Wong Kar-wai is like a poet, he tells the unique and beautiful romantic world that belongs to his heart through the rhythm and rhythm of the film.
"Ah Fei Zheng Biography" is his second film, the finished product is not the jianghu police film that everyone imagines, so it was scolded by people at the time, but it was this work that made his film career embark on a path of artistic extraordinary that belongs to him.
Hong Kong, an international metropolis, has created such a Wong Kar-wai, who grew up in a rich society that is more complex than the average person, but relatively open, and what he has seen and heard has formed the unique heart and touch of their generation, feeling that their observation of people is particularly meticulous and sensitive, and even the soundtrack and costumes in his films are quite connotative.
Parents are everyone's first "love" object, and the search for a partner in the future is inseparable from the parents who have grown up with them since childhood.
Xu Zai (played by Zhang Guorong) in "Ah Fei Zheng Biography" is an orphan, a biological mother in the Philippines, fostered by a child of a Shanghai woman living in Hong Kong, I don't know who my father is, such a life, so that Xu Tsai did not know what love was from an early age.
The human body is born with desire, and naturally wants to touch, warm, and express. So Asahi also began to make girlfriends, but since he was a child, he did not have a strong belief in "knowing that his parents are his eternal love", so he did not have the concept of "forever" for any girl.
Deep down, it is very happy to believe forever, just like people's beliefs, does Wong Kar Wai have faith? In my opinion, there is, but in his films, his confusion and doubts are expressed.
Wong Kar-wai emphasizes time, and meeting different people at different times, in different places, will produce different endings.
Andy Lau in "The Legend of Ah Fei", in principle, is the best man, he fell in love with Maggie Cheung, but she did not respond to him in time, when she plucked up the courage to call him, he was no longer a policeman, ran to the Philippines to wander, this is the "fate" of people living in this world.
What is different from Ang Lee is that he is not as free as Wong Kar-wai in the exploration of life, and he can only imagine and express himself through limited literature and film.
Wong Kar-wai has been like a happy child since he was a child, his parents are with him, often watching movies and chatting together, exploring the emotions of life, more free, more able to personally try and contact. Both of them are directors I love very much, Ang Lee is like a scholar to me, and Wong Kar-wai is more like a poet.
Wong Kar-wai expressed the plight of Hong Kong people at that time through "The True Biography of Ah Fei", who were confused about their own identity, and that state, like a helpless child, could not find a habitat of their own.
"The True Biography of Ah Fei" presents this pessimistic atmosphere, Xu Zai compares himself to a bird, flying in the air all his life, sleeping in the wind when he is tired, and the only thing he lands on the ground in his life is the moment of his death, which shows how dazed and desperate he is.
But Wong Kar-wai knows that this is not possible, so after Xu Zai's life, another replacement role is born, although the future is still unknown, but watching Liang Chaowei confidently smoke, manicure, comb his hair, tidy up his clothes, sort out the items to be carried, and a large pile of money, you can see that this new life is full of confidence in the future.
Isn't that also true of life?
The difficulties of life will always overwhelm us, but debugging and transformation are our most important lessons.
We can't change the outside world, but we can definitely use a strongest and most confident heart to face the next opportunities and challenges. This is faith, just like the confidence that Comes out of Wong Kar Wai's movies.