Author: Fang Hanjun
I thought that Pei Tony's "Three Seasons of Love" (also translated as "Love Seasons" in 1999) should be a parallel narrative in three seasons a year. The reason why three seasons are used to define it is more in line with the three parallel paragraphs in the film that are irrelevant and indirect. Cross stories. Through the perspective of the tricycle driver Hai, we saw Xin who was hawking white lotus flowers along the street, and James, an American veteran who sat in front of the hotel every day, who was thoughtful there, and the little Hu Difeng who was hanging a cargo box around his neck. People pitching scene. In other words, the tricycle driver Hai Zicheng met the prostitute Lian for a period of time, and at the same time mixed with the noisy and ever-changing downtown of Ho Chi Minh City (that is, Saigon). The abundance of the Mekong Delta's products mirrors the humid, hot and sticky climate of southern Vietnam. 2 The white lotus picked by the young Xin coincided with the rainy season at the turn of spring and summer. Little Hu Di ran in the rain after losing the small cargo box, causing the tricycle that Haijixing stepped on, and ran to the colorful autumn day. The lotus in white, Slowly opening her blindfolded eyes, the red flowers in full bloom on the kapok road, like a new born in her life, she has found love that she can support, but the result is not important.
Twenty years ago, James gave birth to a daughter with a Vietnamese woman. He received a letter from the woman who was dying and wanted him to go back to Vietnam to find their daughter. This is another life-and-death separation left by the war. Fortunately, he finally found his daughter who was working as a escort. Little Woody, of course, also found the small cargo box. Losing and gaining are like the ups and downs of life. 3 The key is that the tricycle driver Hai, through his affectionate obedience to Lian, realized a dream of love. That night, he used the $50 won in the lottery to open a room in the hotel. The taste, but to confess to her that there is still a good man like me here, even if the world hates you, there is still my waiting. This sincere emotion seems unbelievable, but in Saigon during the hot and humid rainy season, it was like a cool breeze swaying their hearts. The silence, hard work and duty of the sea are the symbols of most people here. Silent Xin is like a plucked white lotus, kind, pure and noble.
The film did not render the shadows left by the Vietnam War at all, but it allowed the haze to be set in it. Lian and her prostitutes may be mostly orphans of the Vietnam War, forced to do it by life. Or orphaned little Woody, so weak and living by selling the remnants of the war every day. And James was deeply rebuked by his conscience and came to find his relatives, which is a scar that cannot be erased by war and a return to humanity. War is just a fool's trick, and here there is only love, that kind of pervasive love. But Xin and Mr. Du did not have a relationship, but it made people sigh. Mr. Du was originally a handsome man. He lost his fingers due to leprosy, and his face was deformed and swollen. He hid in the temple in the middle of the lake all day. known poetry. The lake is full of colors, the white lotus is swaying, and the lotus-picking boat is cruising in it. The local lotus-pickers sing folk songs. Slowly, Xin, who is an outsider, can't help but sing. It is so beautiful and unique. It grabbed Mr. Du's heart in the dark room. She was called to him, spoke through the curtain, and asked her to sing again. She said it was taught by her mother when she was a child. 5 We thought this Mr. Du had a relationship with her mother when she was young, but not at all. The film just shows the old and young love between teachers and students of the opposite sex. So, she became his student. By reciting the teacher's lyrics, Xin gradually understood the teacher and admired the teacher's perseverance for so many years. Showing it to people is more because of his calm state of mind.
Only when people can endure loneliness can they write poems that truly belong to their hearts. Just as the teacher was dying, she had copied all of the teacher's manuscripts, and the teacher was able to leave this world with consolation. 6 This is the inheritance of culture and spirit, and its significance is greater than the narrative itself. We saw a Vietnam War veteran with pain because he touched a lighter abandoned by the Soviet Army during the Vietnam War, and then poured out his heart to Little Woody, although the little guy didn't understand what he said, but it seems that this is for the new generation Remember the legacy of war. In the 1950s and 1960s, the original Vietnam Civil War, because of the "Cold War" between the two camps, and the intervention of all parties, gradually turned into a bloody battle, which made both Vietnamese and Americans suffer.
Reality silenced everything. The tricycle driver Hai, who waits day and night in front of the star-rated hotel where Lian enters and leaves, is not just for love, but a man's responsibility. This is the brother-sister love between the nation. That hungry rainy night, the little girl who begged, broke apart the food in her hand, and stretched out her hand to give Little Woody a portion, which was also touching. 7 Therefore, I say that this film goes beyond the narrative itself, and allows the lingering charm and connotation to be presented one by one through the picturesque scenery. In this seemingly disjointed life, there is actually the same unavoidable destiny. This is under the same roof, whether you are poor or rich, whether you are in the mighty lotus pond in the spring breeze or the quiet and dilapidated streets, they are all there. In their own way, they interpret the vigorous life of Vietnamese people, their forbearance, their kindness, their tenacity, and their pain and sorrow. This is the main tone of the film to express.
If we just see these three seemingly not new stories, we may miss a good movie. The "red carpet" may feel a little contrived, but this is exactly what a movie is about. Love itself contains equality and fraternity. She also made the style of love no longer vulgar, no longer the perfume-smelling star hotel. We saw the flying tricycle rushing around the street with the hustle and bustle of cars and horses. The sea is only a part of the crowd of thousands of people. The people who are submerged will always be the figures under the turbulence and silence. , rushing to the modern age of peace, which in itself is the most wonderful and happy thing in the world.
In this way, it is not difficult for us to understand the original intention of the Vietnamese director's creation and the innocence. Three seasons of love, only one winter is left, I think, this is a memory left by the movie for the audience. For Vietnam, the light of winter is the mildest and most comfortable, and there is no more sticky discomfort. It is no longer running in the rain, but can enjoy the silky photos of the warm sun, which can be described as refreshing. She no longer makes people forget, let alone make people regret. She only has poetry to tell, the beauty of flowers. But we seem to have lost something in the process of chewing. It turned out to be an endless walk, one after another, and one after another.
The long and narrow Vietnam is like a wandering dragon lying still. We remember that in the middle of the night, the sea was waiting for the lotus in the dark and quiet streets, and we also remember that the sea finally took the blindfolded lotus out of the car on the road of falling flowers. Fantasy, but a real scene. Hai opened the sash to her and told her that you can look at the world with dignity. This sentence, and the open arms of Lian joy, is exactly the reality of Vietnam embracing the world. After experiencing many hardships, they finally merged with the modernization of the world. You have me, I have you, no longer Relying on bloodshed to prove yourself, this is the new hope of a country and a nation. Only when you are in sync with the world can you truly enjoy the future.
2018.9.3
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