Author: Edmund (formerly: The Count of Monte Cristo)
This "Unemployed Student" was first released in 1981, when you were not yet born, and the three male protagonists Zhang Guorong, Chen Baiqiang, and Paul Zhong had already emerged in the film and television circle. Twenty-six years later, you can only rely on movies and songs to remember the three big stars of the golden age of Hong Kong cinema.
Our biggest impression of Hong Kong film genre films is police films, tertiary films, martial arts films, and now martial arts films and tertiary films have declined, and police films have reached a new height of "Cold War", but youth films have always been the existence that we have ignored. In the impression, only the legendary Queen of Heaven Faye Wong co-starred in "Mo Cheating Young Poor" with Beyond, and has not been able to watch each other. This "Unemployed Student", if it were not for the re-screening of the movie, I am afraid I would not have turned it out to watch.
I like you Chen Baiqiang - I like you
Even in the movie theater, the people around them are extremely impatient to watch, the soundtrack is harsh, the performance is exaggerated, and the plot is old-fashioned. I said that your expectations of it had to be placed in the environment and background conditions of 1981 to see a little taste, and the movie was only 90 minutes of standard length. Sure enough, by the time Chen Baiqiang's piano played, the audience was much quieter, immersed in the classic Hong Kong songs of the 80s. Although it is not time to go back to that era, it is enough to have a short period of remembrance.
Compared with Zhang Guorong's double-sided blossoming of film songs, Chen Baiqiang only has a few songs circulating in the mainland, and the film response is not large. It was only out of the environment of the Hong Kong entertainment industry that at that time, popular film and television songs developed in an all-round way, and the four heavenly kings were like this, not to mention Chen Baiqiang Zhang Guorong in the early years. After making several films, Chen Baiqiang's career focus is still on singing. "What to Ask for in a Lifetime" and "Partial Like You" to this day, is still the top 50 must-order Cantonese songs in KTV, killing Wu Yifan Li Yifeng and other small fresh meats.
What to ask for in a lifetime - what to ask for in a lifetime
Back to the movie, it is said that it is the three male protagonists, in fact, it is mainly the contrast between Zhang Guorong and Chen Baiqiang after graduation. Zhang Guorong, who lives in a village house, is cheerful, has nothing to do, and has nothing to do in school, and in order to support his family, he can only start by watching the toilet. From watching the toilet, to the waiter, there is the avoidance of former classmates, there is the hardship of life, there is unrequited love. Chen Baiqiang, born in the second generation of the rich, pure wood, despite his father's obstruction and the persuasion of his family, resolutely decided to embark on the road of music. Moving out of the house, starting from the bottom of the record company, fortunately with girlfriends and friends.
Zhang Guorong's future has a typical Hong Kong film color, born at the bottom, optimistic and resolute, mixed society adapts to the role quickly, and the underworld is implicated, and the so-called love is doomed to end without a disease. In contrast, Chen Baiqiang's love line is more rationalistic, from the encounter in the subway station, to the piano dancing by the sea, to the independence of not abandoning, which makes people jealous. Whether you have nothing or not, I always know each other.
Thirty years later, in the interior, pure love has become a rare object. Those dating sites, in the name of love, charge high membership fees, and become the permanent residence of emotional cheaters. Programmers live in a narrow circle, and once they are stuck in the mud, they cannot extricate themselves, or they continue to be blackmailed and ruined, or they die in revenge. The psychological fragility makes people sigh, and the world of love makes people panic. Do you still believe in love? What about you after five years and ten years of work? After watching these real tragedies, are you still willing to believe it?
Boys in the eighties met girls for many days, and they didn't even dare to call for their names. After being in love for many days, you can't see holding hands and kissing. Now direct blind date website matchmaking, WeChat joints, asking the house to ask for the car, crazy consumption, even going to bed and getting married are after shopping, until they squeeze dry and force you to die. Horror, right? A woman with high cheekbones is terrifying, right?