Directed by Wong Kar-wai and starring Hu Ge, Ma Yili, Tang Yan and Xin Zhilei, the contemporary urban drama "Flowers" is based on Jin Yucheng's novel of the same name. The story consists of two parts: one is the passage of time, which tells the growth of Bao, and the other is the prosperous chapter, which tells the story of Mr. Bao after success. What connects these two parts is the times, from the initial nothing, to how he became the dominant Bao in ten years, this gorgeous turn, in addition to his personal struggle, also needs the blessing of the times. It can also be said that in that era of surging passion and everyone striving for the top, Po is one of the people who struggled to succeed, and the story tells the truth and sincerity of an era from his perspective (with a drama calendar at the end).
Jin Yucheng's novel "Flowers" won the first place in the 2012 Chinese Novel List Novel and the first Lu Xun Cultural Award for Novel of the Year. The story of the novel has two main lines of cross-narration: one is written about the 60s and 80s of the last century, and the other is written about the 90s of the last century. The three protagonists of the novel are Shanghai students from military families, A Bao from capitalist families, Xiao Mao from workers' families, and three people with a huge gap in social status......
This line from the 60s to the 80s of the last century tells the story of Po's liking for her neighbor's little sister Betty, and later Po's house was taken over, and Betty and Grandma also disappeared. That story was written about all the human nature in the 60s, all the rights and wrongs, Betty and Grandma, who Bao had never been able to find, finally committed suicide by jumping into the river (the novel did not directly write that they jumped into the river, but said that they all went to fish), which made it difficult for Bao to be nostalgic for 20 years. Husheng likes the arrogant Shuhua, but Shuhua finally went to Jilin, and also encountered a change, and the last letter made Husheng look down on everything. After Xiao Mao's cheating with the next-door neighbor's wife Yinfeng was exposed, he misunderstood Yinfeng and broke off his friendship with Ah Bao and Lu Sheng.
The story of the 90s of the last century tells the story of Ah Bao and lawyer Lu Sheng, who are engaged in foreign trade business, and often go to Zhizhen Garden for dinner and treats, and they are familiar with the proprietress Li Li (there is a relationship that Miss Wang is a customer of Bao, and Li Li and Miss Wang are good friends). Li Li not only fell in love with Ah Bao, but also expressed his emotions to him many times, but Ah Bao neither refused nor agreed. The climax of the story is that Li Li formed a game to Changshu, Miss Wang and Mr. Xu had a relationship between men and women in Changshu, and there was Miss Wang's pregnancy, which caused her to have a fake marriage with her childhood friend Xiaomao. Miss Wang's case is very complicated, involving four men in a real and fake marriage.
When Hu Sheng and Bai Ping were in love in the novel, they also corresponded with Mei Rui, the kind who stepped on two boats, and later fell in love with Shuhua and Lan Lan. Husheng and Bai Ping's marriage is very strange, because Bai Ping later went abroad and did not come back, he neither fought for it nor divorced. When he was ready to spend the rest of his life with Xiaoqin, he finally witnessed Xiaoqin's death and learned from his diary that Xiaoqin didn't really love him. Li Li later opened his heart and told Ah Bao about his complicated experience, and the passive Ah Bao showed his true feelings to her, but Li Li suddenly rejected him and finally decided to become a nun.
The end of the novel ends with Xiao Mao, he later became a doorman, and finally died of stomach problems, Ah Bao and Hu Sheng helped two French young people because of Xiao Mao's last words, and on the way back, Ah Bao also received a call from Xuezhi, who had broken up for many years, but he just coped with it and hung up the phone. Although Bao said that he would contact again when he hung up the phone, judging from his attitude, the past is the past, memories are memories, and it should be better not to contact than to contact. Through the life trajectories of several people, the novel writes about the dark side of human nature, intrigues, lies and deception, and the true face of all kinds of love.