With Nameless, romance will not die

The first scene in "Nameless" is Tony Leung sitting on a stool, which is very similar to the scene of Tony Leung sitting on a white sheet at the end of "Color Ring", which seems to imply that our story is related to the story in "Color Ring".

There are also many Easter eggs in "Nameless", which can be said to be a gift for fans: the shot of Wang Yibo wearing clothes in front of the mirror is a tribute to the shot of Tony Leung tidying up his clothes at the end of "A Fei"; The group portrait of Wang Yibo and Zhang Jingyi when their eyes met in the nightclub paid tribute to the cousin when Ip Man and Mr. Gong competed in "A Generation of Grandmasters"; When Wang Yibo went to Hong Kong at the end of the film, the lens revealed golden light fog and dust, which is the same as a group of photos of Hong Kong photography master He Fan, and the soundtrack of this paragraph is very much with the charm of Wong Kar-wai; The final Easter egg is a lot like the rooftop showdown in Infernal Affairs.

Tribute to tribute, "Nameless" is still an out-and-out Cheng Er movie, full of stamina and long aftertaste.

The name of the film is "Nameless", so many of the characters in the film do not have specific names, so I will replace the names of the characters with the names of the actors when I tell them.

Not many people living in troubled times are unsung heroes, more are nobodies. While individual struggle is important, it also depends on the course of history and the opportunities of destiny.

Although the story is a non-linear narrative, people who have studied modern Chinese history a little can see what era it is about, so the threshold of the film is not high, as long as you watch it carefully, you will not miss the jump in time.

Tony Leung in "Nameless" is still the same as Tony Leung in "Color Ring", working in the secret service agency No. 76, but he does not correspond to Mr. Yi, but to the cousin of "Mr. Yi". It can be judged from his lines that he was an old Kuomintang, and after the fall of Guangdong, he was deeply disappointed by the degradation and inaction of the entire Nationalist government, so he left Chongqing and came to Nanjing, lurking in the Wang Jingwei regime.

He is the cousin of the head of the secret service department, who is played by Dapeng. From his appearance, it can be seen that his prototype is Zhou Fohai, the No. 3 figure of the Wang Jingwei regime, and this character has changed positions many times in modern history, and is famous for riding the wall.

"Nameless" can be seen as a suspense film or a spy war film, but in the final analysis, this is a historical film, and he reflects the choice of small people and big people in history.

There are three kinds of dogs in the film, including the bereaved dog who lame in the rainstorm when Guangdong fell, and his fate is like the fate of the people when the country is broken; There were Akita dogs who accompanied the Japanese Air Force on the plane, whose name was the same as that of then US President Roosevelt; There is also the vicious big wolf dog raised by the secret service agency No. 76, which, like the big wolf dog that appears in "Color Ring", implies the ferocity of the spies and that they are Japanese eagle dogs.

After the establishment of the Wang puppet regime, Nanjing and Shanghai became new battlefields for various forces to compete. There are people from the Wang puppet regime, there are the Kuomintang on the Chongqing side, there are the Communist Party, there are ordinary people, and on the Japanese side there are two main forces, the Ishihara faction and the Tojo faction.

The Ishihara faction was a follower of Ishihara Guan'er, who unexpectedly occupied the three eastern provinces in 1931, advocating the consolidation of Manchuria and the non-entry of customs. The Tojo faction was a supporter of Hideki Tojo, who advocated crossing Shanhaiguan to take the Central Plains and fully occupy China. Morihiroyuki in the film is a Ishihara school, who has always been obsessed with Manchuria, and said that "there are always more radical latecomers" for this reason.

However, as Tony Leung said in the film, the Ishihara faction and the Tojo faction are war criminals for us. Tony Leung's words were to show his anti-Japanese stance to the Japanese side in a showdown.

The main line of the story may not be clear, but it can be roughly seen that it is a confrontation game between the anti-Japanese forces and Japan and its eagle dogs.

When the story progresses to 1945, everyone's fate becomes confused, when Hitler loses in the European theater, commits suicide, and Japan dies in the Asian theater. In Nanjing, Wang Jingwei died of illness, and Zhou Fohai planned to find another way out. The fate of the little people is like a small boat in the ocean.

When they sensed that Japan was about to lose the war, everyone was looking for a way back for themselves, even the Japanese officers.

Dapeng began to plan a way out for himself early on, contacting the Chongqing side, but was eventually secretly executed. The Japanese thought that even if they lost the war, the Chinese side would abide by the Geneva International Convention and send him home as a war criminal.

At this time, women did not hesitate to turn back for the revolutionary ideal. Some of them died, some were missing, and some were successful. As the dialogue between Wang Yibo and Wang Chuanjun in the film says, women live for politics, while men make a living from politics.

Cheng Er photographed the woman too beautifully. Jiang Shuying was simply reborn, Zhou Xun had not been so beautiful for a long time, and Zhang Jingyi was also amazing.

These women are not only beautiful in appearance, their entire lives are the embodiment of beauty.

For example, the role of Jiang Shuying, she corresponds to Wang Jiazhi, she is a female spy sent by Chongqing, who has been following Dapeng, and was arrested because of her emotional softness, which led to the failure of the mission.

However, Jiang Shuying's ending is better than Wang Jiazhi. When interrogating him, whether it was Tony Leung or the Japanese who interrogated her, or the two pawns under Tony Leung, they could not bear to kill her, and were moved by her beauty, this is not a man's desire for a woman out of desire, nor a man's high pity and cherishing jade, but a kind of care for beauty itself, a yearning, a mournful unrealistic ideal of the Lord by people living in chaos and darkness.

The unknown cannot change the course of history, and most people go with the flow. There is no such thing as a good person in the absolute sense, but with a hint of kindness, a little ideal, romance will not die.

(Green Stream)