Ten years later, this is still one of my favorite movies.

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Ten years later, this is still one of my favorite movies.


Ten years ago, I was eighteen. I passed by the Workers' Cultural Palace and saw a huge poster with more than a dozen top stars lined up with the words "Evil in the East and Poison in the West" written on it. At that time, it was not the dozen or so stars that attracted me, but Jin Yong.

I have heard of this movie for a long time. At that time, I was an absolute fan of Jin Yong. Anyone who criticized Jin Yong's novels was my enemy, and anyone who resonated with Jin Yong's novels was my confidant. I often feel it with those confidants of mine, imagining myself like the heroic characters in his books, and the rivers and lakes are wide and wide.

At that time, I felt that so many stars played Jin Yong's characters together, which was very exciting. At least I think they gave me face because of my good relationship with Jin Yong.

At that time, I didn't know what the director did in a movie, and I didn't know that Jin Yong's original name was Cha Liangyong.

So I was very happy with my roommate who was shopping with me and asked him to accompany me to watch this earth-shattering good movie. I assured him how charming Yong's novels are, and with so many top stars supporting the scene, it must be good to watch. So we each spent twenty dollars to watch the movie.

Looking dizzy.
I feel outraged. This director is totally bullshitting. This is simply selling dog meat with a sheep's head. My classmates were also confused, and I felt ashamed. While apologizing to him, I assured him that Jin Yong's novels were definitely not like this.
So I remembered the ghost name Wong Kar Wai.

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Ten years have passed. In fact, in the past ten years, I have watched a lot of Wong Kar Wai's films. And "Evil in the West" has become one of my most watched movies.

I think the feeling of watching "Evil in the East and West Poison" is like reading "Besieged City", and every time I read it, I will have a different feeling.

As we grow up like a dog, it seems that there is always something missing. Our life is inevitably accompanied by the melancholy of youth, the anxiety of entering society, the cowardice of love, and the loss of control of desire.

All these emotions, when you read a book or watch a movie, you can find a kind of detached resonance. This kind of resonance makes it difficult for us to fall asleep. Sometimes it makes you overwhelmed in the face of traffic, sometimes Makes you cry, and sometimes laughter with tears in your eyes. ----- These descriptions are really TMD hypocritical. But all this is really what we have experienced.

Some people say that when a man is over 30, it is ridiculous to mention loneliness. But loneliness actually exists in your flesh and blood, and because of loneliness, you hate and love loneliness even more, because loneliness has given you a mask, given you a weapon of defense, and made you prepare all kinds of disguises to show that you are not Lonely. It's hard to tell if these disguises are protecting or hurting us? In the face of what you love, you still need to protect yourself with hard indifference.

But your heart has to be full of jealousy. "How do people see me, I just don't want others to be happier than me." Can
people in love really distinguish between winning and losing?

"If the relationship can be divided, I don't know if she won, but I know very well that I lost from the beginning."


-------- End the nonsense. (I read the whole article again, this TMD is completely bullshit and not a movie review)

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Ashes of Time quotes

  • The Woman: Why didn't you let him know I live here?

    Huang Yao-shi: You didn't ask me to.

    The Woman: [sobbing] You are too honest!

  • Blind Swordsman: My doctor said I will go completely blind when I reach 30.

    Ou-yang Feng: So how old are you?

    Blind Swordsman: Almost 30.