"Sweet Honey" is a 1996 Hong Kong film (starring Dawn and Maggie Cheung), it has been 25 years, what is the concept of 25 years? That's 1/4 century.
However, now that I have re-brushed this film, I still have an urge to cry.
The film tells that at the beginning of the reform and opening up, the handsome Li Xiaojun bid farewell to his girlfriend Xiaoting and came to Hong Kong from Tianjin to seek a living.
In the strange Hong Kong, he had an aunt who could give him a place to stay in Hong Kong, where there was little land.
Li Xiaojun was humble, and his speech and demeanor always carried a sense of shyness. Boys with this personality are actually not pleasing.
The audience's favorability for him at the beginning all relied on Dawn's appearance.
He hopes that one day he will earn enough money to bring his hometown girlfriend Xiaoting (Yang Gongru) to Hong Kong to get married, which is his biggest dream as an ordinary person.
In Hong Kong in the 1980s, it seemed that opportunities were everywhere, as if people could get ahead if they were willing to work hard.
Now we all know that there is no way for a man to earn money beyond his perception.
If a person has certain limitations in cognition, even if he wins the first prize of the lottery, there is a high probability that he will still lose his family property in the future, because the windfall from heaven does not mean that a person has the ability to control money.
Li Xiaojun's aunt, who had been single, lent him a suit. From here, we can see that the aunt hurt him very much, and this precious suit carries the aunt's love for a man who, when the aunt was young, invited her to the peninsula for dinner. For the man, this may have been just a youthful sexual encounter, but it made Xiao Jun's aunt miss it to death.
Li Xiaojun wore this ill-fitting suit and went to the vegetable market to apply for a job. That scene, said funny is really funny, but for that era when there was a bb machine, it was quite real.
In a letter to Xiaoting, Xiaojun said that he was engaged in transportation.
It's not entirely a lie to say that, his job is to ride an old bicycle with the chickens slaughtered in the store neatly stacked in the front basket, and he is responsible for delivering the goods to the people who order them, and he delivers poultry at the wet market.
At a McDonald's restaurant, Li Xiaojun meets Li Qiao (Maggie Cheung). Li Qiao, from Guangzhou, can naturally speak fluent Cantonese, and she is much more confident than Xiao Jun.
Who would have thought that she and Xiaojun came to Hong Kong on the same bus.
But she quickly integrated into Hong Kong, like a drop of water into a lake.
She was more ambitious, knowing that financial freedom could not be achieved with a single job. She would introduce people who had just arrived in Hong Kong to learn languages, such as English, and she would draw commissions from them.
This is how she introduced Li Xiaojun, when Xiaojun found out that Li Qiao had a BB machine, his eyes were full of "admiration", and he gave her a desperate thumbs up, Li Qiao looked at his eyes like an idiot, in her opinion, there is nothing to admire, and she will get better and better in the future.
When the film came here, I thought that there would be no story between them, but the small setback given by fate made Li Qiao and Li Xiaojun finally have a story.
He gradually became her little follower, she was so young, so energetic, holding several jobs every day, and she was full of energy. But her dream had nothing to do with marriage, she wanted to build a big house for her mother in the country.
Li Qiao's brain was like a sponge, constantly absorbing new knowledge, so he was happy to follow her.
She and he both likeDon Teresa's sweet song.
Setting up a night stall is another way to make money, ordinary people, life is so bitter, always have to listen to songs. Xiaojun accompanied her, supporting stalls, laying out goods, and playing songs.
Everything was ready, but the passers-by asked Li Qiao, "Is there any song from Principal Tan?" ”
The money was not earned, and the cold became more and more in the middle of the night.
Xiao Jun helped Li Qiaotian, who wanted to go home, to add coats, and their breath was so close to each other, perhaps because they had no roots in this city, they needed to rely on each other, and they hugged each other.
The bright-headed Li Qiao never hid her pursuit of money, otherwise what would she want to do in Hong Kong?
In the film, Like a bellwether, Li Qiao took a fancy to the way to make money by speculating in stocks, but unfortunately, the stock market is changing rapidly, and she not only lost all her savings, but also owed usury.
At this time, Li Qiao showed a very tenacious vitality, simply go to the massage shop to work, in normal times, this kind of work she simply can't see.
Here, unassuming, she meets the underworld boss Leopard Brother (Zeng Zhiwei), and her personality quickly attracts him, because of one of her jokes, he has tattoos on his back, plus a Mickey Mouse. Li Qiao became the woman of the leopard brother.
Xiao Jun and Xiao Ting, the girlfriend of Qingmei Zhuma, are still married. At the wedding, the two couples took a group photo, but they undoubtedly had their own concerns.
Brother Leopard is an old jianghu, and he has long seen that Li Qiao and Xiao Jun should have a period of past, but he doesn't mind. Xiaoting is simple and cute, enjoying the happiness with Xiaojun.
What Xiao Ting didn't know was that Xiao Jun had bought two identical bracelets and given them to her and Li Qiao one for each of them, even if Li Qiao was angry about it, he didn't understand the reason. He was so honest that he wouldn't even lie.
The time came to the 90s and everything was changing.
Brother Leopard did not have the upper hand because of the fight, and had to die in the end of the world.
At that time, Xiaoting had already seen through the ambiguity between Xiao Jun and Li Qiao, and she chose to leave. Xiao Jun sent Li Qiao to the boat in order to break up with Brother Leopard. But when it comes to emotional places, Li Qiao is reluctant to leave Brother Leopard, he has given her everything, so that she decided to give up love and choose love.
Why is the film called "Sweet Honey"?
It may be that life is for sentient beings, both bitter and sweet. But people should think more about sweet, try not to think about bitter.
Brother Leopard took Li Qiao into exile in the United States, he was not a big brother anymore, in order not to let strangers snatch a watch, violently killed on the street.
Li Qiao became helpless again. She did not know that at this time in New York, there was a Chinese chef named Li Xiaojun.
In 1995, Teresa Teng died of illness, and "Sweet Honey" was playing in a TV store on the street of New York, and the song attracted two people to stop at the same time, it was Li Qiao and Li Xiaojun.
How insignificant personal love is in the tide of the times, fortunately, no one has given up hope, just like Li Qiao who ran and chased the distant figure of Xiao Jun on the streets of New York.
God may have pitied her tiredness and let a song called "Sweet Honey" bring her former lover to reunite with her.
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