This "Hand" by Wong Kar Wai alone can hold up 5 stars. Old Hong Kong style, cramped, delicate, blank, restrained, mottled, blurred, only Wong Kar-wai can string together so many words in one movie.
In the first 6 minutes of the movie, I only heard Gong Li's voice, but I didn't see her, but she conveyed the verve of a courtesan she played clearly, with the mood of "empty mountains don't see people, but people's voices are heard" in the poems, which hooked people. appetite.
Gong Li's role is only at home and a phone is used to form a montage, which can describe the experience of a courtesan who travels around the world of men with ease, but ends up being hurt and dejected. It's really brilliant!
The camera language of the film is even more powerful. The little tailor played by Zhang Zhen repressedly loves the character played by Gong Li in his heart. Although the two have met many times, they have never shared the same frame. Gong Li's close-up is always through The reflection of the mirror, one false and one real also shows that two people are not from the same world. Until the courtesan fell ill and lived in a small hotel, and the courtesan said half-truth, I introduced me to you, at this time, the courtesan and the little tailor were really in the same frame, and at this time, the two talents Equality, the courtesan came out of the illusory fantasy in the mind of the little tailor and became a real person.
The narrative technique of the film adopts the structure of ABAC, reality-memory-reality-extension of reality, in which B and C form an echo. The complacent courtesan in segment B taught the little tailor by hand, and the courtesan who was terminally ill in segment C comforted the little tailor with their hands. From B to C, things were different, and the little tailor also completed the restraint and release of desire, which fits the movie theme.
I have to say that the film in this film is only about 40 minutes long, but it is a masterpiece of Wong Kar-wai's film technique and style.
Since this is a three-part film, as a complete film review, I have to mention two other short films. "Balance" is a bit too metaphorical, and I can't understand the knowledge of Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams". "Dangerous Borderline" tells the story of love and lust, the most European and the most explicit, and of course the most suitable for the title: eros. The last seaside nude dance is really beautiful.
All in all, the whole movie is enough to watch "Hand"
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