The dialogue of one play once reads:
"Heaven created men, and then created women, gave them love, and then gave them a breakup, so that when they were in love, they loved to live and die, and when they broke up, they wanted you to die...".
Many times, love can be desperate, but when it comes to marriage, it is not enough to rely on love, there is also responsibility.
If one day, responsibility is lost, love is gone, such a marriage will only be tragic -
"I Love You"
The film was released in 1998 and starred Yuen Wing Yee, Fang Zhongxin, and Er Dongsheng was the producer.
Although Yuan Yongyi has often appeared in front of the public in recent years, most of them are variety shows, and sometimes she also makes cameos in movies.
Her most brilliant time should be "New Love" and "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves", two films have made her the best actress of the two Hong Kong Film Awards.
In contrast, "I Love You" is relatively unpopular in Yuan Yongyi's works, and to this day, the number of marks on Douban is only three thousand.
Although in that year's Academy Awards, she lost to Wu Junru's "Hongxing Thirteenth Sister", Yuan Yongyi's acting skills have become more and more mature, there is no doubt.
Due to its age, compared with today's high-tech shooting methods, the quality of this film is quite poor, but it does not prevent us from sitting down and quietly savoring the film's in-depth exploration of love, marriage, and family.
"The love of three people, the one who is not loved is the third party", this is the inscription at the beginning of the film.
On the surface, this movie is about marriage, but in fact it is a psychological thriller, and it has also been listed as one of the "Top Ten Perverted Love Movies in Hong Kong".
The style of the whole film is more depressing, and even some netizens kindly remind that it is best to do some psychological construction before watching the movie.
Baby Liu, played by Yuan Yongyi, is a full-time mother with a lovely daughter.
Her husband, Zhang Xinliang, is a police officer from the Independent Commission Against Corruption and a baby's green plum bamboo horse, and they grew up together and went to school together, and then fell in love and got married.
The baby did not seem to experience any twists and turns, so he married Zhang Xinliang smoothly, the husband was responsible for working outside, and the baby took care of the family.
Because she has no social experience, the baby is very simple, as if living in a fairy tale world, so her comics are "Mermaid Princess" and "Sleeping Beauty" and other stories.
The husband loves, the daughter is lovely, the baby has always felt that she is the heroine of the fairy tale world, she can find a sense of existence in this home, the husband is the pillar of her survival, so the baby has always felt that she is very happy.
On this day, it was Zhang Xinliang's birthday, early in the morning, the baby and daughter prepared a big cake together, and she also specially prepared a sexy pajama for herself.
At the thought of having to talk to her husband tonight, the baby couldn't help but laugh out loud.
But things are not as good as people expect.
In the evening, the baby finally waited for her husband to come home, and she greeted him happily, but the husband was surprisingly cold and began to pack his bags.
The husband told the baby that he had a woman outside, it had been two years, he was going to be separated from the baby, the matter of miscellaneous fees and mortgages had been arranged, the house he could not want, he only wanted a divorce.
The baby felt a thunderbolt on a sunny day, couldn't believe his ears, how can a good family scatter?!
The baby tried desperately to keep it, but the husband did not hesitate to pick up the luggage and rush out of the house.
After her husband left, the baby lost his soul and frantically rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, and she couldn't believe that her husband had been cheating on her back for two years.
At that end, the husband couldn't wait to go to Xiao San and tell her that he was going to divorce.
The two embraced excitedly.
The baby who stayed at home alone fell into deep thought, she really couldn't understand which link of herself was wrong, was the vows she said when she got married all fake?
What is a lifetime, until death, is it just casual talk and jokes?
The baby is constantly looking for problems in herself, and she feels that she must be not doing something well enough to make her husband want to leave her.
The baby did not want to divorce, she asked her husband to ask for peace, she said: "As long as you don't leave me, you can do anything, including sharing your husband with another woman, why can't you give me a chance?" ”
But the husband said, I want it, you can't give it.
To put it bluntly, the husband no longer loves her, there is no reason, not to love is not to love.
Love is like this, when it is good, the shortcomings are all advantages, when it is bad, everything is wrong, naïve romance becomes naïve thinking, and empathy becomes no matter what you ask.
The baby's marriage was completely over, and she felt like she was going to collapse.
The girlfriend woke her up and told her not to live in the fairy tale world anymore, no one was obliged to hurt her and love her for the rest of her life.
The girlfriend hopes that the baby can grow up and learn to be independent, but for the baby, she has long been accustomed to surviving under the protection of the people around her, especially her husband.
The departure of her husband meant that she had taken her entire life.
According to the general plot routine, some people may feel that the next baby should wake up, and then grow up in frustration, become an independent woman, or make a comeback and retaliate against her husband.
However, this film is only defined as a psychological thriller because it brings out infinite despair, and that despair can almost crush a person's beliefs.
For example, the girlfriend who has been encouraging her is the mentor of an emotional counseling class and is calm in the face of her ex-husband.
But in fact, the girlfriend can not heal herself, has been trapped in the failure of the marriage can not get out, finally, the girlfriend ended her life with a rope.
Losing her girlfriend, the baby is even more frightened, she left her daughter alone at home, causing her daughter to be burned, she felt that she was almost unable to hold on, and she had suicidal thoughts.
In order to prevent the social welfare officer from taking her daughter, she was nervous, fell asleep on medication, and forced her daughter to memorize what she said to the welfare officer.
However, she lost custody of her daughter.
Wu Zhenyu plays a very conscientious lawyer in the film, has a comatose wife, he has no special thoughts about the baby, it is purely the help of friends.
When he saw that the baby was depressed, he went to see Zhang Xinliang, hoping that Zhang Xinliang could help the baby get back on his feet.
But Zhang Xinliang refused, for the simple reason that he did not want to give her false hope.
After experiencing a series of blows, there is no way to remain calm, as long as a flashpoint, it can push people into the abyss.
When the baby heard her daughter calling Xiao San "Mommy", the baby completely broke out, smashed Zhang Xinliang's head with a wine bottle, and used a knife against Xiao San's throat, pulling her to the edge of the roof.
In this climactic scene, Yuan Yongyi acted particularly well, from the beginning of the only promise, to the soulless and depressed mental trance, to the desperate madness, she all behaved meticulously.
Looking at the man in front of her, the baby turned from collapse to despair, love and hate intertwined, she recalled the picture when they were married, she wanted this man to repeat the marriage vows, but she knew that it was useless.
The baby finally chose to let go, and this time it was really letting go.
At the end of the film, after Zhang Xinliang said "I love you", the baby was moved to cry.
A sentence of I love you when in love has finally become an ironic epitaph, and the tragedy of the baby lies in her emotional involuntary, but also in the indecisiveness of the man and the step-by-step of Xiao San.
Little Sister believes that the "I love you" at that moment is true, but perhaps only that moment is truly in love.
The English title of the film is: till death do us part, until death separates us until death.
As everyone says, "Marriage is the graveyard of love", but there are still many people in this world who are willing to walk into this grave, even if they are knocked to pieces, they will never look back.