Bilgi :Herman Yau helms another foray into the triad genre with A Mob Story. Produced by Andrew Lau of Infernal Affairs fame, the film received its premiere at the 2007 Hong Kong International Film Festival before going straight to video. The Cantonese title of the film literally means, "Person in Jiang Hu", highlighting the philosophical gist of the film. This is a movie about man's existence in the underworld, but unlike the popular image of brotherhood and honor among gangsters, we get this solemn lesson: being in the underworld is crap. This is a film that basically tells us that if you're in the underworld, you'll be stabbed in the back, your friends will turn on you for the smallest of reasons, and brotherhood means jack. Women are also bad news, and revenge isn't just empty, it's stupid. The best thing about the underworld? Usually everyone else is so busy fighting amongst themselves that you can go unnoticed. That is, until someone remembers that they hate you, after which they come gunning for you with a pronounced selfish glee. Strangely, the above description also sounds like real life.
