How did I discover the ambiguity between Zhang Zhen and Li Yaohui

Adam 2022-04-19 09:02:38

Zhang Zhen's appearance was a bit abrupt.
The first scene is in the kitchen, Zhang Zhen's narration, he closed his eyes and listened. One of them mentioned that he heard from the tone of Li Yaohui's phone call that Li Yaohui was on the phone with the person he liked. After finishing work, Li Yaohui gave him dumplings to eat. He stood at the door and watched Li Yaohui leave for a long time.
The second scene mentioned the reason why Zhang Zhen went to Argentina, "I came out because I was unhappy, and it was no fun to go back before I figured it out." Due to the genre nature of this film, I preconceived that Zhang Zhen left home because he found out that he liked men.
After that, Li Yaohui was talking on the phone with He Baorong again. Li Yaohui walked away for a while, and Zhang Zhen went to grab the receiver: "Hello." Li Yaohui came back soon, so he had to smile and hand him the microphone: "I'm looking for you. ." Knowing that the other side of the phone was Li Yaohui's lover, but he answered it cheaply, very suspicious.
In the next picture, Li Yaohui called He Baorong, but when He Baorong was not there, Li Yaohui was a little lonely. Then the camera changed, Zhang Zhen lowered his head and lowered his eyes to work, but his expression was as if he was listening intently; then he raised his eyes, as if he was thinking. The camera moved down, it turned out that he was stirring the eggs, but the eggs in the bowl had already been stirred evenly.
There are two passages in the film depicting Li Yaohui playing football. The first time was when he quarreled with others over the ball, and then left angrily. Zhang Zhen wanted to step up to stop Li Yaohui from behind, then stopped and watched Li Yaohui walk away.
The second time was after Zhang Zhen sent Li Yaohui home when he was drunk. Zhang Zhen had some physical contact with Li Yaohui from time to time. The players were running around and the picture was a bit messy. I just heard Li Yaohui shouting: "Is there a mistake, how do you play with me in this way?" Later, you can clearly see that Zhang Zhen took the opportunity to hug Li Yaohui, the two fell together, and someone next to him shouted: "Don't fight. , don't fight, don't fight." These gestures of intimacy, hiahiahia, are obvious.
But I don't think they did that after drinking, although after this incident, Zhang Zhen began to fall in love.
A woman invited Zhang Zhen to watch a movie, and Zhang Zhenmu agreed. He told Li Yaohui that he liked women with low voices, and also asked Li Yaohui what kind of voice he liked in girls.
Zhang Zhen didn't go to the movies, he went to the bar with Li Yaohui, where Zhang Zhen showed his divine hearing. The kitchen where Li Yaohui works is very noisy, so when Li Yaohui called He Baorong, both of them had to speak loudly. With just such a pair of ears as Zhang Zhen, would he not be able to hear that Li Yaohui was on the phone with a man? Then he deliberately asked Li Yaohui what kind of voice he likes from girls, and what was his intention.
The last time we drank together, Zhang Zhen said seriously because you were my only friend here; including the fact that he went to Buenos Aires to find Li Yaohui on the way home, indicating that the two had a deep relationship.
There is another detail. At first, Zhang Zhen could not understand Cantonese, but he could understand it later. Explain what? Naturally, the more the two chatted, the better they would become.
All of the above clues show that Zhang Zhen's relationship with Li Yaohui cannot be explained by the word friendship.

As for Li Yaohui's treatment of Zhang Zhen, my understanding is limited to "feeling".
The main performance is that before Zhang Zhen left, Li Yaohui asked Zhang Zhen to close his eyes. It is undeniable that Zhang Zhen looks a bit like He Baorong. In the monologue of Li Yaohui in the hug, he said he heard his own heartbeat.
Later, he went to Taipei to meet Zhang Zhen's family, and he knew where to find Zhang Zhen in the future.

Does the word "later" mean that Li Yaohui will have a follow-up with Zhang Zhen?

Attached is the actual reason why Zhang Zhen appeared in this film:
At that time, it was because the King of Sunglasses dragged a group of people to Argentina and was sleepy for a year and could not make the film. Before he agreed to make the film, Leslie Cheung said that this time he could no longer be like "Evil in the East and Poison in the West". ”, because he wants to hold concerts and record records. As a result, Lao Wang still habitually delayed the recording for a long time, and Leslie Cheung’s record was repeatedly delayed. As a result, the New Year’s Eve concert was approaching, and hundreds of thousands of fans had already bought tickets.
After Pharaoh found out, he was very angry, and the film almost could not be finished, so he asked Zhang Zhen to make up, because he felt that Zhang Zhen looked a bit like Leslie Cheung. (via wood)



Piece: A person like Li Yaohui will be happy if he falls in love with anyone; and He Baorong, only with Li Yaohui will be happy.

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  • Lai Yiu-fai: Turns out that lonely people are all the same.

  • Ho Po-wing: Do you regret being with me?

    Lai Yiu-fai: Damn right I do! I had no regrets until I met you. Now my regrets could kill me.