Find Happiness - The Fascinating Chongqing Forest

Gregorio 2022-04-20 09:01:51

Yesterday, on a whim, I revisited "Chongqing Forest". Although I have seen it several times, this film still attracts me so much, perhaps because of those peculiar but condensed words of the true meaning of life, or the fragmented but ringed The interlocking picture may be the irresistible handsomeness of Tony Leung in uniform when he appeared on the stage, or the song that I love the most in English, or the ending—the people who were originally lonely have finally found each other. myself and others - keeps me warm.

Takeshi Kaneshiro in the film is so lonely that he eats all the time, canned pineapples, McDonald's burgers, drinks, wine, chef's salad. He made countless phone calls, but he was always talking to himself. Finally, at the moment of his birthday, when he decided to throw away the call machine, someone wished him a happy birthday, so he would remember her. I remember a scene where he wiped off Brigitte Lin's high heels with the tie around his neck.

Lin Qingxia in the film is also so lonely that she has to kill many people. She ran all night and finally fell asleep at the bar tired. Finally, when she woke up, she found that someone was willing to take her to the hotel room to let her rest and wipe her high heels. So, she finally showed a smile. In the end, she killed the enemy and threw away the wig, and next to it was a can of food that was expired that day.

Faye Wong is so lonely that she is always cleaning, cleaning her cousin's takeaway shop, and cleaning Tony Leung's home. She secretly ran to Tony Leung's house and replaced his belongings in the same way, but hid like a bunny when she was caught. While her date was waiting in a rainy California bar, she went to the real California of her dreams, just to know if there was sunshine there. However, she left her boarding pass a year later and flew back on time a year later.

Tony Leung was so lonely that he kept talking to the soap, towels, plush toys in the house, and the cups in the bar. He was never willing to face the reality well, and he never opened the breakup letter from his girlfriend. One day, after realizing it, he finally discovered the changes at home and discovered california dreaming. He took off his uniform and put on the new shirt that appeared in the closet, waiting for the new flight to take off. Although the habit of refusing to face reality made him get his boarding pass wet, luckily he finally stopped missing it.

I found some scenes that I hadn't noticed before: Faye Wong and Tony Leung appeared before their official debut. When Jin Chengwu was wandering near the takeaway store, Tony Leung leaned on the railing of the flyover next to him; while Brigitte Lin was busy, Faye Wong He walked out of the store holding the yellow plush toy that was later changed to Tony Leung's house; when Tony Leung was "nailed" by tacks, his letter of breakup was nailed to Faye Wong's wall; after Faye Wong was invited, he was in the store Busy, but full of liveliness.

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Extended Reading
  • Jevon 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    Wong Kar-wai's ambiguous light and shadow are particularly suitable for expressing something. The one-night warmth between He Zhiwu and the female killer in the film is very similar to the normal state of Hong Kong people.

  • Jevon 2022-04-24 07:01:14

    8/10. Disconnected scenes have a coherent inner emotion, and the core of the story is the objects: canned date labels, unchanging salads, alcohol with sleeping pills, crying house, happy birthday from the answering machine that keeps memories forever, dried fake registration cards But it is clear that love can be re-selected, and the rapid editing reshapes the turbulent flow of time and space and the turbulent flow of characters and scenery to project the ethereal atmosphere of space. The future is as full of variables as Faye Wong's composition reflected in the escalator mirror.

Chungking Express quotes

  • Woman in blonde wig: Somehow I've become very cautious. When I put on a raincoat, I put on sunglasses too. Who knows when it will rain, or when it will turn out sunny?

  • He Zhiwu, Cop 223: We split up on April Fool's Day. So I decided to let the joke run for a month. Every day I buy a can of pineapple with a sell-by date of May 1. May loves pineapple, and May 1 is my birthday. If May hasn't changed her mind by the time I've bought thirty cans, then our love will also expire.