Seventeen years of Afei

Griffin 2022-04-22 07:01:45

It is said that it is for Leslie Cheung's memorial day, and then turn out "The True Story of Ah Fei". Outside the window is the kind of continuous cold rain in the film. In fact, the 17th anniversary of the True Story of Ah Fei is the real commemoration in my heart.

After doing the math, I found out, God, it's really been so many years. I still remember the classmates who were sitting in the darkness under the bright big screen, cheering for every actor's name in the title sequence. I still remember the shock of the dreamy rainforest shots in the music of Hongfan Guitar. I still remember when I went back to the dormitory after watching it, I kept chanting the lines of "footless bird".

What has changed over the years? Both Xu Zai and Leslie Cheung saw what they would see at the end before they died, mine is still unknown.

What made me cry this time was a scene I hadn't noticed before: Xu Zai stubbornly walked away after being rejected by his biological mother. In the boundless coconut grove, his two fists were clenched so tightly, waving behind him, He said, I just want to see you, if you don't give me this chance, then I won't give you the chance (to see me).

It should be said that the Leslie Cheung in the True Story of Ah Fei is the Leslie Cheung in my mind. The Carina Lau in Ah Fei is the Carina Lau I like to see (she hooks up with the richest man and is greedy for money, you can understand, because she is so vulgar and direct and cute), Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau (like he said to Xu Zai in the film, "You want Can't you buy a passport with money? Why make yourself so dangerous? Do you think everyone is like you without worrying about food and drink? I want to work!" More like himself... He is a person who does not seek death), I am willing Believe that they themselves are like that, and will live forever in that dark green, chagrined, and rainy world that never stops. . . with my youth. . .

Now, years and months are marked by turnover and profit. . .

He still remembers that minute, how about you?

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  • Henderson 2022-03-24 09:03:04

    Some movies can only be watched early, or will always exist indirectly in other people's retellings, this one is, I have passed the stage of appreciating this kind of lines, I just feel contrived, together with the awkward straight man played by Leslie Cheung. It's hard for me to like it, of course Maggie Cheung is still charming.

  • Ericka 2022-03-28 09:01:08

    I don't believe in rootless wandering anymore, you look for what you lose.

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.