Wen | sticky book monster
The opening monologue of "Suzhou Creek" is the best I've seen in all the movies, and the poetic monologue is deep and hidden in the imprint of a harsh reality.
The decadence of the ground floor, the dilapidated houses, the dirty rivers, the empty eyes, the busy crowds, the air conditioning exhaust fans and the noise of cars everywhere, in such a city, love exudes a harsh and nihilistic light.
This monologue goes like this:
I often go alone with a camera to photograph the Suzhou Creek, down the river, from west to east, through Shanghai.
Nearly a century of legends, stories, memories, and all the garbage piled up here, making it one of the dirtiest rivers.
But there are still many people here, and they live on this river. Many people spend their lives here. On the river, you can see these people.
After watching for a long time, this river will let you see everything.
See the working people, see the friendship, see the father and the child, see the loneliness.
I also saw the birth of a baby on a barge, saw a girl jump off a bridge over the Suzhou Creek, and saw the bodies of a pair of young lovers dragged out of the water by the police.
About love
I'd say I once saw a mermaid sitting on a muddy riverbank, combing her blond hair.
Don't believe me, I'm lying.
The most monologue director in China is none other than Wong Kar-wai. At first glance, lou Ye's monologue seems to be a clumsy imitation of Wong Kar-wai.
Not really!
If the love under Wong Kar-wai's lens is a beautiful dream of light and shadow, then the decadence and ruin under Lou Ye's lens is a suffocating cruel reality.
To quote a passage from the movie: two people who didn't know each other before sit together, and then, of course, love.
What about after love?
It's marriage, it's breakup, it's indifference, it's oblivion, it's boredom, it's dependence, it's a myriad of different possibilities.
I have seen many unforgettable love movies, they use their lives to interpret the nobility of love, but I have never seen such a person in reality, such a desperate pursuit.
In "Suzhou Creek", I saw the truest appearance of love.
In this movie, Zhou Xun plays two roles, Peony and Meimei. Peony exudes the agility and liveliness of a young girl, and the laziness and sadness of Meimei's body are like two people. Zhou Xun also won the queen of the European Film Festival for the first time because of this film.
Because of a coincidence, Peony met the motor and then fell in love with the motor.
Two people who had never known each other sat together, and then, and then, of course, love.
From the moment the motor touched the peony, it was a conspiracy. They decide to kidnap Peony and extort a huge sum of money from her upstart father.
Motor was also in love with Peony, and he thought about quitting, but the arrow was on the string and had to be sent.
Heartbroken, Peony jumped off the bridge to the Suzhou Creek, and Mada was arrested and imprisoned and sentenced to three years.
This is the love story of Mada, who frantically searched for peonies after he was released from prison and accidentally met Meimei.
This is a person who looks exactly like a peony. Mada tells his story to Meimei, who firmly believes that Meimei is a peony.
Unfortunately, Meimei is not a peony.
The motor continued to search and finally found the peony in another city.
Peony said to Mada, send me home.
The police then salvaged the bodies of a pair of young lovers on the Suzhou Creek. It was the motor and the peony, who had fallen into the Suzhou Creek drunk.
At this moment, Meimei knew that everything Mada said was true, she had always thought that he was lying to her, she had always thought that Peony did not exist at all.
At the end of the film, Meimei asks her boyfriend in her usual lazy tone, if one day I am gone, will you look for me like a motor? Will you always look for it? Will you always find death?
The boyfriend replied in the same lazy tone, yes.
Meimei said, you lie, things like this, only in love stories.
The boyfriend said, you don't believe it?
Meimei said, I don't believe it.
The next day, Meimei was really gone. Leave a note: Come to me.
He didn't go looking for Meimei, who said that if I could go back to the balcony, my love story would still go on, but I'd rather close my eyes and wait for the next love.
That's the best love movie I've ever seen.
Everyone has made promises for love, said unswerving love words to death, but did not have the courage to put it into action.
People often love themselves first, and then love love. I used to think that I was a person who regarded love as life, but later I realized that I loved myself more than love, and I loved a stable life more.
Just like the beautiful boyfriend, it is better to wait for the next love than the never-ending chase.
Then say the same love words and live the same life.
Those who are praised are only praised. I wanted to be vigorous, but I didn't have the guts. I still have to live, life, there are no fairy tales.
I still believe in love, but I no longer believe in the death of only one person.