Catch an old movie

Ashtyn 2022-04-22 07:01:45

It's a movie I've wanted to see a long time ago. From the name to the known synopsis of the story, there is a sense of disrupting the order, if you watch it when you are young, maybe the focus is only on the lure of pornography.

Looking at it now, in the dream of light and shadow, I lightly crossed Saigon, the Mekong River, and the shuttered room. I was touched by the tension of the male and female characters. A girl of a dominant race grew up in a poor family who was despised by the natives. Her mother Hard work, the elder brother is violent, and the younger brother is cowardly; the other is the wealthy class of the disadvantaged race, the character is weak, and they have nothing to do and dare not violate the patriarchal authority. They are an outlet for each other's repression, a depraved and obsessive love that has been distorted and sexually intertwined. The tender scene in the film is by the river at dusk. The heroine tells the history of her home, and then sits until dusk fades away, during which Leung Ka Fai's undressing action is old-fashioned but still touching. After all, with a longer viewing distance, love is old-fashioned, but it's just a different group of people for a generation.

Digression: Thinking of Tony Leung Ka Fai's uneasy and hesitant hand in the car, surrounded by the lonely emotions in the film, I spread out my hand... There are some signs of decay, and the music that is not played may not be able to be played anymore. bomb.

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  • Coby 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    There is always some love hidden in the corners that you don't want to admit. Subdued to responsibility, age, worldliness, family, self-esteem, race, and time, but it was never worth the repeated insults of memory. I love Jean-Jacques Arnold's shots, he always finds the angle that makes your heart hurt.

  • Kristina 2022-03-27 09:01:15

    Very mediocre movie, the character of Tony Leung Ka Fai in the book is the background foil, but it is much richer in the movie. Some scenes are very good, such as confrontation with pierre in the dance hall, such as forcing Loli in bed to say that she only loves money and butts Show, it's very energetic!

The Lover quotes

  • The Chinaman: My body no longer wants the one who does not love.

  • [first lines]

    Narrator: Very early in my life, it was too late. At eighteen it was already too late. At eighteen I aged. This aging was brutal. This aging, I saw it spread over my features, one by one. Instead of being frightened by it, I saw this aging of my face with the same sort of interest I might have taken for example in the reading of a book. That new face I kept it. It's kept the same contours, but its matter is destroyed. I have a destroyed face. Let me tell you again: I'm fifteen and a half. It's the crossing of a ferry on the Mekong.