This is a weird movie with two weird stories, full of trivial monologues and weird behavior. The photography is also highly stylized. The characters are off-line, wearing sunglasses and raincoats on non-rainy nights, crying at the thin soap, expired pineapple cans and Garfield dolls. Quentin spoke highly of the film. Some rankings say it is enough to rank among the greatest Hong Kong movies. The two stories and the four characters in the film have nothing to do with each other. Many viewers do not understand what it is talking about, but they are inexplicably attracted by his melancholy temperament. After watching it, they can't help but recollect several times.
However, is this really a movie that has no logic and only pays attention to emotion and atmosphere? After watching Chongqing Forest again as an adult, I finally found the code to unlock it, that is: pathological pure love.
Let's revisit the plot.
The first story is not the story of a female killer like many synopses say, but a story of killing her boyfriend. The girl who wears sunglasses and a raincoat played by Brigitte Lin is indeed a drug dealer, but the film uses a lot of space to explain her kind heart, not skillful and sophisticated in the crime process, and a little nervous. After realizing that she would be in trouble, she took away the Indian daughter and wanted to use "kidnapping" as a threat. When she called, she looked very young. She couldn't help buying ice cream for the little girl because she felt that the Indian man loved her. Zhixin did not do anything to the little girl before returning the child. So is she really a professional drug dealer, a professional killer?
At this time, we are about to see the foreigner (highly suspected of being a British) who flashed past in this story, with a calm expression, but always feel that there are a lot of profound things hidden under this kind of elegance. He appeared at the beginning of the movie, playing billiards and tasting wine, with a rich and handsome style; while the story is going on, when Brigitte Lin is running around, the foreigner is flirting with another oriental girl, and before preparing to have sex, he specially wears Brigitte Lin. At the end of the story, Brigitte Lin killed the man with a single shot and took off the golden wig. Only then can we see that her original face is not Westernized at all, but the standard Oriental beauty. She has been tortured for too long in this humble period.
A more reasonable interpretation is: Brigitte Lin is not a killer at all. She is the heartbroken girlfriend of the foreigner. At the same time, the foreigner has other girlfriends. Probably these are some unqualified lovers. They all wear golden wigs, because the man likes golden wigs, even to the point where he is fetish, and must have lust for golden wigs; Brigitte Lin loves especially humble, and she is even willing to sell drugs for him. In the name of love, deceive girls who lack love and humble to "bring goods" for themselves. This is actually an old routine in the drug trafficking industry. There was not a case in Guangzhou before when a group of girls fell in love with foreigners and brought them to them. Goods, are you waiting for the death penalty in Malaysia?
So the first story is not a female killer, but a poor woman who is humble and heartbroken in unequal love. She wears a wig, a raincoat and sunglasses in the middle of the night, which are all metaphors: her posture can no longer be lower, and she has completely lost herself. Talents in humble to extreme love will burst out with nuclear-like energy, Brigitte Lin's story ends with her going to kill. She had already escaped into the dust and had nowhere to go. Finally, it was this man who was easier to solve than to solve the trouble of drug trafficking.
The second story, due to the bright colors, the soundtrack of "California Dream" and Faye Wong's childish performance, was praised by many as a fairy tale style, quirky and dreamlike. It is precisely because the atmosphere is so lively and cute that we almost forget that this is a story of a stalker . Faye Wong's Affi is an out-and-out abnormality according to common sense. While working in a breakfast shop, she fell in love with Liang Chaowei, a policeman who had only a few faces, and then took the key to sneak into the other’s home, cleaned him, used his personal belongings, fell asleep in his bed, and even in his Put sleeping pills in the cup.
A Fei is also very possessive: she lay on Tony Leung’s bed, holding a magnifying glass to look for the woman’s hair, and screamed because she found it. Then she saw Tony Leung having a meal with a long-haired beauty, she stretched out her hand. Move the girl's head and compare the hair she picked with that girl. This way, Affi, who slipped the door to pick up the medicine and followed it up, can be said to be sick. The above performances are all manifestations of her extremely exuberant lust for Tony Leung. Turning around, this role will be an ordinary breakfast shop guy who flies to the goddess photo all day and dreams of having sex with her every day.
It's just that Faye Wong's seemingly innocent children's performance and "Dream Man" offset the inherently abnormal behavior. The audience is more likely to think that Faye Wong is innocent, and forget that erotic and possessiveness are the background color of all this. People want to believe that this is a secret love story. Out of their goodwill for Faye Wong, they substituting themselves into the party. When Tony Leung and his long-haired girlfriend have sex ; And, even though the long-haired girlfriend is very beautiful, she is judged by comparison with Faye Wong, she is too lack of star feeling and memory point; all the "sexy" elements have been pulled to Faye Wong's side), the audience also I feel that I am experiencing a broken relationship and want to be tortured crazy by possessiveness. I sincerely hope that Tony Leung will soon break up.
It can be said that you don't even need to change the actors and scenes, just change a soundtrack and slightly adjust the editing rhythm of some shots. This story of Affi will become an out-and-out thriller. Wong Kar-wai does not shy away from this point. Please pay attention to the scene of Faye Wong sneaking into Tony Leung’s house for the first time. It can be said to be a joke of a thriller-she went in after deliberately deliberately and fully armed:
Her eyes can be said to be innocent or paranoid. In fact, aren’t innocence and paranoia the two sides of the coin? Adults know the maximization of benefits, and only childishness will arbitrarily:
Let's take a look at the two male protagonists. Pay attention to the identities of Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung: two police officers. At the same time, both women are "criminals." This crazy temptation on the edge of breaking the law and going to jail constitutes a dramatic tension of discipline and punishment. The two policemen deviated from their normal lives: the lovers who dumped them were not like Brigitte Lin and Faye Wong. Their temperament and style were deliberately photographed to be very bleak, and it was difficult to remember their looks after watching them, and even more prominent. They are full of breasts and fat buttocks; they fall into two morbid and crazy pure loves: they are so pure that there is no physical contact, the bar and the hotel sit for a night without even looking at each other, the person who slept in your bed but did not touch you at all . In contrast, they and those women who are not "star" have a lot more physical contact, but the two passionate scenes in the film are not for romance, but for the audience to take on the two ill female protagonists. (Dealing with drugs and killing boyfriends for boyfriends/stalking stalkers if you are fancy) makes the audience feel emotional pressure and injury.
But even without any physical contact, the temperament of these two stories is very sexy, because they are exciting enough. Whether you humblely fall in love with a real scumbag drug dealer, or the drug trafficking causes you to stay in the same room with the police after the incident, or sneak into the home of your admirer and use his personal belongings, these are things that can make people secrete adrenaline crazily, like a first kiss. , Like first love, it is more passionate than passionate love. Physical contact is completely unimportant here-the fugitive drug dealer and the broken-hearted policeman, the extreme desire and extreme indifference, the distance between the distant contact and the very close, the darkest Night and the brightest light, discipline and punishment, innocence and splendor.
This is a crime movie that tells the story of love in a fairy tale. Bing Jiao's masterpiece is undoubtedly, Brigitte Lin sells drugs for her boyfriend to kill her boyfriend, and Faye Wong slips the door and stalker.
Finally, there is one more point. The identity composition of each character in the film is very subtle. In the first story, the scumbag is an Englishman, Brigitte Lin and Takeshi Kaneshiro are from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and there are also Indians. In the second story, Faye Wong plays a part-time job in his cousin’s breakfast shop. According to Hong Kong people, he is a bit despised “Bei Gu” on the mainland. Tony Leung is a Hong Kong native. How to understand this diverse picture? You may have the answer. Of course, I don't like this kind of criticism very much, especially I don't think it is suitable for studying Wong Kar-wai's works. Although Wong Kar-wai's films are based on the Hong Kong mentality of cue, it is difficult to say what he has explored in this regard. It would be better to say that the quality of the person in love he presented is the source of its essence.
It's really bad taste.
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