compares general movies to propositional essays, then Wong Kar-wai-style movies are prose.
Wong Kar-wai puts the focus of the film on the narrative method, the picture and the soundtrack, so the outstanding points of his film are also outstanding, the beautiful visual picture, the right soundtrack, and the unique narrative method. So his movies will have a special taste. As for the theme of the movie, it was not chosen at the beginning.
In 1990, Wong Kar-wai's movie "The True Story of A Fei" was the beginning of Wang's film style. Although "A Fei Zheng Chuan" tells the story of Hong Kong, the word "A Fei" was originally a name in the Shanghai dialect, and the dialogue in the Shanghai dialect in the movie made me feel cordial. It can be seen that in Wang Jiawei's heart, there has always been a strong Shanghai nostalgia complex, which is unforgettable and unforgettable.
Wong Kar-wai said that the reason for making this movie is how to break through the old ways of Hong Kong movies. He wants the audience to be aware that what the story tells is important, but how to tell the story is also important. The English title "Days of Being Wild" is just like that when Wong Kar-wai thinks it sounds good.
In 1991, the film won five awards including Best Picture and Best Director at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards. Leslie Cheung won the Best Actor Award at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards for "A Fei's Story".
As time goes by, people feel the charm of the film more and more. In 2005, the Hong Kong Film Awards selected "100 Most Representative Chinese Films", and "A Fei's Story" ranked third.
"The Story of A Fei" not only has super high artistic value, but also has an unprecedented super cast in film history. The film brings together six Hong Kong superstars, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau, Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, and Tony Leung, who have become icons of the times and cultural symbols today. As newcomers in the film industry, they found their best in the world of Wong Kar Wai’s images. Dedicated group performances that refreshed the audience, and left his own magnificent and unparalleled color in the history of Hong Kong film.
A group of Hong Kong heavyweight actors started from the transformation of Wong Kar Wai's film, and finally followed different paths to the peak.
There is a kind of bird without feet in this world. It flies and flies in the sky all its life, and sleeps in the wind when it is tired. This kind of bird can only go down once in its life, and that time is when it dies.
Everyone struggles, everyone is on the road, like that footless bird, only stopping once in a lifetime, that is death.
This is the line of the movie "The Story of A Fei". This is a feeling of loneliness, which makes people feel strange and familiar.
loneliness is a word that Wang Jiawei often tells us, how heavy this word is, only in his lonely world of light and shadow, we can deeply understand the quiet hours in those few hours.
Xuzai is lonely, and his loneliness has formed his unruly character. He constantly plays with women's feelings, and finally turns away without looking at his mother. The bohemian Xu Zai A Fei circulated among several women, and he finally died on the beautiful screen, cynical.
There are only characters in this movie, and there is no complete story. The director controls the actors and directly cuts into the inner world of the characters through excellent art design and style photography, making the audience clearly feel the atmosphere of the environment and the passion of the characters. At the same time, individualism pushes the film to a new height. In the art film, individualism is a manifestation of Wong Kar-wai's personality traits, and it is also a manifestation of Leslie Cheung's personality traits.
Do we hate or love ALFY? We can’t tell. We hate him when his wandering corpses rush over again and again. Especially when he was walking in front of his biological mother’s villa without looking back, he said, “On April 12, 1961, I finally came to my mother’s house, but she refused to see me. The workers said she was no longer there. There, when I left this house, I knew that there was a pair of eyes looking at me behind me, but I would not look back, I just wanted to see her and know how she was, since she refused to give me this opportunity , I will definitely not give her this opportunity.
has no job, a playboy, is lazy, and a character who plays with women, but he is expressive through Leslie CheungHis interpretation made us like him. For bohemian and game life performance, ALFY is a classic on the big screen.
two women, their only connection is that they were abandoned by the same man. If they are all losers, what is there to fight for? In fact, from the beginning of falling in love with that man, he had already failed, but he had to take a sigh of relief, trying to prove something.
Maggie Cheung and Carina Lau have been so different since then. The quiet girl downstairs, and the noisy showgirl. More than ten years later, her quietness has escalated into a restrained noble temperament, and her gaudy cultivation has become a graceful spirit, as if she was a new life.
Only years have this power. After countless years have passed, whether I can also be carved into the look of expectation, thinking of everything today, I just laughed it off, no longer care about it and no longer be confused.
is just whether they now miss their youth and ignorance.
At the end of the film, Tony Leung combed his hair in the mirror, dangling a cigar, holding a stack of banknotes in his hand, turning off the lights, walking out of the house, and disappearing into the darkness. In fact, Tony Leung was the second A Fei and another Xu Zai who was alive. They had been searching for something, but they had never known what they needed. They are helpless and have no worries, but their inner burden is heavier than anyone else. They are extremely passionate, yet extremely affectionate. They are sinking, wandering, lonely, and wonderful in their spiritual world.
What exactly is this movie talking about? Let's read the "How to Live" by Kazuo Inamori, Japan, and we can find the answer.
Pursue the meaning of life in the chaotic era: We live in an era of restlessness, the world is chaotic, and the future is not clear. The material is rich, but the spirit is very empty; the food and clothing are abundant, but the etiquette is very lacking; the action is free, but the feeling is very closed; as long as you work hard, you can get everything and do everything, but people are negative and pessimistic Some people even commit crimes or commit scandals.
A repressive atmosphere permeates the entire society. Many people cannot find the meaning and value of life, lose the direction of life, lack clear values, and then lead to social chaos.
Therefore, life goals and pursuits are very important.
You are ALFY, and the phased survival goal is very important. Otherwise, you will be a bird without legs and cannot land.
There are many stages in a person's life. When you first enter society, you must have a realistic direction and goal. If the goal is unrealistic, the result must be a failure, or even an irreversible situation.
In "The True Story of A Fei", Xu Zai, who has just entered the society, has the goal of meeting his biological mother in life, and even breaks with her adoptive mother and partes with her beloved woman. Such goals are obviously problematic. The consequence is that it is the greatest harm to the person who loves him, but also to himself.
Therefore, it is terrible for a person to not see one's own distance. With the distance, one has the height of the pursuit of life, and once one has the pursuit, the distance is no longer far away. Everyone should have a goal that they can convince themselves and strive for. This goal is not necessarily a definite value, but an achievement set by oneself at some point in the future.
But not all goals are feasible. In "Information Management", there is a term called "selective information processing", which means: the world's information including knowledge is endless, you only need to choose to Useful, because your energy is limited, you don't need to waste your resources, only SMART (smart) goals are operable.
Watching "The True Story of A Fei" today, I feel that the story is not a story that happened in Hong Kong in the 1960s, but is right beside us.
This is the inner world and emotional entanglement of modern arrogant and rebellious youth, which truly reproduces the living environment and social conditions of modern youth.
is full of vitality everywhere, people's hearts are beginning to be restless, many people are on the road of struggle, on the road to find wealth. Leave like the policeman played by Andy Lau in the film, or just prepare to go out like the gambler played by Tony Leung, spreading by itself like a vital pattern.
Your life goal can only be chosen by yourself, no one can replace you.
