It seems that Wong Kar-wai, who has not updated social media for several years, suddenly updated his Weibo a few days ago, with a picture of "2525" and the rune "Grateful for all encounters".
Subsequently, Zedong Film Company also forwarded this Weibo and explained the meaning of "2525", which turned out to be the 25th anniversary of the release of "Chongqing Forest".
After the birth of a movie, in addition to the audience test, there is also an invisible audience, that is, time, the audience's test is important, but the time test movie is really a good movie.
So many years have passed, director Wong Kar-wai has made a lot of good movies, but if you have to choose the best one, many audiences on the movie rating website, but also give us the answer to the time, that is, "Chongqing Forest" released 25 years ago.
Art originally did not have a distinction between up and down, but the film has a difference in experience, so gradually there will be a comparison in the heart, with the development of the times, this kind of mental comparison is expressed by big data to form a list on the movie rating website.
In 1994, an ordinary year in human history, there were no major events in this year, but when it comes to movies, this year is another vigorous year, and several great movies have been born around the world, "Chongqing Forest" is one of the masterpieces.
"Chongqing Forest" sets the background of the story in the Most Hong Kong Characteristic Chungking Mansion, which was built in the 1960s and houses all kinds of people in the world, which naturally best reflects the regional characteristics of Hong Kong's multi-cultural integration.
Wong Kar-wai firmly grasps the background of such a story, so he naturally shapes all kinds of people who are wandering in the city, etc., they have the same characteristics, that is, rootlessness and loneliness, and it is really because of this characteristic that the stories that happen to them also have a romantic atmosphere of postmodern interpretation.
In the first story of the film, the character played by Lin Qingxia has an unreliable background, and it is completely impossible to see whether she is a Hong konger, or a Taiwanese, or a mainlander, and can only see her wandering in the city, lonely and lonely.
In the film, she has blonde yellow hair, wears a raincoat and sunglasses day and night, and travels between the lights and greenery of the city.
Judging from the plot of the film's surface, she is a full-fledged female drug dealer, who can not only find Indians to help her transport drugs, but also be keenly aware of the danger of being hunted down after failure, and finally escape from the expiring life.
Initially, she received a drug transport task from a foreign man, and then she found an Indian, who was not convinced and escaped at the airport with the goods.
After the Indian escaped, she went to the bar to look for the foreign man again, but the foreign man hid, and found another bar girl, who put on a blonde hair brace and played adult games.
The treachery of the foreign man put her in a dangerous situation, because the loss of the goods also invited the disaster of killing.
In the end, she managed to get rid of the killer, and also stabbed the foreign man in the bar, and then threw the blonde hair cover, revealing her black hair, and disappeared into the night.
At this time, we can also understand that her relationship with foreign men is not only the relationship of the connector, but the relationship of the lover, and she is not just a simple betrayed drug dealer, but also a lonely woman who is hurt by men.
Wong Kar-wai's films can not only be liked by the audience, but also recognized by their peers, and the great Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino is his number one fan.
There is a video of Quentin interpreting "Chongqing Forest" circulating on the Internet, in which Quentin believes that the character played by Lin Qingxia has two interpretations of the character image.
Greta Garbo
First, to get closer to the golden age hollywood star Greta Garbo, because Lin Qingxia is known as "the Greta Tae Garbo of the East", this statement is a bit far-fetched, after all, such an explanation has little to do with the plot of the film.
Female Grely
Second, Lin Qingxia's style is a tribute to a movie in the 1980s, "Female Glory", which is somewhat based and worth referencing, because Lin Qingxia's shape and Gloria's shape are almost the same.
Wong Kar-wai's films are also often discussed in academia, with some scholars believing that the character played by Lin Qingxia is a "female wanderer" in the city.
This statement holds that with the development of society, the status of women in gender relations has improved, and Hong Kong, which embodies postmodernism, will naturally have a highly free and romantic "female wanderer".
"Chongqing Forest" as a great movie, so many years people have focused on the relationship between the sexes of the characters, in fact, the charm of female characters is also huge and infinite, more powerful and more distinctive than any film that now shows feminism.
A great movie from 25 years ago, we will talk about it today, if we can't say anything new, it is also sorry for the passage of time.
References: Feeling, Space and Style: A Female Roaming in the Chongqing Forest / Fu Pengfei, Tongji University