the beginning of the film motif of mr eyes

Revisiting "Carmen Mong Kok", as an early work of Mr. Spectacles, Wong Kar Wai's visual style is not so prominent, and the subject matter is also the hottest triad topic at that time, however, we still see the eye director's chic...
The movie's The perspective is unique, which is different from the general story of underworld conflict or brotherhood. The previous underworld had a legacy of Zhang Che’s martial arts brotherhood, while Wong Kar Wai’s underworld revealed more attention to marginalized people, and welcome to leave and stay. Helpless, Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung represent the two ends of the border. One wants to leave and can't leave, and the other wants to get ahead but can't get out. Therefore, this river and lake has also become a metaphor for society. Of course, the condiment is the brotherhood of the two...
women It has become a tool in the movie. It seems that Maggie Cheung is Andy Lau's idea of ​​leaving the rivers and lakes. It is a materialized but abstract existence, because Maggie Cheung is on the other side...
So, at the beginning of this movie, Wong Kar Wai opened the two motifs of his movie. , Time and space error correction, the return of 1997...
In 1984, the return of Hong Kong was finalized, and the aftermath of the 1988 movie has begun to spread. Maggie Cheung, a girl from the mainland, has become the soul of Aberdeen Andy Lau's dream. I want to devote myself to the arms of this girl, but it seems that the homeland is difficult to leave. This presents the embarrassment of Hong Kong. Returning to the motherland is a beautiful vision, but this land has already fallen into the Western model...
It can be said that this movie The narrative is old-fashioned, so the chronological order is not special, but there are changes in space. Andy Lau went back and forth between the mainland and Hong Kong. In the end, he chose to settle in the mainland, but he did not expect to be buried in Hong Kong...
Jacky Cheung represents Hong Kong people A kind of spirit, the grassroots yearns to realize the Hong Kong dream, but this is destined to be a dream...
The hand-cranked shooting in the film opened up Wong Kar-wai's visual style, and later, this style became Wong Kar-wai, the master of the film generation...

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