Some things, life will let the naive us understand. It just takes a little time. ——Inscription I don't know how many people watch "Sweet Honey" as a love movie. The first time I saw this movie was in elementary school, when my family just bought a VCD player. Of course he didn't understand love at that age, and he quickly forgot about this film. I only vaguely remember the picture of Li Qiao sitting in the back seat of Li Xiaojun's bicycle, shaking his legs and humming a song. Later, when I was in high school, I held the remote control to change the channel. I saw that a TV station was playing this film, and there were many advertisements inserted in the show, but I kept watching it. Years later, Li Qiao and Li Xiaojun reunited on the streets of New York. The music played and the subtitles lit up. I sat on the sofa in a daze. Later, I remembered this film, downloaded it, sat in front of the computer and watched it by myself, and my heart was blank again. This film is far from being as shallow as a romance. I thought I couldn't afford a reunion like that. It was when the news of Teresa Teng's death was broadcast on TV. One stopped, the other seemed to have walked over and backed away. The two stood there listening to the news, then looked up and saw each other. There was a second of hesitation, and then just a faint smile. Li Qiao's smile is charming, as always. And Li Xiaojun is still the same stupid and foolish as he was decades ago. I think of Eileen Chang's short essay "Love": In the vast wilderness of time, among more than 10 million people, there is no one step earlier, nor one step later, when I meet that person, there is nothing else to say, only gently Ask, "Oh, are you here too?" Then, the ups and downs of the years, the vicissitudes of life, the two people separated by a long time, have experienced countless gatherings and separations, encounters and misses, can they just look at each other and smile slightly? ? Then, do you want to gently ask, "How have you been all these years?" Are you okay? Are you ok? Those missed, the two may be at a loss. While I was outside, I clearly heard the huge roar of the wheel of fate and saw the profound track it overwhelmed. That year, on the train from the mainland to Hong Kong, they used to lean their heads against their heads and sleep groggy across the back of an army green hard seat. When the train arrives in Hong Kong, he goes to the left and she goes to the right. It was their first encounter without knowing it. Later, they each started a new life in this bustling city. Li Qiao quickly integrated, has a wide network of contacts, worked several jobs, and worked hard to make money. Li Xiaojun learned Cantonese, and he has been thinking about his girlfriend Xiaoting who stayed in the mainland. In the McDonald's restaurant, Li Xiaojun couldn't speak Cantonese. Li Qiao stood behind the counter and looked at the long queue waiting behind Li Xiaojun, but had no choice but to change his Mandarin. Li Xiaojun felt very cordial because of this. At that time, money was Li Qiao's biggest life goal, and the only fun was to see the changes in the numbers in the bank card. Naturally, she didn't care much about this silly mainland boy, but she was happy to ask him for help occasionally. And Li Xiaojun is attentive every time. Because of her personality, but also because of the deep sense of loneliness in Hong Kong, a city that does not belong to her. You will fall in love with me, and I will fall in love with you, all because of loneliness. This is Li Zongsheng's lyrics. The same is true between Li Qiao and Li Xiaojun. Meeting more and more frequently, began to miss. Li Xiaojun's letters to his girlfriend Xiaoting are getting shorter, more perfunctory, and fewer. However, he couldn't and dared not face this feeling. This is not young and simple love under the sun. It is mixed with the loneliness, companionship, dependence and desire of two adults. And Li Qiao knew clearly that she and Li Xiaojun were not the same kind of people. The story that happened between them could only exist in this special time and special place. Li Xiaojun is not a person with great ambitions in essence, and even the choice of coming to Hong Kong may be blind, and the ultimate purpose is to pick up Xiaoting to live together. If he hadn't met Li Qiao, his life would have been written like that. But Li Qiao is different, this step is her active choice, and must succeed. In the sultry hot air, people who speculated in stocks sat on the street, including Li Qiao and Li Xiaojun. Not far away, a couple was arguing over money. Li Qiao said, Li Xiaojun, have you seen that, I don't want to live like that. Two people's lives briefly intersect, and then, one to the left and the other to the right. Li Qiao followed the underworld boss, Brother Leopard, whom he met in Bath City. Li Xiaojun took Xiaoting to Hong Kong and got married. Li Qiao sat in the car and watched Li Xiaojun go away. In the car, Teresa Teng's sweet voice sang farewell. Goodbye my love. Tears flowed quietly, cool and salty. If the story ends here, then it will only make people feel emotional when they occasionally recall it. only later. Li Xiaojun and Xiaoting divorced, and Li Qiao also decided to leave Brother Leopard. This is the moment when two people are closest to being in love. The sky also started to rain in due course. It just rained too much. Li Xiaojun stood on the shore with a long black umbrella. Before Li Qiao got on the boat, he turned around and said softly, wait for me, I will be back soon. She did not go back. Saw the fleeing leopard brother on the boat. Before I could say what I was ready to say, I started to cry. She is a kind woman after all. Brother Leopard gave her a good life, although she was worried, she was materially rich. Now, she is escaping hard with Brother Leopard. Is this love? Maybe, maybe not. Even if it was more gratitude at first, the long-term dependence on each other may be more profound than the so-called love. They arrived in America, intending to settle down slowly. Brother Leopard even said, let's have a baby. Li Qiao went to the laundry room to pick up clothes. Brother Leopard waited outside, sat down at the foot of the wall, and lit a cigarette. Just a few minutes, or less, of disillusionment about a peaceful life. After coming out of the laundry room, Li Qiao looked around for Brother Leopard, and casually squeezed into the crowd of onlookers. Such inattention is cruel. Fate is like a knife, and we don't know it. Li Qiao saw Brother Leopard lying in a pool of blood. The former Jianghu boss died at the gunpoint of street gangsters. In the hospital, facing Brother Leopard's body, Li Qiao said calmly and turned him over. The doctor turned Brother Leopard's body over to reveal the Mickey Mouse tattoo on his back. When it was still in the bathing city, Brother Leopard tattooed a Mickey Mouse pattern on his back in order to make Li Qiao happy. Facing the smiling Mickey Mouse and the person who no longer came back to make her happy, she finally burst into tears uncontrollably. On the way to be deported by the Immigration Bureau, Li Qiao saw Li Xiaojun riding a bicycle in the crowd, just like before. It's the traffic jam. She opened the car door and chased after Li Xiaojun's back. But at last he could not see him. She stayed in America. With the tenacity in Hong Kong that year, I survived tenaciously, and the more I live, the better. Li Xiaojun, who came to the United States at about the same time, has also become a chef in a Chinese restaurant. At this time, the mainland economy took off. Many people who entered Hong Kong back then began to return to the mainland for development. They live in the same city, hear the same people sing, walk the same streets, and look at the same scenery. Fate played tricks on them again and again, they passed by without realizing it, and just continued their lonely days alone. Until Teresa Teng's singing sounded all over the city at the same time, until the singer was no longer there. How will the two experienced middle-aged people continue to write the past, and where will the story go? Who can predict? Where there are Chinese, there is Teresa Teng's singing. In this film, Teresa Teng's song is an important clue. When in Hong Kong, Li Qiao sold Teresa Teng's posters and discs. At a loss, he went to the Bath City to be a massage girl to pay off the loan shark. When he met Brother Leopard, there was a later story. Li Qiao's economic mind is not wrong. There are many mainlanders in Hong Kong who like Teresa Teng. But she ignored another fact that silly Li Xiaojun saw: Telling others that you like Teresa Teng is equivalent to showing your identity as a mainlander. This is obviously what all the mainlanders in Hong Kong are trying to cover up. There is love in "Sweet Honey", but there is something deeper than love. It's not just a story of two people. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a generation of people who roamed Hong Kong, and the life of the Chinese in the United States is a microcosm. The little characters in the film live humble, but they also have their own glory. Li Xiaojun's aunt often talked about her youth, and the movie star William took her to Repulse Bay for dinner. The person who said it looked nostalgic, and the person who listened only thought she was a lunatic. But, maybe, is that really a fact? The American, who has always been a wanderer, accompanied her back to Malaysia after her lover was diagnosed with AIDS. There are no great characters and no great emotions in this film. Just some selfish men and women, just some love. Only in this way, it seems real, sincere, and has a heavy weight, and that weight comes from life itself. I often wonder, how can I bear so many accidents in life, the parting of my lover, and the death of my relatives. Maybe it's just because I have experienced too little and my experience is too shallow. When I really meet and have to bear it, I will be relieved and calm, and I can laugh at the clouds and clouds, and the flowers are blooming and falling? It's like Li Qiao and Li Xiaojun, one is firm and the other is cowardly; one is dragging life forward, the other is being pushed forward by life, but in the end they reach the same goal. Some things, life will let the naive us understand. Just need a little time. Where there are Chinese, there is Teresa Teng's singing. In this film, Teresa Teng's song is an important clue. When in Hong Kong, Li Qiao sold Teresa Teng's posters and discs. At a loss, he went to the Bath City to be a massage girl to pay off the loan shark. When he met Brother Leopard, there was a later story. Li Qiao's economic mind is not wrong. There are many mainlanders in Hong Kong who like Teresa Teng. But she ignored another fact that silly Li Xiaojun saw: Telling others that you like Teresa Teng is equivalent to showing your identity as a mainlander. This is obviously what all the mainlanders in Hong Kong are trying to cover up. There is love in "Sweet Honey", but there is something deeper than love. It's not just a story of two people. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a generation of people who roamed Hong Kong, and the life of the Chinese in the United States is a microcosm. The little characters in the film live humble, but they also have their own glory. Li Xiaojun's aunt often talked about her youth, and the movie star William took her to Repulse Bay for dinner. The person who said it looked nostalgic, and the person who listened only thought she was a lunatic. But, maybe, is that really a fact? The American, who has always been a wanderer, accompanied her back to Malaysia after her lover was diagnosed with AIDS. There are no great characters and no great emotions in this film. Just some selfish men and women, just some love. Only in this way, it seems real, sincere, and has a heavy weight, and that weight comes from life itself. I often wonder, how can I bear so many accidents in life, the parting of my lover, and the death of my relatives. Maybe it's just because I have experienced too little and my experience is too shallow. When I really meet and have to bear it, I will be relieved and calm, and I can laugh at the clouds and clouds, and the flowers are blooming and falling? It's like Li Qiao and Li Xiaojun, one is firm and the other is cowardly; one is dragging life forward, the other is being pushed forward by life, but in the end they reach the same goal. Some things, life will let the naive us understand. Just need a little time. Where there are Chinese, there is Teresa Teng's singing. In this film, Teresa Teng's song is an important clue. When in Hong Kong, Li Qiao sold Teresa Teng's posters and discs. At a loss, he went to the Bath City to be a massage girl to pay off the loan shark. When he met Brother Leopard, there was a later story. Li Qiao's economic mind is not wrong. There are many mainlanders in Hong Kong who like Teresa Teng. But she ignored another fact that silly Li Xiaojun saw: Telling others that you like Teresa Teng is equivalent to showing your identity as a mainlander. This is obviously what all the mainlanders in Hong Kong are trying to cover up. There is love in "Sweet Honey", but there is something deeper than love. It's not just a story of two people. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a generation of people who roamed Hong Kong, and the life of the Chinese in the United States is a microcosm. The little characters in the film live humble, but they also have their own glory. Li Xiaojun's aunt often talked about her youth, and the movie star William took her to Repulse Bay for dinner. The person who said it looked nostalgic, and the person who listened only thought she was a lunatic. But, maybe, is that really a fact? The American, who has always been a wanderer, accompanied her back to Malaysia after her lover was diagnosed with AIDS. There are no great characters and no great emotions in this film. Just some selfish men and women, just some love. Only in this way, it seems real, sincere, and has a heavy weight, and that weight comes from life itself. I often wonder, how can I bear so many accidents in life, the parting of my lover, and the death of my relatives. Maybe it's just because I have experienced too little and my experience is too shallow. When I really meet and have to bear it, I will be relieved and calm, and I can laugh at the clouds and clouds, and the flowers are blooming and falling? It's like Li Qiao and Li Xiaojun, one is firm and the other is cowardly; one is dragging life forward, the other is being pushed forward by life, but in the end they reach the same goal. Some things, life will let the naive us understand. Just need a little time. The American, who has always been a wanderer, accompanied her back to Malaysia after her lover was diagnosed with AIDS. There are no great characters and no great emotions in this film. Just some selfish men and women, just some love. Only in this way, it seems real, sincere, and has a heavy weight, and that weight comes from life itself. I often wonder, how can I bear so many accidents in life, the parting of my lover, and the death of my relatives. Maybe it's just because I have experienced too little and my experience is too shallow. When I really meet and have to bear it, I will be relieved and calm, and I can laugh at the clouds and clouds, and the flowers are blooming and falling? It's like Li Qiao and Li Xiaojun, one is firm and the other is cowardly; one is dragging life forward, the other is being pushed forward by life, but in the end they reach the same goal. Some things, life will let the naive us understand. Just need a little time. The American, who has always been a wanderer, accompanied her back to Malaysia after her lover was diagnosed with AIDS. There are no great characters and no great emotions in this film. Just some selfish men and women, just some love. Only in this way, it seems real, sincere, and has a heavy weight, and that weight comes from life itself. I often wonder, how can I bear so many accidents in life, the parting of my lover, and the death of my relatives. Maybe it's just because I have experienced too little and my experience is too shallow. When I really meet and have to bear it, I will be relieved and calm, and I can laugh at the clouds and clouds, and the flowers are blooming and falling? It's like Li Qiao and Li Xiaojun, one is firm and the other is cowardly; one is dragging life forward, the other is being pushed forward by life, but in the end they reach the same goal. Some things, life will let the naive us understand. Just need a little time.
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