Lin Wenqing's deafness and Tony Leung's dumb, Reivew on A City of Sadness

I remembered reading Tang Nuo a few days ago, saying that "City of Sadness" was previewed. On the way back, Yang Dechang didn't talk much. He suddenly said that Tony Leung was actually not very good at acting. He played the deaf into a mute.

I thought about it, although deafness usually leads to dumbness, but I have seen different interpretations. When some people perform, the audience will pay more attention to his inaudibility. In contrast, Tony Leung does focus on the performance of dumbness.

Lin Wenqing's setting was originally that he was injured and deaf when he was a child, and then he spoke after the influence. However, Tang Nuo also said that, based on the background of that era, maybe Tony Leung, and even Hou Hsiao-hsien himself, unconsciously paid more attention to the performance of "unable to express freely" during the filming. This comparison is very interesting, I hadn't thought of this angle before. Dono is so delicate.

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