous. Forgetting is how the monsters come back.

-"Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi