Night Run (2000) Drama/Love/Same Sex Taiwan/Chinese mainland
Text / Black Meow
In the world of love, twosomes are ordinary, and threesomes are stories, or accidents.
Only when the story has waves can it be interpreted.
Yi Shu wrote all threesomes, but I read very limitedly, and the similar stories were unusual.
"Night Run" is different, in the threesome, some people turn around, some people flee, some people repay the favor, some people kill people, some people leave death... There is no return date of pursuit, there is no encounter forever, the last three tombstones "one is the wife, one is the lover, the wife is placed between me and the lover", into the ground can not face the lover, how deep guilt?
I confessed that I had been abused not lightly, and I had a few tears and a little heartache.
Orphan Lin Chong was adopted by the Rongqing class master since childhood, nameless and surnameless, and Lin Chong became famous, so he was called Lin Chong. Old Master Wei invited the drama team to come to the house to sing opera, Miss Wei Ying'er is a fan of the play, and her fiancé Xu Shaodong, who has been in correspondence with her for a long time, returned from studying in the United States, likes Bach and likes the cello, so Ying'er, Lin Chong, and ShaoDong have "that storm and snow moon thing".
Shaodong affirmed Lin Chong's performance with his ears listening to art, touching Lin Chong, who was desolate in his life, he "secretly promised" and confessed to Shaodong on a snowy night, Shaodong turned around and avoided because he was caught off guard, and then he was forced by the pressure of public opinion to return to the United States.
Lin Chong rushed in the snow night, seriously ill, and after recovering from his illness, he was angry at the behavior of the ban owner's child prostitution (he should have suffered the same situation in his childhood), killed the ban master, and began to flee.
The rich man Huang Zilei has always been infatuated with Lin Chong, bullying people, once occupied the drunken Lin Chong, he took in the fallen Lin Chong, and then he defeated the family's poor and sick, and Was carefully cared for by Lin Chong until he died.
Ying Er and Lin Chong met unexpectedly, she gave Shao Dong's address in the United States to Lin Chong, Lin Chong embarked on a long road to find Shao Dong, tossing and turning for several years, at the end of World War II, in the chaos, he was imprisoned as an illegal immigrant, sick and died in prison.
A year later, Ying Er came to the United States to marry Shao Dong, and when she talked about Lin Chong, she admitted that she "loved him herself" (she didn't say it, she really couldn't see it).
Director Xu Ligong is reluctant to make "Night Run" a gay movie, he said, this is a movie about love, love is beyond gender.
Having said that, replacing Lin Chong with a drunken female character of a noble concubine should also be a drama with Shaodong and Ying'er, but there will be no strange, steep, cold, and beautiful in this tragedy.
Screenwriter Wang Huiling said it appropriately: Love is a monologue of their own lives.
The audience hears Huang Lei (Shao Dong) and Liu Rene (Ying'er) TV prose general recitation, one Ruo Hong Zhong sensual, one like jasper intellectualism, weakening the appeal, but enhancing the literary and artistic nature, intoxicating a movie, and seems to meet a good book unexpectedly, it is the best of both worlds.
The key point of the tragedy is the sentence in Shaodong's monologue: "On that snowy night, when I turned my back, Lin Chong and I were both born and separated, but also dead." ”
He and he, the tragedy, lie in the asymmetry of love
It is difficult to find the voice, and it is difficult to block in time and space. The end of the world is not far away, far away from being met. When thousands of rivers and mountains are walked all over, stop and look back, that moment is the stone breaking the sky, the sparks are splashed, no words, a look, a singing voice, can be rooted in the heart, become a demon, become a fool.
People who lack the love of their father and mother since childhood are very easy to fall into the anxiety of inferiority and timidity, and some professions are particularly dependent on praise, some people appreciate it enthusiastically, no one applauds it is lonely and discouraged, and the return to a "understand" is life and death. Lin Chong is exactly like this.
Shaodong and Huang Zilei both praised him, but they were different.
Shaodong and Lin Chong are related to the spiritual connection of art, and his appreciation is based on "understanding", out of sincerity, respect, and integration with Lin Chong's immersion in the blood.
Huang Zilei is rich and powerful, suppressing people with momentum, and his cultivation is already disgraceful, and it is even more difficult to convince people. There is a scene in which Young Master Huang invites him to have a supper, and Shaodong just came to visit the backstage, saw that Lin Chong was reluctant, and said the words in his heart for him: "Tired, don't go." Young Master Huang was jealous and burned, and a slap shattered the jade wrench, and the master of the drama class stood behind the three people trembling and trembling--Young Master Huang was the master of sending money, of course, he could not afford to offend. At that moment, Lin Chong, who was preparing to remove his makeup, even though he had thousands of troops and horses in his heart, he could only face like water, force his breath, and say the three words "you wait for me" to Young Master Huang.
Later, he went to eat grilled fish with Shaodong and Ying'er, which made Young Master Huang unhappy and was beaten fiercely by the class owner--Young Master Huang and the class master were double mountains pressing down on him, and even if there were a thousand thoughts towards ShaoDong, they could only disobey. And the scene of eating grilled fish, Lin Chong's face reflected the fire, his eyes burned, and when Bobby Da's soundtrack sounded, my heart was suddenly hot: freedom, so simple, beautiful, and so difficult and short, worth pursuing with a lifetime.
"Shaodong, why did you turn around?"
This is watching the movie, I asked the question countless times, as if it was also for Shaodong to "regret it" for the rest of his life.
Originally a humble and cowardly drama, he can boldly act to kill the master of the class, break into the world to seek true love, the motivation of course comes from Shaodong, once he knows, he follows for a lifetime. For Huang Zilei, who can still help the crisis and the difficulties, Lin Chong's love is greater than the sky.
But what is the best love?
Lin Chong patted his chest and said, "Your good, I wrote it down here." Compared with Lin Chong's external projection, Shaodong is inward-looking, more self-centered, and more selfish: first, he has a fiancée; secondly, social pressure, people around him, the media are not tolerant, as a "identity" Shaodong, live up to Lin Chong, in the inevitable, return to the United States, is the proof of his cowardice and escape.
The most tragic thing about this relationship is inequality, and wishful thinking is a bit cruel, but it is exactly that. Knowing each other does not mean loving each other; loving each other is not necessarily together.
Lin Chong was lonely and lonely, sacrificing his life to follow, what about Shaodong? Nothing was done except "remorse". In the end, giving Lin Chong the title of "lover" only comforted his own guilt - he always loved himself more.
Second, he and she - such a husband and wife, do not do it
Needless to say, Shaodong and Ying'er are friends, girlfriends to be precise— no secrets, and no passion. Girlfriends, gender is not important, do not do husband and wife is not important.
Being a husband and wife, it surprised me - it turns out that the best couple is not in love with each other, but in love with the same people or things?
They, the people they really love deeply, are lonely
Although this story is sadistic, it is also warm and abnormal, flowing with a clean, ideal, pure flow of love, and even the domineering Huang Zilei finally has tears of repentance flashing. Love makes it hard and soft, and it makes it soft. And the warmest thing is that there is no harm caused by jealousy between the three of them, which is a bit too idealistic.
Of course, it's still not enough to love it! Shaodong is not enough to love, Ying Er is not enough to love, there is only one Lin Chong, love wholeheartedly, love desperately, love to the death, do not know what to do, go deep...
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