As an anxious person, it seems that I can't sink my heart into watching Hou Mai's movie, but I still watch it as soon as I see it. "Four Seasons Story" is the most in line with personal values is "Winter's Story", although many film critics think that the heroine does not know what she wants, but I think that the heroine knows where her heart is from the beginning to the end, so she lives with the barber but does not marry him, ignoring the pursuit of librarians.
The most notable style of Humai is the use of color, and the slow flattening of the film, which makes the film like a slowly flowing stream. There are three lines in "The Story of Winter", the relationship between the heroine and the barber, the librarian's pursuit and the mysterious male who has a child out of wedlock with the heroine. The favorite of the three men who have entanglements with the heroine is the librarian, although the heroine criticizes living in the book and not having a life of his own, but there is a different kind of charm.
The barber and the librarian are actually two metaphors, one lives in a secular society, entangled in utilitarianism, one lives in the spiritual world, surrounded by reason \ ideals; the heroine wanders among the two men but as other film critics say: the heroine does not know what she wants; I think the deeper consideration is that although the heroine does not know what she wants, she knows what she must have, what she wants is love, the ideal object between the barber and the librarian, that person is the father of the child, The man who has a brief love affair with her.
Many people like that the ending of "Winter's Story" is reunited, and the heroine and the male protagonist meet on the bus; and I love "Winter's Story" alone because many of her views just poke at my values for feelings. There is also a set of links in the film: Shakespeare's play "The Story of Winter", the resurrection of the statue in the play and the repetition of the heroine and the male protagonist are all derived from faith, so it seems that the interpretation of this film can also start from "faith".
The conversation between the heroine and the librarian made me think of myself involuntarily, and for a long time my requirement for my other half was to be talented enough to like to read... "Winter's Story" made me reflect on whether this attachment was correct. Although people who live seriously seem to be more real because they can't read big characters, people who like to read are "beautifying" themselves through the views of others and borrowing the achievements of great writers and artists, and in this process, "I" gradually disappears... (Are we caught up in a cult of intellectual authority?) ）