――Han Xi
watched this movie. The author made several unforgivable mistakes. The first is the decision to watch the movie. For a director who is not aggressive at all, it is not worth watching. In this regard This film is not even as good as Zhang Yimou's "Codename Jaguar". The second mistake is the author's unchangeable character traits. The spiritual communication conveyed in the film is regarded as artificial by a rude person like me, which is really unsightly and quite boring. The third mistake was to choose the translated version, watching those blond westerners, but listening to Beijing movies and Jiang Wen's voice made me very uncomfortable, maybe I was too narrow-minded!
Objectively speaking, as a sketch film, this film is of course still very desirable, but as a Wong Kar Wai film, this film is hardly worth mentioning. The film basically continues the consistent style of Wong Kar Wai, including the light and shadow effects of photography, including the themes of spiritual communication, self-imposed exile and searching. Of course, the characters in the story also have a certain symbolic character, all of which show that this film is Wong Kar Wai. Movie. But this kind of obvious sign also means that Wong Kar-wai is repeating himself, and even fooling the Western audience, but for the audience in the East who are familiar with their films, this film obviously has no merit. . It is said that Wong Kar-wai only took three months to shoot this film. This is the only thing that is different from his personal habits. How much impact it will have, the author is inconvenient to speculate arbitrarily.
Putting aside the factor of Wong Kar-wai himself, we return to the film itself. In terms of structure, there is no obvious special feature in this film. The basic three-stage style runs through the self-exile of the protagonist Elizabeth. The first paragraph is the beginning of a new relationship for Elizabeth in a broken love. Of course, the wounded heart cannot be rescued immediately. Even if the store owner Jeremy is indeed a good person who can be trusted, all the pain still needs to be She came to rescue herself, so Elizabeth began a journey of self-exile and self-healing.
In the second and third stories, Elizabeth actually played the identity of a witness, a broken marriage, and a estranged family. In that broken marriage, Yani, a policeman who was inferior and alcoholic, loved his wife unbelievably, but his wife couldn't bear this fanatical love, so the marriage between the two went into trouble. Yani used alcohol to numb himself. The wife, on the other hand, looks for self-actualization value in others. Of course, after a car accident, the wife finally faced up to the root cause of the problem, but it was too late.
Leslie in the third paragraph is also unable to bear the heavy responsibility of love, but this time it is about family love. Everything Leslie has come from her father, life, survival skills and philosophy, and even a beautiful sports car, all of which make Leslie unable to live herself at all, no matter how reckless she is, how to escape , she could only live under the loving care of her father, so that she did not believe that her father would die, but when she really died, she began to miss her father.
There are many kinds of love, and what Elizabeth experienced was a journey to find love. But the two stories she witnessed had striking similarities. The depth of love ignored the existence of love. Why? Because love has weight, and if it is too deep, it may become a burden. Therefore, the loved one must escape this love and obtain personal pursuit and value. This is the tragedy of love! When the one who loves you dies, the loved one realizes that they are escaping a responsibility to be loved, not the one who loves you, but it's too late. Why is love not cherished when it exists, but cherished only when it is lost? Love is all around, why wasn't it discovered in time?
So, Elizabeth returned to New York to accept Jeremy's love.
To be honest, the thought of love conveyed in the film is nothing new, and it is a question that many men and women in love will consider. It is no wonder that although the meaning of love extends to the level of family affection, this kind of Love and being loved, the shackles of love, and the loss and search of love are all themes that will never change.
But I still feel a little contrived, and the reason is a contextual atmosphere. Maybe the way of expression of Westerners that we feel from various media is seriously different from that of Easterners, so when Wong Kar-wai set several Westerners to hide the connotation of Eastern-style, in my opinion The kind of inherent thinking and habits of the people have been severely impacted. Is this a story of Westerners' love? Especially the existence of the dry dubbing makes it almost impossible for the author to find the true positioning of the characters in the film, and there is a serious sense of confusion.
Of course, this may just be an illusion of the author, but in any case, "Blueberry Night" is a failure, without any breakthroughs and innovations, Wong Kar-wai is just repeating himself, which is absolutely true!
Han Xi
2008-1-30 in Tongzhou
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