One of the most mysterious movies in my memory, it has been looming on TV, in film reviews, and in the mouths of friends over the years. Scenes flashed in my mind: I saw the handsome Tony Leung Ka Fai, the old man-powered trailer, Saigon, Vietnam in the rain, the wet downtown, the brightly lit neighborhood.... The memory is incomplete, and the more hooked it is. arouse curiosity.
It's unexpected that there are so many sex scenes in the movie.
in the movie---
What attracts me in the movie is the male pig's foot character who brought Liang Jiahui the title of actor and the unique exotic overseas Chinese style
The male protagonist knelt in front of his father's bed. The father held an opium smoking gun in his hand and told the male protagonist in a moaning voice that a marriage had been arranged for him. The male protagonist was sad and desperate after hearing this, and could only obey the arrangement. This reflects a cultural phenomenon: even the overseas Chinese in Nanyang cannot get rid of the feudal tradition left by China for thousands of years: the way of being a man with a filial son as the first, still in the name of 'the foundation of being a man', and doing 'custom kidnapping' The truth is brought to the place where we live. When the male protagonist was marrying the bride, he saw the female protagonist in the crowd. The male protagonist turned his eyes away indifferently. Yes, he failed to grasp the pure love. He compromised with the ancient custom of marriage. Suddenly, the sound of firecrackers covered the sound of gongs, drums, flutes, and people's discussions, and a burst of smoke mixed with firecrackers covered the camera, which is very symbolic: there will always be an invisible wall between the two civilizations of the East and the West. life is visually and intangibly separated.
At last---
When the hostess's family left by boat, the familiar black car appeared at the dock. The hostess stared at the black car. She knew that he must be staring at her through the window. The boat moved slowly, and the male protagonist did not get off the car. He failed to keep the girl he loved deeply, but chose to hide his love deeply. And when the heroine heard the familiar sound of the piano, her thoughts were dizzy, she began to miss, and finally knew her love, but it was irreversible, and everything was gone. Just like many good things in life, it is forever missed.
Summarize---
The film was released in 1989, and the high-contrast, high-saturation imaging characteristic of Kodak film has always emphasized that this is an aging film, which is distinct from the delicate and realistic high-definition picture quality of today. The background of the colonial period, the obscure plots, and the magnificent overseas Chinese building...etc. If you don't have a general understanding of the history of Vietnam and the culture of overseas Chinese, it is difficult to appreciate the depth that the film is trying to convey.
The historical background of the film---
In 1884, the French invaders occupied Vietnam and placed Vietnam under colonial rule. After the ten-year French-Vietnamese War from 1945 to 1955, and then the Vietnam War from 1955 to 1975, the Vietnamese Communist Army completely controlled the whole territory and continued to this day. of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The hero and heroine met before 1945, that is, before the outbreak of the French-Vietnamese War, and the hero's family fled to Paris in 1975 when the Viet Cong occupied the capital of South Vietnam. (Under popularization here, before the Viet Cong occupied the whole of Vietnam, more than two million Vietnamese had fled abroad by sea, land and air transportation, and the number of refugees was quite large)
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