"Flowers" is over, Mr. Bao's story is over, and the stories of Miss Wang, Lingzi, Li Li and others are all over.
In the end, except for Tao Tao, who was involved in trivial family matters, and his "never masked" wife, almost no one had a "good death".
As a viewer who has never read a novel, I can only say that this novel "Flowers" really has the style and taste of Wong Kar-Wai.
It was at the finale that I suddenly discovered from the ending subtitles that perhaps only a director like Wong Kar-wai would declare so blatantly: This is not the novel "Flowers", this is my own "Flowers" .
Because this is a movie that combines Jin Yucheng's "Flowers", Mu Xin's "Shanghai Fu", Feng Lun's "Savage Growth" and Ying Jianzhong's two financial novels "Guys and Dolls in the Stock Market" and "Sorrows and Joys in the Stock Market" TV series.
"Flowers" is more like a martial arts drama or a Hong Kong-style period drama. Whether it is the actors' unrestrained performances or the choice of words and sentences in the lines, they are not limited to a bustling city like Shanghai.
Because you can see the shadow of "Days of Being Wild" in it, you can taste the loneliness of "Chungking Express", you can feel the confusion of "Ashes of Time", you can absorb "In the Mood for Love" and "2046" 》The dark beauty.
This is "Flowers", a TV series that many actors in the show have been willing to stay silent for many years, a TV series that has left many directors and screenwriters in the dust, and a TV series that blatantly announced that it was not 100% adapted from "Flowers".
The flowers will eventually wither, and the song will eventually fade away.
In my mind, as the male protagonist in Wong Kar-wai's works, Mr. Bao, a male protagonist, has completely escaped the realm and scope of the novel.
Due to fate and the careful teachings of the old Master Uncle, he changed from A Bao to Mr. Bao along the way.
He has transformed from an ordinary employee who was abandoned by his ex-girlfriend to an industry legend known to everyone on Huanghe Road and even the entire Shanghai Beach.
He has a confidante, he meets a business partner, and he is unable to extricate himself.
But in the end, Mr. Bao, who has walked the path that almost every martial artist must take, can only take a step back.
Shanghai is still the same Shanghai, and there is never a shortage of business affairs and stories here.
Just like the metaphor of Miss Wang's "Goodbye in the world", no matter how superb your martial arts is, no matter how legendary your story is, you will not always be the protagonist in the world.
Once Mr. Bao is gone, another Mr. Bao will surely become the next Mr. Bao. There will never be a shortage of heroes in the world, and the city of Shanghai will never lack a Mr. Bao.
This seemingly fashionable city is full of entertainment and entertainment, but when it falls on everyone, there are only stories and memories full of tragedy.
Xuezhi is gone, Miss Wang is gone, Lingzi is gone, Li Li is gone, everyone is gone.
In the end, Mr. Bao, who was alone, let go of all his obsessions and walked away in a seemingly carefree manner.
This is like reading a wonderful martial arts novel. No one will be interested in the verbosity and mediocrity at the beginning.
Everyone can only read and reread the heroic chapter in the middle, but when the end of the novel arrives as scheduled, how many people will read the loneliness and loneliness at the end for the second and third time?
This is "Flowers", a story in which I can guess the beginning but not the end, a story that seems optimistic but full of tragedy.
He has a sense of compactness and suffocation like a movie. He breaks away from the fixed emotions and thoughts given to the characters in the novel. He incorporates the classic Hong Kong drama shooting style. He tells a story of the times that is more like the martial arts world.
This feeling of loss after the song ends is so strong that I haven’t felt it so realistically in a period drama for a long time.
"Goodbye" is just a temporary courtesy after all. The sadness after the song ends is the eternal theme of this city.
I will write the interpretation of "Flowers" here for the time being. More exciting interpretations will be discussed in the next chapter.
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