"Chongqing Forest": The Lonely Man in the Postmodern Forest

Whether it is He Zhiwu, female drug dealers, or Afei, 633, they are all drifting in the post-modern fast-food world, always confined and restrained by emotions, living on the edge of the world, incompatible with fast-paced. The protagonists in the movie are so similar to Wong Kar-wai. Wong Kar-wai is a lonely man who has no place to root in postmodern Hong Kong, and is also the creator of modern urban fairy tales. In "Chongqing Forest", the countless symbolized characters and the carefully selected urban environment vividly show the fragmented, chaotic and noisy Hong Kong in the eyes of Wong Kar-wai, as well as the incompetent sense of powerlessness, which is very postmodern.

In "Chongqing Forest", the clever use of audiovisual language laid the tone of the film's postmodernist style and showed the inner activities of director Wong Kar Wai. In the beginning of the film, a large number of hand-held shots are used, and the shaking images enhance the audience's sense of substitution in the chaotic environment at that time, and truly reproduce the living conditions of marginal figures in Hong Kong society. The marginal characters under the subjective lens and the narrow environment under the objective lens are intertwined, and then blended with the cold and warm colors, profoundly depicting the phenomenon of highly developed material and empty and indifferent duality. As for the smear effect caused by frame reduction, it not only forms a tear-like loneliness, but also shows the broken and blurred Hong Kong of Wong Kar-wai. The use of this post-modern audiovisual language at the beginning of the film established the overall style tone of the film; at the same time, Wong Kar-wai’s lack of roots and lack of belonging in his heart is perfectly presented to the audience through audiovisual language. , Evoke the resonance of lonely people who also live in the postmodern forest.

Wong Kar-wai is not so much a representative of post-modernism, it is better to say that post-modernism is the carrier of Wong Kar-wai's emotions. All of Wong Kar-wai's films express the theme of communication between people, and postmodernism refers to the phenomenon that material is highly developed and people's hearts become empty and indifferent. For Wong Kar-wai, the reason why he explores the communication between people is because he lacks a sense of belonging to Hong Kong. While he is discussing the communication between people, he is also discussing his own way of communicating with Hong Kong, a city with a strong postmodern significance. A lonely person living in the post-modern forest puts all his emotions in the film, attaches to the audiovisual language, and expresses it.

quantification is a sign of rationality. Postmodern is an adjective of Hong Kong, and the lonely is the meaning of Wong Kar-wai. Wong Kar-wai, who lives in post-modern Hong Kong, uses movies to explore the bridges of communication between people, perhaps also redeeming himself like an island.