Because one person falls in love with a city;
Because of one person, leaving a city.
From Shanghai to California, I can understand this sentence more and more.
The memory and love of a city is made up of those people, those things, those experiences in the city. I sometimes ask myself, why do I love Shanghai so much and miss Shanghai so much? In fact, what I miss is my family in Shanghai, my friends in Shanghai, and those good memories in Shanghai.
And why am I unfamiliar with San Francisco, why do I feel like a stranger? Because there is no memory of mine, no friends, no feeling of growing up here and taking root here. The people and things here have nothing to do with me.
But if all my friends and family left Shanghai, how would I feel when I came back to Shanghai? I think, that is no longer the Shanghai that I dream of, and I may not love Shanghai so much anymore. To me, she may just be a cold city of steel. Looking at the lights on the street again, I feel the same as in San Francisco. I'm just a stranger! A passerby!
After going around such a big circle, maybe what I want to say is that Ruby met the male protagonist. It was time to start falling in love with this city. That night, so inadvertently, we met with a smile.
New York meets Los Angeles. One east coast, one west coast. People from two landmark American cities meet in another city - Hong Kong. This is not only the collision of East and West coast cultures in the United States, but also a collision of East and West cultures. A native American who has lived in Hong Kong for ten years and an immigrant to the United States to the Hong Kong ABC who does not speak a word of Cantonese. The director really worked hard. That's why the two of them have an inexplicable sense of curiosity, a kind of excitement about the unknown, and a rise in sex hormones.
Under the camera, the beauty of Hong Kong is slowly revealed in the two people's search. The two encounters were both at night. Does it describe from the side that Hong Kong is a city that never sleeps, and her beauty can only be fully displayed at night. That kind of colorful lanterns is very lonely when seen alone, only two people can enjoy it together to feel more romantic and warm.
The opening ending of the final act is especially evocative.
Did Ruby get out of the car?
Or is it one person or two people getting off the car together?
Or, from this day onwards?
There may be 10,000 endings in the eyes of 10,000 people. I think that's what makes open endings so unreal. The driver asked the question just right, which seemed to indicate that time was waiting for no one, and it was time to make a decision. The director ended just fine.
It was late at night, and everything was frozen at this moment. What is the ending in your mind?
The film is only 78 minutes long, but it always makes people feel that the story is far from finished and not enjoyable. The beauty of Hong Kong, the love of the hero and heroine.
Soft night!
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