
Murder is a global language, and the world still loves film noir. Both points are well made in heady Chinese cop opera Only The River Flows, in which the darkness of night is broken only by police torches while shadows outdo the sun. The year is 1995, in a fictional provincial city. Skyscrapers have not yet arrived, but the bulldozers are already here. And the case at the heart of the story falls to chain-smoking police detective Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong), poring over cassette tapes.
謀殺是一種全球通用的語言,世界仍然熱愛黑色電影。這兩點在令人陶醉的中國警匪片《河邊的錯誤》中得到了淋漓盡致的體現,電影中只有警察的手電筒打破了夜晚的黑暗,而陰影甚至比陽光更加耀眼。故事發生在1995年的一個虛構的省級城市。摩天大樓尚未聳立,但推土機已經轟鳴。而故事的核心案件由煙癮纏身的警探馬哲(朱一龍飾)負責,他正埋頭於盒式卡帶的分析中。