A man and a memory - "2046"

Melyna 2022-04-21 09:02:38

"2046" is a work completed by Wong Kar-wai in five years. It has been more than a year since I first watched it. It seems a little late to write an article and express my thoughts. Time period can have different understanding, my understanding of it can be roughly divided into 3 stages.
The first stage: After watching "Dong Xie Xi Du", I was so excited that I fell in love with Wong Kar-wai, and after watching "Chongqing Forest", "Happy Birthday", "Mong Kok Carmen", "The True Story of A Fei" one after another , I watched "2046", and the biggest feeling at that time was that Wong Kar-wai's personal style had reached the extreme, not to mention the lines and subtitles interspersed with a sense of mystery, the first impression of this film is basically the picture and the The soundtrack is extravagant. The Wong style of "2046" is different from that of Wong Kar-wai's previous works in "In the Mood for Love". Wong Kar-wai started from "The True Story of Ah Fei", and his personal style began to take shape. Mature, he also won the best director at Cannes with "In the Mood for Love". The style of "In the Mood for Love" is different from the previous works. It has a feeling of being reborn and playing pure art. "2046" This "pure art" is played to the extreme.
The second stage: I will have a very strange feeling about "2046" soon. Although it is still a love story of complex entanglements between men and women, it lacks the sincere emotions like "Evil and Poison in the West". The movie is not only gorgeous I didn't see anything other than the picture and music of the film. In many places, in order to deliberately reflect Wong Kar-wai's own style, it has become a bit artificial. In my heart, this film has basically become a purely formal work, which is a bit of a fuss.
One day, when I was distracted in class, I suddenly remembered this "2046", and after reviewing the plot from beginning to end, I suddenly found that not only is it not a formal work, but it is a film made by Wong Kar-wai with good intentions. Regarding the content of mind wandering in class, that is what I will talk about next - the third stage.

"In the Mood for Love" and "2046"
It is said that there are all kinds of "2046" in this film, a room number, a novel, a time, a train... In fact, don't think about these, and ignore the "political hints" circulating on the Internet, and get to the bottom." How did the four numbers 2046" come from? We have to talk about the previous work "In the Mood for Love". In "In the Mood for Love", room "2046" is the place where Zhou Muyun and Su Lizhen wrote novels together, or it was an "intimacy" The place is not an exaggeration, that is to say, for Zhou Muyun or Su Lizhen, the "2046" room represents the time they spent together, and it is also the happiest time for the two of them. During this time, Zhou Muyun went to Singapore in the end. end. In my opinion, "2046" is more like a sequel to "In the Mood for Love", a sequel that Wong Kar-Wai deliberately arranged. "In the Mood for Love" and "2046" were filmed at the same time for a period of time, so Wong Kar-wai for this "2046" , the possibility of arranging the concept of room "2046" in "In the Mood for Love" is not without.

"2046" and Memories
For Zhou Muyun, "2046" is his best time, but he also knows that he can't go back to the past, so he transformed the bits and pieces of his life into words and wrote a novel "2046", the novel is about a group of idiots and resentful women trying their best to go to a place called "2046", so what is this "2046"? You can get the answer, "Everyone who goes to 2046 has only one purpose, that is to get back their lost memories, because in 2046, nothing will change, no one knows if this is true, because people who have been there don't One has come back...", that is to say, in Zhou Muyun's novel, "2046" is not necessarily a place, but a concept, which is the depths of people's memories, and just like the interspersed subtitle at the beginning of the movie "All memories They are all wet", and it is very difficult for them to find the past again. Like Zhou Muyun, the idiots in the novel are trying their best to go to "2046", trying to find the past and memories.

Memories and Substitutes
After leaving Su Lizhen to go to Singapore, Zhou Muyun met a woman named Su Lizhen. This woman can be described as mysterious. Like Zhou Muyun, she has a past that she can't bear to face. She helped him when he was in the most difficult time, and he also Telling her the story of him and another Su Lizhen, Zhou Muyun tried to find the past Su Lizhen in her, but it took a long time to find out that "love has no substitute", before he left Singapore, Zhou Muyun asked her to go with him , she asked, "Do you know my past?" and declined politely. Before parting, the two kissed. Zhou Muyun said to her, "If you can let go of the past one day, remember to come back to me..." In fact, he also later You know, this sentence is more like saying to him, isn't he unable to let go of his past and trying to find Su Lizhen in her?
Back in Hong Kong, Zhou Muyun met Lulu, an old acquaintance, but she seemed to have forgotten the past. Zhou Muyun told her everything he knew about her and her boyfriend, and sent her back to the hotel. Lulu lay on the bed and cried. , was stabbed a few times in the room by her boyfriend, "Although it was a tragic ending, she didn't mind because she was always the heroine in the play no matter what." After a long time, Zhou Muyun met Lulu again, She has not changed, she is still the jealous woman, "I understand a truth from her, as long as you don't give up, you will always have a chance." When leaving Lulu's room, Zhou Muyun found that the room was actually numbered as well." 2046", so I planned to stay, but because Lulu was stabbed a few times, the room was in chaos, so Zhou Muyun had no choice but to live in "2047", which was actually quite interesting, as if he was standing outside his own memory, watching other people come in and out. My own "2046" room, that is, watching others enter my memory and leave my memory...

Substitution and disappointment
Room "2046" was renovated, but Zhou Muyun was used to "2047". He watched the infatuated Miss Wang muttering in Japanese in room 2046 all day long. Because her father did not agree with their marriage, she was worried all day. , he helped her communicate with her boyfriend and find a place for her to work. The relationship between the two began to be ambiguous. "Actually, I am very aware of this unconscious feeling, and I don't know if she is aware of it." From Zhou Muyun's words It can be seen in his relationship with Wang that he saw how he and Su Lizhen felt in the past. After all, the two had an extramarital affair at the beginning, and they were secretive and cautious. Isn't this the same as the situation between Wang and Zhou Muyun now? Then the familiar streets and drizzle from "In the Mood for Love" appeared on the screen. Zhou Muyun started to write "2047" again at this time. This is a double story. On the surface, it is about the love between the Japanese and Miss Wang, but it is actually about his ambiguous relationship with her, because he did not find his beloved in 2046. People, "I" became the only one who left 2046, on the train leaving 2046, "I" fell in love with a dull robot, she did not respond to "I"'s love, in the area of ​​1224, 1225, people We need to hold each other to keep warm, because "I" is the only passenger, so I hold this robot... "How long does it take for a person to leave 2046? Some people can leave without any effort, some It takes a long time for people, and they even get bruised." In fact, the novel "2047" can be a sequel to "2046", the latter shows that people do everything possible to find the memory of the past, the former shows that some people can easily let go of the past, and some people let go of the past It took a lot of effort, and the picture was cut back to reality. Zhou Muyun took Miss Wang to call his boyfriend and watched them chat happily. He smiled with relief, as if he had fulfilled himself and Su Lizhen back then, "That night, Although I didn't get it myself, it doesn't matter." It's Christmas Eve, everyone needs warmth, and 1224 and 1225 represent Christmas Eve... At this time, Zhou Muyun understood that the robot didn't respond to him, not because of her She is dull, but she already has a place in her heart. Miss Wang went to Japan to get married soon after. "Actually, love is time-dependent. It is too early or too late to meet, and the result will not work." Another pun, and another It means that you and Miss Wang, on the other hand, have an extramarital affair with Su Lizhen?

disappointment and sadness
Bai Ling once lived in room 2046, because of Zhou Muyun's friend's gags, the two knew each other. As "drinking friends", the two shared their thoughts with each other. In fact, among the women Zhou Muyun experienced, Bai Ling and Bai Ling were the most frivolous. The words tease, indulge in carnal desires, and give back 10 yuan after the incident... Once feelings arise in this relationship, there will definitely be problems. When Bai Ling said that she liked him, she hoped that he would not be with other women in the future. At that time, Zhou Muyun refused without hesitation, because he himself knew that he was used to acting on the scene. After Su Lizhen, he never fell in love with anyone seriously, and kept thinking about the past. Because of the scars in the past, he finally said, "It's okay to pull. , where did so many lifetimes come from?"

A sad and confused future
Before Bai Ling left, she wanted to be with Zhou Muyun as before, and hoped that he would stay with her, but after experiencing so many women, Zhou Muyun finally realized that she could never let go of the Su Lizhen from the past. After leaving, the night was hazy, he was lying alone in the car, no one to accompany him again, "He never looked back, he seemed to be on a long train, heading for the hazy future in the dark night ..." The


above is the content of the whole film, because the whole film has flashbacks and interludes, as well as the content of the novel, so it is a bit difficult to understand the first time you read it, but in fact, after careful analysis, the film talks about it on the surface. When a philandering man sees a story of loving one, in fact, after delving into it, why does he become a philandering man? Why does he see one and love the other? Because of my memories, it's still Su Lizhen, the same room 2046, because I loved it, and I didn't have any ending. I didn't get it, so it's so unforgettable. In fact, even if I got it at the time, it was like the prince and princess in fairy tales, "They Happy together", who knows what will happen to them when they get married. Zhou Muyun searched hard for Su Lizhen's shadow in these women. Everyone could find some, but not all of them. In the end, he could only leave with regret.

The beginning of the movie is a hole, where Zhou Muyun told his secrets and memories, and the end is still the hole. Everything is born from memories, and everything ends because of memories. "2046" tells the story of a man and a memory.

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Extended Reading

2046 quotes

  • Bai Ling: I don't get it. Were does all that fun get you? If you find the right person, why waste time on the others?

    Chow Mo Wan: If I find the right person? A man like me has nothing much except free time. That's why I need company.

    Bai Ling: So people are just time fillers to you?

    Chow Mo Wan: I wouldn't say that. Other people can borrow my time to.

    Bai Ling: And tonight? Are you borrowing me, or am I borrowing you?

    Chow Mo Wan: No difference. Maybe I borrowed you earlier, now you're borrowing me.

    Bai Ling: Ridiculous.

  • Tak: I once fell in love with someone. After a while she was gone. I couldn't stop wondering if she loved me or not. I went to 2046 hoping to find her there. But I never found her.