"Ah Fei Zheng Biography": an unforgettable silver screen classic
Huang Zihong
Wong Kar-wai said in 1991 that "The Legend of Ah Fei" was a primitive idea, and then he wrote the script while filming. This may be the innate ability of "ghost talent" Wong Kar-wai, ten years later, the famous international film "Fancy Years", it is said that there is no script, completely relying on improvisational drama, and two international standard actors Maggie Cheung and Leung Chao-wei play on the spot.
The film has a very beautiful painting style, starring a hong Kong mesozoic idol strength actor, and now without exception, he has become a big celebrity at the level of the film emperor.
Set in Hong Kong in the early 1960s, "The True Biography of Ah Fei" tells the inner world and emotional entanglements of an arrogant and rebellious young man, and truly reproduces the living environment and social conditions of ordinary young people in Hong Kong.
"The True Biography of Ah Fei" is regarded as a classic by the Hong Kong film critics. In the history of Hong Kong cinema, "The Legend of Ah Fei" has a high status, it is Wong Kar-wai's famous work, but also the first time Cheung Kwok Wing truly discovered himself and consciously referred to his own milestone by the standards of an artist. However, for the entire Hong Kong people, "The True Biography of Ah Fei" has a more profound meaning - it is a spiritual journey about the sense of belonging and wandering of Hong Kong people.
In the film, after being born, Xu Zai faces the reality that he has no father and his mother is a social flower. Later, after knowing his origins, what he could not face was that he was not even as good as his social flower son - an abandoned child abandoned by his parents, such a life also allowed Xu Zai to naturally produce a "scumbag" physique when interacting with women. Whether it is Maggie Cheung, who owes money, or Liu Jialing, who consciously does not care, he can only go through the motions, and he himself said: "Until the end, he himself does not know which girl he likes the most." ”
Especially when he walked in front of his own mother's villa without looking back, he said, "On April 12, 1961, I finally came to my mother's house, but he refused to see me, and the workers said that she was no longer there, and when I left the house, I knew that there was a pair of eyes behind me looking at me, but I would never look back, I just wanted to see her, to know what happened to her, and since she would not give me this opportunity, I would not give her this opportunity."
In 1990, Wong Kar-wai's film "days of deing wild" did not know whether it borrowed the origin of the name of "A Q Zheng biography" and eventually became Wong Kar-wai's famous work. In 2005, the Hong Kong Film Awards selected "100 Most Representative Chinese Films", and "The Biography of Ah Fei" ranked third.
The theme song of the film, "Is So", is sung by Mui Yanfang, and the interlude "How to Go from Ah Fei Zheng Biography" comes from the interpretation of Cheung Kwok Wing, with which Cheung Won the Best Actor Award at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards. It's just that now that time has flown by, Zhang Guorong and Mei Yanfang both hate others in 2003, which makes people sigh and sigh, and has become a masterpiece that is fixed on remembering them.