Twelve Nights is a feature film directed by And.
Released in Hong Kong on April 20, 2000, the film tells the love story of a young couple played by Yuwa, from "passion" to "light heart". He was nominated for Best Original Song at the 37th Golden Horse Awards and nominated for the New Wave Award at the 5th Busan International Film Festival.
(Played) is a flight attendant who meets the engineer in the same car and begins their love affair.
At first, both of them were playing hot, like glue.
But like many romances, tired of caring too much about him, began to struggle, thinking that he had given everything to his boyfriend, he devoted himself to feelings, but gradually the feeling of love between the two was no longer, and the feelings faded.
Trying to save their feelings, the two also reunited, and at this time they found that they no longer loved, which led to the final breakup.
Disappearing into life, he continues to wander the bustling city alone, looking for another "Twelve Nights".
Point 1: When he doesn't love you, he is like a Buddha
If Taiwanese love is a small and fresh literary art, then Hong Kong-style love is warm and realistic.
It is the obscurity and temptation in "Chunjiao and Zhiming", and the truth and cruelty in "Twelve Nights".
When dealing with the relationship between men and women in the film, like most boys in real life, he chooses to deal with problems coldly, and his ex-girlfriend commented that he was like a Buddha when he left him.
After meeting Cecilia Cheung, he once said that he believed that he would not look like a Buddha in front of him.
Their encounter, their intimacy, in the beginning, they called it "destiny."
To prove this "doom", the probability that they will be together has been calculated: "What is the probability that I will be with you?" First of all, if it hadn't been for asking you to send me home that day, in the car I remembered asking you to pretend to be my boyfriend, nothing would have happened. More coincidentally, if it hadn't been debunked that night, and you hadn't broken up with her before, she wouldn't have asked you to send me home. If you hadn't sent me home, I wouldn't have seen you in the rearview mirror of the car. If I don't see you, I won't take you to see you. If I don't see it, I won't cry, I won't break up, and so many things won't happen. So, I think it's predestined. ”
In "Cloudy Days", there are a few lyrics like this: The beginning is always wonderful every minute, and everyone thinks that the enthusiasm will never diminish.
From the beginning, even if you encounter traffic police at 3:30 a.m. and experience a flat tire, you still have to meet before dawn, to being asked later, "Do you love me?" When indifferently replied "busy", the process, director Lin Aihua carefully recorded with twelve nights.
Ironically, when they broke up, the same comment was given: "You are like a Buddha."
Perhaps after the disappearance of love, both parties always exist in this image.
Watch point two: How the story ends
A movie will always end, a story will always end.
Some people say that a good movie ending is the soul of a good movie, and a good movie ending should give the audience what they want, but not through the way they expect it, and should show the inner world of the characters, leaving the audience with endless imagination space.
In the movie "Twelve Nights", he and the last reunion from hot love to blandness to quarrel to separation.
I thought the story would end here, but the interesting thing is that the accident of cleaning up things at the ex-boyfriend's house learned that she had misunderstood the ex-boyfriend, and at the moment when the misunderstanding was solved, she suddenly understood that she had long since lost love.
The dramatic scene is that when she finally understands her heart, she has a true confession.
Only this time, I went first.
At the end of the film, she suddenly wakes up and dodges the street anxiously looking for her, and quietly follows him. All this was looked at by the passing (play) and said, "I used to stalk my girlfriend like this, is it stupid?" But I definitely won't have a next time. Response: "I feel the same way." ”
Then he jumped from the twelfth night to the first night.
The end of the story is also the beginning of another story, love repeats itself and never fades, like a great cycle, and the twelfth night of this relationship is the first night of the next.
Known as the "love disaster film", "Twelve Nights" tears the cruel side of real love to the audience in a realistic way, which can't help but make people sigh.
There is a sentence in the theme song of the movie "The Night Never Comes Again": "If you can't remember that I was loved day and night together, will the breakup make me feel moved to come again?" It portrays the situation that "the heat of love is not reduced, but love is no longer there".