The Argentine night under time-lapse photography, the endless packs of cigarettes, and the waterfalls in black and white high-contrast colors, it seems that everything starts and ends in a cycle, and I am only in a certain time and place. For a character, the history is always updated, and he is always walking around in this circle. What you want to go out and walk around happily is because you have a home to go back to, and what you don’t want is inseparable, perhaps because the phrase “it’s better for us to start over” is too lethal. If you jump out of the circle you have walked through and break this balance, happy gatherings and sad separations, the combination of the two just happens to achieve peaceful unity. So, Li Yaohui jumped out of the circle he used to walk, why did he Baorong get angry, happy, and cry. In the end, he suddenly realized that life is just a process of loss. If you want to have something, you must lose something in the end. If you want to escape, you must return to the origin, between the past and the future. In this case, Li Yao, who had fled originally, returned to Hong Kong, while He Baorong continued to be lost in the long stream of history.
This is the whole story, the rapture under the skin of a dog man and a man, and the rapture of Zhang Zhen, Liang Chaowei and Leslie Cheung. Most people are fascinated by love, but when I suddenly reach my age, I don't dare to think about it anymore: I no longer think about the past, and I no longer look forward to the future. It's not because you don't believe it, but because it's the same whether you believe it or not. In the long river of history, you must firmly grasp the present. Loneliness is washing your heart over and over again, and you must face the truth of this world, don't Run away, don't deceive yourself, that's called change. Of course, I hope that everything will be new and the same in the next moment, but from time to time I will be blinded by everything other than myself and be dragged back into the cycle of history. This is the so-called unchanging.
Just like Li Yaohui once again heard He Baorong say, "It's better for us to go out of style again." At that moment, most people really couldn't resist, because when we are lonely, we are all the same, always thinking that two people are better than one person's loneliness. History is always strikingly similar, all this, all people are going through, all people.
So looking at Wang's film philosophy in this way is a bit powerful.
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