Filmed in 1986, "Love wind and dust" is set in Taiwan in the early 1970s. The story is very simple, Ah Yuan and Ah Yun are green plum bamboo horses, Ah Yuan graduated from junior high school and went to Taipei to make a living, later, Ah Yuan went to serve in the military, Ah Yun married the postman who delivered letters for them, and the first love ended without a disease.
Student years
We can take "Love Wind and Dust" as an ordinary literary and artistic love film, director Hou Xiaoxian let the audience start from a bland perspective, the film quietly starts, and ends quietly, there is no half sensational component in the details, and there is no half a point of the vertical and horizontal place, but the staying power is great.
At the beginning of the movie, the train passes through the mountains, and the tunnels are one after another, and there is always the illusion of endless walking, just like the current life. But that's not the case, and you may not know where and where it will stop, or where it will end up.
This pair of young people with green plum bamboo horses still did not resist the invisible torrent of time. Time is the signal light of Shifen Station, and it is also a clock that appears many times in the film, in Taipei Station, in the hands of father and son.
Hou Xiaoxian did not explicitly tell the audience what time meant, but time defeated the couple. It is like a ripple on the water, but also like the echo of an empty valley, it can be a thousand envelopes, but also a troublesome landing sweet potato.
The film mainly speaks Hokkien, talks about daily chores, often whispers softly, and most of the characters are not people who talk much. Interestingly, a lot of the camera characters are in a daze.
The director just intercepts some fragments, leaves a lot of blank space on the plot, and leaves more content for the audience to supplement the imagination. This makes the film like the names of the male and female protagonists, looking "cloud" light and breezy, but in fact, the charm is long and "far".
Ah Yuan and Ah Yun
At the end of the film, an empty shot is used, and the male protagonist Ah Yuan returns home from the army, alone and inspects everything in this gradually strange countryside.
He went to the field to visit Grandpa who was taking care of sweet potatoes, and while listening to Grandpa nagging about everything that had happened over the years, he watched the clouds pass over the mountain, the countryside steaming in the sun, and the breeze blowing up his clothes...
The transition of "Love Wind and Dust" is very simple, most of them fade in and out, and the black field is sometimes as long as a few seconds, which can not only indicate the passage of time, but also leave the audience with a lot of memories.
The empty shots mentioned earlier, the wind blowing the leaves, the flow of clouds, are all meanings of time. A few rays of sunlight through the gaps in the clouds, slowly undulating on the distant mountains, this is the ultimate beauty that belongs to Hou Xiaoxian.
It may be ancestral blessing. The shipwreck did not die, and in the forest, after being encircled and suppressed for five or six months, he did not die, nor did he starve to death. ...... There is a terrible disease in the forest, a type of enteritis called "red diarrhea", if infected, within a few days it will die. At that time, there was no special medicine, and there was no elixir, and I could only watch them die.
Disease also seems to be an unattainable fate. The boss should go to Nanyang to fight for the Japanese army, and Hou Xiaoxian revealed the scars of the times in some gaps. Just like his father said to Ah Yuan, "Three generations of our family, it seems that none of them have a life to study", as soon as he graduated from his public school, he just happened to be in Taiwan, あいうえお (aiueo) met ㄅㄆㄇㄇㄈ (bpmf), and read it the same as not reading.
Hou Xiaoxian arranged such a long grandfather's experience of growing sweet potatoes, which is also talking about life. Ah Yuan was sick when he was a child, and his medical treatment was fruitless, and Ah Gong said: "People often say: 'We must rely on people, but also rely on God.'" Ah Yun married, and Ah Gong said that this was fate and could not be forced.
So what exactly is this movie about? If I had to say the subject matter, in my opinion, it was time.
The first scene of the film, a long shot of more than a minute long, the train passes through one tunnel after another, one moment bright and one moment dark. This is the way Ah Yuan and Ah Yun left their hometown, and it is also the way home.
The train runs through the passage of time, and the tunnel it passes through is like a tunnel of time and space. The platform where the train stops, called "Ten", is both a place name and a time.
In addition to the watches that appear many times, the camera will also deliberately focus on the clocks at the station for a long time, more than once. When Ah Yun came to Taipei, and when Ah Yuan left Taipei. The first time Ah Yuan and Ah Yun went home, at that time Ah Yuan was still short-haired, and later when Ah Yun came to Taipei, Ah Yuan was already long-haired.
The traditional and simplified change of the word "love", there are three parts on the bottom of the previous heart word, the middle is the word, the two sides are silk, the language is carefully wrapped in the silk wrap, love you are difficult to open in the heart; later simplified to "also heart", less reserved and forbearing, but also relevant: love as long as a heart, love to "also heart".
Time is a strange thing, it seems to be only a ticking second, but it actually has different lengths, and the speed of time is inversely proportional to the degree of present.
People who grew up in the countryside and went to the big cities to make a living, were wrapped up in two torrents of time with different flow rates, and it became easy to get lost, and if they were not careful, they became Dust in the wind.