floating in my heart

I clearly know Hou Hsiao-hsien, and it was his Cannes-winning "Assassin Nie Yinniang" last year. I am fortunate to have watched this film in the theater, because this time the filming is the only one in my long life. After all, there is only one in 2015, and there is only one "" Assassin Nie Yinniang. Then I watched a series of films directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien on and off, and I couldn't tell which one I liked the most, but I deeply liked "The Best Time", "Love in the Wind and Dust", and the "City of Sadness" I just watched. . The story is just like the title of the film. I even feel that the word "sadness" is too thin to describe the film, but I really feel that only "Sad City" is worthy of this 157-minute story.
I have never been to Taiwan. Born in the 1990s, I don’t even know what happened in Taiwan or even China. The only memories I have are seen in history textbooks. The writing of history always serves the official ideology. No wonder Yang Dechang Saying that what is said in history textbooks is false. The mainland and Taiwan face each other from afar. Maybe we don't have the means and ability to experience that era. A "City of Sadness" is enough to understand what Taiwan experienced in that era. There are so many living beings, there are many ordinary people in Taiwan who are just like us. They also have joys and sorrows, and things are different from others... lamenting the overturning hands of fate, how many ups and downs it has created in life, maybe it is because of nothing but grasping one's own destiny. Frequently burn incense and worship Buddha to pray to fate.
The Lin Wenqing played by Tony Leung is the one that touches me the most. He is deaf and dumb. Fortunately, he can write and communicate with normal people. Compared with the ups and downs of the eldest brother, the second brother and the third brother, how much I hope he can have a happy ending. Because he has a beautiful, kind-hearted Kuanmei, and a babbling son, but luckily, he was mischievous. He was unfortunately arrested by the Taiwan authorities because of his connection with people with lofty ideals. The director did not give us an explanation until the end, where did Wenqing take him? ? Is he alive or dead?
The eldest brother was shot by the hooligans, the second brother Nanyang will never come back as a soldier, will he come back, maybe, maybe not, the third brother was beaten insane, and even the deaf and mute fourth Wenqing is still alive and dead. Isn't that sad enough? A family is shattered, and fate is scattered across the world...
Hou Hsiao-hsien once said: "There is not so much darkness and decadence in the world. In the whole era of change, life and death have become so natural and impossible to choose, like a trickling river..." Those tragic years, that Duan desolate days, ups and downs, ups and downs...

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