"I often take a camera by myself to photograph the Suzhou River, which runs down the river, from west to east, through Shanghai. The legends, stories, memories, and all the rubbish from nearly a century have accumulated here, making it Become the dirtiest river. But there are still many people here, and they live by this river. Many people spend their lives here. On the river, you can see these people... watch for a long time, this A river allows you to see everything. To see people working, to see friendship, to see fathers and children, to see loneliness... I once saw a baby born on a barge, a girl from a bridge Jumped into the Suzhou River and saw the bodies of a young couple being dragged from the river by the police. About love...I want to say I once saw a mermaid sitting on a muddy river bank brushing her own blond hair. Don't believe me, I'm lying."
There is no better opening, no better monologue than this.
I watched the entire movie almost as if I was listening to a story. Shaky footage is no longer just a movie shot, it just wants to show us something. Those are a pair of eyes, recording what it has seen on the Suzhou River, reflecting its thinking soul.
"...I told you before, my camera doesn't lie." Human beings are truly a complex species, with flesh and blood, happiness and sadness, memory and forgetting, love and hate. If you don't want to face it, your mouth can also fake a lie. But the camera doesn't lie, the eyes don't lie, the heart doesn't lie. Hence the story of Suzhou River and the love between Ma and Peony.
I don't want to describe and evaluate this movie from a worldly perspective at all. The four people have four kinds of understanding and perception of love, and they don't need any audience to sit in the role. For love, it is up to you to find or wait.
"The next day, Meimei left. Leave a note: come to me. I have never had such a good wine, this wine reminds me of the days with Meimei. If Meimei hadn't gone, maybe Now we will drink together like before, and float on the Suzhou River together. All the way to the sea. The water will become very clear. I am not lying, you will see. But I will not go to Meimei again, because I know everything Not forever. I think as long as I can go back to the balcony, my love story may continue. But I'd rather close my eyes alone...and wait for the next love."
End.
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