This year's Hong Kong International Film Festival re-screened the restored version of Spring.
After watching Rejuvenation after many years, I found that this should be the happiest movie with sunglasses. Looking at it today, Wong Kar-wai's camera language is a portrayal of the character's mood. This way of using the camera to tell the characters and the director's own emotions and sorrows, it was not until many years later that I really understood the film language under his camera. I think sunglasses are the sexiest and most romantic way to make movies. The language of his films is like that of actors, and every frame is filled with unspeakable emotions.
Watching Chunguang again tonight, I suddenly understood the end of the movie. At the beginning of 1997, on the eve of the reunification, Sunglasses discussed the lost sense of identity of Hong Kong people in that era. A pair of lovers are afraid of losing each other, and their entanglement in a foreign country is a ukiyo-e that sunglasses lacked the sense of security for Hong Kong people in that era. But at the end of the movie, Li Yaohui went home, happily. That passage from Taipei: I understand that he can walk around freely because he knows that there is a family behind him waiting for him. It can be seen that the sunglasses were still full of hope for the return at that time, and finally arrived, not wandering in a foreign country, with a new identity label, and can proudly say that they have a home, the sunglasses at that time were so happy and full of hope.
Sitting in the theater tonight, even though I was sleepy, I finally understood why Chunguang's English name is happy together. This is really a work with the most happy mood of sunglasses.
But I suddenly thought, after more than 20 years, today's Wong Kar-wai is sitting in the theater watching the rejuvenation, will his heart be mixed? Will he be as happy as before, or has he lost hope?
PS Surprise is the 30-minute unexposed movie clip of the first release after the film, and I saw a lot of precious footage of my brother.
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