Janus Films, an American art film distribution company, has comprehensively restored Wong Kar-wai's old works in 4K and held a major re-screening in the United States.
These include 4K restored versions of seven films, including "Chongqing Forest", "Mong Kok Carmen", "The Legend of Ah Fei", "Fallen Angel", "Fancy Years" and "Hand".
Looking forward to the early screening of the 4K restoration version in China.
So today I will talk about one of the movies - "Ah Fei Zheng Biography".
In 1990, "The Legend of Ah Fei" was released.
This is Cheung Kwok Wing's first film after he quit the music scene, and it is also the pinnacle of Wong Kar-wai.
Although the box office ended dismal in the end, it received great recognition from the industry and won countless awards.
Did you know that there is a bird that has no feet? His whole life can only fly around in the sky, flying tired and sleeping in the wind, and he can only land once in his life, that is when he dies.
- "The Legend of Ah Fei"
In Hong Kong in the 1960s, due to the absence of his birth mother in the process of Ah Fei Xu Tsai (Zhang Guorong) growing up, he elegantly compared himself to a "rootless bird" and behaved debauchery to every woman he met in his life. After being abandoned by his birth mother, he lived in Hong Kong, was brought up by his adoptive mother since he was a child, and has never met his birth mother.
Although his adoptive mother regarded him as if he were out and treated him well, he still felt the mutilation of life, and his personality was strange and debauched, and no amount of women's love could soothe his lonely heart.
Conductor Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung) and dancer Mimi have made him feel warm, but they can only be little lovers.
In order to get rid of the heaviness and powerlessness, Xu Zai left everything to go to Nanyang to find his birth mother.
However, despite the painstaking efforts to reach the courtyard of the birth mother, the birth mother refused to see him - the helpless Xu Tsai could only turn around and leave sadly.
On the train back to China, Xu Zai was killed in his seat by a gun because he was involved in a triad dispute, and died in the arms of a former police officer played by Andy Lau, and did not return to Hong Kong alive.
Aren't children who no one wants "legless birds"? He will only land once in his life, and that is the moment when he announces his death—when he finds his birth mother with great anticipation, wants to see her voice and smile, but waits for the door to be closed. His heart was stinging; at the moment of turning away, his heart had declared him dead.
It is always said that some people use childhood to heal a lifetime, and some people use a lifetime to heal childhood.
The wounds caused by the original family are difficult for many people to spend a lifetime to heal, and its appearance is like putting a bad label on a child's pure mind and branding it with a gray background.
We can't choose the original family, but when we grow up, you can choose again: choose a life you like to live.
I hope that everyone who is influenced by the original family can live happily in love and being loved.
For adults, if they want to escape the "repeated pain" of fate, they must also learn to let go of the thoughts that they have in mind. For example, in life, only by letting go of the fear of "others don't like me" can we make friends; in work, only by letting go of the complaint of "why no one taught me" can we really grow in work.
And only when people accept the idea that "I have grown up and can love myself", will the opportunity to rewrite the fate of the early years come.
The tragic story that belongs to Asahi is over, but our story continues.