Not long ago, the Douban score of "Flowers" soared from 8.1 to 8.5, and many people followed the show very much.
In fact, it’s not just the audience, but also director Wong Kar-wai.
Wong Kar-wai has been making movies for many years. When they were released, they were not well-received but not well-received. He is a lonely artist.
made a turnaround this time when filming a TV series.
The drama "Flowers" is broadcast on the dual platforms of CCTV 8 and Dragon TV, and is extremely popular.
CCTV posted a post praising it, and its online popularity exceeded 30,000.
Wong Kar-wai himself was also very excited. He kept asking people around him what the popularity of 30,000 meant.
It is said that he stayed on the computer watching the barrage of "Flowers" until late into the night. He also had a notebook in his hand to record questions from netizens, and even planned to hold a Q&A session on "Flowers". It’s hard to say when the
press conference will be held, but Brother Pi is willing to be a pawn and answer questions from the audience first.
This drama leaves too many questions.
Mr. Bao and Li Li seemed to be in love, but they seemed not to be in love;
Mr. Bao and Ms. Wang seemed to have missed each other, but they seemed to have reunited;
Mr. Bao seemed to have lost everything in the end, but also seemed to have made a lot of money. The bowl is full.
Of course, these are actually open designs. How to understand them depends on the audience.
The most unforgettable thing about the whole drama are some hidden "riddles".
A line sounds a bit mysterious, but it is impossible to easily distinguish the mystery.
It wasn’t until I read it two or three times and thought about it over and over again that I realized that these words contained so much meaning, and the more I read them, the more interesting they become.
01. Mr. Bao: "Walmart orders have never been my escape route"
In the stock market war around the clothing company at the end of "Flowers", Mr. Bao has been pushed to the edge of the cliff, and his life hangs on a thread.
As long as the stock price falls below 10.88, Mr. Bao’s account will be forcibly closed and his assets will be cleared.
Even so, Mr. Bao told his uncle that ordering from Wal-Mart was not my escape route.
What is his escape route?
On the surface, it was Qilin Hui who gave him a hand.
The prototype of Qilin Club is the Shanghai Seventh Heaven Salon in the 1990s, and its key members are basically retired elites from various industries.
However, the Qilin Club is not Mr. Bao’s retreat.
They saved themselves by taking over stocks, and Mr. Bao made this deal because he wanted the land in Chuansha.
He said nine words to Doctor Wu: "Only the land will be with tomorrow."
These nine words are Mr. Bao's retreat.
There are two meanings behind it.
First, this sentence comes from the world famous book "Gone with the Wind", which is the favorite book of my first love Xuezhi.
Back then, Xuezhi abandoned Mr. Bao and married in Hong Kong. Mr. Bao made a ten-year agreement with her to make a lot of money, which proved that Xuezhi had no vision.
Unexpectedly, within ten years, Xuezhi passed away and Mr. Bao also lost the motivation to prove himself.
So in this stock war, Mr. Bao did not lose, but took the initiative to withdraw.
He was tired, tired, had enough fun, and wanted to live the life of idle clouds and wild cranes.
From God’s perspective, this open-mindedness saved him.
Because the stock market ushered in a super stock market crash in 1994, the market plummeted from 1,000 points to 300 points. If Mr. Bao insisted on staying in the stock market that year, his death would be even worse.
Secondly, Mr. Bao has foreseen in advance that land will be the hard currency in the Chinese market in the future.
a stocks suffered a seven-year bear market from 1993 to 1999. During the same period, China completed the reform of allocating housing to commercial housing, and land values soared.
Mr. Bao jumped directly from a pit to the limelight, and his retreat became his road to wealth.
02, Mr. A’s last words
Mr. A is the most mysterious character in "Flowers".
He is Li Li's will, and Li Li's love and hatred arise and end because of him.
We can roughly piece together his outline through some scattered fragments.
He was a popular figure in Shenzhen in the 1990s. He led President Qiang and Li Li to conquer the capital market and became the first group of people to eat crabs.
Later, when Shenzhen's new stocks expanded, Mr. A's private equity suffered a heavy blow, and he took on everything by himself.
When he saw Li Li for the last time at the beach, he left his last words: "When you leave here, except for the lessons, forget everything that should be forgotten." Does Mr.
a really exist?
In Li Li's memories at the end, he did indeed appear.
He looks exactly like Mr. Bao. He looks back affectionately, has a graceful demeanor, jumps into the sea, and is mysterious.
And if you zoom in, you will see that Mr. A here is played by Hu Ge himself.
Combined with Mr. A’s last words, who is Mr. A and is he Mr. Bao? We have two interpretations.
First, Mr. A has nothing to do with Mr. Bao, or Mr. A is just Mr. Bao who dominates the Shenzhen stock market.
Li Li left Mr. A and met Mr. Bao, and saw the shadow of Mr. A in him.
She does not love Mr. Bao, the latter is just her puppet to support Mr. A.
Secondly, it doesn’t matter who Mr. A is. You can understand him as Mr. Qiang, Mr. Bao, or someone you love.
Because it is a symbol in the drama, representing A-shares. Mr.
a was very influential in the early days, and a lot of people flocked to him.
later mysteriously disappeared and sank to the bottom of the water, causing pain to countless people.
Isn’t this a true portrayal of the stock market that followed?
03. A Bao: "If there is a difference of one point or one centimeter, it is Buddhism."
The play quotes a sentence from the novel:
"The matter of men and women comes from the right time and place. If there is a difference of one cent or cent, it is Buddhism."
This description Yes, Mr. Bao and Miss Wang. The statement
was also confirmed by Tang Yan.
When she talked about Baozhu Love in an interview, she also said bluntly, "There is only one centimeter difference between the two."
The plot seems to be explained in this way.
The two of them went to a fireworks show that they had agreed on, but one was in the east and the other was in the west, so they missed it.
Then the question comes, what is the difference between this "one point and one cent"?
Judging from the story in the drama, Miss Wang's obsession is like "a moth flying into a flame".
She puts the word love in front of the word profit, and then runs towards the person she loves without hesitation.
But Lu Meilin’s slap hit Mr. Bao and woke her up.
She thought she was the kapok around Mr. Bao.
But in the eyes of others, she is just a dodder flower clinging to Mr. Bao. This is not the love she wants.
In Mr. Bao's heart, maybe she loved Miss Wang, but the loss of his first love was a pain that he couldn't let go of.
So when facing Miss Wang, yesterday happened again. Miss Wang took 99 steps forward, but he took one step back.
This step made Ms. Wang feel cold.
In the last episode, Ms. Wang returned to the Yellow River Road to return the car and shouted loudly: "What I want has never been a Cadillac."
This is the most affectionate confession.
Life is a series of mistakes.
Bao always thinks that what Miss Wang wants is material things and pampering, but what Miss Wang pursues is independence and respect.
The mao and tenon were not aligned by a centimeter, and the love fell apart.
04. Mr. Bao: "I have fulfilled my promise to everyone." In the last episode of
, Abao vowed to say: "I have fulfilled my promise to everyone."
This seems to be self-consolation.
It was clear that he left the Peace Hotel and changed from Mr. Bao to Abao;
It was clear that he did not retain any of the four beauties, and eventually became a single man.
He obviously lost his wife and lost his army, so how can he fulfill his promise?
Don’t worry, we will analyze them one by one.
He kept his promise to Xuezhi for ten years, and even after learning about her death, he still stayed true to his love. This was considered as fulfilling his promise;
He took great care of Miss Wang, and later went to meet her five years later. They made an appointment, and the friendship between the two has not ended, which can be regarded as fulfilling the promise;
towards Reiko, he only has gratitude but no love, and this gratitude has already been repaid in Tokyo Night.
Reiko kept pretending to be confused, until the last time we met, she saw it completely:
"From the first day you came to my house, I knew that it was impossible for the two of us."
Bao always didn't ring, but still It's a promise fulfilled.
For Li Li, he reached out to help twice, he was more affectionate than polite, and even willing to be Mr. A's shadow, showing his utmost benevolence and justice.
Does he have feelings for Li Li?
Yes, but it is more attracted by Li Li's mystery.
After tearing away this layer of mystery and seeing Li Li's inner unhappiness, he was completely relieved.
The biggest controversy comes from my uncle.
My uncle’s plan for Mr. Bao was to base himself on the Huangpu River, but Mr. Bao could never get out of the Suzhou River. In the end, my uncle ran away in anger.
Mr. Bao stabbed his uncle in the back, causing many people to abandon the show for a while.
Some people defended Mr. Bao, saying that he wanted to make a big fortune in the stock market, and in order not to implicate his uncle, he used a bitter trick to deliberately piss him off.
In Brother Pi’s opinion, no one is right or wrong in this matter, it’s just that they have different business philosophies.
Bao always looks like his uncle when he was young, but he is not an uncle after all.
The two of them are like two sides of a coin. They can complement each other if they go hand in hand, but they cannot coexist if they go hand in hand. Isn't the final difference a kind of mutual fulfillment?
Uncle Ye is by no means a kind person, and Mr. Bao is not perfect either, but they do not owe each other anything.
05. Mrs. Lin: "I'll wait for him to find me."
In the play, Mrs. Lin is a mysterious boss from Taiwan, played by Kelly Lin.
Many viewers bluntly said that Lin Xilei's aura was so powerful when she appeared on the stage that Li Li suddenly pales in comparison.
When she learned that Li Li sold Zhizhenyuan to Mr. Qiang, Mrs. Lin said congratulations on the good price.
Li Li responded, from now on, if you want to buy Zhizhenyuan, you have to find Mr. Qiang.
At this time, Mrs. Lin suddenly said: I will wait for him to find me.
Why did Mrs. Lin say such an inexplicable thing? What do you want to express?
Let’s first take a look at Mrs. Lin’s identity.
She came from Taiwan and took over the business from Jin Meilin and renovated it into a KTV and named it Jincai.
The earliest mass-market KTV in China was opened in Shanghai in the 1990s. It was called Qiangui. It is rumored that it was run by Taiwanese gangsters.
This is right. Mrs. Lin has a real character prototype, a black and white boss, and the network resources she has are unmatched by others.
She has already seen the outcome of the "Baoqiang Battle" in advance.
This kind of prediction may come from her analysis of the two people's personalities, or it may come from the financial intelligence network behind her.
In short, she determined that Qiang would eventually lose.
Being strong, I just need to wait and see.
When Mr. Qiang came to ask for it, she lowered the price to the real garden, which made Mr. Qiang have no choice but to swallow it.
06. The mysterious "absent" proprietress of Red Heron
In the play, the proprietress of Red Heron is also a source of confusion for many people.
At that time, there were only three restaurants in Shanghai with profits reaching tens of millions: Dynasty on Zhapu Road, Tiantian Fishing Port on Sinan Road and Honglu Restaurant on Huanghe Road.
When Li Li’s Zhizhen Garden opened on Huanghe Road, the biggest impact was naturally on Red Heron.
But when Lu Meilin united with a group of proprietresses to cause trouble, the proprietress Honglu never showed up.
And have you noticed that when Mr. Bao talks about big business, makes appointments with Mr. Fan, and makes appointments with Mr. Xu, he usually goes to Honglu.
Miss Wang was looking for the whereabouts of Mr. Bao, and she also asked Ruth, the foreman of Red Heron.
A few years later, Zhizhen Garden was sold, Jin Meilin collapsed, and only Red Heron remained.
These all show that Red Heron must have a great background.
Who is the boss lady?
There is a saying on the Internet that Red Heron is a state-owned hotel and there is no boss lady. The statement
is more reliable.
Because there is indeed a state-owned restaurant in Shanghai called Lulu Restaurant. It has been open since the 1990s and is located on Nanjing West Road. It is located closer to Meilong Town and Jing'an Villa. It is said that the taste is not bad.
In the play, the egret is changed to the red egret, and the red letter is self-evident.
There are only state-owned restaurants, and ordinary people will not find them for intrigues.
Bao always likes to come here to discuss business, and he also likes to have a place with a big tree at his back to enjoy the shade.
07, "It's best not to make a sound"
When commenting on the relationship between Mr. Bao and Li Li, the four words "It's the best not to make a sound" are used in the drama. What do the four words
mean?
This gets to the root of it.
There are huge differences between the original work of "Flowers" and the TV series. There are three male protagonists in the novel
, namely A Bao, a worker, Hu Sheng, who comes from a military family background, and A Mao, a stock speculator. In
's novel, the lives and memories of the three protagonists are intertwined, and new characters are derived from each person's circle. Different characters show different personalities in front of the three protagonists, presenting a picture of human nature that looks like mountains and peaks.
The novel is written in a sporadic and delicate manner, and flashback scenes are constantly used to form a story. The literary meaning is very strong, and the audience will curse if it is directly turned into a drama.
After Wong Kar-wai was adapted into a TV series, in addition to retaining most of the names and backgrounds, more than 90% of the plot was newly compiled.
suffered magical changes. The author Jin Yucheng was very satisfied after watching 9 episodes of the TV series. It was because Wong Kar-wai captured the theme of the novel. The answer to
is "no sound".
"无声" is the word that appears most often in the novel "Flowers". According to statistics, it appears a total of 1,500 times in the entire novel.
Jin Yucheng has explained it many times in "The Round Table School" and "Thirteen Invitations".
"Bushing" is a colloquialism that Shanghainese like to use, which means seeing through something without telling it, saying it with your mouth but thinking about it in your heart.
This is the shrewdness unique to Shanghainese, and it is also their way of doing things. They do not embarrass themselves or others.
Wong Kar-wai knows that "no sound" is Jin Yucheng's creative password. The story can be made up, but the core cannot be changed.
He said that silence does not mean silence, but a kind of blank space. I only talk about what I can say, what I want to say, and what I say well.
And the four words "no sound is the loudest", in the lyrics of "The Lonely Warrior", mean "your silence is deafening".
How did Wong Kar-wai shoot "No Sound"?
through the character Jingxiu.
Brother Jingxiu is a bystander, intelligence officer and critic on Huanghe Road.
is a bit similar to Xu Shao in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Yuedan Yaping, Zang Fu character.
is also like Wu Sidao in "Yongzheng Dynasty", which is homophonic for "I know". He uses the character's mouth to speak the author's words.
Cheng Liang, who plays Jingxiu, happens to be the co-director of this drama. Isn’t this right?
From Jingxiu’s perspective, the bustling Yellow River Road is no different from Liu Laogen’s stage.
As big as Mr. Bao, Li Li and Miss Wang, as small as Lu Meilin, Xiao Jiangxi and Minmin, they are just actors who appear on the stage and leave in a hurry.
Life is like an adverse journey, you and I are both passers-by. It doesn’t matter who is in charge and who is in second place. Why should we care who wins and who loses?
Jin Yucheng wrote "Flowers" and the despair of "Jin Ping Mei".
He writes about people who are overflowing with lust, and tells vivid stories, but he uses the coldest writing style.
Wong Kar-wai's "Flowers" captured the tragedy of "A Dream of Red Mansions".
Yellow River Road is the Grand View Garden, where a group of lively people gathered, performing scenes of joys and sorrows, and finally parted ways.
The love in Wong Kar-wai's movies will always be missed;
The life in Wong Kar-wai's movies will always be regretted.
But he retains a warm undertone, everything is up in the air and everything looks complete.
But inside the fairy tale-like appearance, there is endless vanity and helplessness.
In short, this drama is very exciting, from the surface to the inside, it is worth watching again and again.
Its upper limit is by no means just Douban 8.5.
As time goes by, this drama is destined to reach the 9-point mark and become a key specimen in the development history of Chinese TV dramas.
The more it settles, the more vivid it becomes.
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