The world longs for the green love, watching it enter the marriage hall from the green to the palace of marriage, interpreting the true meaning of love.
However, the word love, when it comes to the lives of two people, is often difficult to decide wishful thinking. There are also too many variables mixed in, and it has gone astray unconsciously. And we can only recall ordinary and fresh love in "Love Wind and Dust".
Hou Xiaoxian's "Love Wind and Dust" is a pure love movie, and there are two roles in the movie, Ah Yuan and Ah Yun. Ah Yuan is Xie Wenyuan, Ah Yun is Jiang Suyun, they are young plum bamboo horses, falling in love with the countryside and breaking up in the city.
The love in Hou Xiaoxian's films still adheres to the minimalist style he created, and he refuses to waste a single shot.
The love in the story has the shadow of the screenwriter Wu Nianzhen, Zhu Tiantian and Hou Xiaoxian took it over to repair it, and then matched with Chen Mingzhang's music, it is really seamless, light and vulgar. In this extremely literary work, although it describes a story full of Taiwan's rich local atmosphere, it is simple, clean and pure, like a cup of light tea, mellow to the extreme to become a rich wine.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > fresh world of love</h1>
The theme of the film, compared with the Qiong Yao drama that turned from prosperity to decline in the Taiwanese film industry at that time, seems to be described only by moderation, introversion and restraint.
Ah Yuan and Ah Yun, who grew up together, are similar in age, coupled with the closure of life, they are naturally in love. The way they express their love is very simple, I will wait for you if you are late, so both mistakenly missed the train point. Then, the people at the grocery store handed Ah Yun a bag of rice, and Ah Yuan skillfully took it on his shoulder, and the two walked quietly on the cool rail tracks at night, and curtains began to be erected on the side of the rails, as if they were going to play a movie.
In the dust of love, the story of the love between Ah Yuan and Ah Yunduo can only be summarized sporadically by such a simple few fragments, which seems to lack passion and sweetness, but allows the viewer to spy on the tacit understanding and spirituality cultivated between the two from a young age.
Ah Yun said that mathematics is not good, Ah Yuan blamed why he did not come to ask me, Ah Yun's eyes have some small grievances, but slightly with a well-behaved coddler, like being scolded by people who rely on them wholeheartedly, some chagrin and some anger. However, Hou Xiaoxian made a movie, never waiting for love to brew to a vigorous, involving the separation of life and death, he turned the camera around and directly let Ah Yun also come to Taipei.
Therefore, most of the stories of "Love and Dust" take place in this soon-to-be-modernized city.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="21" > love for the first time</h1>
With the development of the plot, the lives of two men and women who have fallen from the countryside to the city are also undergoing substantial changes.
At first, they simply knew how to rely on each other and work well to earn money to reduce the burden on poor families. They live behind the scenes of the movie theater, and the entertainment in their leisure time is to watch free movies, and Ah Yuan goes to visit Ah Yun in the tailor's shop after heavy labor and studies, and Ah Yun only says "Why don't you come to see me?" "The Tao exhausted the faint sweetness of the indifferent urban lovers.
At this time, the love is still light and light.
Ah Yun was burned by the iron, and insisted on mailing 720 yuan home, Ah Yuan insisted on subsidizing Ah Yun three hundred yuan, let Ah Yun leave 250 yuan to see a doctor, and some irritation blamed Ah Yun: What kind of wine do girls drink? The viewer understood at this time: it turned out that Ah Yuan, as a silent, wooden man who was scolded by the boss lady and refused to explain, also had the so-called jealousy and possessiveness in love.
A simple shot of a few words, the road to the end of Ah Yuan's lust and liking for Ah Yun.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > bitter ending</h1>
There is also a metaphor in the movie, the night in the countryside is showing Li Xing's "Duck Raising Family", a teenager came out, full of injuries, but can only tell the family that he fell on a motorcycle, in fact, he was beaten by the boss, which shows the hard life of these young people in the city.
These fragments lay the groundwork for Ah Yun's betrayal. Even the strong Ah Yuan is difficult to gain a foothold in the city, how can Ah Yun, a weak woman, overcome the oppression of the powerful city? After three years of waiting, Ah Yun finally chose the postman, which is not difficult to understand.
This ending is bitter and unbearable in life.
Ah Yuan endured the pain of being a soldier, but Ah Yun could not withstand the temptation of loneliness and the city, and no one could blame anyone. Ah Yuan did not hate, Ah Yuan's mother also gave Ah Yun a ring, saying that it was prepared a long time ago, and Ah Gong even said: "This is fate, can not be forced." ”
The empty footage of the film has been slowly moving between the dark and lush mountains of the Golden Gate, as if Ah Yuan's heart had calmed down after the severe pain. Life is like this, inadvertently, losing the beautiful girl, slowly maturing and growing up, and then having a wife and children, living the rest of your life in peace. Such an indifferent brushwork, Hou Xiaoxian wielded freely, but it can make the viewer's heart ache and cannot restrain himself.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" > beautiful freehand poem</h1>
In addition to love, "Love Wind and Dust" is also a freehand poem of life.
Hou Xiaoxian got the epiphany of "cold eyes on life and death" from Shen Congwen, which not only shows love quietly and transcendently, but also the details of life, but also with the attitude of wind and grass, I am not moving, so that the film will reveal the warmth of cruel life at all times.
For example, the father in the movie seems to be a lazy person who can't work after being injured, but likes to play cards and drink, even his mother and grandfather will complain, but occasionally a few details make people realize that his father is not so ruthless:
He loaned money to his son to buy watches, drank and chatted with his son, and gave his son a lighter, all of which made the viewer feel a different kind of fatherly love.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" > comes from the subtle love of life</h1>
Ah Yuan's mother is a typical local woman image, working non-stop all day, and finally Ah Yuan came home to see her mother sleeping on her side with her hands and feet shrunk, and suddenly found that her mother slept peacefully. Even Ah Yun's mother, who did not appear many times, also adhered to the ancient reputation, and did not admit that the postman was a son-in-law, and felt ashamed of Ah Yuan's family.
These simple and simple rural people do not understand any great truth, but the true meaning of life can always be understood and observed.
Just like Ah Gong, the old man played by Master Li Tianlu, he smoked a bad cigarette, wore a rag shirt, and recited the lines of Yi Sanjie in his mouth, and at the end of the movie, he chattered endlessly to his grandson about the difficulty of planting sweet potatoes, and did not comfort his grandson when he was most upset, as if he was a little ruthless, but Ah Gong planted sweet potatoes not only for himself, but also for Ah Yuan:
"It's hard to grow sweet potatoes, but this is life, the more you go through the ordeal, the sweeter the harvest, even if this ordeal stabs you all over the body, you still need to endure and live seriously." 」
Love, scenery, stories and people, Hou Xiaoxian's film time is frozen, as if the landscape does not move everything in the world slowly on the curtain called time, so life and death, love and hate, people and things, can only be the change under the bearer of time.
Looking back on this film many years later, the audience still remembers that the night wind sinks into the lonely mountains, the street lights are faint as stars, and the clouds in the sky are indifferent. I still remember ah yuan's letter returned by the postman, which said that no one had been found. And there is no such person but wind and dust.