Ozu's inscription and Mi Cangqiong's stick

Kylie 2022-03-08 08:01:46



Comparing the differences between the two paragraphs before and after, it may make people feel that its ingenuity is intended to be communicative or to pick up girls, indicating that a flawed temperament is better than a pretentious dryness, a real villain is more lovely than a hypocrite, and so on. Measured by the standard of success, the performance of the male protagonist in the second half seems to be more worthy of praise and pondering. Is that true?

At the end of the second paragraph, there is a verse: the male protagonist sends the female protagonist home after a drunken gaffe. The female protagonist expresses understanding and tolerance to his true temperament, and then the male protagonist gains an inch and hopes to continue the deep chat. The female protagonist suggested that he should wait outside for a while, and allow himself to go in to greet his mother before sneaking out, and the male protagonist readily agreed. Then, as soon as the camera turned, it was the next day. The two finally said goodbye in the cinema. The heroine apologized to the hero. It turned out that she did not come out after entering the house last night. The male protagonist smiled and said that it was okay for her, because it was too cold and he didn't wait too long outside. At that time, the two of them whispered softly and talked sweetly. The atmosphere between you and me was subtle and ambiguous, as if they were in love.

In my personal understanding, this scene can probably be regarded as the ultimate epitome of its interpretation of style: it is accurate to the duplicity of men and women, the appearance of love is detached, the emptiness of human nature and the serpent, the rare confusion of life, it is as beautiful as a dream, and fragile as a poke That is, it is obviously an understatement, but it is peeling and deboning.

To sum up Hong Sangxiu’s words, he definitely despises the tastes of intellectuals and literati, and despises the tricks of imagining things or making things up. From a vertical perspective, he doesn’t even despise neatness or coherence. It is necessary to play with the two-stage, three-stage and four-stage style, but the role of this structure is obviously not limited to the framework of the form, but more like a part of the content. Furthermore, he may not have intended to sarcastically reveal. It is true that men in movies always seem to be particularly wretched and hypocritical, but how can women be perfect and cute? It is nothing more than a human being, and no one should think about turning around. So to be precise, he actually didn't overemphasize anything. If he had to talk about his commitment, he was just calmly spreading the little bits and pieces of men and women on the empty mirror of life. righteous. Therefore, it is of course impossible to come up with any good medicine and magic, and it can only repeat the reincarnation of this nothingness.

In fact, the harder you look at Hong Sang-soo's films, the more you may feel at a loss. Followers often wonder, why do people continue to applaud such a bland and boring movie? Wen Rui'an wrote about a state of confrontation between masters: Zhang Sanpa's "Fengshenzhi" meets Mi Cangqiong's "a stick to the sky", only empty. What does it feel like to be empty? To put it simply, it is the feeling of emptiness. If you collide with big words such as deep, heavy, and sharp, you will fall into the embarrassment of nowhere to exert your strength. But such emptiness is not non-existent, but everywhere.

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Right Now, Wrong Then quotes

  • Ham Cheon-soo: Try to discover something every second of every day, from everything around you.