Pursuit is the classic model of love and the most faithful expression of love. Therefore, there will be the thrilling "I travel through time, just to find your traces" ("Four Hundred Years of Fright"), and will there be "As long as you call me, I will be in the grave, and there will be gushing out A force got up and followed you" ("Letter from a Strange Woman"). In these purified love stories, love is that I will come to you even if you are far away; love is that if you find me without leaving the mountains and rivers, I will "recognize you with white temples".
The story of the motor and the peony is such a fairy tale, although it doesn't look like a fairy tale at all. Motor is a delivery man, he delivers goods and people. The person he gave was a girl, the daughter of a nouveau riche, a girl in a sweatshirt with pigtails and a mermaid in her hand who laughed innocently and became crazy and could shake off gravity, Peony .
Peony falls in love with Ma Ma, but Ma Ma does not know whether he loves her or not. His lover bewitched him into a conspiracy, one to kidnap Peony for ransom. He betrayed his love while his accomplice murdered his lover and ran away. When Peony ran away from him frantically, he really had nothing left. When Peony left a poignant smile and jumped off the Suzhou River, Ma Ma realized that he had met true love, but it was too late.
So Ma started looking around for peonies. He asked everyone who knew Peony, he went to the show of a girl named Meimei who looked like Peony, he tracked to find Meimei's boyfriend... After losing her. The prince in pursuit has not found the missing princess, but he has moved the girl named Meimei.
Meimei is a beautiful girl with the same face as Peony, but has a mysterious background and a melancholy of unknown origin. She was fascinated by the story of Ma Ma's pursuit, and often asked her boyfriend, "If one day I disappear, will you look for me like Ma? Will you always find me? Will you always find death?" However, the truth On, the only overlap between her and Peony is the face, and the mermaid—she plays the mermaid in a club.
The mermaid is a fairy tale image. After Peony jumped into the river, there was a legend of a mermaid on the Suzhou River, and fishermen said they saw mermaids here and there. As for the Suzhou River, the film begins with nearly 3 minutes of handheld photography to present a real but not beautiful panorama of the Suzhou River: "Following the river, from west to east, through Shanghai. Stories, memories, and all the rubbish all pile up here, making it the dirtiest river." The image of a mermaid on such a real and dirty river is like the one of Ma and Peony in lies and betrayal Tangled true love.
In Lou Ye's films, love always seems to be accompanied by betrayal, lies, and death, whether it is "Suzhou River", "Summer Palace" or the latest "Mystery of the Floating City". However, unlike the sense of the changing times and the weightlessness of the characters in The Summer Palace, Suzhou River focuses more on the emotional changes and emotional anxiety of the individual life itself.
The love between Ma and Peony, like a mermaid by the muddy Suzhou River, becomes a beautiful foam at the moment of dawn. On the day they reunited, they died together in a beautiful evening. Since "affection is a tragedy, it must be read in terms of life and death", then death may be the most perfect ending of intense love.
The end of this love story is that Meimei, fascinated by the fairy tale she seeks, leaves her boyfriend with a note of "Find me if you love me!" It's a pity that fairy tales don't happen every day, not everyone is a motor, just as she is not a peony who will die for love. Even though her boyfriend lamented "every time she closes the door, I feel like my life stops", he still can only give up on her and choose to wait for new love again.
The two-line narrative of "Suzhou River" shows its significance here. The story of Meimei that can happen to every young couple on the street who hook their shoulders brings out the tragic, poignant and impossible love story of Ma and Peony. The fairy tale of love is always moving because we know it is so out of reach. We nourish our ordinary love with secure hugs and quiet narration, and stare at the bloody fairy tale from a distance - it must exist as an ideal, just as you and I must consolidate the walls of love in the rough.
In the 1990s, Zhou Xun was not as prosperous as he is today, nor has he experienced emotional changes and injuries as he is today. At that time, her expression was lively and lively, that freshness was like a fragrant lemon, and her stubborn chin was not raised like now, and her hard and fragile posture was sighing. Therefore, she won the best actress at the Paris International Film Festival with "Suzhou River", and also gained the love of Jia Hongsheng, who has long been famous. A year later, she and Jia Hongsheng broke up. In 2010, Jia Hongsheng, who had disappeared from the crowd, jumped off the balcony. Mermaids are always in dreams, and what time leaves us is non-stop sadness.
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