When the music with a sense of emptiness suddenly sounded and tapped on my heart, I knew that I would definitely like this movie (a bit idealistic, but isn't watching a movie itself a very idealistic thing? ). Such a peaceful and peaceful village, such an empty and sultry mountain, coupled with such a shocking and intoxicating piece of music, made me feel a chill in the middle of summer in June.
I thought I would see that kind of heart-warming scene, but no. The camera is so still and slow, without intervention or avoidance, as harsh as time itself. It just focused on this ordinary family with the surname Lin, and said it in a eloquent way, as kind as a slice of daily life. All the same people, living, marrying, having children, and dying the same. There is only one small difference - they have no future. For this reason, some people chose to resist, and then sacrificed as martyrs; some chose to forbear, and then lived like a thief. The solemn atmosphere that has always been shrouded in the story probably comes from this. As I approached them, I only felt an indescribable sadness, as if something were blocking my throat, but I could neither cry nor laugh--though the young man's departure was so sad, though The declaration during the government's martial law was so ridiculous.
Among the four brothers of the Lin family, Wenqing, the younger brother played by Tony Leung, is my favorite. He's not the main character, but he makes me feel comfortable every time he appears. Wen Qing fell from a tree when he was 8 years old and became deaf and mute. People said that this was because he was too smart, so God gave him fair treatment. In that era when the future was unclear, he was a representative of advanced intellectuals who were both gentle and refined and hoped to save the nation. At that time, Tony Leung was really young, and his eyebrows were a little green, but his innate melancholy temperament seemed to coincide with Wen Qing, and the silent grief was just right to be manipulated, which made the viewer deeply deeply Infect. Speaking of being ridiculous, the first scene that impressed him deeply was the scene of him deserting at a political party - he and Kuan Mei were sitting in the corner, using paper and pen to carry out the music caused by "listening" to music. Conversation, the warm sunlight through the window coats them with a golden coat, the shy and frank exchange between the two young people contains a kind of most beautiful thing in life. At that moment, all the hustle and bustle of the world ceased to exist, and everything was still. But what about later? After the vicissitudes of life, when I think of the short-lived tenderness at the beginning, I feel a little cruel.
Like many sad works of ancient and modern China and foreign countries, "Sorrowful City" also has partings of life and death, but there is a scene that gives people a different kind of shock. Look, when he heard the news of Kuan Rong's death, Wen Qing just sat there blankly, Kuan Mei was stunned for a while and then continued to feed the child (the bowl was still in her hand, not knocked down), and then Wen Qing took Kuan Mei's hand and put her on his shoulder. Weeping softly, but still no hysterical vent...I have to admire the depth of director Hou Hsiao-hsien. "The sound is loud, and the elephant is invisible." The real life is dull, without the splendor of stormy waves, and without the peak of brilliance. When the pain comes, we can only bear it quietly and silently.
At the end of the film, the three men of the Lin family are eating - the old Uncle Lin, the crazy second Lin and the young grandson. The four brothers of the Lin family who were supposed to be the pillars died, went crazy and scattered. Compared with the feast held at the beginning of the film to celebrate the birth of a newborn, it is not without bleakness, full of impermanence and absurdity.
Such sadness is for life.
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