Wang Jiazhi walked onto the stage blankly, there was no one on the stage, and the companions of the drama club stood in the audience watching her.
She made her debut and found that the people in real life, the man in the girl's mind, like-minded friends, and indifferent relatives, all turned into the background, and gradually turned into a crowd on the street. Only Mr. Yi, who was supposed to be just a symbol, was full of The entity invaded her body and mind with a ferocity that bordered on despair.
As Wang Jiazhi, Wang Jiazhi is empty, just an ordinary person who goes with the flow in troubled times. As Mrs. Mak, Wang Jiazhi is a role in the spotlight, and her gestures are full of meaning. Cheongsam, jewelry, rouge gouache, and material life as props make Wang Jiazhi graceful and graceful, and she herself is intoxicated with that glamorous body. After she became Mrs. Mai, even the movement of taking off her stockings became delicate and sensual. Fully engaged. What's more, there are thrilling flirting, the attraction between men and women that should have been added to the various calculations inside and outside the play, and a little sincerity that came unexpectedly in the hypocrisy. So in the early morning of the second day of losing her virginity, Wang Jiazhi almost rushed to the telephone with a kind of impatient longing, so when she learned that Mr. Yi and Mrs. Yi were leaving Shanghai, she could only remove her makeup and leave the stage. Out of the body and since then have been living as a walking dead. This is why she agreed to become Mrs. Mai again after three years without hesitation. "Mrs. Mak" is full of value. She is no longer with the crowd but at the cusp of history. "Mrs. Mak" is full of drama, spy and mistress, and she plays the most thrilling role a woman can play.
Love is not expected. The love is beyond the expectations of the two leads in this drama. What Wang Jiazhi finally fell in love with was not the man she fell in love with at first sight, but the man who was destined to be the closest to her. The man was as heavily disguised as she was, yet they were able to miraculously share fear, loneliness, and find the feeling of being alive together in a hand-to-hand sex relationship.
Ang Lee used two small changes to turn Zhang Ailing's "Lust and Caution", which is not a love story, into a love that will pay for a lifetime like "Brokeback Mountain". In the novel, Mr. Yi, at Wang Jiazhi's request, accompanies her to the jewelry store to choose jewelry, as a routine for taking care of his mistress. In the movie, Mr. Yi secretly ordered a six-carat diamond for Wang Jiazhi. His sincerity for this woman made Wang Jiazhi dizzy like the light of that pink stone. In the novel, Mr. Yi returned home after giving a secret order to shoot Wang Jiazhi, and after some chilling calculations, he regained his inner peace. In the movie, Mr. Yi sits in front of Wang Jiazhi's bed and suppresses his tears, then slowly walks out of the door and disappears into a place without light. Eileen Chang's novels are chilling, but Ang Lee is as warm as ever. Because it is too cruel, the novel "Lust and Caution" is more dry than Zhang Ailing's other novels. I remember what Hou Hsiao-hsien said not long ago, criticism is small, and living things are great. Ang Lee's "Lust and Caution" is very full of life, you can see love, love leads to a tragedy but also makes the life of this couple complete. You can also see the opposite. At least I also saw in it how fucked and empty it is to live, because people are willing to die for a little touch.
After I went to the theater alone to watch Lust Caution for the second time, I still couldn't tell why I liked this movie so much. Maybe I found my own shadow in Wang Jiazhi? Failed to complete Girls' Generation's thoughts, hurriedly entered another fate that completely out of rhythm, fell into unexpected love... what else. Fear of the emptiness of everyday life. The soul-stirring love has the power of darkness inherent in it. All day long and waiting. Women who use their bodies for their minds. drowning despair. All the hysteria just to find the feeling of being alive. Maybe there's that calm music that smashes your guts to pieces. There is also a tram in the rain in the middle of the night, and a girl who is in love with her head out the window. A tricycle driver with a bright smile, colorful windmills, as if the flow of people and street scenes in the world, a woman can meet her end in such a sad and peaceful way.
Some people turn off their phones for a long time after watching Lust, Caution, and want to stay in the emotions it brings. I was walking alone on the side of the Jingtong Expressway. I kept walking, and I felt dazed for a moment, as if the surrounding street scene had completely changed. That gloomy afternoon, when the crowds in the streets were flowing, a woman rushed to her fate. She'll be overwhelmed, but she's got love. Destroying her also fulfills her love.
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