As eloa mm said, I like something so much that I don't know what to write about it. Emotions, like in the movie, are extremely silent and erupt in the dark. It's just that no matter where I am, I always pay special attention to everything related to it, so I saw this story at a glance in Zhan Hongzhi's book.
"It was the thirty-ninth year of the Republic of China, the mainland had been liberated, but the Sichuan ship was still passing between Shanghai and Keelung; at this time, a 'last ship of the era' was about to enter the Keelung port. It was drizzling in the mountain city, and the ships entering the port sounded their whistle. On the other end of the mountain city, smoking trucks burning coal drove in. The trains and ships entered the port at the same time, each sounding its own whistle. , there was a mess of fleeing people on the pier. The army carrying pots and pots, carrying sheep and chickens on poles, and the crowd of refugees hugging the soft suitcases tightly, the life was messy everywhere, and the scene was chaotic; there was one person among the disembarking people (expected at the time). The actor is Chow Yun-fat), which seems to be pragmatic and the tragedy of this big era. He was originally a gangster figure in Shanghai. He came to Taiwan not to follow the Kuomintang government or allegiance to the Kuomintang, but to pursue a group of people who were secretly swallowed by the Keelung Wharf gang. Cargo', unaware that he was on the last ship in history, and will be left on an island he knew nothing about before, participating in an era of reorganization until all were 'quiet'. After the ship stops, it will have to wait until forty years have passed. Some young people in their twenties will return to China with white hair in their sixties, and cry all the way to the door. Chow Yun-fat, who was unable to imagine these future events (who could have imagined it at the time?).
"Chow Yun-fat, who just got off the boat, ignored the national disaster and displacement, and she had other family laws to deal with. He called a rickshaw from the pier, and the car was pulled to the street. There were more refugees under the arcades on both sides of the road, and they lived in the corners of the wall. , there are all kinds of belongings piled around, you can't imagine what kind of things people will bring to escape, some people even bring wardrobes and full-length mirrors of the same height, some of them are well-dressed, some are ragged, but they are all equally embarrassed Unbearable; Chow Yun-fat looked at the flood of refugees on both sides, and he had another mind in his heart. The rickshaw pulled him further and further along the road until he was invisible. At this time, the music sounded, and the title of the film was overlaid on the street scene, with four big characters. : City of Sadness.
"Yes, City of Sadness, this is the original story concept of "City of Sadness". Later, Hou Hsiao-hsien wanted to study the background of the characters more thoroughly and think more clearly about the previous generation of the characters, so he had to develop them. Another earlier story is "Sad City" that actually started shooting three years later. "
What can I say? Without Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung couldn't speak, and "Sorrowful City", where both gang fights and political persecution were suppressed under the market life, is the one that really conquered me. It's not that gangster films are easy Inferior; I am also a generation that grew up looking at the true colors of heroes. However, in the face of such history, such blood, Fa Ge's windbreaker, matchmaking, and guns have become frivolous. Only those ordinary, fresh, quiet and stoic people can There is the same heaviness.
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