From "Sweet Honey" to "Chongqing Forest", from "Zhiming and Chunjiao" to "Moon Full Hennessy".
Hong Kong-style romance films are like kaleidoscopes, with diverse styles and unique charms.
In April this year, another Hong Kong-style romance film was released in Hong Kong.
It's it --
"Getting Married In a Few Days"
As a theatrical film, the reputation of this film is not ideal.
The Douban score is only 5.7
However, in Uncle Jia's view, although the quality of the film is average, it is rare to shoot a rather severe marriage-phobic proposition at present.
The film tells the story of Ajia (Chen Jiale) and Ke Yi (Wei Shiya) who met at a friend's wedding.
The two hit it off and soon became a couple.
Five years of love run, let the two taste the sweetness of love.
However, when Ke Yi was ready to put "marriage" on the agenda, Ajia always dodged and did not dare to face it.
The male protagonist of this film, Ajia, is portrayed as a Hong Kong man similar to Zhang Zhiming in "Zhiming and Chunjiao".
He was mean-mouthed and playful, like a big boy who didn't grow up.
Between the ball game and his girlfriend, he actually decided to choose the ball game.
Once, Ke Yi suggested that Ajia go to learn a private car, in order to implicitly express her desire to get married.
But Ajia didn't hear her girlfriend's voice at all.
Ajia and two good brothers, Grizzlies and Ah Jian, together form a quite classic Hong Kong male group portrait.
The prodigal son of the young grizzly bear became a "strict wife" after marriage.
But the man's careful machine, at the same time, is vividly reflected in him.
On the surface, he is obedient to his wife.
But privately, as soon as he had time, he went to Macau to do a "massage".
What's more interesting is that this film makes the Grizzlies derailment drama a gangster tone.
As Peng Haoxiang once showed in the movie "Big Husband".
On the day of the "massage" in Macau, the grizzly bear made the layout in advance.
While asking Ajia to help watch the children, she bought snacks that her wife loved to eat.
After returning home and facing his wife's "interrogation", he became a bamboo and called Ajia and Ajian to prove his innocence.
Under the planning of the Grizzlies, the three brothers have already constructed a unified set of "secret codes".
With the help of the two brothers, the Grizzlies eventually survived the storm.
A large part of Adja's fear of marriage comes from the Grizzlies.
The Grizzlies once taught Ajia not to get married unless she had to.
Women can make people feel dependent and eventually turn you beyond recognition.
In order to let Ajia "obey" and get married, Keyi's girlfriends have come up with suggestions.
They came up with a series of tricks, with only one purpose, so that Ke Yi and Ajia would get pregnant before marriage, and finally Bongzi would get married.
As a result, the film staged a large-scale and extremely comedic "restriction-level" drama.
Ke Yi turned the indoor lighting to an ambiguous tone, and transformed herself into a pole dancer.
Only to see her scratch her head in front of Ajia, exuding thousands of styles.
However, who expected that during the dance, the steel pipe suddenly malfunctioned.
Ke Yi and the pipe fell together, and Ajia took the opportunity to flee in a hurry.
Another time, in order to seduce Ajia, Ke Yi appeared in a flight attendant uniform.
In the face of her girlfriend's teasing of "coffee, tea or me", Ajia knew that it was a plan, so she resolutely refused.
But the girlfriend also has a countermeasure, deliberately sprinkling water on Aja, and then leaning down to help her boyfriend take off his pants.
At the crucial moment, Aja meditated on the "hypnosis" taught to him by the nemesis.
Ke Yi immediately turned into the appearance of two dead parties.
Aja was greatly surprised and punched her girlfriend into a "pig's head".
After that, the girlfriend group also offered a "poisonous plan" and directly "drugged" to force Ajia to obey.
Ajia was unfortunately caught, so in a state of involuntariness, she was forced to bow by The King of Keyi...
After being "slept", Ajia found two henchmen to discuss countermeasures.
So, through searching around, they bought emergency contraception pills from the black market.
Originally, Ajia was drugged in the cup, ready to "trick" Keyi into drinking.
Unexpectedly, his every move was just bumped by a passing girl.
In order not to cause misunderstanding, Ajia had to drink the drink containing the contraceptive pill in front of passers-by.
However, people are not as good as heaven, and Ke Yi's relatives still arrive on time.
Aja, who learned of this, breathed a sigh of relief and a smile appeared on her lips.
And this subtle change in expression was clearly seen by Ke Yi.
Ke Yi was sure that the man in front of her did not want to get married at all, and by chance, she found out that Ajia was hiding from her about buying contraceptives.
So the two had a big fight and broke up.
In the second half of the film, the emotional state of Ajia and Keyi after the breakup is presented in the form of split screen.
The sweet love memories of the two have also emerged one after another, which makes people sigh endlessly.
This series of pictures is certainly beautiful and touching.
However, in terms of plot presentation, it is a bit too perfunctory.
Ajia looks back on the past of the two people in love and suddenly wakes up.
In the end, with a highly ceremonial marriage proposal, Ke Yi was recovered.
This forced Happy Ending narrative can certainly satisfy most viewers.
However, such a secure ending, on the one hand, does not confront the real problems of marriage between men and women.
On the other hand, we have indeed seen similar clichés in too many Hong Kong films.
Overall, this film is a reproduction and parody of classic Hong Kong-style romance films such as "Big Husband" and "Exclusive Love".
But its perception is not satisfactory.
For the analysis of marriage, for the presentation of love, "Not Getting Married" has only learned a fur, and there are not too many novel views and ideas.
From the reputation of this film is not ideal, it can also reflect the decline and withering of Hong Kong films.
The newly released Hong Kong-style romance films are still repeating the old routine of more than a decade ago, and we seem to have to make pessimistic predictions about the unknowable future of Hong Kong films.
Although the film has a low score on Douban, it is still recommended for Hong Kong film lovers to watch.
Perhaps it is indeed inferior to the previous classics such as "Zhiming and Chunjiao", but as a love sketch with a relaxed style, it is worth seeing.