2046: The illusion of love has no end

Jorge 2022-04-20 09:01:54

We all try to find a result for love, so we have the persistence of laughing and crying. Everyone on the train to 2046 has a wet memory, and it is said that no one wants to come back. In 2046, everything is set in stone. Unfortunately, this is just a lie. One side is insistence, the other side is rebuttal. We all want to know what Zhou Muyun said to Shudong. Again and again, go back, go forward.

It has a strong taste of "Chongqing Forest", whether it is Tony Leung who wears a white vest to talk dialogue, or a long monologue without ups and downs. Tell us those stories again and again, about time, about transformation, about forgetting, about persistence, about giving up, about eternal dislocation, regret, and helplessness. Who knows whether Zhou Muyun returned to 2046 for a certain woman, or searched for 2046 for the feeling of love. 2046 is just a house number, 2046 is just an illusion of love, 2046 is just an emotional entanglement, 2046 is just a period of refusal Let go of memories.

We want every love to have an ending, so it doesn't stop until there is no ending.

None of us should start a new love with someone who hasn't completely forgotten the past. Because feelings without love are deception. This is Zhou Muyun's line. In other words, this is just a high-sounding excuse he gave himself to others. From beginning to end, I don't know who he really loved. For Su Lizhen in Singapore, she is grateful to her, for Bai Ling, it is a naked and direct desire, and for Wang Jingwen, it is only a temporary emotional sustenance. Even for the Su Lizhen from Hong Kong, I am afraid that there are still many longings because of not being able to get it. When we love someone, we often have great courage to do things that we would never even think about. However, to him, she is nothing but a secret in Angkor Wat, under the soil. He didn't even have the courage to express himself, he didn't have the courage to fight for it, he didn't have the courage to ask if you would like to come with me.

Naturally, he had done something for them. He supported the little dancer to fly away, helped the landlady's daughter Hongyan to show affection, and was even willing to open his mouth to take Su Lizhen from Singapore. In fact, he likes to maintain a close relationship with them at an appropriate distance. He can have a skin-to-skin kiss, but he is reluctant to give the slightest sincerity; he can use words to show affection, but he dare not express it in reality. He was so restrained that he was cruel, and he never and never dared to love.

Maybe, I couldn't fall in love with this movie, precisely because I couldn't identify with this man. I hated his ambiguousness and weakness, hated his stingy giving, and hated the love he sealed alone. I can't think that he is lost in memory and unable to extricate himself, but he is escaping loneliness in the name of love; he is just afraid of losing, so he refuses to pay. It can't be called love. All he loves is himself.

So, even if it happened in the name of love, there were inevitably so many tears. TAK's tears, Bai Ling's tears, Lulu's tears, Jingwen's tears, cold and biting but imperative. For men and women in love, this is just an ambiguous and helpless sigh in the dark night; but for someone with a story, a single tear is enough to open a wound that he or she thinks healed, just like a tear he or she once owed you, Bitter, hopeless, worth a thousand words.

All we can do is forget, TAK said. He's the only one to leave 2046.

I started reimagining the ending for the film.

I want to tell you a secret;

I want to tell you a secret;

I want to tell you a secret~~

Secret Garden's song Adagio runs through the whole, the melody of the cello is pressing, pathetic and desperate, like raising one's eyes in the dark Look, wait and see fate. Everyone's memories and future cannot be traced back, cannot be reserved, and cannot be tampered with.

I want to tell you a secret. . . . . .

Better yet, keep the secret in your heart.

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Extended Reading
  • Mireya 2022-03-27 09:01:10

    As the final chapter of "Su Lizhen's Trilogy", Wong Kar-wai actually built a movie universe of his own, and only on the premise of having a deep impression of "The True Story of Ah Fei" and "In the Mood for Love" can the relationship between the characters in the movie be fully clarified And its story line is really not friendly to passers-by and audiences who have forgotten the previous work. Some people may wonder why Su Lizhen in this film did not let Maggie Cheung continue to play the role, but replaced Gong Li? After many years, it seems that there is an answer, because Gong Li has changed his Singaporean nationality. It's quite a coincidence, Zhou Muyun in the story wanted to take Maggie Cheung's version of Su Lizhen in the Mood for Love to Singapore but failed to do so, so after coming to Singapore in this film, he met Gong Li's version of Su Lizhen, forming a reality and a movie. some kind of intersection. The True Story of Ah Fei is Wong Kar-wai's second feature film, which has established an aesthetic style, and all subsequent films have their shadows, and excluding two foreign language films, 2046 happens to be the penultimate feature film. The audio-visual style even made me feel like a fan-oriented mixed-cut video edited by a superb film and television UP master at station B.

  • Merle 2022-03-27 09:01:10

    Can't get to the isolated area in the deepest memory.. can't do it all over again...

2046 quotes

  • Chow Mo Wan: Love is all a matter of timing.

    Chow Mo Wan: It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

    Chow Mo Wan: If I'd lived in another time or place...

    Chow Mo Wan: ...my story might have had a very different ending.

  • Chow Mo Wan: I slowly began to doubt myself.

    Chow Mo Wan: Maybe the reason she didn't answer was not that her reactions were delayed but simply that she didn't love me.

    Chow Mo Wan: So at last, I got it. It's entirely beyond my control.

    Chow Mo Wan: The only thing left for me... was to give up.