This is a movie that can easily make people forget their feelings - old Hong Kong and old Shanghai are copied as they are, the beauty and decay of the old oriental metropolis, the overflowing chaotic style, like the silhouettes of characters walking down from old smoke paintings... Look I am too serious, I am afraid that I will easily fall into the world of the person in the painting. What's more, the tension between the hero and heroine's eyes, but the moment of silence, can not easily lead people away from the flashy and thin mundane reality?
Wang Jiazhi watched the people on the screen cry, and the people in front of the screen looked at Wang Jiazhi's heartache. The time and space that were originally irrelevant intersected each other at the same time. This world was originally interlinked cause and effect.
And people are more likely to think about it in the dimension of time-because of a woman's dizziness in eroticism and love, she made the last decision to betray herself and her comrades-"Maybe just because she wanted to fulfill her, a metropolis overturned Thousands of people died, and thousands of people suffered, followed by earth-shattering reforms..."
This is another sentence from Zhang Ailing's "Love in a Fallen City", but I find it particularly applicable. Yu Wang Jiazhi, after all, the cause and effect between the "Alluring City" is no longer romantic speculation and reverie: "But in this unreasonable world, who knows what is the cause and what is the effect? Who knows?", but became For real, gunshots, bloodshed, and sacrifices.
"It's probably the case with the people who are in the legend." I
'm afraid to fall into such a crazy imagination, and let a story about love and lust become a heavy burden for the country. Although I have to use Mr. Yi as the head of the Wang puppet government spy chief to justify this speculation.
Let me get rid of all the background and make the most concise logical statement: "He loves her, she loves him, and she loves him to kill the one she loves, and in the end she saves him knowing that she will die like this, He did kill her because she saved him." In addition to the countless sacrifices outside the painting, a romantic story should not have been so brutal and bloody.
However, Zhang Ailing just wrote it like this, and Ang Li took it like this: Wang Jiazhi in the painting is also far away from the image of the revolutionary heroine we are familiar with, but a woman who is immersed in love and desire. And Mr. Yi can't evoke the hatred that people should have for such images in patriotic education from childhood to adulthood: the murderer's eyes are more seductive and meaningful when they are gentle.
Passion and desire, in any case, are the joys, sorrows and sorrows of the two people's small world without permission, and they are in charge of the earth-shaking things outside you. But it is related to the great changes in the chaotic world and the responsibility of saving the country or subjugating the country that the hero and heroine have to shoulder. of grief. I am accustomed to the unrestrained imagination of comics, and I am accustomed to the love and hatred of "Pharaoh" ending in impossible coincidences and finally everyone is happy, but here, I have to sigh at the insignificance of "people" in reality - since reality makes them not. If they fall in love, they must be separated like retribution. Everything cannot escape the rotation of cause and effect.
As for the "love" and "desire", "love" and "sex" between Mr. Yi and Wang Jiazhi, which is more important, and how many elements are mixed, I can't find the truth in people's discussions. Eileen Chang's original work is more harsh and cruel, but Ang Lee, as a man, has injected more tenderness into the film. However, because of this, Zhang Ailing's very short story is always easy to pass by, but the movie is more painful to watch - if the story is just the wrestling of two people caught in the temptation of sex, if it is always the heroine who is sexually abused If you are confused or unilaterally emotional, then the story must be more mean and ironic. So I'd rather believe that it's pretty much what I see on screen, Mr. Yi, still in love.
How many sulci is more complex than the cerebral cortex in the human heart? Who can tell how much truth and falsehood are in the relationship between two people? Is it nostalgia or dependence, entanglement or habit, bondage or slavery, spiritual or physical? What is the part that makes people fall in love and inseparable, or is it all?
People say that the "ring" in "Lust, Caution" refers to the ring for men and women, and the ring that is imposed by foreign objects. It is also the ring that Mr. Yi bought for Wang Jiazhi.
In several senses, the story is thrilling because of "precept". Even, if there is no precept, there is no love.
Just like, only those who are thirsty can taste the freshness of water, those who are hungry can taste the sweetness of food, and those who practice asceticism can receive waves of desire, and it is those who are "abstained" by love that Often more hysterical about love.
To make people who can't love and shouldn't love be moved, like lava gushing out of the dark core that has been oppressed for millions of years, does it break the biggest "precept"? Therefore, when Wang Jiazhi saw the ring, he couldn't control himself and kill himself. I think most of it was not because he was stunned by the six-carat diamond, but because he saw Mr. Yi's sincerity when he broke the ring. Even if the original intention of the novel is not like this, looking at Tony Leung's eyes in the movie, I have to believe it.
As a comment I like is -
"Sex is easy to keep, love is hard to guard".
With the thunder and fire at that moment, it is true love that does not ask any origins, and destroys all theories of love components related to "sex and love". At that moment, love is all that can put life and death aside. For this, " A metropolis is overthrown. Thousands of people die, thousands of people suffer, followed by earth-shattering reforms..." That's all!
Even in the next moment, that love is annihilated, fleeing in panic, dying in blood.
Maybe because of this, I prefer to give the title of "Love in a Fallen City" to "Lust, Caution", only in this story, the overthrow of Qionglou Yuyu is for the purity of a moment of love and the eternity of a moment of love.
It's a pity that good things are always flashes of light, like a dream like fog. Walking out of the theater, today's Hong Kong is still standing intact, fully releasing the splendid and prosperous scenery. From ancient times to the present, how many people and how much love is really enough to subvert such a city?
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