1. Hong Kong is an immigrant city, Maggie Cheung's character came from Macau, Andy Lau's character was running a boat, of course, the deeper "immigration" came from Shanghai during the Anti-Japanese War.
2. Corresponding to "passenger" is to leave. With the passage of time, everyone left Hong Kong again. Finally, Andy Lau's mother died, and he went to run the boat again. This plot is similar to that of "Evil in the East" and finally Ouyang Feng burns down the house. , the feeling of returning to White Camel Mountain is very similar. Time is Wong Kar-wai's favorite theme.
3. Corresponding to the passage of time, there is nostalgia. When Andy Lau and Maggie Cheung were chatting at night, they said that they used to watch football often, but now they have no time. And the first minute of 1960 puts the story in a nostalgic context at the very beginning, which can be said to be another form of "curiousness". Another very important nostalgia is the nostalgia for the old Shanghai.
4. Hong Kong's hot and humid rainy season.
5. Leslie Cheung represents the free and loose and exotic Southeast Asia. The film spends some time talking about trivial city life (of course it is also very poetic), if this is called Dasein, then the background of the title, the music when watching the subtropical rain forest outside on the train, can be called Dasein. the other side. The scene of this other side is attached to Leslie Cheung, and this other side can also be said to be the real reason why A Fei's image stands. A handsome playboy with a traumatic plot may be worth noting, but Ah Fei's greatest charm is that he has some charisma that floats beyond the mundane. He describes himself as a bird that doesn't fall, and the meaning of this sentence is purely formal. .
Passage and nostalgia, these two themes can already write a good movie, but after adding the meaning of "the other side" with Southeast Asian colors, the movie becomes more complicated. In a sense, the opposition between Dasein and Beyond is far more important than Ah Fei's personal story. Ah Fei is the symbol of the other side, and his "not adapting to this world" is the most important part of his charm, and his destruction also continues the tradition of self-destruction of classical tragedy in a sense. The misfortune of Oedipus comes from his pursuit of truth, while the misfortune of Alfie comes from the way he behaves.
The image of A Fei has its predecessor - a beautiful woman who carries a certain detached temperament, but is out of tune with this society. Recalling the source of Naoko's pain in the Norwegian forest, she said that she could not live a collective life at all. This reason is not so much a real problem in a person, but a generalization of the existence of contradictions. The image of Naoko has a great splicing. The ingredients can even be said: Naoko = Mori + social life barriers. It may be precisely because of the potential paleness that it is extremely difficult to represent Naoko in the film, and because of Murakami's language ability, the atmosphere of this character in the novel can be established.
After Ah Fei, countless people have created similar images in youth novels. The structure of this reality-the other side-victim is simple and effective. The reality is replaced by the fast pace of the city and the roaring subway, and the other side is quite iconic. It has become the ancient city of Lijiang. As for whether the ending is written as sad or happy (such as heavy light), it depends on the author's interest. Annie Baby seems to write a tragedy in her early years, and she began to write a happy ending in her middle age.
From a commercial film standpoint, the structure is fantastic because it's repeatable, like Stallone's Lone Hero, inherently watchable, and can sustain the commercial film market for a long time before being abused. The disadvantage is probably that the image will be very thin, and the motivation is easy to be too simple.
It is difficult to play the role of Ah Fei, because such people were originally created outside of life, and I really cannot help but admire Leslie Cheung.
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