In Chinese films, mainstream youth films that have begun to take shape in the mature genre model have entered the 2.0 era with difficulties under the vision of audience aesthetic fatigue.
So we saw "Hotpot Hero" with a pure genre and excellent market performance, "What is in the Black Place" that faded the sense of "suspension" and focused on "sexual awakening", "Girl Nezha" full of rebellious spirit and literature, "Dog 13" that challenged patriarchy, education system and adult rules, and "Young You" that began to pay precise attention to social issues.
Stumbling along the way, the spiritual core of youth films can never escape the two keywords of nostalgia and rebellion.
The world is a wasteland, standing at the origin of the coordinates of time, looking back at the road, giving birth to a flower of remembrance, turning forward, and still needing to cut through thorns to meet the whole world.
All good youth films are trying to answer the "nature of growth", which is a lonely thing.
2014-2019 "Those Five Years" of Chinese Youth Films
In the Hong Kong film industry, shrouded by the decadence of the golden age, the proposition of "nostalgia" has been a continuous "continuation" of Hong Kong films for the past two decades.
Unlike most films on the mainland that design "nostalgia" as a selling point, the word nostalgia carries the pathos and deep pain of the times for Hong Kong films and the seven million Hong Kong people.
Just under this dose of anesthetic, twenty years after 1997, Hong Kong people took out "Mermaid", "Tree Big Trick", and also came up with this youth theme of "Which Day We Will Fly", which seems to be full of hope and seems to be slightly hurt.
Hong Kong, perhaps the only place in the world to name its film culture after the city itself – the intense stylized image output is frantically sweeping through the Chinese cultural circle, sweeping away the chauvinist stereotype of its "cultural desert".
Today, this pioneer standing on the Pacific front has also ushered in the trough of his "historical law" of prosperity and decline, and in the wave of the new era, watching the northern aircraft carrier ride the wind and waves, he is sensitive and has experienced hundreds of battles.
As one of the many symbols of the parrot, the flexible use of semiotics reflects the director's skillful film technique
Just like the white-collar workers in the film, the marriage is getting more and more itchy, and the gap in life needs to be vented urgently, falling into the myth of the middle class. Want to travel around the world became a tour guide, the "handmade king" did the real estate design, the reality seems to be with the vows of the year, and how will it be realized, and where to go under the urban syndrome.
It turns out that time has faded, and apart from growing up, there is no other solution in life, and the word dream has nothing to do with it.
The last time we traveled together was five years ago, under the oppression of marital crisis and estrangement, both sides were looking for gaps, the husband's unintended encounters, the wife's past, all in their own way to break through the cage of reality, to the memory of the beauty of youth to find a place to settle down. So the two lines of the past and reality are intertwined, tightening more and more tightly, squeezing out a blank that has been separated for many years.
A seemingly detached couple, the itch of an urban middle-class family
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Two boys like the same her, this is not a novel story, but a light adaptation of the lyrics "Meet in Hong Kong on the day of meeting in 97" has told everyone -
In the face of the undercurrent of the times, youth is no longer just a simple and beautiful face.
Frolicking and loitering usher in the imminent change of day, this generation of youth is destined to be unique, doomed to wander, complex emotions and indescribable.
Meet up in 97 and meet back in Hong Kong
Young boys and girls on the roof of Kowloon City that year, looking at the plane about to land at Kai Tak Airport, flew low in the sky cut out of the old and low buildings, which is also a scene that appeared in "Tree Trick", black clouds pressed the city, and the wind and rain were coming.
The plane flew low over Kowloon City, an indelible film image in the hearts of Hong Kong film fans in the last century
And here, the roar of the plane is the rhythm of the ups and downs in Bowen's ears, the quiet love words of the hearts of men and women, the time that is about to pass and the upcoming separation.
In October 1989, the Governor of Hong Kong, David Wilson, announced the construction of the "Hong Kong Airport Core Plan", and the new Hong Kong International Airport would replace the old Kai Tak Airport. This project has a special code name, "Rose Garden Project", which is the theme of the handmade model exhibition assigned by the "Moon" teacher to complete the "Handmade King" in the film.
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In the era of "escape", "everything that can go is gone".
And there are always people who are willing to stay for a very simple reason, a parrot, and the courage that is simply young and vigorous has become the most beautiful scenery in the eyes of a lover.
When the adult "handicraft king" looks at the object of the cheating after drinking, the Mandarin-speaking woman recalls the past, the picture of his young wife Fengzhi hugging the abandoned parrot into her arms and talking to herself has long been the most precious and beautiful memory in his heart, and the woman in front of him is just a ghost of a memory.
On that rainy day, Fengzhi closed her eyes and said, "Dreams are things I still want to do when I am about to stop breathing", I think I finally found the most moving look of youth in the movie.
Dreams are things you still want to do when you're about to stop breathing
Bowen, who had a dream of being a pilot, plucked up the courage and proposed to Fengzhi to leave together.
"If I were a pilot, I would be able to take you around the world."
The seemingly unintentional vows of youth are the feelings of "I have you in my plan" between the words.
Through the mouth of the blog post, the director said this sentence that directly hit the pain point of the city.
Can a big city accommodate a dreamer?
Hong Kong is running too fast to care about who falls halfway, and everyone walks into his core and "becomes a social cog".
Dreams seem to be just dreams, can they really accommodate the next dreamer?
So the people who left the country left their homes, and the people who stayed continued to live, the city was in desperate need of strength, and people needed to believe that he still had a future.
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In the last twenty minutes, the third line of the film is finally revealed.
The incident fell back to the Shanghai woman whose husband cheated, who was Bowen's girlfriend after he left his hometown, and replaced Bowen and Fengzhi in meeting at the café.
There are many encounters in a long life, and fate is predestined, and the brother who fell in love with the same girl at that time intersected with another woman because of the same origin and in different ways.
Man once again loses to fate, and between the three of them, this woman is the bond between events and the sacrifice of emotional substitution.
Back in school, Feng Zhi finally found an answer at the base of the Bowen Trophy, which was a letter that was more than ten years late, proving the courage of the teenager's confession and the hot heart, and she burst into tears.
Memories that belonged to him and her, but could only be told to another her
In the end, the couple returned to their alma mater, and the students realized the dream of "ten thousand paper airplanes", in the shuttle of the flying plane on the playground, the husband and wife laughed, there was no climax, everything came naturally, naturally like the kiss in the rose garden exhibition room that year.
Behind him, the paper plane glided in the direction of Lion Rock. Just like the Hong Kong people at that time, their faces were colorless and their chests were full of waves.
The city overlook pushed into the launch is enough to let us see that the director does not want to be limited to the ambition of youth issues, the paper plane flies out of Lion Rock, perhaps out of Hong Kong, or even out of this soil, fortunately there is still hope for youth.
We paid attention to "Night Shop", so Yang Qing had "Hotpot Hero"; we paid attention to "Crazy Dance Party", so Huang Xiuping had this "Which Day We Will Fly".
The beauty of youth under the setting sun is like a backlight
Still believe that there will be imagination here, and that this day we will fly.
Even if you know, the years have gone