Postmodern?!

The linearity of the track itself is specious. The causal relationship between events is solid and presented in sequence, but the events themselves are chopped to pieces. At the beginning, we saw Leslie Cheung talk to Maggie Cheung three times in a row. Although we know that After that, the man went to find the woman every day, but he didn't know how long it took for the three meetings. Maggie Cheung borrowed Liu Hua's money at the bottom of the Qiande Road Bridge. There was no cut-away and no scene changes. When Liu Hua appeared again It was Zhang, who was standing eating oranges and repaying the money. Only Wang Sheng knew what happened between the loan and the repayment. With such an arrangement, the linearity of the story is still there, but the viewers still feel very detached. It feels a bit like reading memories, the time has been compressed, and only some important scenes are left.

Although it is so detached, the concept of "time" is very clear in the play. Leslie Cheung and Carina Lau both asked 'What time is it now?'; There are often scenes related to "time" in the play: the empty mirror of the bell of the South China Association appeared several times. During the cutscene, the servant was seen wiping the clock of Zhang's house, and the close-up mirror of Jacky Cheung's watch. ...... These all confirm that time still exists in the detached space, and directly affects the essence of the story. Wang Sheng wants to let you know that although the character's spatial relationship feels detached, it is also very real, because the objective time It does flow.

The existence of time in space is affirmed, but the meaning of time is very vague. For Leslie Cheung, it is a trick and a means to tell the girl to watch the time flow with him by including the date and time in his speech. When he died, he would still remember that minute, and that minute was no longer just sixty seconds. To Maggie Cheung, one minute used to represent eternity, but when she really broke free from the man, she found that one minute could be very long. It can be long, but it can be very short. What exactly is time? Is one minute a minute? I think this is the most so-called postmodern aspect of Wang Sheng’s uncertainty about existence, relationship and origin in the play , time is a signifier, but its signified will vary from person to person, or even keep changing, and there will never be a standard answer.

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