The ending has got me confused. Is Yeung really a mole, or is he just someone Lau wants to avert his guilt to?
shareHe wasn't really a mole. He and Sam had a mutual agreement to get what each other wanted, but underlying that, Yeung has and always will be a cop first.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374339/board/thread/7179180 Your question is answered in more detail here.
Thank you!
shareif u watch the end before Andy Lau shot Leon, u will see LEon is copying the Tony leung's "Sorry I am police"
shareIt had me confused too, so is he a corrupted cop?
shareJust using Sam to get information on other gangsters to arrest them. Watch IF 2 to see Wong's previous relationship with Sam.
shareYeah it was obvious Wong and Sam had a friendly relationship.
share Yeung is something of a shadow of the cop that Wong used to be (back at the start of I.A. 2), willing to break the rules and make 'deals with the devil' so-to-speak.
At the end of the day he's still a cop, but not a completely clean-cut 'good guy' in the way SP Wong ended up.
Corrupted, none the less.
share I guess "corrupted" is a point of view. He was not making deals with Sam for his own personal gain (or at least we assume not), he was doing it as a rather shadowy "means to an end".
Yeung seems to be a supporter of 'the ends justify the means', again like Wong used to be when he was younger (IA2).
It's because of this Yeung is one of my favourite characters.
if Yan is a police undercover as a gangster. Ming is a gangster undercover as a police. Yeung is the combine of both of them. Its simple. After Yan's death, it was Yeung who need to stop Ming to end the whole trilogy.
shareIn 1991, Chan Wing Yan (tony Leung) expelled from police train school class and Yeung graduated in No.1 in all reports got distinctions.
and Yeung is still a cop. if u watched the movie, Andy Lau is the traid sent cop.
Yeung is just a police constable there. and his role is similar to Tony's Chan Wing Yan
shareYeung is ASSIGNED and legally SANCTIONED to be a mole. He actually has carte blanche to be both good and bad and he takes full advantage of it. He is a double agent as far as Sam knows, but he is a triple agent in reality.
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