01/Ah Fei's Biography: An Intriguing Story
The first time I watched "The Legend of Ah Fei" was when I was in college, at that time, I especially liked to find movies I couldn't understand to watch, and I really didn't see a reason.
Last week, I occasionally remembered, and then I clicked to look at it, but I didn't expect it, and I was quite engaged in it.
The movies of that era are really different from the current style, and now when you watch movies, what impresses you the most is the male number one and the female number one, the old movie, sometimes even can't tell who is the male one and who is the female one, the deepest impression is the whole story.
There were only seven or eight people who appeared in total, and they told a story that people watched over and over again.
As soon as Ah Fei appeared, he teased Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung), who sold tickets at the stadium, somewhat boring, but very persistent, some greasy, and some touching. Especially the game of staring at the watch and watching the second hand walk for a minute, later, Su Lizhen, who remembered Ah Fei, recalled that moment and said that she felt so beautiful at that time. Yes, this kind of romance can especially impress girls who are not deep in the world, of course, you must first match a face that is handsome enough.
Su Lizhen was quickly taken down, she loved more and more deeply, although Ah Fei did not go to work, although Ah Fei was always careless, Su Lizhen was still deeply trapped.
Until one day, she asked Ah Fei, will you marry me? Ah Fei said without hesitation, no. Su Lizhen got up and left, Ah Fei did not stay, and the communication between the two suddenly stopped.
Su Lizhen is stubborn, and Ah Fei is ruthless.
A wandering single woman, thinking that she has found a reliance, is so crisp when she loses. Su Lizhen, who couldn't let go of Ah Fei, ran to tell him that it was okay not to get married, as long as she could be with you. She thought that she could let go of stubbornness and put down her body to accommodate, who knows, but it was just self-harm, and finally, she had to heal her own wounds.
Ah Fei naturally hitched a ride with Liang Fengying when teaching her mother's fight, and most of the time in the movie she called Mimi, but when she left the phone to Ah Fei, she officially told him her real name, because she wanted to have a serious relationship from the beginning. Although part of it was for the sake of money, the small apartment, the small apartment where Ah Fei lived alone, was even better than the family's. Slowly contacted, she began to fall deeply in love with this man who did not go to work or do things, was bored every day, was always careless, and at most only occasionally teased her.
She could put herself down and get down on her knees to wipe the floor in order to make him happy, and she began to care if he was happy. She began to think about his life, and when Mimi said, I can go to work and raise you, Ah Fei pushed her out, because he found that this woman, like Su Lizhen, was thinking about the future.
However, Ah Fei's heart has no future, and he does not allow anyone to stay in his heart for a long time, he does not dare to really love anyone.
02 / The most unbearable feeling is to be dumped by the same man, but also to fight for who he loves more
The saddest scene of the movie is that after Ah Fei left, Mimi looked for him everywhere and also found Su Lizhen, mimi and Su Lizhen were women abandoned by the same man, and they were still arguing about who Ah Fei loved more. In the end, the conclusion was that Ah Fei was the same for every woman. Su Lizhen went through the whole process of injury, healing, and recovery, and she saw it very clearly. Mimi, who is still trapped in it, is still insisting that Ah Fei loves herself a little more, and she thinks that she is the reason for their separation. Su Lizhen told her that it must be better to know this kind of thing earlier than later, I have already recovered, and now the person crying is you.
Seeing this, I am also guessing, if Su Lizhen directly accommodated Ah Fei, what kind of story would it be?
Ah Fei's mother provided for him and gave him money to spend (I don't know if Ah Fei knew that the money came from his mother), and he attributed his current state to his mother's refusal to tell him his origins. Like her mother said, it was just an excuse, an excuse to wander the world with a straight face, and with that excuse, he felt different from the men around his mother.
The men he saw since he was a child were all so idle and lived well, so why did they have to go to work? His mother could raise those men, so why couldn't she?
On the other hand, I think, there is also his complete dislike of himself, and in Ah Fei's heart, he is a life that is not expected. The biological mother did not want him, the adoptive mother told him from childhood that he was not his own child, and it was difficult for the person concerned not to associate with himself when releasing this kind of news, and the other party wanted to expel himself.
Ah Fei carried this kind of obsession that should not have come, how could he know how to cherish.
Whether it was an excuse or a genuine heart, finding his biological mother was the only thing he wanted to do, and when her mother told him the information about her biological mother, he went to her.
Ah Fei was rejected, and the part when he left was the most distressing. He scurried away, thinking that I knew there was a pair of eyes behind me looking at me, but I would not look back. I just wanted to see her, to see what she looked like, and since she wasn't giving me this chance, I wasn't giving her that chance either.
It looks so stubborn, and how desperate it is in my heart!
At this point, for Ah Fei, the only concern in life is gone, and life and death have been equated.
Whether it was true love or games, he would not allow anyone to enter his heart. Although one person had quietly moved in, he still pretended not to see it.
It wasn't until the moment he was dying that he admitted that he had actually found the person he loved the most: Su Lizhen. He admitted that, like the little bird, he did not die the moment he stopped, but he was already dead in the first place.
03/Why is Ah Fei so charming
There is also a question in the movie that needs to be explained: why is Ah Fei so attractive?
I thought for a long time, if I met Ah Fei, would I like him? I don't think so, because I'm realistic enough and sane enough.
But Ah Fei's charm is not limited to women, as if those who approach him can't help but stop for him.
Including the partner (Jacky Cheung) who has known him since he was a child and has always stayed by his side.
There is also the policeman (Andy Lau) who met once by chance, met again, and did not hesitate to help him with all his might.
What is the charm of Ah Fei's body? I thought of an answer: pity! It's like, when you look at something that should be beautiful, and see that it's about to die, you can't help but want to stop it. Ah Fei is so indifferent to himself and life, and the degree of his despair about life makes the people around him can't help but want to send some hope to him.
04/ What is the last one-man show in the movie?
There is also a classic scene in the movie, which is a one-man show by Liang Chaowei.
In the play, Ah Fei's friends said that Ah Fei originally lived upstairs in their garage.
I understand that this scene is exactly where Ah Fei lived when he was a child, and Liang Chaowei played the adult male appearance that Ah Fei saw when he was a child.
Living in a small and cramped space, the body can not stand straight, oil head powder, spend the money that the woman took back, half a box of cigarettes, a steel hammer must be put in the pocket, obviously to take the light and leave.
Finally, don't forget to delicately fold the white handkerchief on the side, and go out to be a "personable" man.
Just like Ah Fei constantly changed women around him, his mother kept changing men around him.
The difference is that the men around his mother are for money, and the women around Ah Fei are because of love.
These women are no different from her mother, just like Ah Fei's mother said to Mimi, I was like you when I was young.
Send away Mimi, a young man posted, Ah Fei's mother pushed him away, because the past made her sad, what is the difference between this man and the previous man?
However, when the man was pasted again, she still lay down in the man's arms. What about resistance? Since resistance can't be exchanged for anything, it is better to lie flat and enjoy.
Ah Fei, no different from those men, hurt one woman after another.
05/What does the movie tell us?
In fact, everyone in the movie is trapped in the same distress: asking for it.
Su Lizhen and Mimi love Ah Fei and end up sad in vain.
Ah Fei's friend Loves Mimi and is scolded "You are not worthy".
The policeman liked Su Lizhen and didn't even have a chance to say it.
And Ah Fei's mother, liked one after another, never waited for the person who really liked herself.
What about Ah Fei? It is just to prove that I came into this world because of someone's expectations, not just a mistake, and the result is counterproductive.
It's a desperate film, everyone is so pitiful, everyone is immersed in gray sadness, looking for less than half a point of joy.
And love without can,perhaps the norm of life.
The movie may also want to tell all women that it seems to be deceived again and again, but in fact, it is not self-deception?
Zhang Guorong's acting skills are really good, he can't see the traces of acting, and he feels a kind of despair from the inside out from him, but will this gray role eat himself?
It had been almost 20 years since the moment he had left, and no one knew what he had seen at the last moment.
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