Hoodlum Dream [混混]

Yang Yi and Qi are brothers from the "One Company". At the age of 16 or 17 they went out into the company, working with their big brother and bringing up their little brother, making a good living. But then one of them was sent to prison for drug use, the other one was injured and hospitalized. After being discharged from the hospital, Qi intended to do serious business, but he encountered a lot of crooks. Yang Yi wanted to reorganize, but his brothers were all running for their livelihoods, and they eventually dispersed, becoming a group of outcasts in the streets of the countryside. Filmed between 2014 and 2021, the movie takes an in-depth look at the lives of gangsters, explores the dynamics of gangsterism, and shows the transformation of gangsters in contemporary chinese society.