Cucurrucucu Paloma

Kiel 2022-04-20 09:02:12

Li Yaohui's concerns are
the instability of love and the power struggle between lovers.
The fight between the trapped beasts in the two-person fighting room: mutual suspicion, mutual distrust, picky, bickering... Do everything possible, using language and violence.
And I paid special attention to Iguazu Falls at the beginning of the movie. In that scene, Wong Kar-wai was paired with Caetano Veloso's "Cucurrucucu Paloma".

"People said he would cry all night, people said he couldn't eat and drink, and people swore that God would shudder to hear him cry. He had suffered so much for her that even when he was dying, he called with her name, how he sang, how he sighed, how he sang, he died of mortal passion. The doves of the past, who got up in the morning and sang, flew to that lonely hut with its wooden door wide open. People swore, That dove must be his soul, he is still waiting for her, waiting for the poor girl to come back. Coo coo coo ... my dove ... coo coo coo ... don't cry, the stone will never know, I I never know what love is." The


song was sung in Spanish, immediately after Leslie Cheung proposed separation on the road: "He Baorong said separation has two meanings." At that moment, Tony Leung covered his face with his hands, as if flowing Tears, people are really sad, the pain of appearance, almost aphasia.
Suffering love often develops under wishful thinking. "It's better for us to start over", Li Yaohui walked with the selfish and domineering He Baorong again, and made many accommodation for him emotionally and in life, one was willing to fight, the other was willing to suffer.
Li Yaohui's ode to love
was buried in his heart, and he didn't want to tell anyone. In the end, he was only left to the cold recorder.
In fact, it is a hidden clue -
it has already given the audience an omen, Li Yaohui's love.


It is said that Leslie Cheung's last action before his death was to hold his head with both hands and curl up together, which is exactly the same as the paranoid appearance of the psychiatrist in "Alien Dimension". Such a man is using his whole life to star in a movie. At the end of the song, Rensan chose to turn himself into dust, and everything returned to silence.
After reading Happy Together again, he was still addicted to He Baorong's hysterical shouting and Li Yaohui, who was alone and crying with a tape recorder in his hand.
Even at the end of the world, so what?
My heart that loves you is still hidden under all the pompous and superficial pain...

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Happy Together quotes

  • 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.