Text | Snow reminiscence
Many things in this world have a shelf life, probably people are the same, so we will fall in love with a person when we are fresh, and we will choose to forget when it expires. Sometimes, when you choose to be alone, you are not qualified to complain. Just like Wong Kar-wai's unforgettable feelings in the movie.
What is love, exactly? Do you know that love will hurt but still taste its taste, or do you simply stop because you know that love has no result?
Many people say that they can't understand Wong Kar-wai and can't understand the so-called sense of high-level in his movies, but in fact, Wong Kar-wai has been talking about one thing from beginning to end, that is, "loneliness".
Whether it is the entanglement in "Chongqing Forest" or the repression in "East Evil and West Poison", it is the sadness and joy that cannot be loved. Fallen Angel just amplifies all the pain and makes the miss of love a matter of course.
"Fallen Angels" tells the story of five urban men and women, who are angels wandering in the city, covering up the unspeakable scars and loneliness in their hearts in a seemingly depraved way.
Angel Number One is a killer played by Dawn, who seems cold-blooded and ruthless, but is actually just out of professional needs. But if he can do it, he will not give his life for it.
Angel Number Two is a killer partner played by Li Jiaxin, and each time through her arrangement, the bullets in Dawn's gun complete the mission. Both she and Dawn firmly believe that there should be no personal affection for the profession.
The whole movie is made up of a series of narrations, and the few lines seem to be a last resort.
The story begins with Li Jiaxin appearing in a small room where she often comes to clean, she will carefully sniff the smoke on her suit, she will pick up the notes thrown in the trash can, she will lie on the bed to satisfy herself, and she will stare at the turn of the phonograph. And here, it is Dawn's room.
They never met, she arranged tasks, he left clues, they always wanted to get close to each other, but in the end they did not have the courage.
Do they have love between them, you ask? Perhaps curiosity is the beginning of love.
Movies never say who to kill, why, because it's just a life. Dawn said: "The killer also has elementary school classmates. "Once, as he was fleeing the crime scene and sneaking onto a bus, he came across someone who claimed to be a classmate of his elementary school classmates. Along the way, the noise of his classmates did not stop, but he always laughed and did not speak.
In real life, we often have such troubles. Even if it is a literary film, it still has to show the "customary" of fireworks.
In the whole movie, Li Jiaxin smokes without leaving his hand, which is exactly the most lonely portrayal of his heart. She loves Dawn, but never meets. They rubbed shoulders several times, but never looked back.
At this time, you will think of Liang Chaowei in "Chongqing Forest", who never dared to open the letter given to him by the girls, because he was afraid of refusal, so he blocked all hopes. Is this self-preservation or the cowardice of love?
Angel No. 3 is a big boy played by Takeshi KimSeong, who ate a jar of expired pineapples at the age of 5 and has since stopped talking. In fact, he is more like retaining the mind of the 5-year-old, he is stubborn but happy, he is willful but kind. His greatest pleasure is to pry open shop after shop in the middle of the night, then pretend to be the owner there, forcing passers-by to become his guests.
Jin Chengwu would sit on the pig and massage it, and would pull a strange family to sell ice cream. He said that he had a cheerful personality, but he seemed to be drowning in a sea of loneliness. Smiling, sometimes just hiding sadness.
Because his mother has died since he was a child, he has always been lonely with his taciturn father. Only when the night appears, this loneliness becomes one with the night. After all, people who choose midnight shuttle are probably because of loneliness!
On the night of meeting angel Yang Caini, Jin Chengwu happened to be peddling goods, and Jin Chengwu, who had always forced others, was "defeated" by Yang Caini. As the character with the most lines in the whole movie, Yang Caini is noisy when she appears, and how quiet she is when she says goodbye. Everyone grows, and the price is to mute the cry.
Yang Caini has always said that her boyfriend was snatched away by a woman named "Golden Retriever", but who is Golden Retriever, the film never indicates. In fact, there is no need to say more, "Golden Retriever" can be anyone, perhaps, she is just a cathartic outlet.
Yang Caini pulled Jin Chengwu to accompany herself to find "Golden Retriever", but she did not know where "Golden Retriever" was. During this period, Jin Chengwu felt that he finally had the feeling of the first love of his life, and he fell in love with Yang Caini. Until one day Yang Caini disappeared, his love was like that expired can of pineapple, which has been shelved ever since, and his heart has never been put down.
Li Jiaxin likes to go to all the places that Dawn has visited, and she is like a shadow, and the more curious she is, the more deeply she is trapped. How can a person follow a killer and keep the other person unnoticed? It's all just because the other person wants you to get closer.
It is precisely because of this that Dawn will leave the "1818" password for Li Jiaxin. According to the guidance of "1818", when he turned on the phonograph and heard the song "Forget Him", Li Jiaxin burst into tears. She may never have figured it out that this was dawn's choice for each other, not to forget, but to bravely meet them.
They missed it, they had been the best partners, but they missed it because of love.
Angel No. 5, Karen Mok, appeared at a McDonald's restaurant, and she sat down at Dawn's side in an empty restaurant at midnight. If Yang Caini always shouts loudly to vent, then Karen Mok's shouting is a cover-up. She had just experienced the pain of a lost love, so she laughed out loud and jumped wildly, and her exaggerated performance was just commensurate with her exaggerated yellow explosive head.
Karen Mok told Dawn: "Do you know why my hair is dyed this color, in order not to let people forget me so easily." ”
Forgetting a person has nothing to do with appearance, but only about how deeply you have been rooted in the other person's heart.
Everyone is lonely, everyone cries, but most of the time, no one cares.
When Dawn and Karen Mok embraced each other, they never had a heart for each other, they were just substitutes for each other's loneliness. Is it necessary to sacrifice the soul of another person in order to forget one person?
Li Jiaxin and Karen Mok met in the underground passage, only because of the familiar smell of perfume on each other, the woman's intuition made them recognize each other. Led by Karen Mok, Li Jiaxin and Dawn sat face to face for the first time.
In life, there will always be this dilemma, the left hand is love, the right hand has love.
When Dawn walked out of the room to choose Karen Mok, probably everyone would think he had made a decision. In fact, he only wants to send his old love on the last journey.
In their lifetime, many people are just passers-by of each other, but they did not realize it at the time, and they thought that they could be long and long.
When Karen Mok and Dawn broke up, it rained heavily, just as it did on the day they met. Karen Mok's struggle and rejection are full of painful entanglement and helplessness. Does someone who is in love still have dignity? Dignity has long given love.
After Li Jiaxin asks Dawn to help her one last time, Dawn loses her hand and dies during the mission. The beloved arranged a dead end for him, and he gladly went to the appointment, is this ending a bitter and sad ending?
It seems to be a unrequited love affair with Li Jiaxin, but in fact, she is the leader of all this. She dominates the love that could have been double-handed, and she also dominates the life of her lover.
Love, many times, is both an antidote and a poison.
Mr. Kinseong worked as a chef at a midnight restaurant, and he had a brief encounter with Dawn. Just like at the end of the story, Jin Chengwu meets Li Jiaxin, who has passed by several times.
"Every day you pass by a lot of people, and that person may become your friend or confidant." But most of the time it was "we had too many opportunities to brush ourselves off, until our clothes were torn and we didn't see a spark." ”
When Jin Chengwu saw Yang Caini again, she had become a lady. He played a happy clown beside her, and she had long forgotten that there had been such a person who had spent many sad nights with her. How could she forget? She just deliberately chose to forget.
At the end of the story, Jin Chengwu rides a motorcycle to carry Li Jiaxin through the night. Sometimes, the stranger's comfort has a hint of warmth.
The city is too crowded, too many people are rubbing shoulders, and most people will eventually become strangers.
The whole film seems to be pieced together with fragmented fragments, but in fact, every story and every character has a connection, is this like a very realistic life? This fragmented plot is a divided heart, strangers can not heal, only time can alleviate the pain.
When most people tell stories in movies, only Wong Kar-wai always pays attention to the expression of self-awareness. In that strange and bustling city, how many idiot men and women are addicted to it, love is the only weapon that can sting them. In fact, there is no shortage of people in love, what may be missing is the ability to love a person.
Does Li Jiaxin, who never says much, really love Dawn? All she loved was the illusion of loneliness. We have tasted solitude all our lives, coming alone at birth and going alone when we leave. This way, it is always one person. Don't say that Wong Kar-wai is too dark, he just understands human nature better, after all, loneliness never distinguishes between ages.
In the movie, they have no names except Jin Chengwu, and the names are symbols, just like they all have the code name of "angel". They suffer for different reasons, but the lonely endings are all the same.
I love the use of those wide-angle shots in Fallen Angels, which show the alienation between people so clearly.
Love, can not ask, can not complain, but have to live like this, this is probably the helplessness of the men and women who are imprisoned in this city cage!
Author: Xue Yirou
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