The combination of Wu Junru + Wu Zhenyu is about equal to "HongXing Thirteen Sisters" + "Liang Kun" in the hearts of people who are accustomed to watching the ancient puzzle boy movies of the 90s.
In the Chinese mainland market, the director Ye Weixin, who is well-known for "Ip Man" and "Kill the Wolf", paired with the trio of Wu Junru, Wu Zhenyu and Ren Dahua, shoots a love story of ordinary little people struggling at the bottom... Seems a bit of a contrast?
Jordon (Wu Zhenyu), a street pimp who owes a gambling debt, meets Judy (Wu Junru), a restaurant waiter who cuts off half of his milk and divorced, and even gives birth to a love affair.
The story of the urban mandarin duck sounds closer to Chen Kexin's style. However, it is said that this "Juliet and Liang Shanbo", which was not popular at that time and has been unfazed, is one of the favorite classics of Hong Kong film fans to Ip Wai Shin.
"Juliet and Liang Shanbo" was born in an era of transformation in which Hong Kong cinema was headed for a sluggish and dismal operation.
After the golden age of Xu Ke and Wu Yusen, this millennium love film that makes the entire creative team look new, but in the rich human brilliance of the little people, it reveals the unique light of nostalgic Hong Kong films.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" >jordon: it doesn't matter and there is a so-called</h1>
In the movies of the 90s, the elements of police bandits and ancient puzzle boys seem to be topics that cannot be bypassed. In 2000, this "Juliet and Liang Shanbo" was born out of the ancient puzzle boy movie, but the main trunk of the grafting is a literary and artistic love story.
The male protagonist Jordon, played by Wu Zhenyu, is a small who lives alone in the whole family, owes yuen Long's big brother New Territories An (Ren Dahua) more than 100,000 gambling debts, life is aimless, and the mantra is it doesn't matter.
In the crowded streets, Jordon said with a blank face:
"I pass by here every day, and there are so many people every day. I really want to ask them, do you know what you want? I just don't know. But it doesn't matter."
When lamenting his death, Jordon also seems even more bleak.
"You know, I don't have anything... The same is the son, why I have nothing, I dropped out of school before finishing the book, and my brother went to a foreign country. The family went to Paris on vacation, and none of this was my share. There was a car accident on the road, why didn't I die?"
It is difficult for a person who has grown up like this to imagine that what he calls "it doesn't matter" is genuine open-mindedness.
More likely, this "no-call" is actually a brainwashing forced turn for the self-consolation of the little people.
After all, it is difficult for people to cheer up and live in a frustrating experience. So he had to convince himself that it was all right, it didn't matter, who he loved was resigned to his fate, and then turned the page decadently.
He and Judy rescue the new territories anjianghu who is afraid of his wife,000 gangsters— temporarily taking care of the illegitimate children of the mainland in the new territories. As a result, the two of them were so happy that they even named BB Janet because "English is OK, Chinese can be."
The light warmth tossed and turned, and the three with the same disease walked together, like a family that met in Pingshui.
Such a person, finally after meeting a woman, began to have so-called, began to want to grasp this little bit of warmth and hope.
In order to pay off the debt, Jordon decided to make a desperate bet. He only left Judy with a sentence of "Wait for me, I'll come back for dinner", and then beheaded people under the commission of New Territories Ann, and finally was blown up by the other party's Coke bottle.
Life has a real temperature. But it wasn't until then that Jordon felt it for the first time.
"It's very comfortable, but it's freezing." At least I know what it means, and I finally know what I want to do."
It's a tragedy, but it's also a reasonable little asshole's standard ending: when your survivability is limited to pimping people, a happy landing can only be a dream.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" >Judy: Hopeless and Promising</h1>
Wu Junru, who is accustomed to watching the funny version and the man's mother-in-law version, it is difficult to imagine that when she plays a woman who is bitter and humble and depressed, there is a kind of bland and realistic beauty.
The heroine, Judy, is a restaurant receptionist who has suffered from breast cancer, surgically cut off half of her breasts, and was abandoned by her husband. After the divorce, Judy and her grandfather lived together. This family relationship may be the only concern that supports her to live.
Grandpa is a coke drinker, will thoughtfully buy slippers for his granddaughter, is a lively and happy old man, the mantra is: "No coke, no hope".
Grandpa was distressed by Judy and said to Jordon, "What is the use of a woman with no health and no family?"
Judy didn't have either. As a result, her physical defects made her feel inferior, unable to face herself or accept the pursuit of others.
In fact, despite her inferiority, Judy is not a woman that no one loves. Her driving school instructor is honest and reliable, and he is completely sincere to her, always trying to please her.
Compared with Jordon, the two candidates' basic conditions are high and low.
But Judy's determination to open up to the little bastard Jordon may be explained by hormones and love on the one hand, and still from inferiority on the other.
Jordon inadvertently discovers the secret in her underwear and knows about her physical flaws. The two eat noodles together, embarrassed by the secret's exposure, and then Jordon suddenly says lightly, "It doesn't matter!"
At this point, silence was better than sound, and the expression on Judy's face was obviously relieved. For her, no matter whose love it is, the most difficult threshold to cross and talk about is her amputated breasts.
Because of a new pair of oversized slippers, Grandpa went out alone and was in a car accident. After her grandfather passed away, her life completely lost hope. She tapes the doors and windows, intends to commit suicide by burning charcoal at home, but is saved by Jordon, who storms the room.
She took off her clothes and shouted at him, "Can you have a woman like that?"
Jordon caressed her face and said, "Wait for me, I'll come back for dinner."
The end of the story is intriguing. Jordon clutched Judy's door key and collapsed in a pool of blood. Then the plot is a scene of a sleeping ghost returning home:
Jordon ran all the way home, sitting next to Judy and watching the sleeping woman tenderly. Hanging on the door was the string of keys with the smiling face hanging.
This is the director's warm confession to the audience. But in real life, Jordon obviously can't come back.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > redeem each other in hopeless lives</h1>
Whether it is for several main creators or for Hong Kong films of that era, the soothing and subtle literary and artistic love story of "Juliet and Liang Shanbo" full of human fireworks is rare.
The title of the film is a fusion of two famous love tragedies in the East and the West, which actually hints at the tragic ending of the story.
The setting of the story in Hong Kong, a city of Chinese and Western mixtures, inexplicably fits the charm of the strange title of "Juliet and Liang Shanbo".
Showing the care for the emotions of the little people at the bottom, and finding the perspective of the shining point of humanity in the broken life, the whole film is full of delicate and warm texture.
Countless small details in the movie are still fresh in people's minds:
When the crowd at the intersection is confused and does not know where to go; when the caretaker grandpa in the hospital cheats on double pill powder by the way; when the convenience store picks the cheapest diaper milk powder; when the two push each other away to feed the child; when the railway discusses the name of the child; when the soda bottle headshot but tries to grasp the door key...
The actors of that era were so interesting.
Interpret a simple and bland love story - so plain that there is no need for hugs, no need for confession, all emotions are placed in the blank, and I want to say goodbye. The combination of Wu Junru + Wu Zhenyu is vividly divided into three points.
At the end of the story, Judy once again passes through the commissary to buy soda, echoing the plot at the beginning of the movie. Life and love may be fleeting, but life goes on.
One does not matter, one is hopeless, one is silent, one is depressed, and the same is a fallen person at the end of the world, so there is more understanding and tolerance for each other.
Perhaps, Judy can learn a little bit of the spirit of "no matter" from Jordon, whether there is hope or not, he can live quietly in the countless unsatisfactory days to come.
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