Chapter 897: The feelings of Hong Kong people, the tears and laughter of a generation
At the Venice Film Festival.
Many Chinese tourists who come here may not be from Hong Kong Island, but they have some things in common.
One step is good and one step is difficult. This is true for everyone.
Because everyone's life can't be that smooth sailing.
For this reason, Chinese audiences can gain some resonance from this movie.
Liu Fei, although he was born into a wealthy family, time is fair to everyone.
It will always steal some of your most precious things.
Liu Fei and his wife Chen Jingning returned to the hotel and each wrote his own movie review.
"What topic do you want to write about?" Chen Jingning asked curiously.
"Of course it's the past in Hong Kong." Liu Fei said with a smile.
"What about you?" Liu Fei also asked his wife curiously.
"I want to write about love!" Chen Jingning said.
"Love?" Liu Fei couldn't help but frown slightly. Although the love between Luo Jinyi and Fang Fei in "Thieves of Time" does occupy a lot of space, from beginning to end, it is only a part of the movie.
"What? Is there any problem?" Chen Jingning looked at Liu Fei calmly and asked.
"No, it's just a bit unexpected. After all, the love story in this movie may even become a point of attack for many people. After all, the love between the frog and the princess is always too cliched and bloody!" Liu Fei shrugged.
Chen Jingning nodded, shook her head and said, "That's why I want to write about love. Nowadays, many people watch movies and find the plot clichéd, but they don't know that the love in this movie is...
It happened in the past, and was personally experienced by director Meng Qiguang's brother. Life is inherently more bloody than the movie. But I like the love in the movie."
"Okay, let's start separately." Liu Fei nodded.
The two of them each held their laptops and started writing their own reflections without interfering with each other.
"This time, Li Yi used "Thieves of Time" to prove that Hong Kong people also have feelings!
Even though Hong Kong Island has been returned to the motherland for more than ten years, and even though cross-strait exchanges seem to be very frequent, we still rarely touch on the past of Hong Kong Island. First, there is no opportunity, and second, there is no material.
For many mainland audiences, our understanding of Hong Kong Island is almost all through film and television works.
In the glorious era of Hong Kong movies, many of us are no longer unfamiliar with Hong Kong. We know that Hong Kong has the Independent Commission Against Corruption, that Hong Kong has been dark, that Hong Kong has Young and Dangerous boys, etc., etc., but we are very confused.
Few people know what life is like for people at the bottom of society like the Luo family in Hong Kong Island, let alone Hong Kong Island in the 1960s.
Because past movies are rarely mentioned, "Thieves of Time" has become a window for us to understand the old Hong Kong Island. Although it may be biased, in those turbulent years, after all, not much can be left behind.
many.
This is a family that migrated to Hong Kong Island from the South China Sea. The two brothers occupy two ends of an empty street. The elder brother opens a barber shop on the street, and the younger brother sets up a shop at the end of the street to make shoes. The story begins from the perspective of the younger brother's second son.
Luo Jin Er is a naughty boy who likes to steal small things and has poor academic performance. He does not feel sad at all when he is punished by the teacher, but enjoys it. On the contrary, his brother Luo Jin Yi has been an outstanding student in the school since he was a child.
Well, he is also proficient in sports, literature and art, and is the best representative of all-round development of morality, politics and sports.
Luo Jiner's admiration for his brother in his heart was almost a feeling of worship. In his young mind, his brother was the authority in the world, a person who knew all things, and a great man who could do anything.
He is a role model. And Luo Jinyi indeed lives up to his younger brother's expectations.
I believe that everyone has a person like this in their childhood. He or she is older than you, but is willing to play with you, tell you a lot of things you don’t know, and tell you how colorful the world is. When you look at him or her, he or she is like him.
There is always a halo around them, and even though they may have changed later, that image will always remain in their memory.
Hong Kong people have always had a strong spirit of advancement, otherwise it would not have transformed from a small fishing village into the world-famous metropolis it is today. Some early film and television works or music on Hong Kong Island praised this spirit. I believe everyone will not feel that
strangeness.
Hong Kong Island still retains many traditional customs. For example, before most movies start filming, some opening ceremonies are held, and after the filming ends, there are celebrations, ribbon cutting at the beginning of the event, dragon and lion dances during the New Year and festivals, ancestor worship, and even
Street gangsters and gangsters also have to worship Brother Guan at home. These are not so much the superstitions of Hong Kong Islanders, but rather their stubborn, cute and valuable beliefs.
At the beginning of the film, through the perspective of Luo Jinyi wearing a fish tank, a bustling old Hong Kong is shown in front of his eyes. The life of the city is vivid, and the old neighbors are talking and laughing, living an ordinary life.
However, Director Li Yi is undoubtedly a liar who knows how to tell stories. The dull but hopeful and beautiful performance in the past turned out to be an illusion. As beautiful as life is, life can also be cruel. It turns out that in Hong Kong Island, where every inch of land is precious,
There is a stand-up stall, loving husband and wife, harmonious neighbors, relatives and friends around, and two handsome sons. Life seems so satisfying. What if the business is always good? What if the son is "the number one scholar"? What if Luo Jinyi
Will you not get sick? Will your days get better and better...
But life is like a shed in the wind and rain. If the wind is strong, it will fall apart easily...
The wind of reality can only blow a house into pieces, but as long as you "keep the roof", you can still pick up the shoes, put the glass in place, and repair the house again. But when the "storm" of life blows in,
People are so fragile that they are helpless. When Luo Jin walked into Fang Fei's luxurious villa, the sky of life was clouded for a while. But when he fell ill and fell ill, the "storm" came, not only destroying his beautiful
His life was crushed into powder, and his family's life was also brought into the cold winter.
Father Luo is no longer so radiant. His hair is gray, his beard is unkempt, and his hands are starting to be stained with oil. Life always forces him to immerse himself in hard work, but no matter how difficult it is, he never complains and always endures it. Especially when he is in a hurry.
When I ran into a pawn shop to pawn off my ring, the deep ring mark on my finger made me cry. But I couldn't fight against my fate even after transfusion of fresh blood. The moment my son fell, and when my son's original song played, my life was already over.
A piece of ruins... Fortunately, I tried my best to pull up the flowers and trees, but life still needs to start again. One day there will be a rainbow in the sky and flowers blooming... Life is a difficult step and a good step.
There is a panoramic shot of Hong Kong Island in the film when Luo Jinyi returns from Fang Fei's home to Sham Shui Po. Looking down at these glimpses among the crowds and the silhouettes in the busy traffic, perhaps in today's eyes, they have become a symbol of the times.
Group portrait. This group portrait is a metaphor for the cultural alienation of the seemingly unified Hong Kong Island and the lack of authority in the face of cultural conflicts.
The Hong Kong story represented by the Luo family, Fang Fei, and especially Luo Jinyi is actually a melancholy epitome of Hong Kong culture in the 1960s that was filled with hope, disappointment, joy, and pain.
Just like we often feel pity for a person's fate, because similar encounters can easily lead to our own past. The cultural metaphor of Luo Jinyi is even more profound. He carries the memories of a group. As a carrier of memories
Suddenly becoming a group of people, the meaning of it is difficult to describe. The tears and laughter of a generation choked in the throat along with the neon lights of Hong Kong Island."
