Sparrow falls to the ground

Ernestina 2022-04-23 07:03:42

It wasn't until I saw Andy Lau and Maggie Cheung walking on the empty streets in the middle of the night that I realized that I had seen this movie.

When Leslie Cheung's first shot came out, the friends who watched the movie together couldn't help but exclaimed. When Andy Lau took off his raincoat to reveal his sharp nose bridge, we all took a deep breath. Finally, when Tony Leung took care of himself slowly I heard a "wow" sound. Maggie Cheung's deserted Carina Lau's enthusiasm is absolutely stunning. I sat in the cinema and imagined what kind of grand occasion these "little flowers" and "little fresh meat" were crowded together on the big screen on the small screen 28 years ago, and I was also curious about what we can see now. Who can young actors get the admiration of the audience twenty-eight years later.

It's hard to say that I understood the True Story of Ah Fei. Previously, the endorsement was backed to Wang Jiawei. Jin Chengwu in the Chongqing Forest said that "there is nothing in the world that will not expire", and Li Xuzai said, "From this minute, we are friends." Time has a strong presence in his films. The clock that keeps flashing, "what time" is asked several times in the movie, Xu Zi's lost watch, the time scale constitutes the linearity of the story. There is also a dislocation in the emotional responses between the characters. For example, when Maggie Cheung finally called the phone booth, the person who answered the phone was no longer waiting there.

The second memory point is that Andy Lau and Maggie Cheung were walking on a deserted street, which reminds me of Liang Chaowei and Maggie Cheung walking on the street in the Mood for Love. There is a silent tension in the slow rhythm, and I can feel the men and women in front of me seem to be Something will happen.

It rained a lot in the movie, what might it mean? Didn't get it.

The most impressive shot is the long shot of Xu Zai sitting down and waiting for the person selling fake passports all the way up the stairs from the outside of the corridor.

Did Xu Zai know who his favorite woman was before he died? Li Zhen?

When I saw the rouge button, I admired Leslie Cheung's brows and eyes, and what A Fei Zhengshen sighed was that Andy Lau was also really handsome.

The True Story of Ah Fei (1990)
8.5
1990 / Hong Kong / Crime Drama Love / Wong Kar Wai / Leslie Cheung Maggie Cheung

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  • 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.