This winding river has been carved in the center of the city,
people call it Suzhou River.
Time is like a boat slowly passing by the river, the eyes of
grandparents and the wind Every
year
I see many high-rise buildings
being built by the river,
and the richness and dimness of the people's industrious faces are becoming more and more colorful.
One day, people wiped the sweat from their faces . I found that the river was no longer calm." The
story starts from Suzhou River...
The Suzhou River in Lou Ye's lens is not as prosperous and gloomy as Shanghai, with a dim scene and a chaotic river. Suzhou River is always shrouded in a haze. The enchanting Suzhou River does not have the hustle and bustle of the past, but only a decadent and dark winding. This is where the love story of Ma and Peony, the photographer and Meimei begins. The director deliberately used such an environment to set off the protagonist's wandering, disordered emotions, confusion, and helpless life. There is a dilapidated corner outside the bizarre city, which breeds a poignant love.
"On this day, I met this girl, her name is Meimei."
"My profession is a photographer, and my job is to walk around the city with my camera all day. On this day, I saw Meimei, like a mermaid, swam into my life swayingly. Soon, I found that my world was inextricable."
Every love begins by chance, in an unfamiliar city , No one knows what kind of connection the person who passed by him can have with him. Just like the photographer and Meimei, two people who were originally unrelated, but shared a story. Those who believe in fate will always regard this gathering and separation as fate, and those who do not believe in fate just regard this story as an accident.
"I was putting the last bits of makeup off my face when he came in. I'm a dancer at a bar and every day I'm in the water doing mermaids for people who pay. I know I'm beautiful and I know a lot Man. I saw his face in the mirror, it was the face of a man, men like this are everywhere, the only difference is that he was carrying a camera. I love him, I love this man, I love him Aim at my focal length, because I know that my time will disappear with his camera lens. I shuttled with him in the coming and going of the crowd in this city, sitting on his balcony drinking and chatting watching the Suzhou River go by, Crazy sex with him in the dark of the night, get up at dawn and leave. He is so attached to me, every time he asks me when I'll be back next time, I know, he loves me. I also know, I'm not His first woman, and won't be his last. Likewise, for me, he too."
"I'm a delivery guy in this city, my name is Ma. I used to be a jerk, I There is a motorcycle that I thought one day I would ride it to travel far and wide and make a career. But to this day, my life is to ride it every day from one end of the city to the other. This day I Pick up the goods as usual, the difference is that this time the goods are a person, her name is Peony. She is a little girl, her father is an alcoholic and rich, so I know so much. I will use it every day from now on. The back seat of my motorcycle picked her up from her house, crossed the slowly flowing Suzhou River, and sent her to her aunt. Day by day, our relationship changed, and in their words, what happened between us A thing called love. Love? What is love. I don't know. One day I kidnapped Peony to extort a sum of money from his rich alcoholic father. This is my life. Peony is crazy and I'm against her Said that I exchanged her for 450,000 RMB, the peony disappeared, and she jumped into the Suzhou River"
"When I came out of prison, the whole world changed, my peony was gone, and I wanted to find her. I walked by I have been to many cities and places. I have asked everyone about her. I must find her. The sun, moon, and stars are still shining in the Suzhou River like yesterday, but my sky has been lost. I am on the street. Running and calling her name, no one listens to me, I'm crazy. I don't know anything, I only know a little bit. If I can't find Peony, my whole life will be meaningless."
"When Ma Ma saw Mei Mei, his eyes went straight, and he called out another woman's name, and I didn't know who she was. All I knew was that a whirlwind broke into my life, and I couldn't go on. Holding the beauty and vision of our love. I saw the whole city shivering in the dust, and I shrank in the smallest corner. Strangely, the people around were indifferent to it. They said the motor was crazy."
"Like I have seen a lot of men like Ma. He said that I look exactly like his peonies. I told him that such old-fashioned tricks are outdated. But he is very persistent and comes to see my performances every day. The bar owner was bruised and panting like a dog in the feasting rain, but he still looked up at me. Gradually, I was moved by him, but it didn't mean I believed him. I started to be afraid of him, afraid of him His figure, afraid of his eyes. I know, such a man is terrible. I began to envy the woman named Peony, if she really exists. Because I know, I am not her, I am Meimei."
" Yes One day Mada said to me he won't come to me again, he smashed the neon sign of the bar with a brick, because it was not his thing. He said he found his peonies, he said sorry to me, he said He knows, I'm not a peony. No."
"Afterwards, I saw two fresh corpses on the pier of Suzhou River. I recognized one of them as Ma, the girl lying beside him, who looked like me. Exactly the same. It turns out that what he said was always true."
"From that moment, I knew, I was crazy."
"Mao died, along with his peony. I was relieved. Meimei was gone, Disappeared from my field of vision. Before leaving, she asked me if I would go to her like Mada if one day she disappeared like Peony. I would, and I replied, my voice was shaking. Meimei is finally gone. I forgot to tell her that I lied to her. The crowd under the balcony is still crowded and I sit in the sunset watching them, I know it won't be long before my next love will be Get out of the crowd and jump into my arms."
"Before jumping off the Suzhou River, I said to Ma Ma, I would turn into a mermaid and come back to him. But I turned myself into a small grocery store clerk and hid in the city. I know that if If he is Ma Ma and I am Peony, then he will definitely find me. Then he did come, although I waited for a long time."
"I followed him to the Suzhou River as I wished, and walked into the end of darkness and eternity. Because , we all know."
"This ancient city that is gradually decaying in opening no longer needs us."
"In fact, Ma and Peony are not dead, in fact, Meimei is not gone, in fact, we have been living very well. Every evening, we still Like before, sitting on the balcony drinking and chatting, watching the crowd, watching the passing Suzhou River. We have always been very happy, although she will leave tomorrow, it is very likely that she will never come back."
"Maybe the motor does not exist at all, maybe Peony does not exist at all, and perhaps the city does not exist at all."
"But why does this Suzhou River entangle my memory like a poisonous snake and let me feel its heart-wrenching scars day and night; why does the passing dust like It's foggy on its aging face, so I can make up such a beautiful fairy tale."
"In fact, I am the motor, and the peony is actually Meimei. Do you believe it?"
"Don't believe me, in fact, I have always been in Lie."
"I have been living in this city for many years. This winding river has been carved in the center of the city, and people call it Suzhou River. Time sails slowly across the river like a boat. My eyes and wind and rain are all immersed in this river. Year by year, I see many tall buildings being built by the river, and the richness and dimness of people's hard-working faces are becoming more and more colorful."
"I know, one day . , time will run aground on its quayside."
The main narrative method of the whole film is the first person. The whole story is composed through the eyes of a photographer and some monologues of broken thoughts. No one knows who the photographer in the film is, maybe it is Ma Ma, or the director himself. Maybe really a photographer. The story adopts a two-line narrative mode, two loves, two stories, and finally two different trajectories due to death. The main tone of the film is cool tones, most of the bridges are dark and messy, the camera is constantly shaking, and the narration replaces the communication between the characters. The film begins with a long shot to record a river, looking at the city through this river, and the love and hate that happens in this city.
When watching this film, my most direct feeling is the shaking of the lens. As the focal length advances, the frightened man, the smiling woman, the confession or the ridicule are all vividly interpreted in Jia Zhangke's lens. Pushing the focal length farther makes the picture from clear to blurred, and the whole city seems like a lifetime away. In addition to the features on the lens, there is also the rhythm of the whole film, the jumpy editing, and the simple and concise dialogue that give this film a minimalist style. The rough pictures add a mysterious sense of the times to this love story. The shaking and disturbing shots are like looking at the eyes of the world, exploring the city, and exploring the hot men and women in this city.
The film takes Suzhou River as the background of the story, which is more romantic, less the hustle and bustle and glitz of the city, and vividly interprets the love-hate parting in a city. It's not so much a movie, it's an opinion, it's an opinion about love, as it says in the movie, "I know it's not forever, I guess I just have to go back to the balcony, I know My love story will continue, I would rather close my eyes alone and wait for the next love." This line happens to be the choice of love for most people.
They are all marginal characters in this world. They meet because of loneliness, indulge because of depression, and seek because of confusion. Therefore, none of them can escape the shackles of the established fate and reality...
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