Waiting is an unlocked door

Edison 2022-04-22 07:01:39

After waiting for 3 years and 3 months, I finally got the DVD version of "Blueberry Night". On the eve of the Lantern Festival, there was the sound of firecrackers and fireworks breaking outside the window, but when I looked over, it was endless darkness. Filled with boiling water in the cup, in the dense fog, with a calm and gentle mood, I wanted to see what kind of story the 49-year-old Wong Kar-wai would tell about love.


Zhang Zhen's Chinese dubbing has the taste of Takeshi Kaneshiro. If it weren't for Jude Law's handsome but unfamiliar face on the screen, he would have thought it was a sequel to "Chongqing Forest". It's a pity that Nora Jones' empty eyes and smile can't explain so many complicated and blurred feelings of Wong Kar-wai. It's also a pity that without Du Kefeng's turbulent shots, the picture is just a picture, and the rich emotions that make people speechless for a long time can no longer be found.


3 years later, Wong Kar Wai still wears sunglasses, I still can't guess what kind of expression he has behind the dark lenses. And his story began to be simple and tender. The overwhelming loneliness and emptiness, the bottomless loneliness and despair, the dazed exile and search, and those intense and restrained emotions, finally found a warm home, as sexy as Nora Jones lips, found a kiss as sweet as Jude Law's blueberry pie. But this does not prevent the old man's stubborn nostalgia, nor does it hinder my Enron appreciation.

A: Life is impermanent, you can't fight against time, right? The reasons for breaking up are all the same.

The brightly lit train on the viaduct whizzed past, it took away time, dreams, or love. The rest of the memory is like a deep locked door, and Jude Law, the equally stubborn coffee shop owner, keeps those unclaimed keys in a clear glass jar.

If a guest doesn't choose a blueberry pie, it's not the blueberry pie's fault, but the blueberry pie is thrown away like trash, sometimes called thrown away. Nora Jones and Jude Law are such blueberry pies. Then, Jude Law chose to wait, and Nora Jones chose to wander.

Yes, this yellow-haired, blue-eyed man who makes an unchosen blueberry pie every day, waits for love, and makes countless unfamiliar phone calls to tell his heart, is the man who used to eat expired canned pineapples and keep calling no one can remember him. Takeshi Kaneshiro. Yes, this woman who sleepwalks in bars, restaurants and casinos in order to heal the wounds of love is Faye Wong who once played the music of "California Dreaming" to the sky and bought a plane ticket to fly to California. So what? The stories of loving and being loved and not loving are similar.

B: When it was almost dawn, I decided to take the farthest road and cross this street.

When we get too close, we tend to lose the truth.

In the old house across the street, there are images of ex-boyfriends flirting with another woman. There was more grievance than sadness in Nora Jones' tears. She wanted to walk over and say goodbye to her lost love. If she is the obsessive girl who thinks that "everything should have a reason", then she must also be a naive girl who insists that any ending should have a ceremony of ringing the gong and closing troops. Fortunately, of the countless roads to the other side of the street, she chose the one that was the furthest.

Get on a bus leaving New York and get off at every unfamiliar little stop. Start to numb the pain by working day and night.

Leaving is the best way to wake up. Sobriety is being able to stand two meters away and watch other people's stories.

The first story takes place in a bar. The alcoholic old policeman held a pile of sober chips and looked affectionately and sadly at his wife who had been smiling at him since the age of 17. His eyes were full of pain and despair. He hugged her, begged her, held her back, humiliated her, threatened her with a gun, and tried every means to get her a contemptuous glance, a loud goodbye, and a back without looking back. Then the old policeman died, but her wild and beautiful wife suddenly became a decadent flower in the place where he used to drink. She can finally get rid of his entanglement, and finally leave the place where birds don't lay eggs, but finally, she can see clearly the love in her heart, which is the heart-wrenching pain of a person's death.

Hypnotized by time, awakened by distance. But this distance is a ghostly distance.

The second story takes place in a casino. The female gambling goddess of Las Vegas trampled on her father's love for her like squandering her chips. She thought she didn't trust anyone, so she also thought she didn't care about anyone. Many times she will win because she doesn't trust any of her opponents, so she can see through them. Sometimes she also loses because she doesn't even believe in herself.

The goddess of gamblers who refused to believe in everything missed the chance to see her father for the last time. Nora Jones, who was willing to believe in everything, drove her favorite sports car back to the place where happy love awaits.

Divided by distance, divided by time Healing. And over-confidence in this talent, do you have it?



C: - Sometimes, even if you have the key by your side, the door doesn't always open, does it?
- Even if the door opens, you The person he is looking for may no longer be there.

0.01 cm and the distance from Las Vegas to New York, Wong Kar-wai's love will choose the latter. So when Jude Law's ex-girlfriend came back to find the set of keys, he told He, the person she was looking for at the door, is gone. After the 300-day detour back to Nora Jones across the street, there is no need to say goodbye. She walked into the house and was willing to close it late at night Coffee shop, share blueberry pie with the owner of the coffee shop, on the plate, and on the lips. They no longer need keys.

It turns out that Wong Kar Wai used the most nostalgic way, across the distance from Hong Kong to New York, It tells a story that you can be happy as long as you don't feel nostalgic. The boiling water in the cup is cold, and my eyes and mouth are dry. But I won't say disappointment, I will wait for him with a calm and gentle mood. Next movie.



Waiting is an unlocked door, I have to believe.

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My Blueberry Nights quotes

  • Elizabeth: Why do you keep them? You should just throw them out.

    Jeremy: No. No, I couldn't do that.

    Elizabeth: Why not?

    Jeremy: If I threw these keys away then those doors would be closed forever and that shouldn't be up to me to decide, should it?

    Elizabeth: I guess I'm just looking for a reason.

    Jeremy: From my observations, sometimes it's better off not knowing, and other times there's no reason to be found.

    Elizabeth: Everything has a reason.

    Jeremy: Hmm. It's like these pies and cakes. At the end of every night, the cheesecake and the apple pie are always completely gone. The peach cobbler and the chocolate mousse cake are nearly finished... but there's always a whole blueberry pie left untouched.

    Elizabeth: So what's wrong with the blueberry pie?

    Jeremy: There's nothing wrong with the blueberry pie. Just... people make other choices. You can't blame the blueberry pie, just... no one wants it.

  • Elizabeth: [wiping her tears] How do you say goodbye to someone you can't imagine living without? I didn't say goodbye.

    [pause]

    Elizabeth: I didn't say anything. I just walked away.