17' The male protagonist and the female protagonist are walking side by side. The narration is a large segment of the male protagonist's inner monologue. The camera slowly approaches the male protagonist until the female protagonist appears, and the male protagonist has been hesitant to invite the female protagonist for a drink. After repeated deliberation, I finally made a decision, but did not say what I thought in advance. At this time, the camera zoomed out, and I looked around, and there was no trace of the heroine. .
31' The female protagonist recognizes the male protagonist and calls out the male protagonist's previous name. In the echo of the female protagonist calling the male protagonist's previous name, the memory begins.
36' has a lot of omitted narrative, playing from the beginning of the interview, the music goes on, cuts right to the stage performance, the music ends, the performance ends.
...What about the popular cheongsam in Italy and France in the 1960s...
45'30" once again did the opposite of the narrator's inner description. When he turned around to save his life, his wife had jumped off the building and died...
46'30" To be honest, I didn't know where the memories started at first, probably because of my face blindness, so I couldn't tell if the girl changed, but it reminded me of Ning Hao's love.
He started to play the piano again in the tavern, and the camera moved to the inside of the piano. The trembling keys were like a continuous memory. Then, as soon as the camera changes, from another angle (from the mirror), it smoothly switches to the job of sweeping the bar and being promoted to a bar musician, promoting the plot while lyrical. Then, from the narration (psychological description) of the heroine, the identities and characters of the band members were re-introduced, and the male lead was confessed, as if from a lifetime.
48' fold, a close-up of the male and female protagonists kissing, the background of the fold is a long panning shot (camouflage), from the piano and the tavern, to the living room furnishings such as fish tank sculptures, and then to the bedroom draped over the back of the chair Layer by layer from the coat to the last underwear, and then to the two people who are really close to each other on the bed. Omitted and explained the process from their acquaintance to bedtime. And continue to pick up the hostess to speak, very coherent.
56' In the quarrel between the heroine and the boss, the camera focuses on the male protagonist. The inner monologue of the male protagonist seems to not want to be involved in the dispute at all, and then the camera moves to the piano with the male protagonist, and the male protagonist plays Played the piano, but still couldn't hide the quarrel, making the male protagonist look back at them. The camera cuts back to the quarrel, the music gradually stops, and finally when they are about to start, the male protagonist suddenly enters the camera to organize the boss's attack on the female protagonist, and finally begins to bravely face it, no longer escape, and can no longer stay out of it. (Then began to fight with a phone and a knife in a fast-paced BGM full of comedy. This battle chase is quite absurd [laugh cry] The male protagonist threw the knife in the name, both of them sat on the ground, and the boss began to discuss going back to Before the ladies, who wanted to be more majestic and locked the male lead with a dirty trick. The male lead took a knife to solve the boss. ...extremely absurd)
In the end, after the heroine died, the hero returned to the tavern to play the piano. In the last long shot, his eyes were empty.
There is still a lot that I don't understand, such as the relationship between the kid and the third person in the house before the shootout and the protagonist and his brother. There should be a lot of things to dig in this film, and I will watch it again when I get a chance.
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