<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > Carmen Mong Kok: The Disappearing Ending</h1>
Premiering in 1988, Wong Kar-wai rose to fame with Carmen Mong Kok, releasing a 4K restored version thirty-three years later.
Quite a sense of changing times and peach blossoms.
The film is exactly "peach blossoms still laughing in the spring breeze", but many things in the film, in today's day and night, as if "people don't know where to go", have disappeared or are on the verge of disappearing.
Of course, the star of the lead role is still alive, but after a long time, it is inevitable that there will be large or small changes in appearance.
At that time, Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, jacky Cheung were all light and tender fancy years, very young, Maggie Cheung was more round-faced and some "doll fat", Wan Ziliang was also very strong.
Today, not everyone is full of faces, but everyone is middle-aged.
The Hong Kong film scene is now very different from the heyday of the 1980s, and Wong Kar-wai has long been internationally renowned.
Andy Lau's gang, Gu Qiuzi, can hardly smoke and smoke continuously.
Jacky Cheung plays "Black Fly", a gang that follows Andy Lau, "The Little Guy", in which he once pushed a cart outside the theater to sell fish eggs.
In the past, theaters were all streets and alleys, and all kinds of stalls in front of the door sold snacks, but now this scene has disappeared for a long time.
As for the wedding wine on the roof, it is also a historical relic, and it will not appear today.
The pager in the film is quite important, and now of course disappears. The "Big Brother" telephone has also become an antique.
Deng Guangrong, who won the benefit of supervising the production of "Carmen in Mong Kok", then heavily supported Wong Kar-wai in filming "The Legend of Ah Fei", and in short, vigorously promoted Wong Kar-wai.
Deng Guangrong died suddenly ten years ago, and a legendary "big guy" disappeared from the Hong Kong film industry.
The jianghu of Hong Kong films has not disappeared, but the gang brotherhood that "Carmen of Mong Kok" focuses on, if not disappeared, has also become a negative teaching material.
In the film, Andy Lau is actually tired of fighting in the jianghu, he is in love with his cousin Maggie Cheung, but he has repeatedly rescued him because of the manic accident of "Little Guy" Jacky Cheung, born into death, and failed to live up to love for righteousness, which is actually very stupid.
This myth of the same life and death, the same sex is more important than the opposite sex, once popular in Hong Kong films, and has almost disappeared.
"Carmen in Mong Kok" everyone performs well, even if the youth is immature, there are often reckless and arrogant behaviors, which is also a characteristic of youth.
Jacky Cheung, full of "cruel youth", he very much wants to get ahead, and is obviously influenced by the myth of the jianghu, and is also very good to his "little guy" Huang Bin, but he is constantly frustrated by disasters, and finally gives his life to raise his prestige once.
Jacky Cheung played the passion and madness of this role to the fullest, and the psychological personality was more complex than that of the male and female protagonists, which can be said to be the real core character.
The cinematographer of this film, Liu Weiqiang, later became a big director.
Miao pursues Maggie Cheung's Lantau doctor in the film named Liu Weiqiang, played by Meizhi Zhang Shuping, who only has a side telescopic mirror, but also appears gentle and affectionate.
This time I re-watched "Carmen in Mong Kok", in fact, I mainly wanted to see if the "disappearing ending" returned to its original appearance.
What I first watched was that the final climax Andy Lau was shot in the head and fell to the ground, but he was not dead.
The epilogue is that later Maggie Cheung visited him in the hospital, he became demented disabled, and she fed him oranges.
This scene is touching and not sensational, which raises the level of the whole film and adds to the appeal of the love affair between the male and female protagonists.
But the positive film deletes the ending.
Since then, this scene has disappeared, and now the restored version cannot be found to make up for it, which is a pity.
Now few people know this ending, thinking that the male protagonist died after being shot.