I have to say that Wong Kar-Wai once again deeply shocked me. The more and more I watch his films, the more I like his rich, bright tones and literary style.
"Hand", also known as "Hand of Eros", although it is a short film, is definitely much more exciting than many 120-minute movies.
Although its storyline is relatively fixed, it is nothing more than a fruitless love with a strong eroticism under the fate of the underworld. This reminds me of another of his international short films, which are also exceptionally short, but who said that short is not powerful enough, not all-encompassing enough, and not meaningful enough? Without a name, it is a description of a movie, that is, the proposition is "What is a movie", 100 audiences have 100 Hamlet, and similarly, 100 great directors, there are 100 masterpieces with different styles. This proposition has been shot by many well-known directors from all over the world. Here, I will only briefly talk about Wong Kar Wai's, which seems to be another film about eroticism, but its subtlety lies in the metaphor montage, although on the surface, it is a married young woman with a ring, plump and plump. It is still there, full of charm, secretly hooking up with a young man, the male and female protagonists do not show their faces, and the photography is only done in parts other than the eyes.
Whether it's the teasing of high heels, or the man peeling an orange, the dim lighting treatment suggests sex, longing, the forbidden pleasure of extramarital affairs, the partial close-up of the hand, including the subtitles, is just right, summer, the first encounter with her, and then the deep Deeply infatuated, unstoppable.
Usually, after a light and shadow, we will use our senses to conclude this short film: it is another film about the love of men and women, but this is a superficial assertion, this film just wants to express this theme, which is too inferior. Sure enough, the director's style of painting changed, and he used a symbolic shooting technique to describe his deep love for the beautiful art of film. However, when he first came into contact with "her" unintentionally, he was all overwhelmed by the charm of "her", so chasing, trekking, longing, deep love, and being abandoned still could not stop his passion.
From this, looking at Wong Kar-wai's early films, it is not difficult to see that he is a director who does not like to shoot actors' faces, and likes to shoot actors or partial close-ups of things. For example, hands, arms, shoulders, legs, these details, we can infer that the body organs of the human body, such as hands, feet, earlobes, waist, etc., are the performance of sexual suggestion. Keep this mental cue. They are very sexy, so in Wong Kar-wai's works, everything that shows bisexuality will show up.
For example, in this "Hand", this is very obvious. The heroine is a prostitute, and the hero is a little tailor. First time prostitute. Even though she only uses her hands, this is often a more stimulating sensory experience than real bonding, especially for the audience.
In another aspect, this film also reflects the characteristics of fate. For example, every gorgeous cheongsam made by the tailor for his beloved woman, although it is beautiful on the graceful body, but that dress is for other people after all. man unbuttoned and dressed for others to see. At the end of the film, the prostitute played by Gong Li is about to die from tuberculosis, and the tailor played by Zhang Zhen has faded away from her youthful appearance and has grown into a steady man. When she showed her love in front of her, in order not to infect him, she refused Let him kiss himself.
The film uses a lot of songs from the old Shanghai period, soft rocking, and women's singing, which can be said to be the icing on the cake, replicating the vicissitudes and modernity of that era.
Watching Wong Kar Wai's films, you need to slowly taste them to understand the taste, and you need to guess and understand by feeling, so as to understand the meaning of each.
Casual but meaningful.
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