In 2005, the Hong Kong Film Awards selected "100 most representative Chinese films".
The first place is "Spring in a Small Town", which was released in 1948, with a long history and great significance.
In contrast, the second and third places are more widely known, and both starred by Leslie Cheung.
They are "The True Color of Heroes" and "The True Story of A Fei".
In November last year, "The True Color of Heroes" was re-released in the mainland, marking the first time the film was released in the mainland.
And "A Feifei Zhengzhuan" was recently re-screened in the mainland, which is also the first time the film was released in the mainland.
The film won five awards including Best Picture and Best Director at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards. Leslie Cheung also won the Best Actor Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards for this film.
"A Feifei Zhengzhuan" has a high status in the history of Hong Kong film, and it has stood the test of time very well.
MTC, the most professional and demanding film website, gave it a high score of 96, with 14 positive reviews, 0 moderate reviews, and 0 negative reviews. Even more than half of the film critics gave full marks.
As for Wong Kar-wai, "The True Story of Ah Fei" is also one of his most important works. After that, you can see "Chongqing Forest", "Spring Comes Together", "Evil in the East", "In the Mood for Love", "2046" and "The Grand Master" The shadow of "A Fei Zhengzhuan".
Even John To said: In fact, Wong Kar-wai only made the movie "The True Story of Ah Fei".
Ah Fei, referring to a teenage hooligan dressed in fancy clothes and acting frivolously.
A Fei is a general term for a class of people. In "The True Story of A Fei", it refers to Xu Zai played by Leslie Cheung.
Xu Zai was abandoned by his biological mother when he was a child, and he elegantly compared himself to a "rootless bird".
He said to everyone: There is a kind of bird in the world that has no feet. It can only fly and fly all the time. When it is tired, it sleeps in the wind. This kind of bird can only go down to the ground once in its lifetime, and that time is its death. when.
Xu Zai is such a bird. He is cynical, plays with the world, and is indifferent to everything except finding his biological mother.
He first chased after Su Lizhen with rhetoric, but he didn't want to marry her.
Later, she used a pair of earrings to deceive Mimi's heart, but she didn't know how to spoil her.
Xu Zai is like this, he is extremely indifferent to every woman, no matter how sad and painful Su Lizhen and Mimi are, Xu Zai is indifferent.
The fact that he was abandoned by his biological mother made him lack love and loneliness since he was a child. He constantly used the help to enrich his life, whether it was his adoptive mother or Su Lizhen and Mimi, but he finally found that the inner loneliness caused by not being accompanied by his biological mother in the process of growing up, The emptiness that no amount of love can fill.
Therefore, he always danced to the beat of the music to temporarily relieve his confusion. Like a rootless bird sleeping in the wind, wakes up and continues on its way.
He is hot and cold with his lover, has little affection for his adoptive mother, and has no interest in work. He doesn't care about everything, all he cares about is his biological mother.
But when he really broke through the iron shoes and came to the Philippines after all the hard work, as he had guessed long ago, his biological mother did not want to see him at all.
At this moment, Xu Zai became his adoptive mother, Su Lizhen, and Mimi, and his biological mother became Xu Zai. Xu Zai traveled thousands of miles just to see his biological mother, but the other party didn't appreciate it at all.
The adoptive mother, Su Lizhen, and Mimi are reluctant to part with Xu Zai, but Xu Zai doesn't care;
People are like this, they don't know how to cherish what they have, but they always want what they can't get.
Su Lizhen said: Have you ever liked me?
Xu Zai said: I don't know how many women I will like in my life, and I don't know who is my favorite until the end.
Mimi said: I'm leaving.
Xu Zai said: After you go out, don't come back.
The adoptive mother said: Come with me.
Xu Zai said: Of course you are not forcing me to this day.
Su Lizhen thought that she could stay with Xu Zai if she didn't get married, Mimi thought that she could keep Xu Zai with money, and her adoptive mother thought that keeping a secret would make Xu Zai be nice to her... But they failed to change Xu Zai, and in the end, Xu Zai was defeated by Xu Zai. Boy has changed.
On the surface, Xu Zai is indulgent and unruly, but he is actually very persistent in his bones. He does everything according to his own inner arrangements and doesn't care about the opinions of others. If he wanted to find his biological mother, he had to go, even if he risked being turned away, he had to give it a try.
He said, "I will remember it forever." What he remembered was not only the minute between him and Su Lizhen, but also his biological mother.
Isn't that the case with the other people in the movie?
Su Lizhen wanted to get Xu Zai, she would rather compromise and let go of her obsession with getting married.
Mimi wants to save Xu Zai, even if Wei Zai persuades and pleads hard, she will go to the Philippines to find Xu Zai.
Chaozi wants to run the boat, even if he gives up the iron job of the police, he must go to the boat...
At the end of the movie, another Ah Fei dressed up and prepared to go out, continuing the story of the rootless bird.
Rootless birds are persistent, stubborn, and stubborn. They try their best to pursue what they want, and they will never give up until they reach their goals.
But the reality is always cruel. The rootless birds fly into the sky, but they are always pulled back to the surface by the gravity of reality, and they are bruised all over. But even so, their hearts are towards the blue sky.
They never give up unless they lose their lives. Just like a rootless bird can only go down to the ground once in a lifetime, and that time is when it dies.
Different from the persistence, stubbornness and stubbornness of the rootless birds, there is also another type of people who are round, open-minded and tranquil.
For example, Chao Zai, he did not have to run the boat. Seeing that his mother was seriously ill, he became a policeman and did not run the boat until his mother died.
Wei Zai didn't have to chase after Mimi, he sacrificed his ego to become a big one, sold Xu Zai's car, and let Mimi go to the Philippines to find Xu Zai.
It wasn't that Su Lizhen had to ask for Xu Zai. In the dead of night, she dialed the number of the phone booth...
Humans are complex, contradictory and changeable. "Knowing a person doesn't mean anything. People change. Today he likes pineapples, and tomorrow he can like other things."
Some people are stubborn, and some people will make changes for others. Some people believe that they are rootless birds, and some people do not eat this way.
"Have you ever heard of a bird in this world..."
"I've heard it, the one without feet. It's okay to lie to a girl like you."
Xu Zai's tragedy is doomed, and it has ended from the moment his biological mother abandoned him.
In the past, I thought that there was a kind of bird that would fly until it dies before landing, but in fact it didn't go anywhere. That kind of bird was already dead at the beginning.
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