In the film, we find that the director allowed himself to appear "twice", once when a young actor played his young self as Huang Xiuping, and once when Huang Xiuping himself appeared as a bartender in a bar. Of course, directors are usually used to making cameos in their own films, accustomed to playing some small roles, sweeping away, which is also a kind of love for movies; and when it comes to love for movies, the young "Huang Xiuping" expressed his dream in the film, such as: "Now Hong Kong movies are becoming more and more vulgar, nonsense culture poisons teenagers, my long-term goal is to become a film director, I hope to make a movie that not only Hong Kong people will watch, but a billion people in China can ...." ”。 Yes, the young Huang Xiuping is in an era when Hong Kong movies are at a low ebb, and some vulgar movies are indeed full of Hong Kong movies, where to go, it seems that some young people with dreams are needed to change Hong Kong movies, give Hong Kong movies some hope, and let Hong Kong movies fly. One of the students in the film loves to dance, and the teacher ridicules Huang Xiuping for dancing in his film, although the teacher at that time was a mockery of the unrealistic ideas of some students' dreams, but Huang Xiuping really made a movie about dancing, and this theme is also scarce in Hong Kong movies, and it also won a good box office and word of mouth, and I won the Academy Award for Best New Director with the film, so there is still a dream, what if it is realized? Maybe "One Day We'll Fly."
Of course, the protagonist of this movie is not Huang Xiuping, let alone how he realized his dreams, but Huang Xiuping chose his alma mater - Yinghua College, that is, Ying Ren College in the movie, which is a traditional boys' school in Hong Kong, but in the movie we see that it is a boys' and girls' school, perhaps at first it was mainly boys, and then reformed into a boys' and girls' school, the specific information needs to be consulted. Looking at the relevant information, it can be seen that Yinghua College has also bred and cultivated many talents, as the director of this film, Huang Xiuping naturally needless to say, and this time he also projected his own works on his alma mater, as well as the Hong Kong film critic Tang Zhenzhao - Ah Tang, who is also familiar with the middle school years here, and our Cantonese song god Xu Guanjie also passed in this middle school, and Tang Jiming, a member of the new wave of Hong Kong films; etc. The youth spent in this academy is not only these film talents and musical talents that we are familiar with.
The protagonist of the movie is not Huang Xiuping, but the main role is divided into three people's youth, Yu Fengzhi, Su Bowen, Peng Shenghua, I don't know if the three protagonists of the movie have prototypes in reality, whether it is what Huang Xiuping saw at that time? We don't care whether the identity of the protagonist is archetypal or not, but the traces of youth that happen to them can indeed resonate with everyone, and the resonance of youth is not the same thing as the protagonist to do the same thing or experience the same thing, mainly from them can see that our youth is spent like that and the sense of youth is the same, just so-called: mainly look at the temperament. Let's follow the camera back to the youth of Yu Fengzhi Su Bowen and Peng Shenghua. In these years, we have seen Su Bowen, who is full of flying dreams, and also the person Yu Fengzhi has been looking for and missing. Su Bowen is a talented, introverted person, Sven Wen, has a dream of flying, not only can let the paper plane fall into Yu Fengzhi's arms accurately, but also let Yu Fengzhi play with the simple bazooka he made, let him look at his own flying dreams, everything is so beautiful. At this time, Peng Shenghua was the chairman of the campus art association and a production expert known as the "King of Crafts". In these three, we find the friendship, love, and dreams of youth. Good buddies usually like a person at the same time, so we see such a triangular relationship, Yu Fengzhi and Su Bowen are also secretly in love, Peng Shenghua is more in love with Yu Fengzhi, but all this does not need to be said through and has long seen through this ambiguous relationship between them, perhaps this is the friendship of youth mixed with the factor of love, always vague, if it is imminent. Youth friendship and love often walk together because of dreams, Su Bowen with the dream of flying, but also a variety of creativity, its special introverted temperament and excellent talent attracted yu Fengzhi who had just opened up; the same excellent Peng Shenghua also made Yu Fengzhi's youth full of accidents, the teacher let him show the infrastructure project of Hong Kong in the next ten years through its hand, creating a miniature "rose garden", the future of Hong Kong in front of Yu Fengzhi's eyes, as dreamy as beautiful, as fairy tale-like innocence, Su Bowen accidentally in the "rose garden." Outside the window, I saw Yu Fengzhi and Peng Shenghua kissing. Then, due to some yin and yang factors, Su Bowen left, and Yu Fengzhi and Peng Shenghua became husband and wife, but all this did not end.
Huang Xiuping uses parallel editing in this film, telling two stories, Yu Fengzhi, Peng Shenghua, Su Bowen in the past and Yu Fengzhi and Peng Shenghua in the present. The beauty of youth does not mean that marriage can be as happy as youth, like youth can have many choices, but often in the hidden patience to learn to reconcile with themselves, reconcile with their lovers, and let go of the past. There is a hidden marriage crisis between Yu Fengzhi and Peng Shenghua, And Yu Fengzhi's words: I think our communication is really too little, and I don't know what you are doing usually. Talking about the marital problems between them, maybe in front of the class reunion you can pretend to be very loving and happy, but what happens after you leave? The rift in marriage has gradually become larger, and it may be irreparable, and Peng Shenghua has fallen into the predicament of extramarital affairs, but he has a one-night stand with someone and has made mistakes that should not be made, how to resolve this crisis, only through the communication between the two to resolve. Yu Fengzhi chose to return to the beauty of her memory in this marriage that has been powerless and tired, trying to retrieve Su Bowen of that year, but also to retrieve her own memory. It seems to be re-examining whether his choice at that time was correct, but youth always has regrets, and today's choice can not be arbitrary, in this process, Yu Fengzhi found Su Bowen, but Su Bowen has left, only to become everyone's memory symbol. One night, Peng Shenghua met Yu Fengzhi looking at the past objects, when Peng Shenghua took it to see, the memory of the past was also rekindled in his heart, and when he woke up the next day, watching Yu Fengzhi take a selfie with him and the parrot accompanied by youth, Peng Shenghua seemed to have found something. On Su Bowen's tombstone, he sacrificed the dream of flying in youth, and turned the wings of the load with a simple bottle like a windmill, letting it move with the wind. When Yu Fengzhi also came to the tombstone, looking at the windmills moving with the wind, excited eyes emerged, and read inwardly: What are you doing? Handmade King. Aren't you very forgetful? Why are you able to recreate something from twenty years ago? From this sentence, it also verifies the English name of the film: she remembers, he forgets, literal translation: she remembers, he forgets. At this moment, they all remembered that they had returned to Ying Ren College together to fulfill their dream of flying for the students, and their marital problems had also been flown on this flying dream, flying farther out, and each other was reconciled in their hearts.
Reality projects the past, all for growth and reflection, Yu Fengzhi and Peng Shenghua's dilemma of real problems, reflecting on the beauty of the past, are all for a self-reflection, do not forget the feelings of youth, do not forget the original heart. As the ending lyrics of the film sing: Even if you know that the years have not returned, you still step forward and go out to the big world.
Huang Xiuping's previous films are based on youth as the theme, such as "Magic Man", "Crazy Dance Party", full of and full of youthful atmosphere, and in this movie, we can still see the charm and attraction of youth, we can always grasp the three protagonists, but at the same time more mature performance, with an adult perspective to carry out a memory, a self-reflection, more resonant with the viewer, do not show off feelings, Rather, it tells the beauty of youth that we will always remember and find an outlet for solving problems when we become adults. In the performance of the image, Huang Xiuping also did it easily this time, giving people a pleasant enjoyment, we are always attracted by the things flying in the film, and believe that we "Which day we will fly".