- Issue 372 "Watching Movies" "The Ashes of Time"
It was already late at night, but Huang Yaoshi's face was still flashing in his mind, as if he had just watched "Evil in the East and Poison in the West" again. I grew up in a college like the one described in "The Twenty-Four Cities". When I was very young, everything from the yard to the hospital and school to soda and even steam for steaming rice was readily available. In the middle of the yard is a large auditorium. There will be movies on weekend nights. Adults enter the venue with welfare tickets issued by the unit. Children as young as me sneak in half an hour after the opening, when the ticket inspectors are no longer so conscientious. Of course, after being discovered, they will be kicked out viciously. I don't think I've ever had the guts to be like other kids, or why I can only remember the streetlights walking around the auditorium by myself, but I can't remember which movies were played in the auditorium. Not long after the auditorium was shut down, CCTVs were installed in every household. After the news of the factory on Wednesday and Saturday, a Hong Kong film followed by a Western film would be shown. For many years, I have always been proud to think that I only watched the previous Hong Kong film and not the dubbed western film at that time, because I was naturally disgusted with bad dubbing, which shows that I knew how to appreciate the beauty of the original sound since I was a child. I only realized after work that maybe it was because my parents came home from overtime after 9 o’clock at that time, and I might be forced to go to bed. There is another proof for this idea - one of my brothers who grew up together. , His father is an electrician in the factory, and he is often on duty in the power distribution room at night, so he prefers to watch Western movies, sniper zombie wars, etc., especially 007, so he is currently working in the National Security Bureau. The scale of movies in the unit will always be larger, so the technical term "CCTV" is always closer to the vague curiosity in my young mind, and it is more tempting than simple movies. My sexual enlightenment is also from the beginning. At the beginning of "CCTV", what impressed me most was a female killer played by Li Lizhen. She sacrificed her color to perform the task. Oshima Yukali, who disguised herself as a cleaner, did not arrive in time, causing Sister Zhen to lose her virginity. In front of the 14-inch black and white screen, I had to see a clear critical moment. My parents came back from get off work, and I took the initiative to change the channel. I found this movie easily when I first learned to surf the Internet, but I haven't seen it again. A few years after the auditorium was closed, it was converted into a warehouse. Once, my dad picked up a truck and brought me in with me. I seriously touched the white cloth that was still hanging on the wall, and touched a hand of ashes. I think since then I have dimly realized that what is not available is always the best.
Just like Factory 420, the unit was restructured. When I was promoted from elementary school to junior high school, the sub-schools in the factory were merged into a private high school with a bad reputation. The partners who grew up together had to go their separate ways. I remember that before the last summer vacation, the principal called the top students in each class together for a meeting, trying to keep everyone from continuing to study in the factory, but almost no one stayed. In order to study at another school as far away as 10 yuan by taxi, I learned to pedal a bicycle in one summer vacation, and it took me six years to pedal. At that time, the CCTV in the factory had been discontinued, but I ushered in my real movie enlightenment. The meaning of those six years was just like what the first wave of movie fans experienced.”
Because I often skip watching several movies, I often remember plots. Most of the time, this kind of thing is irrelevant. But once, the consequences were enough to make me regret it to this day. I think that when I am old, I will regret it even more when I recall the past. In fact, I have had more than one sad dream. When I was old, I remembered this incident alone Weeping. One of my classmates in high school liked me, and I also knew and liked her, but I never had the chance to confess to each other. Once she told me that on her birthday a few days ago, a boy gave her a glass apple. I think she might She was telling me her birthday vaguely, and by the way, I was testing my reaction to the gifts given by other boys. I just watched the "New Century of Love" played by Liming and Shu Qi in the past few days, and the important love prop in it is the glass apple , so I was very unhappy and let her go to the movie, implying how sad I was for her accepting such a gift from someone else, and then maybe I could express my feelings to each other logically, never should never, I told Her title is "City of Glass", so she thought I was implying that the relationship during her student days would end with the separation after graduation like in "City of Glass". Of course, this is my guess, but no matter what. How come this layer of window paper was not pierced until graduation, and it was not until the first semester of college that I confessed on letter paper, but it was too late, it was actually the same as "City of Glass", two years later. First love ended without a hitch. Later I found out that "New Century of Love" was made by Wang Jing and Shu Qi because of the scandal of "City of Glass", so I decided to despise his films forever, even if he cast Xu Anhua's "Days and Nights of Tin Shui Wai" today ", even if he can shake hands with Er Dongsheng in the future, I will never forgive him, just like I will never forgive myself for my cowardice at that time. Although I haven't asked her to verify what I thought at that time, what does that matter? Maybe the more I know the answer, the clearer the pain will be.
The color TV was changed very late at home. Unless my mother worked overtime and asked me to have dinner at my grandma’s house, I would only watch black and white movies, but it didn’t matter. Anyway, the extremely high replay rate of those movies in the later period will always give me a chance. I watched it again on a color TV, and now that I think about it, it was actually black and white that inspired my film, as if I had experienced film history unknowingly. The first time I watched the Academy Awards was also on a black and white TV. Although the color TV was just changed at home, I was so happy to sit in the corner by myself and watch the old TV that had been eliminated. I didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. Phoenix TV broadcast, I still remember the nominations of "Breakthrough" and "Made in Hong Kong", the nominations back and forth are the pale Leslie Leslie Liang Chaowei and the weirdly dressed Li Cansen, Chen Guo's expired film and Du Kefeng's overexposure. , let all my memories of that year turn grey and white, it should have been green. It seems that it was also that year, when Tony Leung and Tony Leung came out together to award the Best Actress. They said that the actress who won this year would be unlucky because both Tony Leungs had beards and would be very prickly when kissing their cheeks. At that time, it was very easy to watch the awards ceremony, because all the nominated films would not be seen until at least a year later, so when watching the awards, I didn’t care who won the award at all. Instead, it was more interesting to watch the real faces of the familiar directors. , Now I think it's a pity that I didn't experience that kind of excitement and regret. Later, I watched many Academy Awards intermittently, and I still remember that every time Tony Leung said he would get married without winning an award, Huang Qiusheng emphasized time and time again that the award had declined for three years, and Stephen Chow lost to Qiao Hong. , Because I haven't seen the nominated films, I watch the fun with a bystander mentality. Now the plane has won Jimmy Boy, Peach Blossom married a blind warrior, and even the five films nominated by the best actor were all watched on the big screen in the cinema. However, it seems that the award ceremony is more and more impatient, and I just want to see the result. It turns out that the back of the mountain is really the same desert. After I went to college, I watched "Breakthrough" for the first time. I saw Li Yaohui and He Baorong pushing a cart on the side of the road. I was surprised to find that the picture itself was black and white. I felt an indescribable feeling in my heart. The unforgettable memories are pale because the calendar itself is pale.
In the year when the movie channel played "Westward Journey", after watching "Moonlight Treasure Box" several times, it finally came to "The Great Sage Marries a Wife" during the Spring Festival. When I was still extremely saddened by Zixia's death, I found that the Xi'an cable TV channel is showing a movie full of yellow sand. The picture is very thick, the actors are very big, the lines are very shocking, and the music is very soul-stirring. The most surprising thing is that "Dongxie" flashed after I watched it for a few minutes. The picture of "Western Drugs 2", my God, such a good-looking film is actually a TV series, it's amazing! ——Because of economic reasons, I have never bought a vcd machine at home. When I went to college to save money and falsely report expenses to buy discs, it was already the world of dvds, so I never felt the era of "Wexi Di" , I never knew that the movie was going to change the disc and broadcast the next two episodes. I still remember that the next morning, my parents were playing all-night cards at my grandmother's house before they came back. I stayed on the TV with no signal until 9:00 o'clock and started replaying the movie from the previous night. After an hour and a half, the subtitles shook. When I came out, I was entangled in the complicated relationship between characters, and suddenly realized that this is not a TV series. After that year, I started drinking baijiu secretly. I was called by the head teacher to the school several times because of this, but I couldn't change it. I went to Yulin for the first time two years ago and was drunk. The next morning, I dragged my still dizzy head. I stood on the 70-meter-high furnace roof and looked out. I was stunned to find that the desert in front of me was so familiar. , I am familiar with my own past events, and I feel like crying when I learn that this is the place where "Dong Evil and West Poison" was filmed. The place where Dugu Qiufei practiced swordsmanship against the shadow has been developed into Hongshixia Ecological Park. Murong Yan's photo and other historical stories that exist nearby are juxtaposed on the billboard, attracting passing tourists.
It's almost dawn, but I'm still not sleepy. I pack my bags and go to the Mu Us Desert the day after tomorrow. I haven’t written anything about movies since I graduated. I’ve been working for almost three years now. I don’t know how many times I’ve been to that desert, and I don’t know how many times I’ll go in the future. Although I have already deleted the 1080i BDRIP on my hard drive , I still couldn't resist watching "Dong Xie Xi Po Definitive Edition" twice in the morning show. It doesn't matter if you change the dubbing, it doesn't matter if you redo the music, you can delete Huang Yaoshi's narration. The only thing that matters is that The color of the desert and the sky, I don't know if Wong Kar-wai has ever been to that desert again. Maybe in his memory, the desert that was originally gray and yellow has become as bright as it is now after the calcination of time. Maybe the more I want to know if I forgot, the more I remember it, but whether my memory is real or not is not so important anymore.
How can it be said clearly?
There is a corner in everyone's heart that no one
else can enter, and one can never get out of.
I heard that some people will watch the same movie hundreds of times,
as if a long life can be poured on this twenty-four frames per second film,
but in fact, the movies we are seeing now are not real,
those illusory lights are often Before it was formed, it had already experienced one thousand and one thousand choices. The
reason why we finally saw it was
nothing more than five years of cutting and improvisation like Wong Kar Wai.
——The preface of a certain issue of "Watching Movies" "Film Dream Maker"
would like to use this document to give the Hong Kong film I grew up with a happy 100th birthday!
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