But "Sweet Honey" is not just a love movie. Its ambition is to outline the relationship between people and destiny through the struggles and struggles of ordinary people in a specific era.
In 1986, Li Xiaojun went to Hong Kong to seek refuge with his aunt. In order to make money, he brought his wife Xiaoting from Tianjin to Hong Kong. At that time, the mainland and Hong Kong were not only ideologically different, but also had different living standards.
Things that Hong Kong people are accustomed to are very new to the dull and honest Li Xiaojun. He doesn't know how to ride an escalator, so he is very curious about McDonald's. When he sees Li Qiao using a BB machine, he can't help but give a thumbs up and say, "You can do it." After all, in the Mainland, BB machines are still the latest playthings, and they cannot be obtained without "big money".
But in the letter to Xiaoting, Li Xiaojun has implicit affection. Write a letter and use McDonald's "beautiful" table pads, because Tianjin does not have them. It is clearly to send chickens and ducks, but lied that "it is dry transportation". With a meager salary, he ignored it and only talked about the English class. The mainlanders who went to Hong Kong back then did not embrace the dream of going to the capitalist world to dig for gold. Progress is hope.
Li Qiao from Guangzhou has the same obsession. I worked part-time at McDonald's, worked part-time for an English school, set up a stall selling Teresa Teng's tapes on the New Year's Eve, and became a massage girl after being deeply involved in the stock market. I always held back a ruthlessness in my heart: "As long as you work hard in Hong Kong, you can do anything. "Actually, she wasn't greedy either, she just bought two houses, one for herself in Hong Kong and the other for her mother in the mainland.
Two mainlanders who have a relationship with each other met in Hong Kong like this. At first, Li Qiao despised Li Xiaojun, earning a commission for his English school and sending him to work. Li Xiaojun didn't care, and helped Li Qiao make money as much as possible.
When Li Xiaojun was riding a bicycle and carrying Li Qiao through the crowded streets of Hong Kong, when the camera turned, Li Qiao was wearing dark blue jeans and black pointed-toed shoes, while Li Xiaojun was dressed in worn canvas shoes and gray overalls. At first glance, this is the most intuitive contrast between Hong Kong girls and Yankees, aggressive and conservative.
When the stall was set up on the New Year's Eve, and Teresa Teng's tapes were unsalable, Li Qiao revealed her identity as a Guangzhou native. And Li Xiaojun also sighed: "I'm worried that I won't let you come to take advantage of me, and you won't come to me, then I won't even have the only friend in Hong Kong." That
night, the two had a reunion dinner together . , the wind and rain outside the window, several ambiguous, attributed to gentle.
It's love, of course, but not quite. Because Li Qiao values the dream of more gold, and Li Xiaojun's family also has Xiaoting. In the public telephone booth, Li Xiaojun and Xiaoting were talking on the phone, saying "I love you" while congratulating the New Year. I'm sorry for the meaning I didn't say. At the McDonald's restaurant, after a few auspicious words, Li Qiao's words loosened each other's guilt: Long live friendship.
People are in distress and lonely sometimes. Li Xiaojun and Li Qiao will still go to Room 527, and earning money is still the keynote of their life in Hong Kong. Even if Li Qiao lost all his money in the stock market and did a less decent job, Li Xiaojun would still be by his side.
It was not until the insensitive Li Xiaojun took Li Qiao to the jewelry store and bought the same bracelet, one for Xiaoting and the other for Li Qiao, that the conflict broke out completely. For Li Qiao, Li Xiaojun's family is an issue that he always avoids on the road of love. In other words, it is precisely because of this "guarantee" that she can restrain her affection for Li Xiaojun. But the bracelet completely detonated the anxiety of identity. Friend, or lover, the demon barrier begins to manifest.
As for the life at that time, Li Qiao could not let go of his desire for material things for the sake of ethereal love. She said, "Comrade Li Xiaojun, my purpose in coming to Hong Kong is not you, and your purpose in coming to Hong Kong is not mine either.
" After being left out a few times, Li Xiaojun sent a page and said goodbye.
Goodbye, it's 1990. Li Xiaojun married Xiaoting in Hong Kong, and her dream came true. And Li Qiao, who followed the underworld leopard brother, attended the wedding as a guest.
The current livelihood is no longer a problem, and the repressed love thread is rolling again. When the car radio released "Goodbye My Lover", Li Xiaojun got Teresa Teng's autograph for Li Qiao again, and the old days came to mind again. This is the moment when the two are closest to their love.
"Comrade Li Xiaojun, what should we do." "We can't lie to ourselves. I will go back to find Xiaoting." "What about me." "You decide." "I want to see you every day when I open my eyes."
But when Li Xiaojun and Li Qiao were about to showdown, Brother Leopard ran away. After sending Li Qiao to see Brother Leopard on the shore, Li Xiaojun said, "I'll wait for you."
Li Xiaojun is honest, diligent, cowardly, and tangled, and is the mirror image of every ordinary young man. His love for Li Qiao is not decisive, lacks courage, although it is dense and comforting, it is inevitably disappointing. For Xiaoting, he hesitated, hesitated, and even hurt him.
When confessing to Xiaoting, there was such a dialogue. "Then why do you want to marry me?" "This is my ideal."
Before going to New York alone, Li Xiaojun wrote to Xiaoting: "I am not a brave man. I dare not ask you Forgive me, I just think, we have been together for so many years and we have traveled so long, Xiaoting, I am also sad."
Moral self-discipline, external pressure, and temporary goals are all weights of love. And the perfection here often means the shattering of the distant place.
If happiness is love, so is regret. If experience is love, so is memory.
There is a branch in the movie. Li Xiaojun's aunt has been thinking of Hollywood star William Horton all her life, and always talks about the day William took her to the Peninsula for dinner. Even if forced by reality, she wants to join hands with people in the market for a lifetime, but the memory of love seems to be auspicious. To this end, she insisted on "don't call me aunt, call me Rosie", and bluntly said, "Maybe William doesn't remember me long ago, but it doesn't matter, I just remember." The love that cannot be obtained can also be a lifetime.
In the end, Li Xiaojun and Li Qiao met in front of a TV window in New York. In the news, news of Teresa Teng's death is being broadcast. When the song of "Sweet Honey" remembered, the two of them were sad, but turned to meet again. When you smile, it seems like a lifetime.
Whether they come together or not is no longer important. At least, in the lives of Li Xiaojun and Li Qiao, there are bicycles and Teresa Teng, exclusive to each other and placed in the back of their minds.
Some love can only stop at the lips and teeth, hidden in the years. Wait for fate to look at it, and leave time to answer. And the meaning of "Sweet Honey" is that no matter how hard it is, no matter how hard it is, there is a sweet aftertaste with a smile.
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