The taste of plum chicken: French version of secret love

Ulices 2022-01-23 08:04:04

After watching "The Taste of Plum and Chicken", I thought of Lai Shengchuan's "Secret Love: Peach Blossom Spring". In this tragicomedy, it is the part of "Secret Love" that is touching. On the Shanghai beach in the 1930s, Jiangbin Liu and Yun Zhifan were on the riverside thinking about the beautiful future between the two people. However, the war broke out and the two were forced to separate. The former mountain alliance and eachother were turned into clouds and smoke until 40. Years later, both of them were very old, and finally met again in the Taipei hospital.



"Zhifan, have you ever thought of me all these years?"



Jiang Binliu's hand half-stretched on the couch, as well as eager eyes, combined with this trembling question, said endlessly. The vicissitudes and longings of the years filled the theater all at once, making people moved. But with the helplessness of life and the implications of the world, Yun Zhifan at this time is no better than Jiangbin Liu at this time, so Yun Zhifan said that I am going back, and my son is still waiting for me downstairs. As Yun Zhifan moved slowly, one could feel that in the entire theater, there was no other sound except the sound of breathing. "Secret love" is "secret love" after all, and love is even more sad and sad because of its incompleteness. The so-called truth of love, in fact, the "Peach Blossom Spring", who appeared as the other half of the "secret love", gave the final answer. Although "Peach Blossom Spring" is a comedy, there is a deep sorrow behind the comedy. The love and hatred between Wuling people, Chunhua and Lao Tao, from the perspective of Chunhua, when you are around Wuling people, you feel old Tao is good, Lao Tao is romantic enough, and once we have settled with Lao Tao for life, she starts to feel good about Wuling people again. The paradox is that when Wuling people really come back, Chunhua, Lao Tao, and Wuling people All of his love is showing up. The so-called "Peach Blossom Spring", the love behind it, is actually very unbearable. Jiangbin Liu and Yun Zhifan are not together, so they feel that love is beautiful, but who knows if they are really together, will they stage another vulgar life. The so-called love, the so-called life, the space of reality and imagination, are the kind of piercing people.



The taste of "plum chicken" is actually the taste of life and family, as is the daily diet. Whether you are a musician or an ordinary person, you have to eat. When your wife prepares the plum chicken rice you like to eat for you, and then watches you eat it hungrily, this kind of life is actually pretty good. In "The Taste of Plum Chicken", it's actually like this.



But the angle that the director cuts into is exactly the angle of "Secret Love". A well-known violinist, the love he missed when he was young was never restored to death, and his rejection of real life led to his physical demise.



I also think of the knight in Gu Long's works. One of them was obsessed with swordsmanship since he was a child, but no matter how he practiced, the master was not satisfied. He told him that you only practiced swordsmanship, not swordsmanship. Swordsmanship has both art and Dao, and only with enlightenment can you practice swordsmanship that is unique in the world. While the young knight was practicing swordsman, he met a girl who looked like a fairy, and this girl finally fell in love with him. Originally a talented woman, the enviable love is about to come. But the tragedy is that the girl's father categorically rejected the marriage and took the girl around the world, making it difficult to meet the little swordsman. The pain of being broken in love caused Little Swordsman to infuse grief on the swordsmanship, and finally his sword began to have feelings, not just the skills. So the master praised him, and gave him the world's famous sword. With the famous sword in hand, coupled with full of grief and anger, a generation of masters is finally released, and the world is outstanding. But the swordsman who became a master also had to eat, so he married another woman, although he had never loved her. All he loves is his sword, and his lost love thrown on the sword. He thinks his wife doesn't understand love, it's too realistic. In fact, this wife is not only like this, she loves him, and is willing to make his favorite plum chicken rice for him. Moreover, she also knew that there was a story behind his sword, and this story made her envious and jealous. Finally, one day, she couldn't help but shattered his sword. It was a shame that the swordman did not have a sword, so the swordman went to look for the sword he had in hand. But he couldn't find it anymore, even if it was another sword that was famous all over the world. Because, any other sword no longer has the love he once cast on it, and his concentration and loneliness made him turn his sword into the love he once had. Therefore, when the weapon that belongs to oneself is gone, the soul attached to it also dissipates.



And the most unbearable thing, when he finally wanted to find another sword to adapt to, God's teasing, the old love suddenly came to him. But she, who used to be old, stared at him, but said: Sorry, I don't know you! Although, this sentence is a lie, and behind the lie is the crying sadness of the old beauty. But for a simple swordsman, this is enough, and the blow to him is enough to kill his life. Therefore, he chose to abandon the sword, and then abandoned the world, desperately died of hunger strike, leaving his life for the last eight days. For eight days, let him recall the whole life and all the things.



Above, you can understand the story of Gu Long, another version of Lai Shengchuan’s "Secret Love", or the plot of "The Taste of Plum and Chicken".



Marga Shatapi left a story about "I Grow Up in Iran", which is very moving, but in this "Smell of Plum and Chicken", it is still moving, with a very French aesthetic and romantic.了Express. "I grew up in Iran" uses her own story as a clue. This time it is his uncle who is in danger and has taken another real and unreal fantasy journey. The story happened in Iran, in the years before the Iranian Revolution. At that time, wine was still an ordinary commodity, and the lifestyle was also a westernized lifestyle. But compared with today's Iran, it is so unreal, as if it had never existed. That kind of love, that kind of life, and that kind of plot are all illusory, which is also a kind of pain. Only in the movie, like the part of "Peach Blossom Spring" in "Secret Love Peach Blossom Spring", it looks like a comedy, but in fact it is still a tragedy, and it is a greater tragedy. To watch "The Taste of Plum and Chicken", you must insist on passing the previous seemingly boring and seemingly second part, and then you can get close to the truth, and then be shocked, then moved, and then stunned, and unable to say it. In one sentence. The so-called love can be like that, some people still insist on that...

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Chicken with Plums quotes

  • Le père d'Irâne: I know passion. It comes as fast as it goes!

  • Nasser-Ali Khan: But I love her!

    Le père d'Irâne: So prove it and walk out of her life!