Looking at the entire Mid-Autumn Festival, the best one is " still thinks you are the best ".
The taste of Hong Kong is dripping into the soul. After those signature nostalgic stalks are used, there is still a good theme to continue, from the tangled entanglement of love and love to the tearing and fusion of traditional culture and modernity, such Hong Kong films are no longer rigid. The past, and have the courage to explore the future.
On the surface, this is just a traditional situational love sketch. dining table , in the house, the relationship between men and women is intricate, coupled with strong regional and cultural attributes, it is no wonder that some people say that "I Still Think You are the Best" is the Hong Kong version of "Myth of Love".
But Shanghai's alleys and modernity are not exactly the same as Hong Kong's market and modernity. Due to historical reasons and special geographical location, most people can embrace modernity when they walk out of the alleys, but for Hong Kong, it seems that only a bolder departure can find a future if it deviates from tradition.
Alleys exist as regional scenes of cultural symbols, while marketplaces are more like a fluid but lasting interpersonal relationship.
Therefore, in "I Still Think You Are the Best", although "home" always appears as the primary scene, the living room, bedroom and balcony flow like a marquee, filled with characters and their The transformation of the relationship between each other is the focus of the whole film, which promotes the story and enriches the theme.
The past and the present
If the fate is too casual, it will be missed, and if it is too serious, it will be sad.
Fate in the text is usually just a fatalistic representation of the relationship between men and women. Love that is wrong at the first word often needs to be bravely loved in order to break through the troubles of the world and the tricks of fate.
"I still think you are the best" is a direct quote from the old song of the song god:
Even if you leave me, my passion has not changed; who is your love in this long night; flowers don't seem to bloom and love gradually becomes like the sea; if you still miss me Why feel alone.
's thoughts about the past, from family to love, from family to people. The three brothers,
, transformed the "Blessed BBQ Pork" left by their father into a home room. The originally peaceful life began to have conflicts and contradictions when the second brother brought back his girlfriend Monica.
Monica is the eldest brother's ex-girlfriend. The two broke up because of PK and OK language mistakes, so when his ex-girlfriend moved into the house as the second brother's girlfriend, as the eldest brother, on the one hand, he wanted to give the second brother face, Although the heart is twisted like a knife, he still pretends to be calm.
However, as a lover whose old relationship has been broken up, in order to suppress his desire and at the same time reassure everyone, he had to talk about the "forgetting year" love with Miaomiao, a young girl who just met and admired him. Since then, the originally silent family has been full of vitality. and turmoil.
As the eldest brother said, the whole family is turbulent and the source of vitality is actually Monica played by Stephy Deng . As a newcomer and an old friend, she is actually difficult to live in this traditional family structure, this is also the whole play The power source of 's dramatic conflict , and countless jokes can be made around these relationships.
Whether it is Miaomiao as the intruder, or the second brother, or the third brother and his girlfriend Josephine, everyone functionally revolves around the new and the old, the past and the present.
The problems left over from the past have become a historical burden, and the current conflicts and contradictions are difficult to solve for a while. "I still think you are the best" in this part is more of an obsession with the past.
"Home is here, the stove is here, and the father is here". When the second and third brothers hope to start a new life and career through the blessings left by their grandparents, the elder brother, who is the father, is strongly opposed. big brother alwaysAppearing as a self-sacrificing "parent", he needs to be a guide in the family to grasp the bits and pieces of life, to ensure that the family does not fall apart for various reasons, even if it will ruin his happiness and future.
In the first half of the film, the audience always stays in the old-fashioned love story narrative mode. With the development of the film, the ending is likely to move towards a long-term drama that will reunite fate and true love. But this film gave the audience a different development direction and brought new movie viewing surprises.
Traditional and modern
represents a type of people: the old Hong Kong community. As the company's cultural director, Monica is keen to collect cultural plaques from old Hong Kong. When everyone decided to innovate and change, only the elder brother hung the plaque in his house silently. Only he can understand that his traditions and conservatives need to be maintained and supported just like a plaque.
So he was born to be the giver of the family, the second and third brothers are also used to it, so no one really cares about his needs and desires. It wasn't until the appearance of the young live-streaming girl Miaomiao that this stalemate was broken. She told her eldest brother, "Those who try their best to make everyone happy are the most unhappy."
Carefully, she gave him color-blind glasses that can observe the outdoors, so that he can walk outside from home and see more colorful life colors.
Miaomiao is an "intruder" in traditional life. While caring about the real needs of the elder brother, he slowly melts the inherent concepts in the family and breaks the spiritual barrier between brothers.
penetrated into the subtext of the theme from the love drama. The encounter between Big Brother and Miaomiao is more like the collision between old Hong Kong and new culture, and finally points to "openness, tolerance, and going out". At the end of
, everyone still had a reunion dinner. The eldest brother even went back to his father's old business, which made everyone reminisce about the traditional taste of starting a family, but at the same time, he also decided to sell his ancestral property to support the second brother's new life and the third brother's game career. And the big brother no longer misses the satay beef noodles downstairs, and finally summoned up the courage to lead Miaomiao to a farther future.
It is worth mentioning that every meal scene in the film reflects the change in the connotation of the film, and the front and back of each paragraph is like the division of a sitcom. The profound food culture unique to the Chinese has helped many emotions to be vented at this moment. The five tables of rice in
"Food Men and Women" witness the transformation of the arc of characters. The meaning behind the dining table is the link between family members; the wine table in " Reunion " reflects mutual understanding and tolerance; Taking the teahouse as the main narrative space, it focuses on all kinds of grievances and grievances; "'s Family has a happy event " and "Da Fu's Family" also solve various conflicts among the people at the dining table...
In this family, the third brother My girlfriend Zhu Zhu insists on cooking for everyone, but when everyone doesn't understand Zhu Zhu, only Miao Miao sees her hard work and encourages her, which is quite the spirit of women in the new era. And Zhu Zhu also confessed that her grandmother was a servant and her mother was a gang. Taking care of others' food and daily life seemed to be her indelible family mark.
But when she faced her true heart, she suddenly realized that she just loves food, and does not need to take care of others to gain a sense of identity and value. Her value anxiety seems to arise from love, but in fact it is still a cultural bondage. .
"Still Think You Are the Best" conveys to the audience not only the laughter of Hong Kong-style comedy, but also the brand of the times and cultural acceptance under the core of tragedy.
The fate of separation is missed, no longer "who can replace your status" like Zhang Guorong 's "Monica". Now it is "people and home", on the one hand he embraces "modernity", and at the same time reconciles with "tradition" in an "indescribable new relationship".
ends the whole film with the night scene of Hong Kong, just like the song sings, "Even if your wishes are different in the spring wind and autumn rain, you still have a little old dream to pour out." The greatest significance of
comedy to public life lies in the use of images to satirize or point out the disadvantages of the times. And being able to find the pain points of comedy humanistic care beyond the laughter, the continuation of the deep core makes it even more precious. It is rare to see such a Hong Kong film these days.
