After being disturbed by a long period of sleep deprivation during the duel period, I was finally able to take a long nap. After waking up in a sleep, I took out the movie list at the bottom of the pressure box, "It's Hong Kong Tomorrow", watch this one today, because the place where the story takes place is the mysterious and romantic Hong Kong, and it is also the place where I live now.
Watching this Hong Kong love encounter sketch in the rush period is like tasting the cream on the top of the cake, a romantic escape from a boring homework.
"Nothing happened, it was like there was no rain, but the clouds were thick and the air was humid. The male and female protagonists seem to be looking forward to a spring rain,
—but I'm afraid of getting wet—"
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Josh, an American who has lived in Hong Kong for ten years, meets Ruby, a Chinese-American who has just arrived in Hong Kong and got lost, and on the way to send Ruby to meet with friends, accompanied by humorous dialogue and charming night scenes, the two gradually develop a tacit and ambiguous atmosphere.
Does this plot sound like some shadow of the "Love In" trilogy ("Love Before Dawn Breaks", "Love Before Sunset", "Love Before Midnight")? Some people say that this is a Hong Kong city propaganda film, and Hong Kong's famous attractions of all sizes have been walked through.
The male protagonist Josh said that he studied English literature in college, and finally chose reality, got an MBA, and although he now earns a considerable income, he has always had a dream of becoming a novelist.
The heroine Ruby dreams of opening a fashion boutique and becoming the next Vela Wang, but becomes a toy designer.
Passing through Central from Lan Kwai Fong, Josh pointed to the HSBC building and said, "My office is here, it's 11 p.m. on Friday, and behind the lit windows are people still working. Hong Kong is a fast-paced city, and his former company owner once had a mantra that impressed him: "Come on, everyone, it's tomorrow in Hong Kong!" And the title of the film also comes from this.
“I had a boss when I was living in New York and he said: Let’s hustle people. It’s already tomorrow in Hong Kong. And that phrase — that phrase like really stuck with me, because it’s so fast paced here. It really is already tomorrow.”
This journey, they walked through Lan Kwai Fong, Central Mid-Levels Escalator, walked through Gas Lamp Street, Josh as a person who has been in Hong Kong for many years, while showing Ruby the way, while introducing Hong Kong's famous locations, the two chatted from Hong Kong to Los Angeles, from work to dreams, the more they talked, the more speculative, the more they could feel each other's tacit understanding.
However, after the audience feels "wow, the ideal is enough to talk about, it's time to go to the next part to talk about feelings", Josh confessed that he had a girlfriend, and the party just now was his girlfriend's birthday party, because of his girlfriend's slightly out of line, he smoked a cigarette outside alone, which met Ruby.
The truth of the dog's blood surprised Ruby and the audience, and the ending of the romantic encounter was not happy.
Of course, the story has to continue.
In this fast-paced space, the male and female protagonists met for the second time, on the Celestial Star Wheel.
This encounter came a year later, and speculation and sightseeing in Hong Kong escalated again. With the lessons learned from the last time, the male and female protagonists openly disclosed that they already had a partner at the beginning. The male protagonist Josh has quit his glamorous job, he followed Ruby's advice, began to pursue his dream and write a novel, except for Ruby, no one around him supported him.
Josh accompanies Ruby to Chungking Mansion to help Ruby's boyfriend get a suit jacket, bargains with the boss in fluent Cantonese, and passes by Victoria Harbour to discuss the unaccustomed places of Hong Kong, from food to habits. Josh then takes Ruby to the best place to eat seafood in Jordan, where they go to the temple street food stalls for spicy crabs, walk through the night market, sit down at the fortune teller stalls and count the numbers, and go to the taverns that Josh is most familiar with to see their friends perform.
The night is dark, and the body is slightly drunk and dancing with the increasingly thick atmosphere.
No one can refuse such a night.
Until meeting Josh's girlfriend's good friend, the two people fell into an awkward situation, in the short drive to send Ruby home, the male and female protagonists are trying to clarify the relationship between the two, in the passion of romantic love and the original responsibility of life, what choice will the two make?
The most ingenious is the end of the movie. The taxi stopped, and the driver who couldn't wait urged," "Hurry, the meter is still going, Do you want one more stop?"
The open-ended ending leaves us with more fantasies, and the end of the film is the beginning of the development of the real-world story. Strolling between Hong Kong Islands, the subtle and ambiguous feelings are secret. Whatever happens, enjoy the thrill of this moment. It turns out that the best way to fall in love in Hong Kong is to talk late at night while walking and flirting.
In my opinion, the intersection that I pass through every day in class, all kinds of taste stories are happening, Hong Kong, a place where multiculturalism collides and is properly integrated, there are more stories with the same taste as the city, and this movie is one of them.
People always have expectations for Hong Kong with colorful neon. Maybe something will happen on my way to class tomorrow...
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