I don't know how much Hong Kong people's confusion about the return of 1997 is contained in the 1990 release of "The True Story", but Xu Zai, the male protagonist raised by his adoptive mother, is indeed a homeless person. He seems to have spent his whole life searching for his biological mother, his true love, and a reason to stop his depravity.
For a young man like Xu Zai, who looks good-looking and loves to talk, the easiest thing in the world to do is to steal his heart. He walked into the small shop where Maggie Cheung worked, and in a few words played a "one minute friend" routine, which made her willing to marry him - but Xu Zai didn't want marriage. After breaking up with Maggie Cheung, he used a pearl earring to fascinate the dancer Carina Lau, and he offered to work hard to earn money to support him - but Xu Zai hated relying on women for food.
A person steals too many hearts, and it is inevitable that they will be blinded and don’t know which one to keep. Between hesitation and hesitation, he often lets go of the one he loves the most.
Xu Zai on the train said to himself before he died, "I once said that I would not know who my favorite woman is until the last minute, and what is she doing now?"
Maggie Cheung just got off the night shift as usual. In the silence, she called Andy Lau, but she didn't know that he had already changed his career and stopped being a policeman on that land. Andy Lau used to stand in front of the phone booth in the dark of countless lonely nights, but she didn't even wait for a call from her. I just don't know whether Maggie Cheung's late call this time is because I miss Andy Lau, or I think of Xu Zai again.
Andy Lau accompanies and guides Maggie Cheung when she is sad, but the real reason I want her to die is not here.
Soon after breaking up, Maggie Cheung went to Xu Zai's house to pick up her things.
She asked Xu Zai, "Have you ever liked me?"
He replied: "I don't know how many women I will like in my life, and I don't know which one I like the most until the end."
Maggie Cheung saw Carina Lau who looked arrogant and domineering in Xu Zai's house - she wore Maggie Cheung's slippers without letting go. I think Maggie Cheung was completely dead at that time. She probably thought that she was just a thin leaf among the thousands of flowers in Xu Zai. But at that time, Maggie Cheung just closed the door of Xu Zai's house in despair, but did not know how Xu Zai in the room got angry with Carina Lau and drove her away.
Similarly, a few days ago, when Maggie Cheung told Xu Zai that she would not come back, while finishing her clothes and pushing out the door, Xu Zai was casually combing her hair in front of the mirror. But as soon as Maggie Cheung came out of the room, Xu Zai put down the comb in his hand, dodged to the windowsill, and silently looked downstairs through the gap of the white shutters.
For Xu Zai, Carina Lau in this world is probably everywhere, but missing Maggie Cheung is a lifetime event. But he still did not dare to give her any promises about marriage. He could have coaxed her into a flamboyant future like any dude, with a few "good for her" excuses to delay indefinitely.
But he didn't.
Zhang Manyu took a step back: "It doesn't matter if you don't get married, I just want to be with you."
Xu Zai took two steps back: "Why are you accommodating me? It takes a while, but not for a lifetime. You and I will not be happy together."
But Xu Zai forgot that a Fei should not care about the happiness of others. Only selfish and depraved people are qualified to become A Fei.
Xu Zai likes to tell the story of the footless bird to others. He is convinced that there is a bird without feet in this world, and it keeps flying until it lands on the day of death.
But I think it's not so much that a footless bird has no feet, it's better that it has nowhere to rest. In fact, its feet long for land more than anyone else, its wings long for rest more than anyone else, and its heart longs for branches more than anyone else.
It's just that the lush coconut grove in the Philippines outside the car window is not the home of a footless bird, and the shabby house that jumps in front of the mirror is not the home of a footless bird, not even Maggie Cheung's melancholy skirt corner on a rainy night in Hong Kong.
Perhaps sleeping in the wind is its best destination.
ps This movie review is from my WeChat public account: It happens to be quiet, and the original text also contains an exclusive interpretation of the role of my brother in "Happy Spring" and "Fengyue". You are welcome to come and play with me if you also like my brother~
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