"Ashes of Time" is known as the alternative peak of Chinese martial arts movies
. The film's clever and rather dark humorous plot overturned the traditional martial arts film, making the film a classic. The characters and stories in the film are intertwined and developed, and the beautiful photography shows a fictional world of imagination.
"Ashes of Time" is a martial arts fable in Wong Kar-wai's movie. It is adapted from a new school of martial arts novels, but the postmodernist approach incorporates the fable of modern urban emotions, and the answer is accompanied by 1997 with "going home". The question of where to go is approaching and the people of Hong Kong have always been confused
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"Ashes of Time" successfully opened up a new martial arts film in Hong Kong. This film is a good illustration of the shortcomings of the previous Hong Kong martial arts movies, returning the transcendent human nature to ordinary people, giving the characters in the martial arts movies a personality and soul. This is a very humane movie, with scattered characters and stories interlaced and developed, and beautiful photography shows a fictional world of imagination. Public performances and beautiful photography are the salient features of the film. The performances of the stars in the film are very characteristic, and they have created many extraordinary characters in the fictional world of martial arts.
Wong Kar-wai is good at digging out the potential talents of his actors, so that they have a very personal interpretation of the characters. Although this film has shaped a fantasy time-space story and environment, it also ingeniously hints at the absurdity and ridiculousness of this fictional world. This film is also a tortuous mockery of traditional Hong Kong martial arts movies, and indirectly expresses Wong Kar-wai's criticism and understanding of Hong Kong movies.
The mumbling characters, the decadent and desolate pictures, the unchanging narration, the vagueness and the nervously strong and irrepressible personal style, these very stylistic characteristics are all Wong Kar-wai's famous fame in " You can see it in "Ashes of Time". For example, the fight at the end of the film was originally very coherent and normal when filming, but Wong Kar-wai turned into a weird style in the end. In this movie, there are so many things to enjoy. Every line, every nonchalant action, and every trance in the eyes are enough to make people confused for a long time. Wong Kar-wai borrowed several names from Louis Cha's works, but created a completely different world of martial arts.
The Ouyang Feng portrayed by Leslie Cheung in "Ashes of Time" is a classic
. Leslie Cheung's performance is not only natural and delicate, but also successfully interprets Ouyang Feng's multiple personalities. With enthusiasm in the heart, cold as frost on the outside, twinkling eyes, hypocritical smile, truthful and full of philosophical dialectical language, Leslie Cheung presents an alternative Ouyang Feng in a very comprehensive manner. That Xidu at the end of the desert should be one of Leslie Cheung's best roles
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Leslie Cheung's performance in "Ashes of Time" is very good, from the sharpness in the opening, to the indifference and indifference in the middle, to the true feelings in the monologue, the heat is not bad, he will be lonely, proud, and regretful. The painful interpretation of Ouyang Feng is subtle
. Leslie Cheung's eyes in "Ashes of Time" are changeable, like a deep pond that makes people wonder. Leslie Cheung's use of eyes has many manifestations in "Ashes of Time", so he can perform the most essential things of a martial arts master who has a split personality and eventually a nervous breakdown
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"Ashes of Time" is the pinnacle of Asian cinema. In this movie, Wong Kar-wai subverted the traditional martial arts film, separated the characters from the plot from the movie, told the different course of the story from different angles, and expressed the most delicate emotion in a person's life—love. The film still follows Wong Kar-wai's usual style, and the whole story is about the feelings of rejection and rejection. Wang's film language is fully displayed here. The beautiful music, the incredible camera angle, the constantly changing wide-angle lens, and the tilted composition create an atmosphere of alienation, isolation, and loneliness in the desert, giving people a feeling of emptiness and loss. Show the bleakness in the beauty, and bring a classic realism to the extreme. This is the city in Wong Kar-wai's eyes: something that one cannot refuse and tries to escape. This emotion is permeated in every detail of his film
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