"Breakthrough" tells the story of a gay (He Baorong) and a quasi-gay (Lai Yaohui). The film breaks through the prejudice or negative rendering of ordinary films of the same theme, and examines two men in love from an honest perspective. More life-like dialogue designs and plot arrangements, depicting romanticized characters' emotions. Wong Kar Wai handled the lingering romance, joys and sorrows between the two men just right and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Under his lens, homosexual love is no different from ordinary heterosexual love. It is sweet, noisy, on and off. The same ups and downs, the same joys and sorrows. The plot of two big men in the two-person world of Buenos Aires is angry, bickering, quarrelling, and jealous about the trivial matters of life, which almost makes people forget that the love here is homosexuality. "Spring" is nothing but a narration of the feelings themselves in the semi-popular alternative film genre of homosexuality. Love is easy to get along with, but many times, two people who clearly love each other confront each other ruthlessly and firmly, enduring partings and losses again and again. Forces are reciprocal, causing another person to suffer at the same time as one's own suffering from emotional torment.
Lai Yaohui (Leung Chiu Wai) and He Baorong (Leslie Cheung) went to Argentina in search of the waterfall on the lampshade. Every time they broke up, it was because of He's insecurity, and every time they got back together, it was because Li had no immunity to He's "it's better to start over". Although the two love each other deeply, their outlook on life is very different. He is unruly, unwilling to be bound by the world of two. But Li dreamed of a life of mutual support. He was happiest when he was injured. Even if he had a high fever and wrapped a blanket while cooking for He, he was happy. In order to stay with He completely, he hid He's passport so that He could no longer wander around.
Their relationship fell into a vicious cycle of "it's better to start over" over and over again. "It's better to start over" is nothing but a mirror image, just like they once searched for an unsuccessful waterfall together, and got lost in the process of searching. Against the backdrop of emotionally charged Latin music throughout, it tells a story of loss in pursuit.
Before leaving Buenos Aires, Li Yaohui drove to the waterfall alone, "I always think that there should be a couple standing here." At this time, He Baorong was in Li's apartment, crying bitterly while hugging the blanket that he covered. snot. He knew that Li Yaohui would never come back. Lost past, confused future. Ideals and hopes are deconstructed to pieces by reality. He Baorong's repentance came too late. He finally made up his mind to repent after squandering every opportunity. However, the wings of the God of Opportunity were already crushed by the stacked disappointment. They will never go back. When happiness is so close at hand, we can't always see what it is. Do not know how to cherish, can not choose. Only when it left, did we touch the heartache and realize it.
Buddha said: One hundred years of cultivation can cross the same boat. People in love must love each other well and cherish the rare fate. Because no one will wait for you to come back when you have the heart and heart to leave. Years can't afford to wait too long, or empathy because of loneliness and intolerance, or give up because of discouragement in love, all kinds of reasons, all kinds of changes, time is the biggest enemy of love. Not all stories can start over when you are willing to start over. When you know how to cherish and come back later, maybe love has gone through vicissitudes. In life, there is always something that will never come again and cannot be repeated.
In front of the splashing waterfall, Li Yaohui also burst into tears, and the beautiful dream hidden in his heart was smashed into pieces in his life. Happiness is always smiling and beckoning in the distance, and trials are always in waves. He didn't dare to return He Baorong's passport, he was afraid of hearing the phrase "it's better to start over" that made him hopeless and desperate.
Most of the characters in Wong Kar Wai's films are indifferent on the surface, but they are often fragile, susceptible, and emotional in their hearts. Li Yaohui, who has been emotionally trapped for many times, always seems to be indifferent. It was not until the last cry on the tape and the tears in front of the waterfall that his wounded heart was exposed and his inner world was revealed. As Xiao Zhang said in the film, "A lot of things are better to hear with ears than to see with eyes. It seems that a person pretends to be happy...but the sound can't pretend. Just listen carefully and you will know." What you see is often not true, what you hear is often not true It's hard to hide. Perhaps this is why Wong Kar-wai has a soft spot for voiceover monologues. The speaker was calm, and the listener felt a little pain in his heart. Those tremblings from the soul are like a small hammer, brutally smashing the outer shell of the urbanites everywhere, exposing the fear and desire inside. It was so fragile. It was so unbearable. This is us, fear of love, fear of rejection, fear of hurt, fear of ourselves.
During the filming of "Spring", 1997 was approaching, and Wong Kar-wai also showed his concern for the return of 1997 in the film. However, the film does not directly point to the social and economic situation before the handover in 1997, but through the separation of identity and space, the background of the story is set in Argentina, which is far away from Hong Kong, and the story of the emotional loss of a pair of lovers fully shows the transition. During this period, Hong Kong people were looking for the overall mentality of history, culture and identity.
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