For a long time, I have a dilemma in the face of "Happy Spring" - there is no doubt that this film is the best choice to experience Leslie Cheung's superb acting skills, but as a fan of Brother Rong's brain, I don't want to recommend it to anyone. . After watching this film for a long time, I couldn't understand why Leslie Cheung agreed to come to film this film, risking his reputation and disregarding the tinted glasses of the world, and filming every scene meticulously and earnestly . I can only guess how someone who doesn't know Leslie Cheung would feel when they saw this film, oh, he was originally gay, he was originally a slutty self, and he played so boldly in this drama, he was really true show. I remember that I once watched a CCTV6 program introducing Tony Leung's film career, and the host commented on He Baorong in "Breakthrough" -- Leslie Cheung's role in this film was commonplace in his previous films. If possible, I really want to throw a rotten egg up there and ask them, what is commonplace? You can find another He Baorong in the other roles played by Leslie Cheung and let me see what is commonplace? However, after all, my rotten eggs can't find someone to throw, just like I can't change everyone's first reaction when mentioning Leslie Cheung is "he's gay", not his music, not his movies or even his beauty, and Just "he's gay". Whether he's gay or bi, I can't say they're wrong, but I can't help but think about what a horrible world it is, no matter what you've done, no matter how good and hard you work, as long as If you have a little bit of difference from others, it will be magnified infinitely, and then this label will be attached, which cannot be removed for eternity. At the New Year's Eve concert in 1997, Leslie Cheung rarely put on the most formal dress and announced to everyone: "This song is also dedicated to a friend I love. You know which one I'm talking about, it's Mr. Tang. "At that moment, his eyes were so affectionate, his face between light and shadow was so beautiful, his words were so warm, and that scene was in line with the fantasy of all fairy tale love-holding the hand in front of ten thousand people, even though thousands Means, I am going. Some people say that Leslie Cheung is the first public figure in China to come out of the closet, but I think he has nothing to do with coming out of the closet from beginning to end. He just announced to everyone that the person I love is Tang Hede. From beginning to end, his focus is not on exposing his own orientation, but on fighting for his right to be with Mr. Tang to the world. Therefore, from the beginning his behavior was not social because in his mind it was not a social issue but a personal respect issue - Whether it is love for men or women, it should be accepted. What he wants is this kind of free love that disregards the pressure of the world, which is essentially no different from Romeo Juliet's love against family pressure. It is precisely because of this that he was not a fighter from the beginning. He didn't think about what he was going to fight, so he wasn't really prepared for it. He was just using wishful thinking to try to get for himself. understand. However, what results did he receive? He participated in "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" to speak out for homosexuality, and uttered the famous line himself - whether it is a boy or a girl, I only know that I love you. At the same time, the director designed the role of Zeng Zhiwei's sissy little boyfriend, and arranged various vulgar plots to ridicule the "homosexual" love life. He appealed to the media for a tolerant understanding of same-sex love, but the media's focus was always on whether he had a relationship with Lao Tang, whether he had an affair with his assistant, and whether Lao Tang gave up on him and met a new boyfriend. In such a terrifying environment, no one will come to listen to what you say, no one will pay attention to your rights, no one will care about your feelings, all people only focus on consumption and curiosity, the more you pay attention to things, The more others will use this to slap you in the face, and it is a slap that makes trouble out of nothing, persevering and continuing to slap. How hard is it to fight in such an environment? I don't know. Under such circumstances, how much pressure does he need to withstand to take on the role of "Happy Together"? I don't even know. Some people are right, "Happy Together" is not a good love story, I don't even think it is a love story, but more like a political metaphor. got a new boyfriend. In such a terrifying environment, no one will come to listen to what you say, no one will pay attention to your rights, no one will care about your feelings, all people only focus on consumption and curiosity, the more you pay attention to things, The more others will use this to slap you in the face, and it is a slap that makes trouble out of nothing, persevering and continuing to slap. How hard is it to fight in such an environment? I don't know. Under such circumstances, how much pressure does he need to withstand to take on the role of "Happy Together"? I don't even know. Some people are right, "Happy Love" is not a good love story, I don't even think it is a love story, but more like a political metaphor. got a new boyfriend. In such a terrifying environment, no one will come to listen to what you say, no one will pay attention to your rights, no one will care about your feelings, all people only focus on consumption and curiosity, the more you pay attention to things, The more people will use this to slap you in the face, and it is a slap that makes trouble out of nothing, perseverance and continuous slapping. How hard is it to fight in such an environment? I don't know. Under such circumstances, how much pressure does he need to withstand to take on the role of "Happy Together"? I don't even know. Some people are right, "Happy Together" is not a good love story, I don't even think it is a love story, but more like a political metaphor.
In "Happy Birthday", Wong Kar-wai has no affection for the role of He Baorong. He just wants to make him a continuation of Xu Zai in "The True Story of A Fei" and Ouyang Feng in "Evil in the West". So his character inherited all theirs - selfishness, ego, wandering, debauchery. What's different from the past is that this time he also created a Li Yaohui, which finally made He Baorong have an equal opponent, unlike the previous Xu Zai and Ouyang Feng, who, with their unstoppable protagonists' brilliance, directly put everyone around them. Boom to scum. This also means that he will start to oppose this type of people. In previous films, he was gentle with such wandering prodigal sons, creating the aura of the protagonist for them and making excuses for their wandering. From He Baorong, he began to become critical. Based on this, He Baorong in Springtime is particularly weak, and he is also selfish and selfish, but because Li Yaohui is not a little white rabbit like Su Lizhen in The True Story of Ah Fei, He Baorong has no bottom line and is almost a rogue. And the last episode of being tragically abandoned is even more relieving of hatred, making you sloppy, and making you selfish and debauched. Now you will be punished. According to this routine, in fact, Wong Kar-wai's goal has been achieved. Chunguang Chuxie told a story about going home. This home refers to spiritual dependence. At the end of the story, everyone has a home and everyone has returned home. Only He Baorong has no home, his home is Li Yaohui, and he can no longer go back because of his willfulness. What the director wants to tell us does not care is such a truth, prodigal sons are at risk, and wandering needs to be cautious. To put it a little deeper, He Baorong represents a generation of them who are spiritually dissociated and lack identification. In the end, they will either compromise with the old patriarchy like Li Yaohui and seek forgiveness, or be banished forever like He Baorong. At this point in the film, the director can actually be satisfied. As long as the character of He Baorong has a rogue and slutty face, coupled with the amazing beauty, it is enough. Fortunately or unfortunately, the actor he found was Leslie Cheung. Leslie Cheung played He Baorong, a character who made people want to beat him, to be lovable and lovable by no means by his beauty, but by the connotation he gave to this character. It is also because of this endowment that He Baorong has become a completely different person from Xu Zai and Ouyang Feng. He shows the characteristics of this character to the greatest extent - he is a cute and stupid person who lives by instinct. There is a buffer zone between everyone and the world, so as to ensure that your life continues, so that when you want to slap the table and scold the boss, you can replace the anger on your face with a flattering smile, which makes you hate it. Some people can still chat and laugh with him sometimes. Have Some people have a large buffer zone, while some people have a relatively small buffer zone, which also creates a distinction in maturity. And He Baorong is a strange thing. His strange thing is that there is no buffer between his heart and the world, so he can do whatever he wants, and he can say whatever he wants. Does He Baorong love Li Yaohui or not? Of course love, but love is just an instinct. This instinct made him inseparable from Li Yaohui, and the annoyance caused by Li Yaohui's distrust and high-pressure policy was also an instinct. When facing the latter, his instinct would teach him far Escape, escape to the world of flowers. So the cycle of on-off and on-off between him and Li Yaohui repeated again and again, until Li Yaohui quit, GAMEOVER. Although He Baorong's instinct can make people feel a headache, in love, this instinct makes him show his unreserved dependence on Li Yaohui, just like a child. And the reason why children's love is touching is precisely because every drop of emotion emanating from their hearts is the purest, warmest and most desperate. It is this kind of temperament that makes the relationship between these two men exuding sweetness. It is really sweet enough to be greasy. As a bystander, I feel thrilling. It is so sweet that Li Yaohui can't do without He Baorong, and it is so sweet that the audience has no bottom line. Unscrupulously chose to defect, regardless of Li Yaohui's life or death, but only favored this selfish rogue. I think this kind of result was unexpected by Wong Kar-wai, but it is this kind of result that makes this film really have the temperament of love. Wong Kar-wai is not a good love story teller, and he doesn't even really understand homosexuality, but his genius is that he quickly jumped over the shackles of social and moral taboos, and directly discussed the entanglement of a love itself. We have seen that it turns out that men and women are all the same, and love in the world is the same. I think this is the reason why Leslie Cheung is willing to appear in this film. He wants people to know too much. In love, whether it is a man or a woman, gender is not the key, only the relationship itself is the key. In this sense, we can't say that the same-sex love described by Chunguang Chuxue was a failure. Wong Kar-Wai just used a same-sex love to display his ambitions, and Leslie Cheung showed us the same affectionate and affectionate same-sex love as heterosexual love. To be fair, "Happy Together" subjectively did not strive for the legitimate rights and interests of homosexuals, and even shamelessly used people's curiosity to consume the homosexual group. Compared with the films on the theme, Spring Breakthrough is a very clever work. And He Baorong, who is the soul of this movie, jumped out of the box and let us see more aspects of human nature and self. His dissociative and instinctive attitude towards life makes this film, apart from love and political metaphors, have a deeper level of thinking about human nature, people and the world. And Leslie Cheung's superb acting skills and selfless self-sacrifice here should be remembered by us forever. In an interview, Lin Xi once talked about Leslie Cheung's confession at a concert many years ago: "I think this brave act of my brother may actually indirectly create a lot of gays. Couples have the courage to face the masses, and they have the courage to face their families. In 2012, Huang Yaoming also said when he publicly announced his orientation on the "Going Around Concert", when he made this decision, his brother's behavior gave him a lot of encouragement. Their road is getting wider and wider. , the sun is gradually illuminating this once-unknown corner, but the bravest person among the minority of the same generation chose to perish forever. As a brainless fan, I certainly hope that he will always be calm, upright, and awe-inspiring. Will be harassed by the stupid buzz around me, I certainly hope he can drag Mr Tang's hand all the way to his 80th birthday and throw the doubts and ridicule that was once thrown at them back on the superficial ones. He is not a god, he is just an ordinary person, a man of flesh and blood perfection, sensitive and simple, he is using his works, his talents, his character and even his life to seek understanding and respect from the world. Failing to see the cruel fact that the world does not need reconciliation, that the only way out of this siege is to fight. And at the extreme, this may be the root of all tragedies.
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