"That is an embarrassing relative"——Comment on Wang Jiawei's "In the Mood for Love"
In Hong Kong in the 1960s, the dark and old houses, two young couples, the story unfolded like this... Mrs. Zhou and Mr. Chen were found affair by Mrs. Chen's Su Lizhen and Mr. Zhou Muyun. Naturally, they became a pair. People who are struggling, they talk to each other and imitate how the derailed person started. They dated consciously or unconsciously, had dinner together, wrote martial arts novels together, discussed together, and finally had a secret feeling... Su repeatedly said, "We are not the same as them," in fact, repeated emphasizing can only represent inner anxiety and suspicion. "I originally thought the same way, so I am not afraid of what people say. I believe that I will not be the same as them, but it turns out I will." Zhou expressed his affection, but he chose to flee.
She is contradictory. On the one hand, she has strict requirements for herself. She must wear delicate makeup and graceful cheongsam when she goes out to buy noodles. This is especially true for her marriage and life. She does not allow the slightest flaw or "wrong step". But she was brave again, estranged repeatedly in words, but approached again and again emotionally, and rushed to 2046 nervously, but hesitated and hesitated when leaving...
Su and Zhou were the same as them, but different. The same is that they are all in the dust, inevitably vulgar, but can't hide from a love word. The difference is that the elegance, arrogance and self-esteem in Su's bones will never allow her to do anything wrong, even if she finds out that she has fallen in love with Zhou Muyun. She understands that perfect love always has shortcomings, and she wants to be romantic forever like this, ambiguous and obscure... Therefore, even if there is one more ferry ticket, she still won't go with him. In the end, he left in despair, leaving all this in the wall of Angkor Wat and sealed it with mud. She smiled faintly at all this, but only "forgot".
He was not brave enough, she just kept reserved, so she missed it... Regarding the episode, the film selected Cuban singer Nat King Cole's "Quizás, quizás, quizás", "Te Quiero Dijiste", "Aquellos Ojos Verdes" three The first jazz music as an episode, and Yumeji's Theme that reappears in slow motion. The deep cello chords are in harmony with the overall nostalgic tone, full of ambiguous and sad atmosphere. "Quizas, Quizas, Quizas" was created in the 1940s. This song not only has a strong sense of time and fits well with the film, but also has the same theme as the film. Perhaps the ending was revealed in the episode:
Y así pasan los días
Y yo, yo desesperado
Y tú, tú contestando
Quizás, quizás, quizás
Estás perdiendo el tiempo
Pensando, pensando
Por lo que más tú quieras
¿ Hasta cuándo? ¿ Hasta cuándo?
Time flies
like thisMy despair is increasing day by day
And you, you still answer this way
Perhaps, maybe, maybe
You are wasting time
Thinking
Thinking about what you need most
But when is this decision? The end? Wong Kar-wai upholds his own consistent style to process the color of the movie. The dim tone of the picture contrasts with the constantly changing color of the cheongsam.
The color of Su Lizhen's cheongsam has become the most expressive color in the movie, representing the psychological and emotional changes of the characters. Some people say that this is Wong Kar-wai’s greatest strength. The use of unique color processing makes people fall into a kind of emotion and feelings... "Forgetting how it started, maybe it’s just a feeling for you." Wong Kar-wai The theme is always rejection and rejection. The relationship between Zhou Muyun and Su Lizhen seemed to be born out of nowhere, but it was unstoppable. That kind of unstoppable feelings are swallowed abruptly every time they are about to erupt, and they are blocked in the chest. Su Yi wore a cheongsam in the dark alley, passing by Zhou in the slow and charming music. At that moment, how did she feel in her heart? A little lonely, maybe a little simpler, even when they face each other, their strong depression and strong admiration will not easily come out of their eyes, it will always be entanglement, and it will always be ambiguous.
"Those passing years seem to be separated by a piece of dusty glass. I can see it, I can't grasp it. He has been thinking about everything in the past. If he can break through the dusty glass, he will walk back to the long gone. Years." I
didn't dare to face my own heart, and ended up being ambiguous.
We can easily see the appearance of the red dust, but it may not be clear. True and false, false and true...
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In the Mood for Love quotes
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Chow Mo-wan:
In the old days, if someone had a secret they didn't want to share... you know what they did?
Ah Ping:
Have no idea.
Chow Mo-wan:
They went up a mountain, found a tree, carved a hole in it, and whispered the secret into the hole. Then they covered it with mud. And leave the secret there forever.
Ah Ping:
What a pain! I'd just go to get laid.
Chow Mo-wan:
Not everyone's like you.
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Caption:
He remembers those vanished years. As though looking through a dusty window pane, the past is something he could see, but not touch. And everything he sees is blurred and indistinct.
