"Let's go! Let's go! People always have to learn to grow up on their own. Let's go! Let's go! Life inevitably experiences painful struggles. Let's go! Let's go! Find a home for your heart. I have also been sad and weeping, and I have also been heartbroken, which is the price of love. ”
"The Price of Love", a classic old song born in the 90s, is still refreshing to this day.
Pi Ge only recently learned that the song written by Li Zongsheng is actually the ending song of the 1992 Hong Kong film "Three Summers" (also known as "Brother's Lover"), which was originally sung by Zhang Aijia.
The script of "Three Summers" was also created by Zhang Aijia, but she did not direct, but handed over the director to Liu Guochang and served as the executive producer herself.
Liu Guochang, who holds a master's degree in film from the University of Southern California, directs films that are dominated by commercial action films, and before this film, he had just finished filming the police film "The Anti-Flying Group of the Blue River".
"Three Summers" is an attempt at Liu Guochang's new style, under zhang Aijia's "escort", the whole film is permeated with the warmth and rambling of the young girl Huaichun.
From the perspective of a little girl in Tai O Fishing Village, the film tells three sad love stories that happened on The Island of Tai O in three summers.
Liang Chaowei, Chen Shaoxia, Ye Yuqing, leading actors, Wu Qianlian and Chen Jinhong, etc., many film stars joined the cast.
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Located in the western part of Lantau Island in hong Kong's New Territories, Tai O has a warm climate and beautiful scenery, and is known as "Little Venice".
Half Foot (played by Chen Shaoxia) and her brother Viagra (played by Liang Chaowei) have lived on the island since childhood, she has never been out, and she does not know what the outside world is like.
Viagra went out to work, not long ago just returned to the island, his arm was injured, the neighbors said that he was running, hiding on the island to avoid the wind, what is the reason, Viagra himself refused to say, no one knows the truth.
During the days of living on the island, Viagra's temperament changed greatly, and he was very irritable every day, often drunk and drunk himself.
In the first summer of the film, the stone house of the half-foot family is rented to an environmental group, and the person in charge is a foreigner named Sai Haomi (played by Zhuang Yufei).
The two in-laws are studying the creatures of the island, and every summer they will cooperate with the Green Force Organization to carry out training camp activities, recruit a group of students to visit the island and do scientific research, and look forward to their arrival every summer vacation.
In this group of college students, Lam (played by Chen Jinhong), Sean (played by Chen Shuyi) and Flora (played by Wu Qianlian) are the focus of the students, they are inseparable, and they are the three people who have the most fun and dedication.
Lam and Flora are lovers, which makes Half Foot envious, but Lam is going to Australia to study, and the two will be separated at any time.
The first summer in the movie begins with a wish to watch the sunrise and ends with a wish with a lantern, which is a good summer, but the good is not permanent.
Time passed, and the second summer in the film came, half a foot in anticipation of the arrival of the students, but some of the changes that followed caught her off guard.
First, a mysterious animal attacks the chickens and dogs in the village, and the villagers call it a "mountain demon", disturbing the quiet of the village, and then a gang of underworlds find Viagra and beat him up.
Viagra was beaten, and the secret of Viagra's previous injuries was revealed.
He once drove a car for a big brother of the underworld, but fell in love with miss Ye (played by Ye Yuqing), a woman who was later discovered by the big brother and taught a lesson before escaping back to the island. Now missing Miss Ye, the eldest brother is looking everywhere for her relics.
Soon, Miss Ye suddenly appeared on the island, she came to look for Viagra, Viagra at first avoided her, but later found her hotel.
After a night of entanglement between the two, Miss Ye bids farewell to Viagra and wants to go to a place where no one can find her, completely free from the control of the eldest brother.
Miss Ye left, and half a foot also waited for the students who came to spend the summer vacation, but this year their atmosphere was not so harmonious.
Of the three people who had been glued to the previous year, Lam had gone abroad, Flora had found her new boyfriend, Aaron, to be with her, but sean, who was late in arriving, became very abnormal due to her mother's suicide.
Sean is not accustomed to Flora and Yaron together, and often deliberately finds Flora in trouble, which makes his classmates reject him, but he intensifies and develops to the end of the whole person crazy.
All this confused Half a Foot, and she didn't know why everyone had changed.
Half a Foot herself fell in love, and her object was a boy named Little Monkey among the students. The little monkey is from New Zealand, and after spending this summer vacation, he went back, so he fell out of love half a foot.
Viagra said that people will grow up after falling out of love, but half a foot does not seem to be sad about the departure of the little monkey.
In short, this summer has not been very happy, and those changes are like mountain demons, saying that they will come and go.
In the third summer of the movie, she does not want to stay at home anymore, and she wants to leave Tai O to study or work outside.
Viagra took her to a ride in a boat, and on the boat Viagra told her:
"Don't be afraid, you look behind. Wherever you go, home is behind you. ”
With the appearance of the panoramic view of Tai O's small island at the end of the film, the song "The Price of Love" sung by Zhang Aijia also slowly sounded.
The beauty of the island and the beautiful songs are intertwined to make you think.
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In fact, the song "The Price of Love" has a profound meaning, and it still needs Li Zongsheng's original song to perform the charm that has gone through vicissitudes.
Zhang Aijia's voice is sweet, but it expresses a different mood.
Just like half a foot in the film, watching the love of others and experiencing their own love, they are always ignorant.
The real protagonist of the whole story is Chen Shaoxia, and the whole film is also told according to the half-foot perspective played by Chen Shaoxia.
The two loves seen by half a foot's eyes are hazy and miserable, but they are deliberately incomprehensible, accompanied by a large blank space, triggering the audience's infinite reverie.
One of the relationships is Viagra and Miss Ye's—
The alias of the "Three Summers" movie is "Brother's Lover", and when it was promoted, it also focused on Liang Chaowei and Ye Yuqing, releasing a picture of the two entangled, while Chen Shaoxia rarely mentioned it, which showed the reality of the commercial market at that time.
Miss Ye, played by Ye Yuqing, appeared in the middle of the movie, and her red lips and white clothes surprised the audience.
When Viagra first arrived in Hong Kong, he didn't have any skills on him, so he could only drive for Big Brother Jianghu. It is conceivable that the eldest brother is often away from home, and Viagra and the sister-in-law have a long-term relationship, and this kind of plot has been seen in many gangster films (such as "Gunfire").
Later, the East Window incident, after being beaten up by the eldest brother and driven away, was already very cheap for him.
So when the two reunite on the island, they both have mixed feelings that are difficult to give up and dare not love.
Miss Ye naturally hoped that Viagra would open his mouth to keep her, but both knew that this was impossible. Liang Chaowei and Ye Yuqing are both film stars with pure acting skills, and although the love scene between the two is limited, it is well interpreted and is also the most wonderful part of the movie.
The second relationship is Lam and Flora
Lam and Flora were originally lovers, but both were untouched, and the relationship was not so solid. Lam was going to Study in Australia, and the two seemed to be separated as a matter of course.
The film doesn't tell who left whom, who was the first to betray in the relationship, but when Flora reappears, she's already with Aaron.
Half Foot and Sean's empathy for Flora is difficult to accept. But Half a Foot just couldn't figure it out, but Sean showed it completely, and the blow of his mother's death made him hysterical, adding a bit of instability to the island's second summer.
Because Viagra said that people will only grow up after falling out of love, half a foot is also in love.
But her love is only a shallow taste, and it does not leave too many traces, so until the last half foot away from the island, it is still a blank piece of paper, full of hope for the future.
As the song goes, "People always have to learn to grow up on their own." Life inevitably experiences painful struggles. ”
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This film is a wonderful fusion of Hong Kong and Taiwan films, the screenwriter and executive producer are Zhang Aijia, the director Liu Guochang and the actors are all Hong Kongers, and the filming locations are also Tai O and Lantau Island in Hong Kong.
The most interesting thing is the dubbing, the soundtrack of the Blu-ray disc produced by the filmmaker is a hokkien mixed with Chinese, which gives people the illusion that this is a treasure island movie.
Chen Shaoxia, who played half a foot, had just debuted into the show business circle at that time, and in the film he deliberately became a dark fisherman girl, but if you look closely, it is clear that she is Yue Lingshan in the TVB version of "Smiling Proud of the River", just as simple as a bay of lake water.
In fact, there is also a Cantonese version of the movie, and Pigo deliberately found this Cantonese version to see, which resolved the abrupt feeling of the Chinese version.
In the Cantonese version, even the song "The Price of Love" was replaced by the Cantonese "Leaving and Leaving", also sung by Zhang Aijia, and the lyricist was Lu Guanting's wife, Tang Shuchen. Another song of hers that is familiar to everyone is "Love of a Lifetime" of "Journey to the West", composed by Lu Guanting.
The Green Power group that appears in the film is a real Hong Kong voluntary group, which was founded in 1988 and focuses on Hong Kong's environmental affairs and related issues.
The organization's activities are funded by donations from citizens, membership fees from members of the organization, corporate sponsorship and income from fundraising activities.
This film is also a film project cooperated by film investors and green forces.
At that time, the Hong Kong government invested a lot of money in infrastructure construction in Tai O and Lantau Island, and the "moving" Guanyin appeared in the film to make way for Tung Chung Airport. The aerial footage at the end of the film can also see the dam of the Stone Wall Pond and the airport under construction.
Behind the love story, it also reflects the changes of the times and the changes in the environment, and the message of environmental protection is also a theme of the film. However, the activities of the training camp in the film include collecting butterfly specimens, tracing streams and putting out hole lanterns, which now seem to be acts of destruction of the environment, which shows that with the progress of the times, people's ideological concepts will also change accordingly.
The story of the film is told like a prose poem, and there is no clear main line.
There are many characters who come and go like passers-by in everyone's life, and they don't leave too many marks.
The plot seems to be careless, but it reflects the original appearance of life, with the charming scenery of Tai O, the perception left for the audience is still very good.
1993 was a year of competition in the Hong Kong film industry, and low-budget literary films like this naturally did not have much market.
However, less than 2 weeks after the film was released, it still won 3.66 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, which shows that literary and art films still have a place in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong films are still the old "spicy"!
Now that the movie has been released for 27 years, "Ye Yuqing with red lips, Chen Shaoxia who debuted, Liang Chaowei who wore shorts, and the sea breeze blew their flowing hair", in this movie, those beautiful moments still make the audience who saw it unforgettable...