who broke your last line of defense

Luther 2022-04-24 07:01:24

1. Beautiful partner

(There is a difference)

Unfamiliar and beautiful, lonely and enthusiastic partners, meet in different time and space: the first Finland Pavilion, Chongqing Hotel, Hong Kong Tea House, including subway exit, supermarket entrance. Together, or separately, (as if separated forever, but attached for life), they carry out this single task.

In the Chongqing Hotel, the cramped room, the window's perspective is spliced ​​and transitioned by montage, which perfectly presents a pair of twin shadows, fallen angels.

2. Password

(pager 3662, leave a message to visit friends)

The actress (Li Jiaxin) sits in a Hong Kong teahouse and looks at the surrounding environment. Under the wide-angle lens, the actress's cold eyes wander away. The teahouse is in chaos, but everything has nothing to do with her. The indifference, she put an end to emotional.

3. Chongqing Hotel to Hong Kong Tea House

Whether it's blooming or shooting, I'm K.

To a low-boiling tune that fills his body, the actor (Dawn) walks into the teahouse and shoots everyone. All his actions are almost in sync with Li Jiaxin.

4. The bar, a store that shelters the night

(She knows I go to this bar every time)

Not only that, accepting the arrangement of fate, the fallen angel is seated in the same position, facing the person in the mirror, imagining another self. The red dark room implies a desire to seek inner dependence, so Li Jiaxin "feels like he is by my side", the coins he has fiddled with, his breath, the record player he has heard.

5. "Fallen Angels" From Human Orphans

(Partial description of Li Jiaxin's body when listening to the record)

At this moment she has fallen into the river of lust.

6. The angel of aphasia, pondering in the world

(Character shots, close-ups, a sentimental but inexpressible mute, clever narrative)

With He Zhiwu's appearance, some nonsensical "Hong Kong movie" plots, which seem comical, are actually full of warmth. He runs a nightclub in his own way, and establishes "friendship" with Yeguiren through forced buying and selling.

7. Working together in a Spanish barber shop

Cross montage, one person steps on the spot, one person shoots, and the killer combination debuts again. In the end they left, leaving behind a child.

8. Huang Zhiming, Angel with Broken Arm

(Black and white frame drop, "Forget Him")

After being shot, he became tired and fearful of such a life, and he wanted to quit on his own. So go to the "old place" where they "date" and leave the coins.

9. Forget him

In the process of forgetting, Huang Zhiming met the quirky Karen Mok. She was like the other side of the ruthless and ruthless Li Jiaxin, and she was also courting. Her costumes and performances were even more exaggerated. When they were looking for fun together, the screen switched to at the same time, Li Jiaxin was lying on the bed of the Chongqing Hotel alone, in pain, the train continued to pass outside the window, and the city would not stop working for a minute because of a person's sadness.

10. Love and hate are all Jin Maoling

The wide-angle, large-aperture lens focuses on Jin Maoling's exaggerated face while listening to the phone, with He Zhiwu in the background behind him and saying nothing.

He accompanied the broken-hearted Jin Maoling around the city, and completed a nonsensical "Down with Jin Maoling" crowd fight in a teahouse. It turns out that everyone who is trapped by love is called Jin Maoling.

11. First Love

The black-and-white frame-dropping picture reappeared. The two of them were sitting in front of the window, their thoughts were chaotic, and pedestrians passed by behind them, and the camera was upgraded, zoomed in, and slowed down in front of them, as if the night was extraordinarily long. Jin Maoling is thinking about her ex, but He Zhiwu smells first love in her.

12. Lovelorn

Facing Jin Maoling, who was arrogant, He Zhiwu really wanted to understand a little bit of truth, "I can no longer enter those stores at will", and he began to mature.

13. The idea of ​​opening a liquor store was born as a footless killer

But the memories of the past will appear inadvertently, reminding him that the country is easy to change, and the nature is hard to change. Remind him that there was someone who didn't forget him, but cared about him. Memories are like that sluggish radio that may one day randomly play to the vulnerable parts of the heart. Huang Zhiming looked calm on the surface, but in fact he ran away in a daze.

14. Like Father Like Son Videotape

After experiencing friendship and love again, the aphasic angel He Zhiwu slowly started to manage his own family relationship, to the only relative in the world, Dad. When he picked up the VCR, the chaotic, trivial, unprofessional, and even call it a waste film, was the magic touch of this film. Like a child like an angel who has just learned the language of the world, everything is pure, this kind of visual expression has a great impact, and I see the truth that surpasses perfection.

As an angel with aphasia, in the world, he has harvested the most beautiful friendship, love, family affection, what more can he ask for?

13. Dinner for three

If Huang Zhiming had to choose between the two, in fact, he had already made it, that is, he was alone and loved no one. The neon lights of Hong Kong under the rainy night are particularly charming. After a short period of tenderness, they proposed separation one after another. Karen Mok left him with a tooth mark, and Li Jiaxin sent him to die. It was all about the issue of memory.

14. The final request

Li Jiaxin put on a bright red shirt facing the shaking wide-angle lens, and picked up the phone in the crowded and messy room.

(Red implies that the inner loneliness of the characters needs to be decorated with clothing and the environment. Red also represents blood and blood, representing a deep memory, paving the way for Huang Zhiming's death, a fallen angel, fading out of the rivers and lakes)

15. The consolation of sympathy

At the end, Li Jiaxin sits in the back seat of He Zhiwu and crosses the tunnel at high speed. In Wong Kar Wai's film, walking through the long and narrow tunnel alone is a kind of inner loneliness. "I feel so warm this minute", which is the instinct of people to seek warmth and comfort. It is said that there is still one minute left, and it is a clip of the two kissing, which was cut off. Regardless of whether it is there or not, such a beautiful picture has already continued in my heart, and "Fallen Angel" may be the most beautiful movie God has left to the world.

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Extended Reading

Fallen Angels quotes

  • He Zhiwu: I was very talkative when I was small. But at age five, I ate a can of pineapple that had expired, and I stopped talking. For that reason, I have very few friends.

    He Zhiwu: I found it very hard to find work too. I finally decided to be my own boss. Having no capital, the only thing I can do is sneak into other people's shops after hours and run my own business. I'm not a freeloader. I just think it makes sense, since the rent's already been paid, to run the business around the clock.

    He Zhiwu: Who says nobody buys pork at 3:00 a.m.? I came yesterday to buy some, didn't I? If you want to do business, you have to take each customer's needs into account.

    He Zhiwu: Buddha said, "If I don't descend into hell, who will?" When you're the boss, you have to be kind, caring and tolerant. You can't just look to your own gain. I know very well there's no such thing as a free lunch, so I always work very hard until the wee hours.

    He Zhiwu: I don't make a lot of money, but I'm happy.

  • He Zhiwu: I love ice cream. When I was little, an ice cream truck would stop by my house every day. I was always happy to see it. Once I asked my dad why he didn't drive an ice cream truck. He didn't answer. I later found out my mother had been run over by an ice cream truck.