The best times are betrayed

Della 2022-10-27 11:40:11

I remember watching "The Best Time" for the first time in high school, slow long shots, light tones. Blurred light. I watched more than two hours of film with extraordinary patience. The film is divided into three parts, the first part is the one that left me with the best memory. When Zhang Zhen and Shu Qi met in the pool room, Shu Qi's eyes and Zhang Zhen's throbbing expression. Not too much dialogue. It can even be said that there are only a handful of words, but it makes me feel that when Zhang Zhen took the cue from Shu Qi and saw her for the first time. I knew that he fell in love with her, and then Zhang Zhen left the place because of being a soldier. Only one letter was left to express my thoughts about Shu Qi. Shu Qi also left the billiard room and left Kaohsiung, maybe three months or half a year later. Zhang Zhen returned to the place where they met, but did not find Shu Qi. After several inquiries, he found Shu Qi. They held hands at the station in the rain.

Simple story, taciturn hero and heroine, slow footage, wet picture. When Shu Qi leaned against the iron railing of the ferry, I could even feel the wet and cold sea breeze soaking through my body. Hou Hsiao-hsien said, "The best times are all betrayed." So what is it to be betrayed? I'm naturally stupid and can't guess the deep meaning of this sentence, but some things in the past will be remembered for a long time, occasionally remembered, but only in my heart.

As a digression
, the soundtrack of the youth dream part of "rain and tears" may be Hou Hsiao-hsien's mistake. The actor in the film described the song as the work of Beatles. Many people must have seen Hou Hsiao-hsien's "The Best Time". Yes, the rain and tears in it have long been an indispensable classic song in Western old songs, and this is the work of the band Aphrodite's Child. The singer is Demis Roussos. This song is adapted from the work of the famous German composer Pachelbel's canon. The orchestra fills in a new melody on the basis of its chords, thus giving the work a unique charm, slow beat rhythm, and gentle melody. The melody and the bleak voice make this song seem to be filled with all sorrows and resentments. The lyrics are equally poignant and moving, full of sadness. After listening to it again, my heart seems to have been soaked in tears, salty and sour, numb but not. Help, before you know it, you will become addicted to this tune, listening to and pondering the bitterness and helplessness in the song over and over again.
In fact, Eros Sons also has works such as: It's Five O'clock, Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall, I Want to Live, etc. It is also very good, very nostalgic, and the lead singer Demis Roussos has a melancholy voice with a little sadness Cang, passionate, like old wine, the more you listen to it, the more mellow it becomes. I remember the cafes that appeared in some Korean dramas, and I can often hear their music playing.

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  • Marquise 2022-03-15 09:01:09

    The best thing about this film is to find the right actors. I like the first time the most, and the mime form of the second time is a different kind of feeling. It feels flat about being the third time on the cover.

  • Dagmar 2022-03-20 09:02:49

    Free dreams are sour and youthful dreams are chaotic, only love dreams are so pure and lovely, which makes people aftertaste. An all-night billiard, a love letter, a pursuit, meeting bowed heads and laughing, waiting for the car in the drizzle, the small hand held under the umbrella, simple and delicate, the air is full of romance.