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Many people have had the experience of online dating.
There is also a lot of software that gives us this opportunity.
As there is a saying: look at a photo (trick), listen to a voice (repair), say goodnight for two days (group), and like it.
Maybe he also said a few popular love words, played a few chickens together, and then used the online paragraph to tease the other party.
But such feelings tend to end more quickly than they come.
Because I didn't reply to the message, because I didn't send a gift on Arbor Day, because it was a deception, I immediately decided to break up. Then turn on the phone, click a little more, swipe another "love" begins again.
In the present, a relationship from beginning to end may only take a few short hours.
But twenty years ago, this time might have been twelve nights, like in the movie below—
Twelve Nights
In fact, this is not a continuous twelve-day period, but refers to the whole process of love withering, and the film selects twelve nights in which it is representative.
The director of "Twelve Nights" is Lin Aihua, who is a famous screenwriter in Hong Kong, "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves 2", "If. Love", "Chinese Partner", "Golden Rooster 2", "Letter of Submission" and so on are all her screenwriting works.
The film is the most famous of Lin Aihua's few directorial works, starring Cecilia Cheung and Eason Chan.
20 years ago, Cecilia Cheung was only 20 years old, with exquisite facial features, pure and feminine, and a kind of innocent and flexible beauty.
At that time, Eason Chan had not yet become a fat uncle, had not yet permed an explosive head, and was only 26 years old, and he could still see that he was a handsome young man.
The wonderful thing is that these two people who are not compatible with each other in the eyes of today's young people are playing lovers together, and there is actually a tacit understanding of "husband and wife".
This also shows that the appearance skills of both people are online.
What does this movie look like, like today's picture book, like a 7-11 convenience store, like a brutal documentary.
Like a picture book, it is because the film adopts the form of a subtitle, divided into twelve sections, and the structure is clear and simple.
Like the 7-11 convenience store, it is because the people inside like to talk in 7-11, and their love is like a fast food convenience store.
Like the documentary, it's because it's so real.
First Night: Love is like a serious illness, and it will be fine after it has passed.
Jeannie (Cecilia Cheung) overhears gossip about her boyfriend at a friend's birthday party.
"I saw him holding hands with a yankee in heaven."
Then, Jeannie secretly dialed her boyfriend's phone, but no one answered, which seemed to confirm the words of her friend.
Forced to be calm until the end of the birthday party, Alan (Eason Chan), who also came to the birthday party, sent her home.
Interestingly, Alan also just broke up because his girlfriend said that he was usually like "a big Buddha", lifeless, and the two said that they would break up after the birthday party.
When she got into the taxi, Jeannie began to cry, and after a while she laughed in the rearview mirror.
Below we see a god-level operation -
Jeannie asks Alan to pretend to be her new lover and breaks up with her boyfriend at a 7-11 convenience store.
After this, she cried and laughed, saying that it was better to mention that it was herself who broke up, so it was the other party who was sad.
Alan looked at her with tears on her face and asked, "Aren't you really upset?" ”
From the first night, we can actually see that Jeannie is like a little girl, everything follows the feeling, willful and cute.
Night Two: Only people in love think their encounter was not accidental.
Ah, here's the time to abuse the dog.
How Mo Wenwei's song is sung:
The beginning is always wonderful every minute, and everyone thinks that the passion will never diminish.
Jeannie and Alan quickly fell in love.
Just when Alan's ex-girlfriend asked him how he could eat nest grass, he replied: "Because I am not a big Buddha in front of her"
When Jeannie and the two of them were lying in bed, she thought that the encounter between the two men was marked by fate and arranged by God.
If it weren't for the chance hearing that her ex had a dog outside, if Alan hadn't broken up with her ex-girlfriend, the two of them wouldn't have been in a taxi, she wouldn't have let him pretend to be her boyfriend, and the two wouldn't have been together.
What is it? This is fate!!! It was ape dung that made us walk upright!!
Third Night: Watch out for those who are in love, they are all crazy.
The academic Dzogchen has a theory that when we fall in love with a person, we love the unknown X, and what is beyond him within him is something inexplicable.
One of the favorite questions between lovers is, what do you like about me?
At this time, if the other party is saying that you like you good-looking/cute/rich and other specific reasons, then you have to pay attention.
Because you think I'm cute today, tomorrow this quality disappears and your love disappears. So love should be wonderful, can't say why I love you, but I do love you.
This theory will be verified below.
Jeannie and Alan are in this state of love madness.
For example, Alan will sing an opera while driving a car and talking to his little girlfriend voice...
For example, Alan worked late and had a flat tire, not angry or annoyed, but laughed and giggled and did not sleep to bring breakfast to Jeannie...
Love, what a wonderful thing.
Night Four: Will you remember me when you close your eyes?
Two people lying in bed (and lying on the bed again) observe each other's appearance.
Jeannie said Alan's head was square and didn't know what she had in mind.
Alan said that Jeannie's eyebrows were ugly, thick enough to hold a boat; her jaw was wide and wide, like a pufferfish; her mouth was devoid of character, not thick and not thin...
At this time, you want to rush into the screen to give Alan a punch, such a perfect facial features you can also pick out the fault?!!! I see there's something wrong with you!
Alas, single dogs do not deserve to mix with the small love interests of the couple before.
At this time Jeannie asked, "Can you remember what I look like when you close your eyes?" ”
Alan replied: "Do you think you will like a person so much after you know him?" ”
Speaking of which, we need to bring out selena's words from the classic romance film "Love in the Trilogy": When I know a person thoroughly, I will really fall in love with him.
Alan's love, a kind of long-distance love, and in Žižek's words, he put Jeannie in its original position, and once he got too close to her, her charm would be swept away.
The same is true of the online dating at the beginning, we like not the person behind the screen, but an illusion we have created for ourselves.
One day, when we cross the illusion to reach reality, when we discover that everything is not what we imagined, love will be shattered.
Fifth Night: The dignity of men is placed on women and other men.
This night, the two men quarreled.
Because of travel, Jeannia wants to fly out on a trip, and Alan wants to take advantage of the vacation to lie in bed.
Coupled with The fact that Jeannia met a boyfriend at the airport, they had a great conversation. Alan was jealous, and the two quarreled, but they reconciled quickly.
From the sixth night onwards, love gradually moves towards the kind of "rotten tail" we know.
Alan began to dislike Jeannie for not looking good at clothes.
Jeannie began to suffer from various serial killer calls.
Jeannie does all sorts of things for Alan, like fixing a computer, like buying underwear, and Alan is unsympathetic and gets into a fight.
Then we broke up.
Jeannie felt useless, crying at work, crying after work, lying in bed hallucinating that Alan was calling.
Two months later, when the two met again, Jeannie said a lot, but Alan didn't know when she passed out.
If it is you and me, the moment Alan is asleep, he can already completely let go of this man, but Jeannie is the one in the matter, and it is difficult to really let go of a person who has been deeply liked.
The two reconcile again, this time as Alan becomes more attentive and Jeannie begins to be absent-minded.
?
But a lot of times love is like that, it's not clear.
When Jeannie accidentally learned that her ex-boyfriend had not cheated on her, and that her friend had misread it, she realized that there was no providence at all, not that there had been an arrangement earlier, and that everything was just an accident.
At the end, she hides behind Alan's search, behind a young man, who is Nicholas Tse.
You see, another twelve nights began to cycle.
In fact, we can see the problem with Jeannie here, that is, she is too easy to be led by love.
In love, she is just losing herself in a moment.
When others say that her boyfriend holds hands with a yankee, she believes it, but she doesn't want to believe her boyfriend and doesn't want to figure things out.
Most of what she did for Alan was self-motivated.
Alan can buy his own underwear, fix the computer Alan can also pick it up himself, and Alan can do his own thing when he is busy.
Also, if you break up, it just means that two people are not suitable, it does not mean that you are not good or bad.
Because the director is female, "Twelve Nights" is a feminist love film, with a focus on Jeannie, but this does not mean that Alan has no flaws.
He's macho, doesn't take care of his girlfriend's ideas, is self-righteous.
This love affair is between a little girl and a little boy.
From the sixth night onwards, it may be the process of every relationship after all, but it is also a time point that tests the maturity of two people.
Dialogue, communication, and even quarrels, as long as you can express your inner thoughts to each other, as long as you are sincere with each other, you will definitely spend it together.
However, this single dog will definitely be refreshed when he sees it...
I always feel that this movie is quite compatible with Karen Mok's "Cloudy Day", so finally enjoy the lyrics of this daigo empowerment:
cloudy
In a room without lights
When all thoughts settle down little by little
Love is spiritual opium in the end
Or the boring pastime of the end of the century
cigarette
Form a beach of aperture
And his picture is at hand
Silly two people laughed so sweetly
The beginning is always wonderful every minute
Everyone thinks that enthusiasm will never diminish
Except for the little bit of tiredness after the passion faded
Maybe as someone said, insatiable
Who said that they did not know the inspection
In short, those years of sensibility won the rational side
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Tong Yunxi
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