behind the invisible

Marcel 2022-04-23 07:03:44

"Yi Yi" is a horror movie.

The horror it creates is the truth we experience every day but always avoid. We live our lives like the articles we write. Modifications back and forth, in order to look beautiful. Change it back and forth, we think our true thoughts are what we embellished. Social status, carnal pleasures, power and money, there is nothing new, and children will simply grow old and become so-called dying people in an instant.

Language, expressions, and words are disgusting at a certain moment, and in addition to being disgusting, you will always see someone who is deeply involved in it and enjoys it. They will say "Yang Dechang is a prophet, he has insight into world affairs, he is the best at swearing, and he is best at describing an era", and then wear dirty slippers in the high-ranking world of obscenity. Whenever I encounter such a middle-aged slanted-eyed child, I always make myself suppress a certain emotion. NJ, played by Wu Nianzhen, suppresses himself, and no one really cares about this kind of suppression, because just like the classic saying "You have pressure, I have pressure, and who is not under pressure", it is not a topic that suppressing oneself is not new. Go up the mountain to practice with the so-called master. In the end, the master asks you to ask the gods. You should really give the master a face, and then scold the gods as a fool.

A brother is a diaosi, married a female subordinate and still has a relationship with his old lover. He was cheated of money, and because he was cheated, he got lucky. In the end, my mother died, and my happiness was fleeting. No one wants to control anyone, someone else takes pictures of the back you can't see, and you just give up after realizing it in a dull sense.

Children grow old in this kind of perfunctory. If you go back and talk to others carefully, including your own parents, you will find that spiritual perfunctory is everywhere. Caring aside, perfunctory itself is infernal. You want to be perfunctory, but your emotions are out of control when you are in a trance. Living in this world, it is best to be an artist, and it will be regarded as a kind of character no matter what. Even if forced.

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Extended Reading
  • Willa 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    For me, "Yi Yi" is the "passing ceremony" of our generation and 1980s movie fans. It means that life moves from one stage to the next, from birth, children, love, adulthood, weddings, illnesses, until death, It also means that the blank screen of the movie has changed from a movie with the appearance to a movie with the inside. The final step in this ceremony was the death of Yang Dechang and several other great directors of the Golden Age. The young and energetic network has already carried too much aging movies.

  • Jamaal 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    If half of a person is alive, the other half is dead. Then the half of the dead will never be seen by the living. If half is hope, half is despair. The desperate half has been fully injected into life, and hope is left in death to be reviewed. Yangyang's role is even somewhat similar to Alexander in "The Sacrifice", taking people to see the other half, from aging and death to see the spread of life. The title is perfect. Personal impression is better than "Guling Street".

Yi Yi: A One and a Two... quotes

  • Yang-Yang: I'm sorry, Grandma. It wasn't that I didn't want to talk to you. I think all the stuff I could tell you... You must already know. Otherwise, you wouldn't always tell me to 'Listen!' They all say you've gone away. But you didn't tell me where you went. I guess it's someplace you think I should know. But, Grandma, I know so little. Do you know what I want to do when I grow up? I want to tell people things they don't know. Show them stuff they haven't seen. It'll be so much fun. Perhaps one day... I'll find out where you've gone. If I do, can I tell everyone, and bring them to visit you? Grandma, I miss you. Especially when I see my newborn cousin who still doesn't have a name. He reminds me that you always said you felt old. I want to tell him that I feel I am old, too.

  • Yang-Yang: Daddy, you can't see what I see and I can't see what you see. So how can I know what you see?

    N.J.: Good question. I never thought of that. That's why we need a camera. Do you want one to play with?

    Yang-Yang: Daddy, can we only know half of the truth?

    N.J.: What? I don't get it

    Yang-Yang: I can only see what's in front, not what's behind. So I can only know half of the truth, right?