Who let Wong Kar-wai "invent" "Flowers" again?
Wong Kar-wai has released his lifelong skills this time, using the ingenuity and craftsmanship of filmmaking to create a drama. It is "Wong Kar-wai pays homage to Wong Kar-wai", and it is also a dimensionality reduction attack. Most of the original fans are satisfied, because it uses images to complete another parallel time and space. The story can be said to be borrowed from a tree to bloom, and it is also a two-way journey between Jin Yucheng's novel and Wong Kar-wai's film universe. Two keys, choose one of them, can open the treasure box password. When it first aired, I was worried that the drama would be highly condensed, and I was going to call on the audience to give "Flowers" a little more time to digest. Who knew that I was overly worried, and the people of Shanghai entered the Spring Festival Gala ahead of schedule.
The passion is so intense that even if you watch it at double speed, you will still miss a lot of information even if you watch it without blinking. To give you an example, in the first episode, before Po was about to die, "the whole universe flashed" in his mind. The flash of thought lasted only two or three seconds, and multiple scenes flashed back, almost at a speed that could only be achieved by "The Sixty-Four Moves of the Gong Family" : Banknotes flying all over the sky at the scene of the car accident, a basin with shrimps written by Qi Baishi on the bottom, several red peonies next to a crystal lamp, an old tram passing by Caojiadu Food Store, and a fence flashed inside the car. The girl wearing a red scarf... The camera then cuts back to the white trash can next to the operating table. The piles of cotton balls stained with red blood are just like peonies in bloom - the floating and reorganization of memory fragments, the gorgeousness and impermanence of life, Everything is condensed, so dense, so strong, and its meaning is equivalent to Jia Baoyu's sleepwalking in Taixu fantasy land and receiving the verdict. Abao got a glimpse of the life code blueprint in advance, which outlines the entire drama and lays out the gray lines. It must not be scrawled. Pass.
If you watch it in a theater, you will not be able to capture this massive amount of information in time. I count it frame by frame during playback, which is also a blessing for TV drama viewers. They can pause, play back, comb through, and reflect on it at any time. Mr. Bao’s password drawing was not revealed until the 14th episode. The Bai Yueguang in his life appeared: it turned out to be Xuezhi on the No. 13 bus. Du Juan, a “Bai Yueguang professional”, was perfect to play. The audience, who had just been heartbroken by the three women around Mr. Bao, had to face a new torture: who is the true love? Some people argued on the Internet that I chose Xuezhi because they knew each other at a young age and have the highest purity. The Mr. Bao that other people know is mostly the tip of the iceberg, with filters or a mixture of emotions and interests, like whiskey mixed with water. More importantly, they are the same kind, and they have already penetrated each other spiritually. Whether they are chasing success in the worldly sense, or studying the subject of emotions, they have heard the truth first, and the steps have been slow, but they are basically the same. You chase me on the track, and we will always meet again in the world. The two of them will meet for the next ten years, but there is still room for them. Although Xuezhi said that you can either leave or stay in life, but you can't regret it - but even the strongest Gong Er said before his death: "Life would be so boring if there were no regrets."
Uncle Ye said at the beginning However, time determines everything, but there is another saying: It is difficult for a hero to be in love. As you know, asking for but not getting is the main theme of Wong Kar-wai's movies, and they are destined to just "encounter by chance".
