"Lover, love is more, hypocritical words do not say, only with a true heart, silently love me..." One of Du Dewei's "Lovers" was popular all over the streets and alleys, but it was no worse than Cai Xukun's playback effect. The French film "Lover", also released before the turn of the millennium and released in 1992, has long been apt to express the desire that everyone in love wants to obtain through the game between male and female protagonists.
Of course, this is not a magical picture for you to imagine the emperor of the Thousand Faces, Leung Ka Fai, humming this melody, although according to Leung Ka Fai's acting skills, there is no sense of violation of the minute-by-minute switch (see the same pre-millennium Hong Kong film "East becomes West") here).
Today's film sharing is a love movie "Lover" directed by French director Jean Jacques Arnold and starring Jane March and Leung Ka Fai. This film is based on the autobiographical novel of French writer Marguerite Duras, even if you have not seen Duras's original book, you will still be moved by the delicate and delicate gender emotions in the movie.
Time needs to go back to Vietnam in 1929, a time and place that we are not familiar with. At this time, Vietnam was still a French colony, and the French colonists who dressed themselves fashionably and considered themselves superior were in stark contrast to the Vietnamese who worked in the mud in traditional local costumes.
The story of the film is not complicated, to put it bluntly, it is a love affair between young men and women. The rich overseas Chinese young master fell in love with the eccentric and playful French girl, but the class confrontation doomed the two to be only a game and a dream.
The young master Tony, played by Leung Ka Fai, returned from studying in France to inherit the family business, although from Paris to Saigon, the life of a drunken fan has not changed, but because under the supervision of his father, it is more depressed and free.
Jane (played by Jane March) is a young girl of good age, it is the flowering period, even if the hair is yellow due to the long-term lack of nutrition supply, she always wears a long hemp shirt and long skirt that has begun to pill, and the shoes with a large rhinestone on her feet have long been worn, which cannot hide her thriving youth hormones.
His father died early, and his mother insisted on buying land on the coast of Vietnam, but she was deceived and could only work as a teacher in the village's primary school to earn a small salary to raise three children. Jane's eldest brother smokes a cigarette and does nothing, and at home he is armed and vicious against his younger sister, and the younger brother can't stand it but doesn't dare to resist. On the contrary, Jane, in the face of such a big brother, she will stretch out her sharp claws. Unfortunately, the mother prefers the boss and always ignores the following two small feelings. In such a family, Jane also felt depressed and wanted to escape.
The two men met on a boat bound for Saigon. The young girl who leans on the fence, the young and energetic posture, the eye-catching men's top hat on the head, the good face, and the eyes that are as agile as the fawn. I have to say that Jane March's interpretation, even in front of the screen, we can't help but be attracted, can only sigh and admire. So, it's not surprising that Tony will be moved.
Tony came forward to talk nervously, the girl spoke calmly and agreed to Tony's request to get into his car, and the fate of the two really unfolded. No matter at any time, there is no shortage of male and female love that can be bought with money, but whether it can buy true and true love is another matter.
Tony wants to buy true love, but Jane just wants to follow her rebellious heart and do things that her mother hates. What's more, this man is young, golden, gentle, and obedient to herself, and she herself does not hate. Jane became Tony's lover, and they mingled in their apartments in Tony's Chinatown, day and night, neck to neck and ear to ear.
Although Jane still maintained good grades in school, the news of her friendship with the Chinese had long since disappeared, and her classmates in French schools avoided her, looking at her like seeing a virus, a disgraceful plague.
When the family learned that Jane was involved with a Chinese, the mother and the eldest brother were angry. They met and ate with Tony, spending Tony's money in a big way, with an undisguised look and contempt on their faces, as if Tony was begging to spend money on them.
Tony has been giving Jane his own love without hesitation, but he has never received a response from Jane. After another fruitless inquiry, Tony chose to give in to his father and marry the family's long-time miss.
That night together became the last time the two met. Jane only glanced at Tony from a distance when she married his wife, and did not show up until Jane and her mother and brother left Vietnam by boat to return to France. He sat in the car, as if the two had first met. Jane dressed the same way, leaning against the railing, still wearing the man's top hat, looking at where Tony was. Only this time, they weren't in the same boat, and Tony didn't take that proactive step.
When everyone is old and decrepit, Jane receives a call from Tony, and he still loves her as ever.
The story has been flowing between the male and female protagonists, and the two people with completely opposite personalities are involved in fate because of a chance encounter. A period of wind and currents, let them miss each other for half a lifetime.
Tony's personality is introverted and even a little cowardly, and like many of the second ancestors of that era, he can only rely on family life most of the time. Like he told Jane, he couldn't work, he couldn't work, and his life would be like his father lying in bed smoking a big cigarette. So in this family, his life has been defined from birth, and Tony only has to obey and do it.
Jane was the only and last time he resisted after returning home. Tony begged his father, knelt down, and murmured how inseparable he was from the French woman. It's just that he has long been deeply imprinted by the patriarchal society, and he can't resist the majesty of his father, the leader of the family, and perhaps more fatally, Tony has not waited for Jane's sincerity, so his persistence is weak and weak.
Because of her family's unbearable situation, the heroine Jane has always been incompatible with the wealth of the local French. She was nothing less than the poverty of the family, but also loved and hated her mother, loved her tender time, pitied her hurts, but hated her mother's unbridled preference for her eldest brother and neglect of her brother. Escaping from her original family is just an unrealistic dream, but falling in love with or even having sex with a strange man is a kind of rebellion that she can perform and manipulate.
In the women's house, this idea of hers is even more explicit when talking to her friends at night. Tony's arrival was a timely rain, and the young and vigorous Jane did not know what love was.
For Jane, this is a game of use, but for Tony, it is trapped in a sea of love.
Thirty-year-old men, controlled by fifteen-year-old girls, kneading and flattening. In several bed scenes, it is not only the body fragrance of the girl that can be appreciated, nor the beautiful figure of Liang Jiahui, but the switch of the status between the bed, which clearly indicates the wrestling of the male and female protagonists in love. The status is not equal, always pay more the party hurts more, in this love war without smoke, Tony lost outright.
In fact, Jane is very contradictory, she rejects Tony's love on the one hand, in front of her mother and brother, she strongly denies having a leg with this Chinese man, she throws away the ring that Tony gave her to his mother, and eats silently when the family humiliates Tony; but at the same time, she indulges in Tony's love and connivance. Does she understand love? Maybe she understands, maybe she doesn't understand, but she is more familiar with the white race's disdain and contempt for the yellow race, and knows better how to step on the other party's self-esteem in such a love affair.
The heroine was on the steamship, crying bitterly in the quiet piano in the middle of the night, and finally had a response to Tony's love.
Love does not know what to do, always go deep, do not know the end, go to the end.
In the movie "Lover", whether it is a love affair or a personnel affair, from the arrogance of a young girl to the huaichun of a young man, it is just right, and more is too much and less. And the details of the director's place are full of every shot, the humid and hot Saigon, the restlessness of the warm yellow tone, and the ambiguity of the foolishness.
Not to pull the step, if you accidentally stepped on Ray in "The First Incense" and was injured, I really recommend this "Lover" to wash your eyes.
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