escape, escape from the past

Ferne 2022-04-19 09:02:38

"I heard people say that there is a kind of bird in this world that has no feet. It can only fly and fly all the time. It sleeps in the wind when it is tired. This kind of bird can only go to the ground once in its life, and that time it will die. It's time."
Because he firmly believes that this is the truth, Xu (Leslie Cheung) has been living such a wandering and debauched life all his life. He fell in love with one woman after another, and abandoned them one by one. His whole life seems to have been spent in long-term changes and turmoil, and the only thing that keeps him insisting is to find his biological mother. He learned from his adoptive mother that he was not his own biological child, so he developed a mentality of revenge and betrayal. Perhaps from this time on, he began to distrust others and indulge himself. He lived a life that became more depraved and happier.
He hopes that he is a bird that will never stop flying, flying away from Hong Kong, away from his adoptive mother, away from paragraphs of specious love, away from himself, and away from the past. It is undeniable that this mental state has always existed in the minds of many people. They are rebellious in their hearts, filled with the fanatical anger and dissatisfaction of rockers, and are in urgent need of relief. They are tired and tired of life, so some of them live on their own. The mediocrity hides the mental state of escape in the body of the walking dead. Some live the same life as Xu, indulging themselves, squandering money, squandering feelings, squandering their youth.
Although he has the belief that he has always adhered to and the person he has been looking for, he cannot stop hurting others and hurting himself at the same time.
Su Lizhen is a poor woman. The same goes for Liang Fengying. They both fall in love with a prodigal son, a man who has abandoned his past. Su Lizhen portrays a woman who finally knows how to find herself, while Liang Fengying has been guarding the past, guarding Xu and her past. These two women gave the same love, and in the end, they lost all their love.
In my opinion, Jacky Cheung and Andy Lau's roles express waiting. Jacky Cheung is waiting for Liang Fengying, Andy Lau is waiting for Su Lizhen. They are the same, have been waiting and waiting, waiting for a love that has never been before. One of Andy Lau's passages, what made me sigh the most was the phone booth. What if you waited all the time, when it sounded, it was already a different person.
Asahi, a wandering, fleeing man, the most ideal ending, would have been a dramatic death, in a place no one knew, with endless despair. So, he was shot and killed on the train, and he couldn't rest his eyes, just to see what color the world was at the last moment before his death.
In the last few minutes, everyone said it was the best shot. Does Tony Leung's hair-dressing have any meaning or not? Is it to show that there are countless Xuzi in the world, infinitely many, infinitely wounded love, infinite helplessness; or is it just selling advertisements for "In the Mood for Love"? In fact, it's just a bunch of meaningless shots. Originally, "A Fei" had two episodes, the first episode and the second episode, but the box office of the first episode was bleak, and the second episode was naturally over. And this section of Tony Leung combing his hair is the beginning of the next episode.
Just unintentionally inserted willows, but won the world's name. Life is so helpless. Just like Xu, his drama life, from birth, to love, to hate, to death, can't help but be said, and it's just helpless.
"I used to think that there was a bird that would fly until the day it died before it landed. In fact, it never went anywhere, and the bird was already dead from the start."

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Days of Being Wild quotes

  • Yuddy: Hey, have you heard of a kind of bird...

    Tide: [interrupting] The kind without legs, right? This kind of nonsense can only fool the girls!

  • Leung Fung-ying: When did I say I'd come home with you?

    Yuddy: You never said you wouldn't.