See also "Chongqing Forest"

Cale 2022-03-23 09:02:13

I don't know how many times I've watched "Chongqing Forest", but it's still one of my favorite movies.

The first time I watched it was in the sixth grade, and I always felt that there was some kind of connection with him. The beginning of precocious precociousness. Although I was still ignorant at that time, I couldn't understand the play, and the music I didn't understand, but I couldn't forget that feeling for a long time. This play has nothing to do with Chongqing. He lived in Hong Kong when Wong Kar Wai first came to Hong Kong. The name of a hotel in the city. I don't know if those towering buildings and steel structures in this strange city are forests.

In "Chongqing Forest", except for Faye Wong and Tony Leung, almost all the story directors did not explain the cause and effect. He just uses the character's narration to connect the story, as if what he wants to express is not the event itself, but a feeling. In fact, this method he uses also slowly and accurately tells the inner world of the characters in the film. The mental state of the characters is portrayed, at this point. "Chongqing Forest" is not like a movie, but like a few people telling their own stories together. The story intersects with the story and has nothing to do with parallels. However, it mostly expresses a feeling of loneliness and helplessness.

Takeshi Kaneshiro said; "I don't know from When did it start, there is a date on everything, saury will expire, canned meat will expire, even the plastic wrap will expire, I began to wonder, in this world, what else will not expire?

" On May 1, 1994, a woman told me 'Happy Birthday' because of this sentence, I will always remember this woman. If the memory is a can, I hope this can will not expire; If I have to add one more day, I hope it will be '10,000 years'."


After his girlfriend left, Tony Leung relied on talking to towels and soap to show that he was not alone, and he would pretend that his girlfriend was still here to distract him. Miss him. An intuitive love, a man who can be hurt at home by a pin, a crying towel, a self-sacrificing soap, a tomato fish with the smell of stone drum fish, a man with rich feelings.

"When you cry alone, you just need to give her a pack of tissues, but when you cry in a house, you have to do a lot of work" The house will cry, the sky will cry, really? Of course not. It's people who cry. I like Faye Wong's self , Even in the movie world, she is still herself. Wearing gorgeous clothes or civilian clothes can't change her maverick, eyes, mouth, and the attitude of no one else. She doesn't care whether to perform or not, "Unparalleled in the World" The eldest grandson of the princess has taken off the factors of the times, and is no different from her in the Chongqing forest. She has the same self-confidence. She has a stunned expression, which I always find very funny. Her cousin boss swears that she will never peek at Liang. Her ex-girlfriend entrusted her to hand over the letter, but she turned around and opened the letter skillfully, and then when she saw it with relish, she happened to be stunned, as if she woke up from sleepwalking, with an instant blank cuteness.

Faye Wong has always been a low-key and very low-key person . You can rarely see her in entertainment reports, but once you see her, she must be a city and a country. I remember Li Bihua once said: Eileen Chang is a bitter well, no matter what anyone wants to scour, but only a handful of cold moonlight.

I always feel that Wong Kar Wai has a taste of Jiang Lang's talent, he is a boy who rehearses by feeling, because young can be sensitive He can feel the changes in the details. Now he is in his 50s. Even if he refuses, he still can't escape the natural changes. The boy becomes a man, but he can't use reason to rehearse the play.

Chongqing Forest mourns my youth.

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Chungking Express quotes

  • [633 after Faye fails to meet him at the California restaurant in Hong Kong]

    Cop663: Actually, she did go to California that evening. But it was the other one.

  • [633 on the previous owner of his restaurant]

    Cop663: He has great business sense. First he sold me fish and chips, then the whole thing.