Li Jiaxin played a killer and Li Jiaxin played his assistant. The two communicated through the room on the rooftop and some small items in it. Li Jiaxin's studio helps Dawn collect intelligence and deal with garbage. The killer is getting tired of his job and is about to change careers, which means he will cut ties with his assistants. After listening to "Forget Him" on the jukebox, the killer assistant came to the rooftop hut and cried alone. Then the killer met Karen Mok, who was a little neurotic. Karen Mok's character insisted that the killer had soaked her, and the killer was with her out of loneliness. In the end, the killer met the killer's assistant. For the sake of the former relationship, the killer decided to help her do another business. And broke up with Karen Mok, however, this turned out to be his last business, and the killer was shot to death.
Jin Chengwu's character has never spoken since he ate a lot of expired canned pineapples once when he was a child. His favorite thing to do is to pry open the door of other people's houses in the middle of the night and let him "do business" as the boss. His father is a chef at Chongqing Hotel, Chongqing The hotel also happens to be the residence of the killer's assistant Li Jiaxin. Dumb (Kincheng Takeshi) met Yang Caini, who was abandoned by her boyfriend on a business trip, and went with her to find her rival, Jin Maoling. On the way, Dumb decided that Yang Caini was his first love. After going to the stadium to watch football together, Yang Caini disappeared and Dumb went to work in a Japanese restaurant. Dumb bought a video camera with the money from his part-time job, and used it to shoot a full-day documentary on his father's birthday. After Jin Chengwu's father died, he met Yang Caini, who had become a flight attendant at this time, and everything seemed so normal. After the killer died, Dumb took Li Jiaxin home with a locomotive.
Well, to put it nicely, "Fallen Angels" is Wong Kar-wai's most individual movie. From an objective point of view, "Fallen Angels" is Wong Kar-wai's most extreme movie. To put it harshly, "Fallen Angel" is Wong Kar-wai's most tiring film.
In terms of technical means, "Fallen Angels" basically continues the technique of "Chongqing Forest". After all, the propositions of these two plays are closer to that of the other Wong Kar-wai films. The two films are more post-modern and express modernity. The alienation and loneliness of urbanites is even more stressful on this point.
The relationship between the killer and the killer's assistant is a very cold cooperative relationship. Although Li Jiaxin often finds the feeling of his existence through some small items or garbage in Dawn, she still does not dare to face him. The same is true for the relationship between the killer and Karen Mok's character, both of whom are just looking for comfort and companionship in this unfamiliar space. The dumb classmate is completely living in his own unique world, doing things that others seem very inexplicable, and the relationship with Yang Cai Ni is completely self-constructed. After Yang was hurt by love, he nervously and Takeshi Kaneshiro searched for the love rival who didn't know whether it really existed.
Unlike the bright and happy ending of "Chongqing Forest", the ending of "Fallen Angel" is slightly gray. The killer was killed, and the assistant of the killer walked into an unpredictable future together with the mute who was beaten to the ground. Caini Yang reluctantly compromised with reality and became a flight attendant. Even Takeshi Kaneshiro is still bravely experiencing the feeling of every life: "I have never given up any opportunity to rub against others. Sometimes it will get bloody, but it's fine, just be happy." It's hard to see hope.
It is no coincidence that "Fallen Angels" is the least crowded movie. She is closer to many European independent movies in temperament. Even if it is placed in Wong Kar Wai's movies, it can be regarded as the least popular one. This kind of core is obviously not as pleasing as the following "Spring Comes Together" and "In the Mood for Love", nor is it as innovative as "Chongqing Forest", nor is it more deeply rooted in the simple lines in "Evil in the East". .
It should be said that in terms of the theme of the film, "Fallen Angels" has a larger proposition, focusing on the living conditions of modern urbanites. It was only in the later "In the Mood for Love" and "In the Mood for Love" that Wong Kar-wai once again turned his focus to love, or to the hurt and rejection in love. Such a proposition always makes people feel a little sour, even if there is still a cute little humor similar to "Chongqing Forest", such as Takeshi Kaneshiro forcing others to wash their hair, eat ice cream, etc., fans still can't help but feel a bit biting after smiling. chill.
It's not just a change in the film's ideas, but technically, this film basically continues the previous "Chongqing Forest" that also made it a great success. The combination of scattered composition and perfect composition is used. There is no fixed shooting angle. A lot of use of portable photography. In addition, Wong Kar-wai boldly extremes his style. The close-up of the characters in the wide-angle lens not only adds an abstract and alienated impression, but also maintains a great tension in the emotions of the characters. The use of canned music is more frequent than in previous films, adding to the characteristics and temperament of modern people. What's more, the names of the characters have been completely deprived, and there is not even a code name, which highlights the cold feeling of the city. Needless to say, the broken cuts and ego character monologues are less compelling in this film.
But even if "Fallen Angels" doesn't attract the attention of fans, she still has a lot of places to remind you from time to time: This is a Wong Kar Wai movie. The continuation of the fetish, the killer assistant played by Li Jiaxin is so obsessed with the garbage used by the dawn; the use of black and white pictures to express the psychological state of the characters can be regarded as an experiment in "Happy Spring"; in "Dong Xie" The hand that acted as a symbol of eroticism in "Western Poison" once again appeared on the same stage. Things like that are unbeatable.
In the use of actors, Wong Kar-wai's ideas also continued and even carried forward "Chongqing Forest". Apart from Takeshi Kaneshiro, Wang boldly used newcomer Faye Wong in "Heavy" (Faye Wong at that time was not the current diva), and that was even her screen debut. In this play, Wang Ye used a lot of non-first-line actors, Karen Mok and Li Jiaxin were not very popular at the time. Even the "Four Heavenly Kings" Dawn could not compete with superstars like Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung. This kind of situation is very rare in sunglasses movies. It is well known that sunglasses like to use big stars. Because being a star has the meaning of a symbol, and the star can also improve the publicity and influence of the film.
Therefore, it should not be controversial to say that "Fallen Angel" is the most determined king-style movie. It should be said that in this movie, the performance is not very good, it can only be said to be passable. (Of course, this is relative to his own series of movies. In general terms, it is considered to be a top-notch work.) However, there are still a few scenes that left a deep impression on people, such as Li Jiaxin sitting at the last moment. In the back seat of the dumb locomotive Takeshi Kaneshiro, people feel a touch of warmth in this cold and biting movie. Li Jiaxin's masturbation on the bed can clearly make people feel the infatuation and struggle of the characters and so on.
"Fallen Angels" can be seen as a summary of Mr. Wong Kar-wai. Since then, I don't know what stimulated Director Wang Da, and Wang Jiawei began to enter the transformation of his style in "Happy Spring".
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