Absolute Wong Kar Wai style about the tone . Ego, narcissism, autism. Slow, broken, decadent, sad, betrayed, jealous, abandoned, forgotten. All feelings will return in the end, that is nostalgia.
About the title
"Days of being wild". The days floating in the air and living in the wilderness are destined to be an ethereal story. After a grand relationship, it must be calm.
Regarding themes
, Wong Kar-wai has been repeating similar themes, such as fate, love, time, and loneliness. These are all elements of his screenwriting.
Fate. The footless bird cannot land, and it is its destiny to land and die. Xu Zai is uninhibited, chaotic and abandoned, and rootlessness is his destiny. Su Lizhen forbearance and firmness, forgetting is her destiny. Liang Fengyi is stubborn and anxious, and losing is her destiny. The policeman is kind and reserved, and it is his destiny to leave. Jacky Cheung is compassionate and infatuated, and waiting is his destiny.
Love. Confused, I want to talk. Confused and complicated. A loves B, A leaves B, A loves C. D loves C, E loves B, E leaves B, D forgets C...
time. "A minute before three o'clock in the afternoon on April 16, 1960, you were with me. I'll remember this minute. It's a fact, and we can't change it -- because it's gone." Thrilling lines have expounded the nature of time, it is irreversible and irreversible. On the movie poster, there is a big clock, and the protagonists stand at both ends of the clock, and in the end they can't cross the bifurcation of time.
Lonely. All the characters in the story are lonely, there is a vacancy in their hearts, there is no way to fill it with the love they hope, so lonely.
About the character
Xu Zai. He is narcissistic, nihilist. Live in your own world. Details - his eyes are melancholy and clear, he is facing the mirror, wearing a white vest with bare feet, eyes closed, swaying and dancing to himself. He never escaped from his own world.
Su Lizhen. She needs belonging, she needs commitment. But he couldn't give it. Details - from the very beginning, she asked Xu Zai to pay an extra 5 cents deposit for a Coke bottle. She is a woman who needs a promise. Without a promise, she can only turn around and leave.
Liang Fengyi. Impulsive and direct, never hiding his desires. Details - she's been smoking, not graceful and low-key, all fast inhaling, exhaling, and short of breath. She is an impatient and stubborn woman.
Andy. He is realistic and kind. Details - he broke the "one minute" love, and also broke the mystery of the "footless bird". All the sensational tricks at this time were ridiculous to him.
About the line
"I used to think that there was a bird that would fly until the day it dies before landing. In fact, it hasn't been anywhere, and the bird has died from the beginning. I don’t know who my favorite woman is, and what is she doing now? It’s getting bright, and the weather looks good today, but I don’t know what the sunset will be like today?”
This line makes people feel Depressed ecstasy showed Xu Zi's personality. His alienation, indifference, narcissism. He's naturally insecure, he forgets before he hurts, and leaves before he loses. So he is a bird that sleeps in the air and perches in the wind.
But I personally think that the lines of Wong Kar-wai's early works are too sensational and forceful, and the emotions expressed are too strong and dazzling.
About the structure The
structure is a simple mesh nonlinearity. Like a huge net, it stretches out like a star, with no end.
Regarding the ending
of Wong Kar Wai's movies, every one has foreshadowed. At this time, Su Lizhen was the still stubborn and simple Su Lizhen in "In the Mood for Love". His films, incomplete, appear to be broken.
Trance blurred, stripped of the concept of time and space. The ending of the story is open ended. The last phone call rang in the cold Hong Kong street, Tony Leung, who was in uniform in the low house, was ready to go.
Ah Fei, he continued his legend in another state. There's no need for a sequel, it's already taken on an extended stance.
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