"Spring Breaks": Why don't we start over
Huang Zihong
In 1997, Wong Kar-wai directed the film "Spring Break" "Happy Together", which was nominated for the Best Film at the 50th Cannes Film Festival, and Leung Chao-wai also won the Hong Kong Academy Awards.
It tells the story of Lai Yiu-fai and Ho Po Wing leaving Hong Kong for Argentina, in order to have a new start, with a beautiful dream to see the South American Falls, but lost in Buenos Aires. Li Yaohui wanted to settle down and live a life, but He Baorong indulged his life in the night song in order to find more stimulation, only when Li Yaohui was his harbor after being injured, the two had more and more differences and quarrels, and the distance between their hearts became farther and farther.
When Li Yaohui understood that the past days could not be returned, he decided to leave He Baorong, and it was after he left that the meaning of despair for Li Yaohui's love came up in full in Ho Baorong's mind: The happiness with you is only a moment for me, like a spring light that has leaked, very short, but enough to remember for a lifetime.
"It is better that we start over" He Baorong, who has always been cynical and pursues material enjoyment, always hangs a mantra on his lips, and the two often have some small friction and gambling.
During the time when He Baorong's hands were injured, the two danced in the low-rent house, warmed the bed, cooked, ran in the morning, watched the horse race, warmed the bed, read a book under the blue waterfall lamp, Li Yaohui did everything, and He Baorong fed and scrubbed his body.
To be fair, Lai didn't want Ho to recover too quickly, because that was their happiest day.
Lai later quit his job at a bar to work in a Chinese restaurant, where he met Xiao Zhang from Taiwan.
Xiao Zhang is a delicate and sensual person, even if he is stuffed with a headset, he often listens carefully in the kitchen, and can also distinguish who is cooking rice and who is arguing. When he watched Li Yaohui call, he knew that this person liked to call, his expression was very pleasant, and the other party must be someone he liked.
For Xiao Zhang himself, he likes women's voices, to be a little deeper, anyway, after listening, the heartbeat will be very fast. In his opinion, many things are heard with the ear, far more than with the eyes, as if a person who is very unhappy may pretend to be very happy, but the voice cannot be installed, and it will be known if you listen carefully.
In his spare time, the staff of the restaurant often played football together, in fact, in a group of people, Xiao Zhang's voice was the loudest, playing football in the alley in the afternoon was actually very hot, I don't know why, Li Yaohui always felt that the summer passed so fast.
Soon, Xiao Zhang resigned and prepared to go south to a place called Ushuaia, and heard that it was the end of the world, so he wanted to go and see it. He had heard that there was a lighthouse there, and that people who had lost love liked to go and could leave their unhappy things there.
For Xiao Zhang, Li Yaohui is the only friend on his side, he does not like to take pictures, so he took out the tape recorder, hoping to leave a little memory; even if Li Yaohui is not happy, he can help Li Yaohui leave these at the end of the world...
That night, Li Yaohui was very drunk, and Xiao Zhang insisted on sending him home. I don't know if I was much closer to Xiao Zhang, when I held him that night, Li Yaohui couldn't hear anything, only heard his own heartbeat, I don't know if he could hear it or not...
Li Yaohui originally thought that he was different from He Baorong, but when he was lonely, everyone was the same.
He quickly made enough money to return to Hong Kong. Before leaving Argentina, he decided to go to the waterfall again, and although he had walked many wrongful ways in circles, he finally came to Yiwasu. He was sad that day, because he always felt that there should be two people standing under this waterfall...
In January 1997, Xiao Zhang finally came to the lens of the world, which was the last lighthouse on the south side of the American continent, and then the South Pole. Suddenly he wanted to go home, and he promised Li Yaohui to leave his unhappiness here. He didn't know what he had said that night, it was probably that the tape recorder was broken, there was no sound, only two very strange sounds, as if a man was crying.
One night before returning to Taiwan, Xiao Zhang returned to Buenos Aires and wanted to say goodbye to Ah Hui, but no one knew where he had gone. When I left, the sky began to light up, Taipei should be at night now, I don't know if the night market on Liaoning Street is open...
Before Lai returned to Hong Kong, he first went to Liaoning Street, a street in Taipei. It was very lively that night, he didn't see Xiao Zhang, only his family who was making food at the night market. He finally understood why Xiao Zhang could be so happy and walk around outside, because at least there was a place to go back.
As he was leaving, Lai took a small photo because he didn't know when he would see him again. But he was sure that if he wanted to see him, at least he knew that he could be found over there...
Looking at the whole film of "Spring Break", it is a story that is vaguely expected and longed for in the "good old time", so we might as well start over...