I revisited Hou Hsiao-hsien's "City of Sadness", and after watching it, I felt a sense of sadness. This film was released in 1989. It was based on the story of four brothers in Taiwan between 1945 and 1949. It won the twenty-sixth award. Golden Horse Award for Best Director, Best Actor (Chen Songyong), Golden Bear Award at the 40th Venice International Film Festival. In 1945, Japan evacuated from Taiwan, and Taiwan returned to the embrace of Great China. However, since the Anti-Japanese War had just ended, the situation in Taiwan was still very turbulent, with fighting, gangs, drug trafficking, and smuggling rampant. The eldest of the Lin family, Wen Xiong, has a big shoulder and a round waist, and can mix black and white. His father is getting old, and the eldest is in charge of the family's overall situation. News: The third child was not a good friend. After being stimulated and going crazy, he recovered for a while, and then he was caught smuggling contraband with other people. The madness goes on; the fourth child, starring Tony Leung, is handsome and handsome. He was smart before the age of 8, but became deaf and mute due to misfortune. He usually communicates with others using paper and pen, and likes photography, usually taking pictures of others. It can be said that the boss played by Chen Songyong is the only one who is in good health and mixes black and white. Although the Lin family is represented by the boss and Lin's father, he can be regarded as a local gangster, but it is also for the whole Zhuangzi not to be bullied. In the film, we see: 1. The family inheritance needs the boss, and the opening is the birth of the boss's concubine and son, and the family celebrates the birth of the eldest son. 2. The family's business needs the boss, to be a man, to do things, and to take care of relationships. 3. He needs the eldest son to be detained and kidnapped, negotiating with the gang, black and white. 4. He needs the eldest brother to take care of the family’s practical affairs. For example, the eldest brother goes to pay homage to his mother who died early. He is the only one of the four sons who can go and knows where to go. 5. . The fourth child did something wrong and did not participate in family affairs. It was the boss's criticism. He played the role of not only an elder brother, but also a father. "The elder brother is like a father". The boss is rude, likes to play cards, likes to swear, and likes to say "fuck your mother". Whoever does something wrong in his subordinates will be violent at every turn, and he will use his fists and feet to pour tea directly into his mouth with a kettle, but his subordinates and family have no one. Disobedience, rough temper is just his character, his ability, his contribution to the family, and what he has done can completely cover up the lack of character. The elderly father needs his care, the wife and children need his love, several brothers need his care, his subordinates need his leadership, and the whole family needs his care. However, things did not go as expected. When the boss was playing cards with other people in the underworld, his brothers were bullied. When the boss saw it, he was angry and started to fight with others. Who knows that the other party directly gave the boss a call Gun, Lin Wenxiong played by Chen Songyong exited the screen from here. The eldest left, and life can be lived, but the father is old, the second child has not returned home, the third is crazy, the fourth is deaf and dumb, the son has just been born, and the mainstay of the family has left. The days can be lived, but how. Maybe when the son grows up, he will be another boss after 18 years, but on the one hand, who will take charge of the family affairs in the past 20 years, and on the other hand, what will happen to the child? Characters who stand on their own merits. If he was 20 years younger, Father Lin could support the whole family, but he is old and can't go back in time. This reminds me of my grandfather, who is 85 years old this year. Back then, he was busy doing business in the arena, and his three sons and one daughter met each other. No matter how difficult it is, whether it is money or other difficulties, it can be solved smoothly, but after all, he is old and has more than enough energy. If the fourth child is not deaf and dumb, with the fourth child's intelligence and handsomeness, it is enough to make the whole big family prosperous. If the third child is doing some work and doesn't go crazy, he can also do a glorious business, marry a wife and have children, and live a good life. If the second child is not arrested and go to Nanyang to do military art, no matter whether he has the courage to do things, but the elderly Lin father at least has something to rely on... This reminds me of things in my home village. The four sons of the Liu family are shrewd gangsters who love to fight and fight. The Wang family also has four sons, and the eldest is very capable. In the past, the family was poor. He went out to do business and contracted the demolition work. With two acres of land in the family, the third child never got a wife. Later, the fourth child fell ill and only cared about himself. His parents were getting old. But one day, the bad consumption came. The eldest had a car accident and lost all his lower limbs. Since then, he has become a vegetative person, and his family has disappeared. The eldest's wife and two sons can no longer receive the same face-saving care as before. Once, the second child of the Wang family and the third and fourth child of the Liu family drank. The second child was honest and could not drink. The third and fourth child of the Liu family kept toasting him at the wine table, but he kept pushing it away. They had a conflict between their words, and they fought each other. Wang Lao Er was not the opponent of the Liu brothers anyway. The second child was seriously injured and embarrassed. The four brothers couldn't come to save him, and he was bullied by others. If the eldest brother was there, not to mention that the brothers of the Wang family had beaten the third and fourth of the Liu family to nothing, at least they would be able to draw a tie and not be bullied, and the eldest brother had lost his lower limbs. The bullying became like this, the eldest's wife ran away with others, and the two sons had no support for tuition fees, so they left school early. There could have been a happy family, and a large family could be very happy because the eldest was there, but when the eldest fell, the family was defeated. The poster of this film is mainly based on photos of the fourth eldest Lin Wenqing, the fourth eldest wife Kuan Mei and their son, but in this article, I think the most important is the eldest Lin Wenxiong. The author's comments only represent personal opinions. If there are any shortcomings, welcome to exchange and discuss together. Fu, but when the boss falls, the family loses. The poster of this film is mainly based on photos of the fourth eldest Lin Wenqing, the fourth eldest wife Kuan Mei and their son, but in this article, I think the most important is the eldest Lin Wenxiong. The author's comments only represent personal opinions. If there are any shortcomings, welcome to exchange and discuss together. Fu, but when the boss falls, the family loses. The poster of this film is mainly based on photos of the fourth eldest Lin Wenqing, the fourth eldest wife Kuan Mei and their son, but in this article, I think the most important is the eldest Lin Wenxiong. The author's comments only represent personal opinions. If there are any shortcomings, welcome to exchange and discuss together.
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