At the end of 2020,
The release of "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" has attracted a lot of attention and discussion.
You know, in the past Hong Kong movies, there are Cannes film queens, film emperors: Manyu and Wei Tsai,
There is also wong Kar-wai who is artistic and artistic, there is also Chow Sing Chi who is nonsensical, there is a crazy Wu Zhenyu, and there is a lonely Jin Chengwu...
There is also a classic to become the "Infernal Affairs" that will always be remembered in the history of Chinese film.
However, today is different from the past, these years of Hong Kong films, there are few masterpieces,
However, China's Taiwan region has produced many fantastic works of great imagination and profound significance, showing the grotesqueness of Taiwan's unparalleled interweaving of tradition and modernity.
For example, 2017's "Big Buddha Plus", a stunning work full of spirit,
Social criticism is not boring at all, rich human touch and Taiwanese folk customs are intertwined, vivid and cute,
The director's narration, the metaphor of black and white and color, the uncle who collects dolls in the space capsule...
People are born unequal, but whether poor or rich, the loneliness of not being understood is like a shadow.
Or 2018's "Who Fell in Love with Him First",
In Taiwan's somewhat vulgar and noisy plot story, with the onion of black humor, layer by layer peel away the helplessness and sadness in the laughing farce,
After reading it, it is tears again, and it is laughter, and the five tastes are mixed, which is life.
There is also the beauty and cruelty in "Blood Guanyin",
There is also "Carnival" that directly attacks the cruel truth that "everyone in this world will hurt little girls",
There is also a gentle display of the group of fat people in "The Great Hunger", which clearly accounts for a lot, "but everyone hates, even they hate themselves"...
It's hard to define the amazing cheats of Taiwanese movies over the years.
Perhaps it is because it pays close attention to the delicate life and psychology of marginalized characters that no one cares about.
Weak girls, fat women, deep cabinets, poor janitors at the bottom.........
There is no secular prejudice and too dramatic plot, but to break the so-called rhythmic sense, drama and emotional flashpoint, just sincerely express the small characters,
This is actually enough to strike at our hearts at an easy moment.
Especially this year's "Disappearing Valentine's Day", it is still the set of Taiwanese love taunting and fresh,
But the unpretentious, a little frizzy heroine, and the silly, simple, and a little stupid male protagonist inadvertently poke at the missing part of our hearts.
Yang Xiaoqi is a girl with a very ordinary appearance, acute, straight-talking, not beautiful, not taunting;
Live in a cramped rental house, buy cheap fish soup to eat underneath,
Take some postcards yourself and put them on social networks, pretending to be happy to travel, but in fact, it is lonely and empty.
Watching the beautiful female colleagues around me, always being talked to,
Valentine's Day, but also with her boyfriend to see the Mayday concert, and I am just an ordinary lonely, older young woman ~ ~
On the eve of Valentine's Day, she met a tall and handsome teacher Liu in the park.
Invited to watch movies, given bento boxes, and even asked themselves to spend Valentine's Day together,
Yang Xiaoqi was so excited that he called the radio: "I think my thirty years of luck have exploded on this day!" ”
The radio host was infected by her emotional sinus: "Wow, bless you, Happy Miss!" ”
However, when she woke up the next day, she found that she had slept for a long time.
The skin is inexplicably sunburned, the photo studio has his own photos at the beach, the memory of a lost day, and the new boyfriend who disappeared...
She wants to regain her lost day and love.
Yang Xiaoqi in "Disappearing Valentine's Day" is really a bit of a typical image of an older single woman,
But the director added a little stroke to her experience, which made the audience extremely moved.
When I was very young, my father took a spatula one day and said to buy bean blossoms, and promised to buy himself a bowl of mung bean flavor, but never came back........
Inexplicably reddened skin, lost new boyfriend and memories of a day...
Her story is related to "loss", however, the experience of losing things everyone has,
From the eraser in the elementary school classroom, the rubber band that girls can never find, the sock that is inexplicably lost,
As big as an important person in life, a memory...
Especially in Yang Xiaoqi's dream, a humanoid gecko suddenly took out a box and handed it to himself.
It was all the things she had lost in thirty years, and even in the kaleidoscope she saw her father,
This kind of small feeling in ordinary people's lives is realistic, which can give us a very subtle empathy.
It was as if the fantasies of our years had been secretly discovered and visualized.
Many things in life have no answers,
If one day, I have the opportunity, I would like to know how I can't find it, but where the small things that are particularly important to us at that moment have gone.
This is a very unique point of Taiwanese cinema, moving the audience from the subtle plot and the details of vitality.
In the "Disappearing Lover" love idol drama, add fantasy color,
In the black sadness of "Big Buddha", join the director's narration humor,
In "Sunshine", a large section of actor monologues and Sima Guang's story are added;
In "Blood Guanyin", add the strange piano play,
These fanciful forms, integrated into the stories of the people at the bottom, have an unparalleled fantasy color and an aura that cannot be reached by routine movies.
Taiwanese movies always inadvertently use a set, a clip to break into our hearts,
The strange man who would come to Yang Xiaoqi's counter every day to send a letter and carry a camera, in fact, he had formed a good relationship with Yang Xiaoqi as early as childhood.
His parents died in a car accident, and Yang Xiaoqi, who survived with himself in the same car accident, inadvertently healed himself.
The two people agreed to write letters to each other and send them to mailbox 038;
Yang Xiaoqi, who is an acute child, hurriedly sails to the future, while Ah Tai, who is a chronic son, is still missing the deceased.
On Valentine's Day, Ah Tai was surprised to find that he had been chronic, and he had accumulated more days than ordinary people.
When everyone's time is frozen, he has an extra Valentine's Day, so he drives the bus to take Yang Xiaoqi to the beach and take pictures...
"Personality complementarity" has always been an old topic in love;
The director puts together the lives of two men and women with completely different personalities, creating a visual contrast and contrast.
The slow-paced boy has been stuck in the past, slowly moving forward,
The little girl who healed her life in her childhood, secretly paying attention to and protecting each other,
And the acute sub-girl because of the hot personality, lost a lot of important things, suffering from gain and loss,
When she paused the pace of the next day, she suddenly found that her lonely and humble self had always been deeply loved.
The boy of the chronic child silently guards, and the girl of the acute child looks back;
He caught up with her hurried angle, walked fast, and turned back because she had lost a day, only to find—
"You have to love yourself because someone loves you."
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