Wong Kar-wai said that watching 2046 is like seeing many old friends. It is like a reminiscence or filler of all Wong Kar-wai's previous films. In the process of filling the memory, a new story occurs, but even the new characters carry the memory of the previous life. This article also wants to take this opportunity to reminisce about Leslie's Wong Kar Wai film.
In fact, in order to continue the past stories, it is not necessary to force them to make up the ending, because - in the future, you will know if you ask yesterday - the ending of the characters has already been hinted to us from the beginning.
"In 2046, the city is densely covered with an infinitely extending space railway network."
"A mysterious special car travels back and forth to 2046 day and night ." "
People who go to 2046 have only one purpose, which is to retrieve lost memories. There, everything will never change. No one knows if this is true, because no one has ever come back."
2046 is a future year, 2046 is a mysterious other side, 2046 is intertwined with the dual concept of time and space, it has not yet come, when it comes, All people, never look back. ——The easiest thing to think of is death. For young people, the year of its arrival is like a sci-fi number, but of course it always comes back, sooner or later, sooner or later, to embark on this journey with an unknown destination , and no one ever came back.
"Many people think it's strange why I want to write a story about the future. In fact, 2046 is just a room number to me..."
A familiar room number, - aside from the so-called interweaving of time and space, 2046 is actually nothing more than a room number. A room that has a special meaning to someone, maybe each of us has one in our hearts, where we bury our memories. There, everything remains the same because it has passed. Memories of the past, like death to come, never come back. But for 2046, we can have the freedom to travel back and forth. When we need it, the dense space railway network can send us to the past and find the lost memory again. The train is two-way, we can come back at any time, but why, he is the only one coming back?
Is it because all people are so addicted to memories?
A story about the future, but it's all about the past that can't be let go. The forgotten past, I thought it was forgotten, but it grew and spread in the dark, becoming more and more clear, and finally slowly surfaced on the surface of memory. Through the mouth of the writer Zhou Muyun, Wong Kar-wai picked up the footprints of his memory along the way.
The True Story of Ah Fei
This was originally a story of memory. DAYS OF BEING WILD is not so much a remorse, but a deep nostalgia: young and frivolous, free-spirited, although always shrouded in the shadow of injury, it is nothing more than an excuse to have a peace of mind. A Fei's story ends on a train in the Philippines, and Lulu's story continues.
- Is it true or false?
- What did I lie to you for!
- Do you really know me?
- Have you been to Singapore in 1964?
-Yes!
- Your name is Lulu?
—… It used to be, but it isn’t now.
- What's your name now?
-Why should I tell you? ...have you really seen me?
"On Christmas Eve in 1966, I met a friend I met in Singapore a few years ago in a nightclub. We used to know each other very well, but that night, she didn't seem to know me."
- You said I looked like you died My friend, you also taught me to dance cha-cha. ...You like to talk to me about your past boyfriend. You said you wanted to marry him, but unfortunately he died too early. You said that the person you love the most in your life is him.
—One more point…
—You keep asking me to accompany you to the casino, lose all your money, and have no money to go back, so I’ll lend you money to go back to Hong Kong…
“I talked to her a lot that night, and I’m still not sure. , did she really forget it."
- Who are you looking for?
—Is Miss Lulu there?
— Lulu? We don't have a lady named Lulu here. Mimi does have one, but she has moved away.
"I only found out after I moved in that Lulu had been stabbed a few times by her boyfriend the night before. That man was a drummer in a nightclub. Lulu liked him very much, saying he was like a bird without feet. For so many years, Lulu has been looking for her footless bird, and although it always ends tragically, she doesn't mind because she is still the heroine in the play no matter what."
Lulu danced in nightclubs for a living in 1960 , He met Xu Zai by chance. At that time, Xu Zai broke up with Su Lizhen, so they lived together. One of Xu Zai's favorite stories is about a bird without legs:
"I heard that there is a bird in the world that has no legs, it can only fly like this all the time, and sleep in the wind when it is tired. This bird can only land once in its lifetime, and that is when it dies."
Ah Fei kept repeating this story, and occasionally some people would be disgusted by it, for example, on the last day of his life, when he was on a train in the Philippines , and tell the story again to a sailor.
-Have you ever heard that there is a kind of bird in this world
--heard! One without feet! It's okay for you to lie to girls. ...like a bird? Where are you like a bird? You're nothing more than an alcoholic I picked up from a Chinatown dump! like a bird? You don't have to be here if you can fly! Fly! If you have the ability, you can fly to me!
—There is a chance, but don’t be ashamed of yourself then! "
Women come and go. When they came, he didn't have much pleasure in seeing Ah Fei, and when they left, he didn't have much displeasure. Maybe he was the same to all women, except for one woman. He has been trying to find out the whereabouts of his biological mother from the mouth of his adoptive mother, and finally one day she was relieved:
"Okay! You have the ability to find it yourself, the Philippines is not very far, why don't you find it yourself? You don't dare, right? You are afraid that the biological mother you found is not a daughter of a daughter, not a famous family, maybe not as good as me! ... For the past few years, you have been indulging yourself, putting all the blame on me, and you want to take revenge on me, do you? OK! I've had enough of telling you where your biological mother is! You used to use this excuse as a human being, and you can't use this excuse in the future! Are you going to fly? OK, you fly! If you want to fly, fly farther! Don't let me know one day that you are lying to yourself. "
There is no way to hide from bystanders. When there is no one, I act as the bystander, and I need to explain myself to the imaginary bystander anytime, anywhere, and this develops the habit of looking for excuses. In fact, he doesn't care whether his biological mother is the daughter of a famous family, he just wants to alienate himself from the existing world as a son of a famous family and an overseas Chinese. It's true that he is bohemian now, has no future, no hope, but one day he will fly, fly away from this drunken world, fly to his own land, clean and noble, where he will start a new kind of An organized life. He kept repeating the story of the footless bird, but he was clear in his heart that everything was just an excuse for him to feel at ease in the turbulent world. He is not the bird without feet, he is a bird with broken wings, and his wings have been broken from the moment he was abandoned by his biological mother.
"I used to think that there is a bird that can fly from the beginning to the day it dies, but in fact he has never been anywhere, and the bird has died from the beginning."
If possible, he is willing to keep that one forever. The mother in my heart, but "I've said it so many times, it's time to go again". He just wanted to see her once and see how he looked, but the only woman in his life that he cared about didn't give him this chance.
In fact, there is not much difference between seeing and not seeing. For so many years, he has used his mother's lack to imagine himself as a victim. He looks down on his stepmother's life, but he is unable to break free. As a result, all the profanity is removed, and all that remains is the diet, the bohemian, and a necessary bondage. He is not happy, and the women who love him are also injured one by one. But he doesn't blame himself for this. In his heart, he is the biggest victim, a man with many scars. How can he have extra love to make the woman who loves him happy? But now, he was telling his adoptive mother that he could no longer use this excuse in the future, so he began to think of the women who, although they had gone, were always in his memory.
"I used to say that I won't know who my favorite woman is until the end, what is she doing now? Ah, it's sunny, the weather looks good today, I don't know what the sunset will be like today Woolen cloth?"
At sunset, Lulu arrived in the Philippines and checked into a hotel in Chinatown where Xu Zai and the sailor once stayed. When she came, she was wearing a brightly colored dress, and the big spring flowers were blooming on a bright green background... By the time she arrived, they had already left.
At this moment, they are on a train, starting the last conversation in Xu Zai's life.
-Hey!
-what?
—Do you still remember, what did you do on April 16th last year at 3 o'clock in the afternoon?
- What is this for?
-nothing! I have a friend who tests my memory, he asked me what I did that day, I don't remember, how about you?
- What did she tell you?
- I thought you didn't remember.
- What to remember I will always remember. ...When I have a chance to meet her again in the future, I will tell her that I don't remember anything, so that everyone will feel better. "
She" refers to Su Lizhen, one of Xu Zai's girlfriends. At sunset, she sold tickets at the gym as usual. Several years ago, Xu Zai met her for the first time in the snack bar under the HOS. I got to know you , she was also a salesperson in the snack department at the time.
- What's your name?
- Why should I tell you?
- I know your name... You should be called... Su Lizhen.
- Who told you?
- You are today Dreaming about me at night.
He kept pestering her until a minute before 3pm on April 16, 1960, when they started to be friends. I happened to overhear their conversation that day.
— What do you want?
- Oh, I want to be friends with you!
- Why should I be friends with you?
- One minute!
- Enough time, tell me!
- What day is today? - The
16th.
—16th…April 16th…April 16th, 1960 One minute before 3pm, you are with me because of you and I will remember this minute. We are friends for a minute from now on. It's a fact, you can't get it back because it's past.
Then they went from being friends for a minute to being friends for two minutes, and it didn't take long for them to see each other for at least an hour a day until they broke up. Su Lizhen once said that she always remembered this person, although she did not know if he remembered that minute because of her.
This question was later answered for her by the seaman she knew. Although the words of "one minute" may just be Ah Fei's way of getting to know girls, but what he said: "I will always remember what I have to remember."
Ah, I don't know which of the two women Ah Fei likes more?
After he left, Lulu went to the gym to find Su Lizhen, and they had a lot of quarrel that time. At first, it was Lulu who took the initiative to pick the shirt.
-Has he been here? ...I ask you if he has been here? ! Just don't make a sound! I know you see each other often! Why are you so cheap! People say they don't want you anymore, why are you still holding on to it!
- Don't say it anymore! He doesn't want you to go home and cry by yourself now! Why are you coming to tell me? ! I thought he was just being bad to me, but it turns out that he is no different to you!
- Don't provoke me!
- He is the same to every woman!
—...Actually, I shouldn't have come, I shouldn't have given you a chance to vent, but I always feel that he likes me a little more. After all, he doesn't want you because of me!
—Some things are better to know sooner than later. It's you who want to cry, not me. I've been fine for a long time.
That time Lulu came back deflated after eating. Maybe it's because Xu Zai's departure is too sudden, too lack of reason, and no other woman can take his place, so Lulu can't forget everything like Su Lizhen.
Finally, she went to the Philippines to find Xu Zai, but when she arrived, Xu Zai was already dead.
Later, when she went on stage in Singapore, she met Zhou Muyun who looked a bit like Xu Zai, and she told him a lot about Xu Zai, including his background and the stories he liked to tell. She has been looking for her footless bird for so many years, and she doesn't mind the tragic ending she knows she can't escape. Maybe she is also looking for an excuse. She will always retain the role of the tragic heroine, so that she will always have a reason to be sad. Over time, she also has feelings for her own wounds. Only in the cracks of heartbreak, she knows best See you here, Ah Fei in 1960.
She was stabbed several times by her drummer boyfriend in 2046, and I thought she was finally dead. Unexpectedly, Zhou Muyun said that when he was at his lowest ebb, he saw Lulu again. She's still arguing over there, and Zhou said she heard a big fight with a woman in a hotel bar.
"—Why am I pestering him? It's not like you don't know what kind of person he is! He has always been like this! Everyone is just playing on the scene, so be careful! Miss!"
Lulu lost even more that time. There was little room for parry, but she quickly returned to normal. Zhou said one thing can be learned from her: as long as you don't give up yourself, you will always have a chance.
But I think this may not be the case. If a person has been bitten by a shark, when she is bitten by a hairtail, of course, she will recover faster.
But no matter what, Lulu has always been very responsible for her role as the tragic heroine.
I told Zhou Muyun that Lulu and Mimi are actually the same person. Lulu is also Mimi, and Mimi is also Lulu, so the Mimi that the hotel owner said was also Lulu who lived in 2046 and the Philippine Chinatown Hotel. dew. In fact, these are the two names she often uses, and they have not changed over the years.
When Xu Zai's friend met her at the stairs of Xu Zai's house, she was shocked and asked her what her name was, and she said casually: "Call me Mimi!" That might be the first time she used the name.
Probably because these two names have been used for a long time, few people still remember her real name, which is called Liang Fengying.
- Liang Fengying? Isn't your name Lulu?
When Xu Zai asked her this way, her answer was:
- The people there don't know my name!
Now that Xu Zai is gone, fewer people know the name.
Lulu also likes to tell a story she heard:
In the past, when a person had an unspeakable secret, he would go to the deep mountain, find a tree, dig a hole in the tree, and tell the secret. That hole, and then seal it up with dirt, that secret will never be known.
I don't know where she heard this story from, but she would tell everyone about it later, and later, when others heard her ask: "Do you know what a person would do when he had a secret in his heart in the past? Like..." He knew what was going on right away. Just like when we heard Ah Fei say, "Have you ever heard of a kind of bird in this world..." We immediately knew that he was visiting his grief again.
Maybe when a person needs an excuse, he will often repeat a meaningless story, like "the bird without feet", like "the secret in the tree hole". No one knows why the bird is there, why it is flying, and we don't know what the secret is in the tree hole. And after the secret was told to Shudong, did its owner become any happier?
These stories do not reveal anything, like an airtight jar, only the owner of the story hides in it, secretly reliving his pain again and again.
But of course, when a person is hurt, they use more or less excuses to cover themselves up. The topic of "excuse" is also something that Mr. Wong Kar-wai likes to discuss. Ah Fei's little bird, Murong Yan's two identities, and Liang Fengying's tree hole are nothing but their excuses. Behind these excuses, there are some injured people hiding.
In other cases, the harm may not have been formed, but people are still using excuses to avoid or prevent something.
The beauty of the waterfall on a lamp drew Li Yaohui and He Baorong to distant Argentina. Before a person makes a decision, he always needs a reason to convince himself, even if it is just the bright streamer of a table lamp.
Zhou Muyun said that in fact, he was very aware of his unconscious feeling towards Wang Jingwen, the daughter of the innkeeper, but he wondered if she knew it. In fact, on Christmas Eve in 1968, when they got together, Jing Wen's answer was very clear.
- That Japanese person hasn't written to you for a long time?
- I told him not to write it. It's impossible between us anyway, so why bother others?
- Why is it impossible? go find him! It's really impossible if you don't go.
- How could my dad agree?
In 1960, Ah Fei's excuse was his mother; in 1968, Jing Wen's excuse was his father. He refused to leave because he wanted to stay. In fact, what was impossible? At that time, Hong Qidu said: "Who said you can't take your wife to the arena?"
It's not, it's not impossible, it's a sudden reluctance!
Miss Wang finally went to Japan. After making up her mind, things went unexpectedly smoothly, and even her stubborn father made a 180-degree turn: "I've been thinking about whether to go or not, and finally I figured it out, as long as she Just be happy." He was elated, and his attitude was so brisk that he was caught off guard.
Zhou Muyun said: As long as you don't give up, you will always have a chance.
He is right. But why didn't he say the same thing to himself?
I was very confused, so I decided to go to 2047 to ask him to clarify.
When Dongxie Xidu
saw him, he was in the middle of his desk, and I'm sorry for interrupting his thoughts. He said, "It doesn't matter, the story is coming to an end anyway." After asking me why I came here, he told me that he wrote a story called "2046", which roughly means that a group of idiots and resentful women are going to a place called 2046. The place is written fragrantly and bizarrely, happy but not obscene. He also said that many people find it strange why he wants to write a story about the future. In fact, 2046 is just a room number for him. Although the story is imaginative, it contains bits and pieces of his life.
In fact, as soon as I heard the title of "2046", I knew it was a room number. I have heard something about him and Su Lizhen in old Shanghai.
He said that this book could answer my doubts, so he went to the bookshelf to find it for me. I glanced at the bookshelf, where there were quite a few martial arts novels, perhaps given to him by Miss Wang before he went to Japan, or perhaps bought by him later. I suddenly felt like he was a human being.
-Ai! Have you ever watched "Evil in the East and Poison in the West"?
I asked him.
-Yes, I have! How about it?
—I suddenly felt like you were a person inside.
-Yes? Who is it?
- You are so horny, of course not like Ouyang Feng! It should be like Dongxie Huang Yaoshi. I have experienced many women quietly!
He smiled wickedly again.
—But your situation is very similar to Ouyang Feng. Stay in 2047 all day and write, your 2047 is like a peephole, people around you come and go, only you stay in the dark and watch. The ancient chivalrous branch of Shang He Zuo Jia, Ouyang Feng is Zu Jia, and you are also Zu Jia!
-Right.
I sat for a while and left 2047 with his "2046". As soon as I closed the door, he turned around, faced his manuscript again, and began to write at the desk. Next time I come, I'll see what he's writing.
Back in my room, I started to think back to the conversation I had just had with him. In fact, I didn't tell him everything just now. The reason why I think he looks like Ouyang Feng is because he is like him. The biggest similarity between him and Ouyang Feng is that he always cares about a woman.
Originally he wanted to live in 2046, where he had familiar memories, but he didn't dare. Just like back then, when Ouyang Feng left White Camel Mountain, he said goodbye to a past that he could not forget. Later, he went to the desert and waited for the news from his hometown every year; later he moved into 2047, flirted with every new guest who stayed in 2046, and looked for 2046 where Su Lizhen lived in memory from those women. But he always gave up at a certain stage. Maybe he knew in his heart that there was no substitute for love, or maybe he understood as well as Huang Yaoshi: what he couldn't get was always the best, so he didn't want to fight?
I went to him to find out why he chose to give up, and now I have the answer. But I still opened his "2046". After reading it, I realized that such a choice had already begun from Su Lizhen in Singapore.
In the Mood for Love in 2046
At the end of 1961, when he was still in Hong Kong, he rented a small attic upstairs from A Fei's house, worked in the newspaper office during the day, and gambled around for entertainment at night. Later, Ah Fei was killed in the Philippines, and his house was given to someone else. Thinking that he would not have any development in Hong Kong, he went to Shanghai. There he met a married woman named Su Lizhen. At first, no one knew their relationship. Later, more and more people gossip. So he went to the hotel and rented a room. The room number was 2046. They often met there. This Shanghai Su Lizhen, I don't know if it is Ah Fei's former girlfriend, the conductor of the Hong Kong Coliseum. Most of them have the same name. In any case that was the first time he saw the number "2046".
A year later he ended the fruitless relationship and went to Singapore with a friend named Ah Bing, in 1963. At first life was boring, they went to the casino every day, just like in Hong Kong. Later, he lost almost no money to go back to Hong Kong. Fortunately, he met a woman named Black Spider and made some money in partnership with him. That woman always wears a black glove, so people just call her the black spider, and no one knows what her real name is.
One night he finally couldn't contain his curiosity and asked her.
- Don't know your name yet?
—My surname is Su, and my name is Su Lizhen. "
When he heard her name, he had been with her for two or three years. He suddenly felt something when he heard the three words Su Lizhen. He couldn't help telling her a lot about the old Su Lizhen that night. , that night on Christmas Eve, he said he was leaving. She didn't leave him. He once asked her to go back with him, but she didn't agree.
"Do you know my past? "
He doesn't understand her past, her past is like the hand in her glove, which is always a mystery. (Think about from Hong Kong, to Shanghai, then Phnom Penh and Singapore, a Su Lizhen has experienced three lives, as complicated as A mystery, no wonder.) But does she know about his past?—everyone has an unspeakable past.
"It doesn't matter if you don't want to say I don't know. "
It really doesn't matter?
On the night of the breakup, he said the last word to her: "Take care of yourself. If one day you can let go of your past, remember to come back to me. "
In fact, he said this to himself. He didn't want to take her away, so he made up such a lie, because he knew that she, like himself, would not let go of their past easily. At first, he left Hong Kong and went to Singapore because of Su Lizhen; but now he has returned to Hong Kong from Singapore for the same person. Su Lizhen in Singapore, just another woman with the same name, she is not her - when she pronounces the same name as her, she is doubly not her.
At the end of 1966, Zhou Muyun returned to Hong Kong. Forced to make a living, he went back to the old way, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, prostitutes when he won money, and writing pornographic novels for newspapers when he lost money. Of course, he has other ways to get money, betting on the autumn wind in arrears, and selling it when necessary.
He is a "literary and art person" living at the bottom.
Originally, he wanted to live in 2046 to find his lost memories, but there was a need for renovation. When the renovation was completed, he was used to 2047, so he was there, with the memories of his previous life, and started a new story in this life.
The first person to live in 2046 was a woman named Bai Ling, who was the exact opposite of him. She wanted to go to Singapore to meet her boyfriend, but she couldn't. So they naturally started to be a pair of drinking friends. But how can a man and a woman have friends who just drink? The clumsy flirt made them finally achieve a dewy relationship, and he started another round of searching for the memory of his previous life in this woman.
The moment he was leaning against Bai Ling in the taxi reminded him of how many years ago, he was leaning against Su Lizhen in Shanghai in the same posture. He kept saying that he really wanted the story to have a happy ending, a chance he had a few years ago, but unfortunately it has passed. The tragic ending may not be under the author's control. Many years ago, Xi Du watched Bei Beg leave with his beloved woman, and his heart was jealous. He once had such an opportunity, but he gave up for some unknown reason. The past is scattered like a cloud of smoke, and now he will not think that He Baorong once leaned against Li Yaohui in the same posture on the taxi in Buenos Aires, and now it is Li Yaohui leaning against him. Others, although his current name is no longer Li Yaohui.
The story between him and Bai Ling came to an end. At the end, Zhou Muyun's situation was a bit like Xu Zai's. Maybe when he lived upstairs in Xu Zai, the two of them met accidentally and greeted each other, otherwise, how could he have Xu Zai's shadow in his words and deeds now?
Back then, Lulu said to Ah Fei: "If you don't have money, I still have dozens of dollars here. Are you in trouble? I'll support you! I have a sister who works in the 'East'. It turns out that being a dancer makes money... I don't mind, but you have to pick me up from work every day."
Ah Fei turned around and shut her out.
He doesn't want women, and he doesn't care about women's accommodation.
- Will you marry me?
-Will not.
- I'm not for you, I'm not the kind of person who likes to get married.
- It doesn't matter if you don't get married, I just want to be with you.
-Why are you accommodating me? You can accommodate me for a while, but you cannot accommodate me for the rest of my life. You will not be happy with me.
- Once you go out, don't come back.
- Do you do this to every woman? "
Zhou Muyun was also asked the same question.
- I'll buy you!
- Short-term rental is ok, long-term rental is free.
- Why?
- I don't like it.
- Will I be an exception?
- No.
-… You do that to all women, don't you!
- There are exceptions.
- Who is it?
- My mother.
...
- I never brought other men back, I hope you don't bring other women, can you?
- No .
He is similar to Ah Fei in many places. He can sell or sell cheaply when he wants to. As he said later himself: "I thought about it for a long time, and now I know that there are some things that I will never lend to others."
He and Bai Ling stopped there, but he still wrote her in "2046", "After all, she used to be a part of my life". We welcomed one by one, and then sent off one by one, thinking of what Ah Fei said, "I will always remember what I want to remember." It seems to be cynical, but it is still impossible to be so unrestrained in the bones that it does not take anything to heart. Everyone believes that they can come and go without restraint, but after passing, there will always be traces.
But of course they are two different people, when did I say they are the same person? Will not.
The second person to live in 2046 was the eldest daughter of the hotel owner, who fell in love with a Japanese. He and she have a common creative hobby, and that summer passed quickly. He wrote in the book: "It was the happiest summer in my life, but unfortunately it was too short."
In fact, from what I read between the lines, Miss Wang may not have no heart for him. Of course, he also knows how he feels about her, but in the On that Christmas Eve when "at this time of year, many people need a little more warmth", when they got together, he still went against their wishes and encouraged her to call her Japanese boyfriend. Later he said: "Actually love is temporal. If I meet her too early or too late, the result will not work. If I met her first in another time or space, the ending of this story may be different."
2047 Filler
" People who go to 2046 have only one purpose, to retrieve lost memories, where everything stays the same. No one knows if this is true, because no one has ever come back. I am the only one.
" 2046", I wanted to know if there really was a place called 2046, so I knocked on Zhou Muyun's door with it.
I found that he had already left without saying goodbye, and a large sheet of snow-white manuscript paper was spread out on the desk, with this sentence written on it. If I knew he was the only one back from 2046, I should have asked, but now, he's gone.
Why is he leaving? Maybe he left without saying goodbye, just not wanting to answer the question. "In the past, if a person had an unspeakable secret..." Since he was only willing to tell Shudong, why should I keep asking? Everyone has some things that he doesn't want to mention or think about, and silence is the most basic freedom of human beings.
In fact, the reason for this is not so hard to guess. If he came to find the lost memory, then he left for two reasons. Either he found it or he didn't want to find it again.
"Once upon a time, if a person had an unspeakable secret, he would go to the deep mountain, find a tree, dig a hole in the tree, tell the secret to the hole, and then seal it with soil, that secret will last forever No one knows." ... Then in the second year, spring blossoms, all things sprout into life, the tree with the secrets sprouted, the leaves grew bigger and bigger, and one day a little shepherd boy passed by and broke off him. A few leaves made a beautiful whistle. When he blew the whistle, the secret that was once deeply buried suddenly drifted into the air. With the melodious whistle, it drifted farther and farther...
When I was in Found the copy of "2047" on his bookshelf, I think I heard a whistle from afar.
Although he still kept a secret about the reasons for his departure, at least he wrote about the process of leaving.
He left 2046 on a train, and "2047" wrote about what he saw on that train. Although he hides behind the virtual protagonist in the novel, I still know that person is him.
"I began to fantasize that I was a Japanese who fell in love with a dull robot on a train leaving 2046..."
I think he must have imagined the owner of the Oriental Hotel as the conductor when he was writing the novel, Because the tone of the man's speech was obviously with the shadow of Boss Wang. "Having lived in the East for a long time, I can hear it as soon as I hear it.
"We have different waiters here who can meet your different needs, and they will take care of you wholeheartedly, just like a partner. But you must not fall in love with them! (It fills the emptiness and does not have the danger of thorny love. It should be a woman who fits Zhou Muyun's ideal, not to mention taking good care of it. - What is he daydreaming!)
"Article 201 of the Passenger Guide, Areas 1224 and 1225 are particularly cold areas. In addition to relying on the cold protection facilities on the car, each passenger must hug another passenger to keep each other warm."
Although the conductor did not say that if you fell in love with each other What serious consequences will a robot have, but Zhou Muyun's first reaction is of course without scruples, after all, "Who would fall in love with a robot?"
Unfortunately, "There are many things to come without knowing it. ." "That's what happens all the time."
It was nothing but boredom at first.
I think he knows very well who he loves, but since he is lonely, it is good to have a temporary partner. Maybe he once thought he would not be so casual, but finally found that when he is lonely, everyone is the same. Anyway, at this moment, he is still convinced that no one can and will not replace that person's position in his heart.
Later, I don't know if it was because of the hug for a long time, and the body of the tin robot began to warm up a little. She then gradually became a substitute. Zhou Muyun wrote: "I think this robot is very similar to her, and I began to try to find the answer in her."
It is just a substitute. I think Zhou Muyun should know at this time that he is just looking for the shadow of the former person in a similar person. .
It's a pity that it's too dangerous to find a substitute for love, thinking it's just a substitute, thinking that it will never replace the previous person, thinking that some things will never change, but the fact is often unexpected, when suddenly awakened, Substitutes have gradually masked the shadow of the substitutes. Clouds cover the moon, it turns out that nothing is eternally inconvenient, not even unforgettable love.
Zhou Muyun wrote this story originally to prove to himself that there are things in this world that will never change, and all changes are unpredictable just to contrast a "constant", just like the train attendants who come and go. Just to remind the existence of Su Lizhen who can never be replaced. Ironically, however, he disproved the fact that nothing is permanent.
Unexpected, unprepared. The disillusionment of faith, the most unable to bear this fact is himself. Moonlight cannot be betrayed, and he cannot forgive his betrayal.
If the betrayal happened out of human control, maybe he could cover up the fact of the betrayal, after all, it was the only thing that could be done.
"Follow me."
He repeated this sentence to everyone he met. He didn't know who he wanted to take with him, and he wasn't sure if he wanted to take them with him. He was in chaos. Perhaps the best solution to this confusion is to be rejected.
He began to imagine that these robots are dull, and they are in a period of decline. "When you want to laugh, it will take hours to laugh; when you want to cry, the tears will not flow until the next day." So no matter what. He could avoid seeing how obsessed or sad they were after they left him. When they were in front of him, they were always calm, indifferent, and unresponsive.
Then he managed to convince himself, "She doesn't respond to you, it's not necessarily because she's slow, it's also possible that she doesn't like you at all."
He finally came to the conclusion: "I finally understand that some things can't be forced, And the only thing I can do is forget."
I clearly remember that he once told me that when you no longer have it, the only thing you can do is to keep yourself from forgetting. He also once said that the more a person wants to know if he has forgotten, the more clearly he remembers. I think he must be lying, but I can understand that if the answer is either "yes" or "no" is too much for him, then having the answer between "yes" and "no" will undoubtedly make He takes it easy.
I now understand why he wrote "2047", this train, this journey away, this transfer station between memory and reality, if he wants to return to reality, he must try to put everything down on the train, when to put it down, That moment is when the train arrives at the station. His writing is the process of self-distancing. If a person wants to let go of something, he must first recall, reproduce, and record them as they are, and then he can stand elsewhere and watch himself. When the Tang monk returned from the Buddhist scriptures, he suddenly saw his floating corpse on the water when crossing the river. The ferryman congratulated him, who was surprised, and said, "Congratulations, Master, the body is dead, and I can become a Buddha."
"How long does it take for a person to leave 2046?"
I used to think that I had to "think about" to get off the bus, but the time to "think" determines the length of the journey. There are many things we want to know, "Does he really like me?" "Is there anything in this world that never changes?" These are two of the things we want to know the most. We always think that there are Will figure it out one day, before getting off the bus. It's just that God's will is unpredictable, and the more you want to know about some things, the less you can't know. In fact, there is no difference between thinking and not wanting. Some things will change, but not everything has to be understood.
It turned out that when you got off the car, it was the moment to stop thinking.
I think Zhou Muyun's time away from 2046 should be very short, because when he left, "2047" had already been finished. In fact, he had already boarded that train, when he started writing "2047".
But I'm not entirely sure why he's leaving, though it's just an alternative possibility.
found it? Still don't want to look for it?
If found, will he bring her back? If you don't want to find her anymore, is it because you have found her and regretted that it was worthless at the beginning, or because you accidentally found someone else?
In fact, I should have been clear that he was afraid that what he finally found was someone else. When he started to embark on this search journey, he had no such concerns in his heart, but once he had such concerns, even if he found her, he would not be able to prove anything.
For this reason, he never went back. It's actually pretty good over there, but I can't go back.
Everyone who goes to 2046 is lonely. Just because no one said to them, "Come with me," or the person who spoke was not what they thought, they embarked on this lonely journey of no return.
After Zhou Muyun left, I still stayed at "Oriental Hotel". I'm a conservative person, I don't want to change what I'm used to. When I'm bored, I think about the busy train, which may be going day and night somewhere deep in the center of the earth under my bed, although it's mostly empty when it comes back. There were so many people who went there, and the air was cloudy. The humidity on the train must have been very high. However, when they came back, they had already evaporated without a trace. The second group of people on the train might have difficulty getting out of the bright and white compartment walls. Imagine everything that has happened here before.
"What would you do if you had an unspeakable secret?"
I wouldn't go into the mountains to find a tree, a tree can't keep a secret forever. I have always suspected that the person who told the secret to the tree hole is actually afraid of loneliness, because everyone knows that as long as it is a tree, there will always be a sprout. Maybe she just wants to find a spokesperson for the secret that she can't tell. Now you're asking me the same question, my secret? If I don't want to tell anyone, I will bury it in my heart, and my heart will not germinate.
In fact, those trains are running through our bodies at the moment, taking us to an atrium whose house number is marked "2046"...
In the spring of 1960, Xu Zai and I lived in the same HOS, and I chose the one he went downstairs every day. At that moment, I stepped out of the gate, so I pretended to be inadvertently on the stairs and met him. After a month like this, one day he finally turned his head -
what would he say? What a coincidence I see you every day?
-Ai!
-what?
- Do you know what her name is?
He pointed to Su Lizhen in the refreshment department.
Then on April 16, 1960, I saw him go downstairs to buy soda.
-What's your name?
-Why should I tell you?
—I know what your name is... You should be called... Su Lizhen.
-Who told you that?
……
…… The person who told him was me
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...I happened to overhear their conversation that day... When he finally spoke to me, even though it was about other women's names, what could I do but tell him?
After telling him, he winked at me, turned around and hurried downstairs...
I don't know if there is anything in this world that never changes, I can only be sure of one thing, I will always remember what I want to remember.
"On that day six years ago, a gentle rainbow appeared in my heart, burning my heart like a flame."
- recorded in 1966
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