"Carmen Mong Kok": Wong Kar-wai's work
Huang Zihong
In 1988, Wong Kar-wai's film "As tears go by" ("as tears go by") tells the story of the underworld character Hua who took care of his unfinished friends and feuded with the underworld character, and then ran to the outlying island to recuperate, and gradually fell in love with his cousin, but Hua's jianghu identity made this relationship repeatedly frustrated.
The gangster-themed "Carmen of Mong Kok" does not have a lonely hero to ten, nor a terrifying group beating scene, some are just two helpless young people in reality who are bleeding and desperate, as a flesh and blood person with shortcomings to shape, using MTV-style abstract vision to bring a poetic romantic feeling into this film, thus showing an alternative style that is different from other action movies.
Mong Kok Ah Hua does things neatly and with great affection, he is not the kind of who calls the wind and rain and covers the world with one hand. He didn't have hundreds of brothers under him, no endless gold dollars and dollar bills, and he only had a little brother named Black Fly who followed him. Ah Hua is full of pride and courage. The black fly was beaten like a pig's head, and Ah Hua rode a single knife and went into the tiger's den alone to avenge his little brother. That sharp look made the other party frightened. When he met his cousin A'e, he began to get tired of the strife in the jianghu and tired of fighting, killing and killing. But the road of no return and his righteousness still made him finally fall under the guns of the police.
In the film, many lines are still intriguing:
I'd rather be a hero for a day than a worm in my life!
You decide to go, I'll go with you.
If you can't, I'll make up a shot for you.
I used to think there was a kind of bird that would fly at the beginning and fly until the day of death. In fact, it had never been anywhere, and the bird was dead in the first place.
Because I know myself so well, I can't promise you anything.
Because I know myself so well, I can't promise you anything. If I wasn't worried about you, I wouldn't have come to you.
Although "Carmen of Mong Kok" still follows the violent aesthetics of Wu Yusen-style gangsters, action and emotions such as "Blood And Two Heroes" and "Hero Nature", it has since opened Wong Kar-wai's unique MTV-style film narrative style.
In the subsequent works of Wong Kar-wai, it is not difficult for us to find that his most unique and unique vision is to excavate "idols" and build into powerful actors. In this film, he used Andy Lau, who has been hiding for two years, dared to use Maggie Cheung, who has been criticized as a "vase", and really taught her to discover and use her own rich body language, as for the "rookie in the music world" Jacky Cheung, he won the Best Supporting Actor Award at the 8th Hong Kong Film Awards the following year with this film.