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Geraldine 2022-11-04 02:27:53

I just watched "Mong Kok Carmen", and the dark life and hopeless love in the film left me at a loss. He was used to seeing other films under the title of Wong Kar Wai, and thought that the old Shanghai-style love full of sensuality and ambiguous sentiments and the ruthless and unruly life of A Fei were the themes of his interpretation. However, no film can so nakedly show the alternative life under the surface of the calm society like "Mong Kok Carmen".
The whole film is filled with the solemn black and white tones of the old gangsters fighting and killing life and death. Although there is no lack of the romantic warmth of Ah Hua and Xiao'e, such a weak fire can hardly illuminate the whole film. Suffocatingly grey and gloomy.
Ah Hua is undoubtedly a true king in the underworld who emphasizes loyalty and love. For the sake of his brothers, he went through fire and water, and went into the tiger's mouth several times. Brotherhood is greater than the sky, perhaps this is the theme of his unshakable life, just like his unbending knees, unshakable will and unyielding spirit when he was poisoned. However, in the world created by swords, guns and sticks, it may always be impossible to have both. The immortal monument in the world, but his back was engraved with an irresponsible seal and fell to the stage of love. He has great wisdom, he knows the wind is strong, the grass is swift, and he retreats bravely; he has a warm heart, and when the wind and rain are shaken, he teaches people to wash their hands and find another way; he has a good spirit, and single-handedly fights the siege and captures the thief and captures the king... However, everything, with the A few crisp gunshots disappeared together. Life is gone, watching the time flies by, no matter how heroic your life is, who still remembers you? I don't know what the staring eyes of Andy, who fell in a pool of blood, saw. What was scattered in the wind in front of him was life, love, or other things that were illusory and could not be grasped?
The fly, this is the character I hate and despise the most in the entire film. All day long under the guise of "for face" to cause trouble everywhere, the result is harming others and harming yourself. As everyone knows, face counts as a fart? The almost perverted obsession with getting ahead made him the most incompetent and ignorant night blind in the underworld. He sold his life indulgently and cheaply in the quarrels and fights again and again. Perhaps we should blame the society, the world, the state of existence that taught him to misunderstand sin as a dream, and the distorted and deformed outlook on life that that unchanging state of existence naturally gave him. And the source of that so-called state of existence is the adjective that writes "poverty". He also has love, love for his mother, love for his younger brother, and for these loves, he can also go through fire and water. However, perhaps it was because of this much love that he took on the responsibility, the eagerness to stand out and the impulsiveness and ignorance of his youth made him remain the same in the bloody fights and slashes. A bloody, tear-stained road of no return. Yeah, how can it be done? You are still just a fly! Will anyone remember you? This kind of enlightenment after the great thoroughness, the flies will never understand.
I like the appearance of Maggie Cheung and A'e in the play, she is so delicate and gentle, so gentle and lovely that even a woman can't help but guard it! However, it is such a quiet girl who should be loved and loved the most, but she gave up the support that could bring her happiness, and stretched the tentacles of love to a "rogue who could neither promise her nor give her a fixed support. ". In the end, her choice was doomed to her precariousness, and his last departure was actually a permanent separation. She is the shadow of the fusion of traditional Chinese women and modern Western women. On the one hand, she is gentle and virtuous. She does not ask about her loved one's whereabouts or do anything. When he needed her, she would rush to the front desperately, comfort him, take care of him, and protect him. On the other hand, she gave her love unreservedly to the man she identified, no matter how bad he was, no matter how wandering he was, she was her own master, and she would love bravely when she identified it. I don't know, I don't know, whether this hopeless love brings her more sweetness or sadness.
After watching "Carmen Mong Kok", I feel that I have a lot to say, but I am not so clear about what to say. I only know that this desire is so strong that it cannot be suppressed, and my heart is inexplicably throbbing and uncomfortable, and there are so many things that need to be poured out!

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  • Andreanne 2022-04-21 09:03:52

    Although this movie does not have the strong personal style of Wong Kar Wai, it is one that I quite like. Dark, flickering shots, and a clear story. In addition, Maggie Cheung in this movie is the perfect woman in my mind. Wong Kar Wai is very good at taking pictures of women, but she is the most brilliant and intriguing.

  • Jake 2022-04-14 09:01:07

    It turns out that Wong Kar Wai can also tell a clear story, and some details can still be seen in the style characteristics of his later works, like the love between Ajie and A'e, that cup... Jacky Cheung's performance is better than Andy Lau.

As Tears Go By quotes

  • Wah: I did a lot of things for our godfather too. By the age of 14, I was already getting paid to kill. I've got more guts than most guys, right? But look at me now. I'm just an ordinary guy!

    Fly: At least you were a hotshot for a while! But what about me? What about me? Everyone looks down on me. Does that make you happy? People think I'm nothing, like some stray dog just following you around! Did you know that? I'd rather be a hero for one day than go on being a fly all my life!

  • Wah: I just wanted to say...I found that glass.