"My name is Ah Zhen, Jane of Pearls"
"My name is Chen Yi, righteous righteousness, they all call me Ayi"
I don't know if the above line has evoked your familiar memories, if there is, then I think you are no longer a green onion teenager.
Time is always waiting for no one, and the love story of Ah Zhen and Chen Yi has passed for more than forty years in the blink of an eye.
Released in 1978, the film "Bus Adventures and Good Luck" may have long been forgotten by many audiences, the times are changing, the audience will forget, the actors will grow old, but the light and shadow will last forever.
The film freezes the moment into eternity, Ah Zhen and Chen Yi will never grow old, they will always live on the screen. When the picture of "Bus Adventure and Good Luck" slowly unfolds, you will definitely be impressed by the conductor Chen Yi who saw the courage of the righteous.
As an early batch of Hong Kong films introduced to the mainland, "Bus Adventures and Good Relations" was once all the rage, and the film was directed by Zhang Xinyan, director of "Shaolin Temple", and co-starred Fang Ping and Li Yanyan.
Fang Ping is not small, when the Great Wall Film Company was a small student, and his wife Bao Qijing was a classic screen couple, and his father-in-law was a professional Bao Fang, a master of Jin Yong martial arts dramas.
Classmates familiar with Hong Kong movies must be familiar with him, he is the father of Wong Ka-koo in "BEYOND Diaries", Gandhi of "Infernal Affairs 2", and a well-known producer. As for the heroine Li Yanyan, she has been in the shadows for many years.
01, the bus saves the beauty, the good relationship
In Hong Kong in the 1970s and 1980s, the bus boom was booming, and the buses on the road were one after another, which was an infinite scenery on the surface, but inside the car was a different scene.
Passengers huddled around the cramped compartments like sardines compressed in cans. Under the chaos, all kinds of petty theft are also quietly breeding.
Chen Yi is a conductor on the bus, young and energetic, and his long work has trained him with a pair of fire eyes, and the thief cannot escape his eyes.
On this day, there was a female passenger On the car, Ah Zhen, the little girl was white and tender, she did not know that the world was dangerous, and the money was stolen and she did not know it.
Fortunately, Ah Yi's eyes were sharp, and he grabbed the pickpocket's hand and took the money back and handed it to Ah Zhen.
Looking at the grateful smile of the girl in front of her, Ah Yi's heartbeat was a little out of rhythm, and the old man of the moon began to draw a red line in the darkness.
After getting out of the car, the pickpocket held a grudge and rushed forward to find Ah Yi for revenge. Ah Yi was young and strong, and naturally he was not afraid of him, and the two quickly fought.
Ah Zhen was terrified to see it, although he had a slight injury on his body, but fortunately, in the end, Ah Yi defeated the pickpocket.
Ah Zhen was a little overwhelmed in his heart, and quietly put the money he had stolen into Ah Yi's satchel, and then turned to the car.
Who expected Ah Yi to find out and catch up, and stuffed the money back in, "Miss, your money is in the wrong pocket."
Ah Zhen's heart trembled, and she saw the integrity and persistence of the man in front of her.
"Hey, sir, please have tea another day." What is your name? My name is A-Chan, Jane of Pearls."
The gears of fate are slowly turning, and the story of Ah Zhen and Ah Yi has just begun.
02, even if there is honey, life is not easy
In the fairy tale, the prince overcame many difficulties and finally joined the princess, and the two lived happily ever after.
Curiously, the story never tells us what a happy life looks like.
The beginning of the encounter between Ah Zhen and Ah Yi is very romantic, but life will not be only honey forever. Nor does the film simply tell a love story.
In the 1970s, Hong Kong was facing tremendous social changes, and all walks of life were making final preparations and sprints for economic take-off.
Ah Zhen and Ah Yi are together as they wish, and in this vast Hong Kong, it is better for two people to be able to rely on each other than to insist on each other.
Macau's open-top motorboat tour witnesses the sweet newlywed trip of the two, riding a bicycle by the sea, the waves are lapping, even if they are wet, as long as the two people are together, they are happy.
Back to reality, the factory where Ah Zhen worked laid off a number of people because of the automation reform, and Ah Zhen temporarily lost her job.
Although Ah Yi was promoted, he was actually responsible for three jobs by one person. At the same time, the family is about to usher in a small new life.
Ah Zhen was pregnant, and the already tight days were even worse. Ah Yi is a distressed wife, knowing that Ah Zhen has a big belly and is inconvenient, and he carries all the expenses of the family alone.
In order to make more money, after work, Ah Yi went to the dock to carry rice bags and pork.
Although life is difficult, but fortunately there is always hope, the birth of his son is like a beam of light into the family, Ah Yi secretly decided that he must let the mother and son live a good life.
At home, Ah Yi has to take care of his newborn son and Ah Zhen, who is still in confinement. Outside, Ah Yi continued to sell his strength to carry pork. Iron-clad people can't stand such a high-intensity life.
One morning, Ah Yi sat on the toilet in the corridor and fell asleep, until the charter wife knocked the door outside, and then woke Ah Yi up.
Automatic ticket boxes were loaded on the buses, manual conductors were quickly eliminated, and Ah Yi had to wait for the company to assign work with half of his salary every month. However, there was still a son in the family waiting to be fed, and Ah Yi couldn't wait.
When he came to the dock, he wanted to entrust people to find some hard work, but he did not expect that the dock was newly equipped with a large crane, and a car could reach hundreds of people.
The development of technology has indeed brought great progress in society, but the cruel side is that there are always some people who face the risk of unemployment because technology has replaced manpower.
Ah Yi's family is not alone, but a microcosm of countless low-income workers in Hong Kong in the 1970s and 1980s.
03. Will you usher in a new life?
Life seems to have ushered in a turnaround, Ah Yi's job has landed, and the company has promoted him to be a station manager. It sounds beautiful on the surface, but it's a chore.
Whether it is hot summer or wind and rain, the station master must stand under the bus stop sign to maintain the order of passengers getting on and off the bus.
It was raining this day, Chen Yi was carrying a newspaper on his head, and he was drenched in chicken soup, even so, he still had to continue to stand, for two meals, who could not do his best?
Uncle De, the bus driver, saw this and kindly threw his smock to Ah Yi and asked him to put it on quickly.
Under the guidance of Uncle De, Ah Yi plans to learn to drive, as long as he obtains a driver's license, he will have the opportunity to become a bus driver, and such work will not be replaced by a machine for a short time.
With a burst of momentum, the driver's license was quickly in hand, and Ah Yi was happy and broken.
He happily invited Uncle De to drink, a few glasses of wine under the belly, Uncle De's eyes are a little confused, as a driver for a lifetime, his body has long been left with a body of problems, and now there are new people coming, Uncle De knows that it is time to quit.
Within a few days, Ah Yi took over Uncle De's job and happily began his first day of driving life.
In the car, he saw the kettle that Uncle De usually used, and he wondered a little: Uncle De left, why did he drop the kettle.
An old driver told him that last night, Uncle De, who had been driving two buses in a row, suddenly had a stomach attack, vomited a pool of blood in the driver's seat, and died.
At the end of the film, Ah Yi hangs Uncle De's kettle next to the driver's seat, and the bus moves flexibly through the street, gradually drowning in traffic.
Will the new life that Ah Yi is looking forward to come? No one knows.
The pressure of life is like a shadow, but Ah Yi did not give up, but became more and more frustrated.
The thickness and blood in his body are like a fire, illuminating his own small home and affecting the people around him.
However, in the face of the impact of the times, in the face of the great changes in social progress, the small power of the individual always seems to be difficult to fight against the torrent, Ah Yi drove the bus as he wished, but the death of Uncle De seems to be heralding some kind of tragic fate.
Life is helpless, whether it is Hong Kong in the 70s and 80s, or today, this seems to be the common voice of everyone. (Written by: Miki)