Quoting a comment from an IMDb user:
"A script with such a theme has a very high possibility of being bad, and there are thousands of kinds, but Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (hereinafter referred to as Tomorrow) definitely does not belong to any of the above. What you need The thing is, let go of prejudice and let the dialogue between Josh & Ruby, a strange man and a woman, slowly ferment in this more than an hour, let it flow let it be... Maybe there will be a different feeling."
Photographed for " It's Hong Kong's Tomorrow" got off to a good start, capturing the midnight lights in Hong Kong with a pulsating pulse and full of emotion. Before 1/3 of the film, you can already see the strong sense of re-enactment of the Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight series, which is also the meeting of a pair of strange men and women, and the same ending is left blank. But forcibly comparing the two, stepping down Tomorrow and raising Before, it doesn't seem that you will be wiser, but it is easy to miss an interesting work.
The title Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong is quite subtle and interesting, and it was one of the reasons that attracted me to click on the film in the first place (of course, the boredom on the plane was the main reason). It was originally a word that the male protagonist Josh's boss in New York said to them. The original intention was to make them work harder, because at this moment their late night was already morning in Hong Kong. When the male protagonist quotes this sentence, he intends to complain to Ruby that Hong Kong's work pace is so fast that even the New Yorker can't match it, making people breathless.
But director Emily Ting's use of these words as the film's title has another meaning, bringing out a big theme of global cultural fusion reflected by geographic time difference. And these topics are precisely what the white Hollywood directors at the top of the contempt chain cannot do.
Global cultural and racial assimilation is developing at an unprecedented speed. With the continuous advancement of technology, geographic distance is no longer an obstacle to communication, and cultures of various countries have been deeply and permanently integrated; the frequency of population movement and settlement is increasing. At the same time, it is no longer limited to the scope of the country, and the cultural integration between different countries, ethnic groups and races will become more frequent and natural.
There will be more and more ABCs who don't understand Chinese, and more and more foreigners who are thieves of Chinese. The second generation who combine with the Chinese may be able to see Chinese culture and Western culture from a broader perspective. They are no longer as obsessed with their own cultural roots as their parents’ generation, because each source itself is constantly merging into a whole, and the fusion of Chinese and Western cultures is only a small aspect of this trend.
Therefore, the starting point and background of Tomorrow are worth discussing and looking forward to. It is a pity that in the actual execution details, the information that the film can convey is very limited, and the polishing of the script is more and more deviated from the theme. The dialogue continued to unfold, and finally evolved into a mutual acquaintance between the two who grew up in a foreign culture.
This is embarrassing~
Limiting the audience to groups with the same growth and cultural experience as the protagonist is not a smart approach, but it is still a very positive and interesting attempt, but in the process of execution, it went astray.
After watching Tomorrow, there are actually two questions that always haunt the audience:
Why is the Before series higher?
Why does Tomorrow always make people have the urge to brush twice?
It cannot be said that Tomorrow is a failed work, because although the form is similar, the core of the two is actually different; although it is also about the feelings between men and women, Before seems to have a small layout, but the emotional connection between two independent individuals involved in the discussion The scope is very broad and more universal, which is why this series can still get a high reputation after 18 years of trilogy.
In contrast, as we mentioned above, Tomorrow did not bring out the big picture it should have, but more about the emotional disputes between men and women in a specific group, but in fact the core and Ye Nianchen's urban love trilogy is similar (the success of Ye's trilogy is that it captures the word "liar" in the emotional game between urban men and women, which itself has its own topic).
Tomorrow is superior in that he can accurately capture the delicate emotional changes of strangers who fall in love at first sight and at first sight, and has added the role of a "third party" (Josh's girlfriend a year ago, Ruby's fiancé a year later), and at the same time Unnecessary time is cut decisively, and the film frame is built directly and rudely with two encounters, and the execution is smooth and complete. In the end, My Little Airport's various singles were put together at the right time, which was really touching. Unfortunately, "Romantic Nine* Pond" cannot be heard in China now.
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