Who is the most topical at the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards?
It is the first shortlisted film in history, and "To the Nineteen-Year-Old Me" unilaterally announced its withdrawal due to controversy and public pressure.
Who is the most eye-catching at the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards?
It is an adaptation of a real case and is classified as a "third-level film" because it is too realistic.
Whether it is topical or eye-catching, these two films will undoubtedly become the most eye-catching focus of the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards.
Under such a halo, those works that are too emotional and too literary and artistic show a unique sense of powerlessness and coldness.
Maybe that's not what they want, maybe that's what they are.
Just like this "Lights and Lights" directed by emerging director Zeng Xianning and starring Zhang Aijia and Ren Dahua.
In a way that he tells the viewers about the end of an era, and those things that once represented brilliance and prosperity.
Perhaps history can only be remembered by a few in this way; Or perhaps, they can restore the glory and prosperity of the past.
When a widow (Mika) finds a key from the relics of her deceased husband (Chanbi).
When the widow uses the key to open the secret door that her husband wants to rebuild neon before he dies.
When the widow is on the way to find the neon story, she recalls the romance and warmth of herself and her husband.
All this may just be the last spiritual comfort left by her husband.
The neon brilliance may symbolize Mei Xiang's love for her husband.
But it wasn't until after her husband's death that Mei Xiang realized that she might not know her husband.
Because her husband's attachment to neon is as deep and untraced as her own attachment to him.
Under such a love, in such a memory, Mei Xiang began the road of reminiscing about her husband's life.
That is the most daily husband and wife interaction, that is the most sincere love sweetness, that is only Zhang Aijia and Ren Dahua's age, will understand the interaction with the husband and wife.
All this, whether it is performance or real, so naturally improvised appeared.
Don't you think? Whether it is Zhang Aijia and Ren Dahua, or Jiang Meixiang and Yang Canbi.
Whether they stand together or sit together, they are a very husband and wife couple, and they are all a couple that makes people look full of sweetness.
As a character in memory, as a husband who is both affectionate and romantic to his wife.
In "Lights and Lights", Ren Dahua not only showed his love for neon lights, but also dedicated a sincere love to Zhang Aijia.
This kind of emotional interaction between husband and wife only under the grinding of years and wind and frost will move me this time and make me cry.
In addition to love and family affection, Ren Dahua told the audience a feeling with the neon sign in his hand, a feeling that only belongs to the "Pearl of the Orient" in Hong Kong.
It is these neon lights that remind us of the bright and prosperous Hong Kong, the colorful "Pearl of the Orient".
Just as Ren Dahua sighed.
Colors can never be copied, and there is no neon in Hong Kong today.
The lost color will be lost forever, and now you and I can only miss the neon of the past through "The Lights".
Maybe someday in the future, we will see neon check-in spots for tourists in Wan Chai or Mong Kok.
But you will never see that colorful Hong Kong, that colorful era again.
Until the end, although Mei Xiang is still trying to fulfill her husband's last wish, their daughter is already planning to leave the city that has lost its neon.
"Lights and Lights" is not destined to become a popular film at the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards, and it is difficult to have too bright a performance in all awards.
Because he is too emotional, because he is too sad.
Even the performance of Zhang Aijia and Ren Dahua has made my eyes white mist several times.
But under this layer of white fog, what I saw was not the once neon capital.
Perhaps, from the perspective of Hong Kong's older generation, "Lights and Lights" deserves more.
Among the many nominations at the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards, "The Lights of the Lights" was only nominated for "Best Actress" and "Best New Actor".
Although he is already a good performance compared to the other four films that have only received one nomination.
But if you have seen this movie, you have longed for that neon Hong Kong, and you have imprinted that colorful Hong Kong in your memory in various ways.
Perhaps in the Hong Kong Film Awards, a local film award, he should deserve more.
It's not about Zhang Aijia, it's not about Yam Dahua, it's only about the neon Hong Kong that has passed away.
(After reading it, remember to pay attention to "Hua Yuhan" Oh, the picture comes from the Internet)
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