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The story is adapted from some chapters of Jin Yong's novel "The Legend of the Eagle Shooter"
Ouyang Feng (Zhang Guorong), a young hero and guest of "West Poison", fights invincible hands all over the world, and after encountering the "Eastern Evil" Huang Yaoshi (Liang Jiahui), the two of them have become good friends ever since. Xi Poison returns to his hometown of White Ostrich Mountain, and finds that his beloved woman Peach Blossom (Maggie Cheung) is married to his brother, so he leaves White Ostrich Mountain and opens an inn in the desert to find killers for others and avenge his customers.
A prince named Murong Yan (Lin Qingxia) wants to find Poison Xi to kill Dong Evil, because Dong Evil abandons Murong Yan's sister Murong Yan. At the same time, Murong Yan came to stop The Western Poison from killing the Eastern Evil. According to legend, after Murong Brother and Sister was murong gongzi of the Jianghu family, the brother fell in love with his sister, and the younger sister fell in love with the Eastern Evil. However, Murong Yan was actually just a person.
A lot of things can't be done without money. The brother of Xiao Nu (Yang Caini) is innocently killed by the people of the Taiwei Mansion, and she uses a basket of eggs to ask Xi Poison for help, but is refused. The filial daughter stayed outside the inn. Wait for someone who can promise her.
The blind samurai (Liang Chaowei) is unable to return to his hometown to see the peach blossom in his hometown because of the lack of travel fees - the peach blossom in his hometown also defected to the west to become a killer, but the peach blossom has not yet opened, and the samurai has gone blind and is killed by the horse thief. Xi Poison returns his relics to his wife, who is also called Peach Blossom (Liu Jialing), and discovers that Peach Blossom has a delicate relationship with her friend Dong Evil.
Hong Qi's (Jacky Cheung) leaves his wife and wanders the world, bent on getting ahead, he encounters Xi Poison in the inn, and Xi Poison makes him into the killer's business. The straight HongQi did not like the poison of the West and secretly avenged the filial piety. Hong Qi's wife traveled thousands of miles to find her, and Hong Qi, with his wife, left and said to Xi Poison: Who said you can't take your wife into the rivers and lakes? It's man-made!
For many years, Dong Evil has been visiting Xi Venom's sister-in-law Peach Blossom. Listen to her tell her about her love and hatred for Xi Poison. But these things, he never mentioned to Xi Poison.
After Peach Blossom died, Dong Evil brought an altar of "Drunken Life dream death" wine to find Xi Poison. East Evil drank and left. Seems to have forgotten everything. Soon, West Poison burned the inn to ashes. Left the desert.
"Ashes of time", meaning "Ashes of Time", is the English title of "East Evil West Poison". There's an impressive line in the film that when you can't have it anymore, the only thing you can do is to keep yourself from forgetting. More than a decade later, when we grow up to be sensible enough, we find that we revisit this classic and touch the long-standing memory.
Time passes, memories are like ashes, thin and soft, and as long as the slightest wind blows, it will blow away. The people in the play are forever stranded in the blazing desert: the people outside the play, the legends that turn a thousand times, all of them have become in vain....
"East Evil West Poison" was filmed by Wong Kar-wai between 1994 and 1995. 14 years ago, Hong Kong cinema was at its peak, and several of the main actors in the film, Cheung Kwok Wing, Leung Ka Fai, Lin Qingxia, Jacky Cheung, Leung Chao Wai, Maggie Cheung, Yang Caini, and Liu Jialing, most of them just became climate; And director Wong Kar-wai has not yet ascended to the throne of the master of Chinese film and art films.
"East Evil West Poison" successfully opened up a new Martial Arts film in Hong Kong, which seems to have been not realized at the time. The flamboyant personality of "East Evil and West Poison" makes the characters extremely well placed, and the ingenious and rather black humor plot subverts the traditional martial arts movies. As Wong Kar-wai said: I don't create, I'm more subverting. This film is a good illustration of the drawbacks of previous Hong Kong martial arts films, returning that transcendent humanity to ordinary people, and giving the characters in martial arts movies a personality and soul. The brash personality performance and beautiful photography, staggered characters and stories intertwine with each other, can be called a very human film.
One day 10 years later, Wong Kar-wai suddenly had the inspiration to re-edit this work that did not do well at the box office that year, but was regarded as a classic by fans. It took 4 years and cost tens of millions of yuan, "East Evil west poison: the ultimate version" appeared, when it reunited with the audience, there is only one clear proof of a real classic, it will never disappear with time, some things, absolutely like wine, the longer the more mellow.
As Liu Jialing said, she did not understand it 14 years ago, and now she understands it. The biggest feature of "East Evil west poison: Ultimate Edition" seems to have corrected the previous whimsical and jumpy and wayward expression, the plot and dialogue are not affected, but after re-editing, the narrative is clearer and smoother.
The biggest change in the film is actually in the audiovisual effects. The color of the image processed by technology is more intense, blue sky, white clouds, yellow sand, clear water, the morning and dusk changes on the desert present magnificent colors, and the slightly rough picture of the imaging particles gives people a texture of oil painting.
Another thing to say is that after watching the film, you will still be in a trance: costumes, action, all-star lineups, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige in recent years, these things that Wong Kar-wai has done more than ten years ago, and compared to the emptiness of some works, "East Evil and West Poison" is much more meaningful.