Sometimes I suddenly miss the feelings of the 90s, when it always seems that love is stronger and beauty is more beautiful. During claustrophobic periods, a nostalgia will inexplicably arise in the heart. Turning to Hong Kong movies in the 1980s and 1990s, they always give people a very red dust and a very momentary feeling. Sometimes they are extremely tragic, and sometimes they are very emotional. The women inside are also very beautiful, that kind of real beauty, and beautiful in a variety of ways, although it is inevitable that there are still the limitations of the thinking and values of that era, but the women of their generation, just like the women of the current era, also have a lot of involuntariness and bitter compromise. The wheel of life runs over one woman's face after another, and eventually you will find that life is like a drama.
Text | Zhang Yuehan
Watching "The Strange Case of the Three Wolves", I think that the end-to-end echo is really very powerful. At the beginning of the film, at the opening song, photos of the three men marrying each other, attending each other's weddings and important life parties are released, so that you can see a kind of brotherhood and friendship between men. The story begins with a show of their most everyday, social life.
The sensational Three Wolves case in Hong Kong is a real case, and this movie is based on this case. You thought you would have seen three murderous demons who had been deranged and twisted since childhood, but the film begins with these three most ordinary social people.
Leung Ka Fai plays an office worker man who does all kinds of chores in the office and is usually angry everywhere. He had two good friends, brothers. Poor together, each helping to fill the scene among outsiders, looking after each other. Zheng Zeshi plays a makeup artist in the crew, and I don't know why, along with the poor neighbors who live in him, they all look down on him. I don't know why this paragraph is, but it may be because the abridgement was not released.
The climax of the film is that the three of them kidnapped the boss's son, the prince who usually bullied Liang Jiahui's role. In the rainy woods, they killed the prince by mistake, and later found that he was not dead, and simply killed him alive with a combo. This paragraph is clumsy and terrifying.
Early Hong Kong films, showing that kind of sex and violence, were very primitive and very Asian.
I've always felt that rain can ignite some kind of primal sin. Under this most tyrannical and natural flushing, many times your subconscious, what you want most in your heart, will really protrude, it tears, teeth and claws, and pulls out the ugliness that you are desperately hiding inside.
The best thing about "The Case of the Three Wolves" is that the tragedy of their three little people, each of them, is fully displayed. Of course, these cannot be justified in their crimes, but these displays are real enough, even sincere. In the vast world, everything cannot protect them, and only the friendship of the three of them seems to be more secure in an unjust society. Watching "The Three Wolves", you should never expect to be as inverted and suspenseful enough as watching an American drama detective work. The three of them are actually not smart, just a kind of citizen crime, but the reason why Hong Kong's civic crime legend has its unique characteristics is that it is not proud - most of the evil is derived from some of the most ordinary soil.
In the end, it was revealed that in the process of escaping, the three wolves were the one who obviously had the opportunity to run first but did not leave the single, which highlighted their friendship in danger, which seemed to be true.
At the end, the shocking part of the film is that the process of the death penalty of these three people is shown at a long distance, and the cautionary meaning erupts in silence. Then, after you have seen such a tragic whole story, quietly put on the scene of three children worshiping their brothers in childhood. Three childlike voices make you sigh at their ending. The most common phrase "do not want to be born on the same day of the same month of the same year, only to die on the same day of the same year" shows an unusual cruelty here, they did keep the promise of childhood, but have you ever thought that it would end in this way?
Wang Zuxian Zheng Yuling Lin Yilian's "Rhapsody of Part-time Work" starring three people, I think it has a similar flavor to some of Yi Shu's novels about women in the Hong Kong workplace.
Three working women, each doing an ordinary job in a company. The story begins when they go to work in the morning, when three people take different routes and different means of transportation to catch up with the job. When I got to the building, the passenger elevator could not squeeze in, so I took the freight elevator, but I was still late. Then scolded by the boss, squeezed by the small head, at noon, have lunch together by the fountain in Central. This seems to be the most ordinary workplace story, but one night, when the other two were working overtime with Wang Zuxian's role, they accidentally found a large bag of cash under the workstation...
This seems to be the ultimate dream of every office worker, right? Suddenly one day there is a lot of money, don't get angry. Zheng Yuling's character immediately began to fantasize about herself living in a villa and raising foreign dogs from then on, and the boss who usually bullied him became his own servant, and he was extremely attentive and thoughtful.
The ease of this movie is that it handles everyone's "qi" at work in a humorous way, although in the end, the money is returned, and the lives of the three people are more or less beaten back to their original positions, but because in the process they use their own strength to do different inquiries, cuts, and initiatives, the two people unexpectedly gain a new partner, and the original love relationship of Lin Yilian's character has also been improved. The moral of the movie seems to be that everyone only needs to break through themselves a little, and the current dilemma can be broken. Of course, you know that everything is not so easy, but watching such a relaxed and beautiful movie during the quarantine period can also relax a lot. The film also makes people feel that Hong Kong people seem to have a Canada in the distance, no matter what. The answer to all the questions seems to be Canada, and one of the "Rich and Powerful" series is like this, and the family in "Rich and Happy Ghosts" is thinking about immigration after they die. The biggest dream of Wang Zuxian's character in "Rhapsody of Part-time Work" is that the boyfriend who has gone to Canada can pick up his past marriage, and the boyfriend of Lin Yilian's character is also considering immigrating to Canada. But the film also borrowed the role of Zheng Yuling to say that Canada is actually not so good.
The reason why "Heavenly Love" is touching is also well understood: a handsome man who has never known each other, is willing to give up his life to save you, and does not ask for anything in return. Is this sheer attraction between men and women, and so exclusive, still there?
"Heavenly Love" is really the love that is unique to that era: big smoke, fire, explosion, going to rob the cake shop in the middle of the night, just to give you a birthday. Who wouldn't want to wander the world with such a handsome man, or even run away? This movie can be said to have greatly touched the soft underbelly of women.
The more I watched this movie, the more I couldn't help but think about my previous love. In the past, people needed to dial a few numbers in a phone booth on a cold night to reach the person you wanted. In the dark night, there is only you, the street lamp, and his (her) voice. Nowadays, you only need a WeChat voice to reach the other person, but you don't have any action because you love yourself too much.
We are all increasingly alienated with the years. The more you are disappointed, the harder your heart becomes, and eventually your whole heart is like a cocoon. In the last scene of the movie, Wu Qianlian runs barefoot on the bustling Hong Kong highway, and we cry in front of the credits, but we know that there can be no such legendary love in life.
In the past, old Hong Kong movies were particularly ups and downs, such as a "Deadly Lady" played by Lin Qingxia. An ordinary woman from a good family, who embezzled public funds for her husband, who knew that when she accompanied him to Thailand to find relatives to borrow money, he was temporarily interested in pushing her into the sea on a steamship.
Later, the wife, rescued by a passing refugee boat, was disfigured. After returning to Hong Kong, she found that her husband not only took the boss's daughter, but also ignored her own son, and eventually the heroine's father was also killed by him.
This movie first outlines the fate of the heroine to the extreme, and then uses the revenge of the feminized fish to break the net to reach the climax of the story. The husband "killed" his wife, who knows, she did not die, and came back to life to seek revenge on him. This plot is not reminiscent of "The Temptation of the Wife", however, the earlier plot actually appeared in Feng Menglong's "Cautionary Tale". The difference is that after the wife in the "Cautionary Tale" was "resurrected" and had a new and nobler identity than before, she only punished her husband a little, but still re-married with him, and was happy for a lifetime!
At dusk, you're a little angry, immersed in 90s Cantonese songs.
In the past, many movies in Hong Kong had a certain kind of tragedy, making you think that it was either black or white, either love or hate, and there was only one option in this world. But when you really step into society, you find that a lot of it is the kind of warm gray, the warm swallow of mediocre evil. You have played the game of life round after round, have you won or lost? You think, a lot of things are buried in the sea. A lot of things didn't come, a lot of things didn't settle down, and this process of waiting was the most painful.
Zhang Yuehan
He has published a collection of essays, "The Hustle of a Man," and a novel, "Flowers like a Pupil." The works focus on women's self-growth, emotional confusion, and urban psyche.
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