Yuddy: What day's today?

Su Lizhen: 16th.

Yuddy: 16th... April the 16th. At one minute before 3pm on April the 16th, 1960, you're together with me. Because of you, I'll remember that one minute. From now on, we're friends for one minute. This is a fact, you can't deny. It's done.
Su Lizhen: I always thought one minute flies by. But sometimes it really lingers on. Once, a person pointed at his watch and said to me, that because of that minute, he'd always remember me. It was so charming listening to that. But now I look at my watch and tell myself that I have to forget this man starting this very minute.
Yuddy: I've heard that there's a kind of bird without legs that can only fly and fly, and sleep in the wind when it is tired. The bird only lands once in its life... that's when it dies.
Yuddy: I used to think there was a kind of bird that, once born, would keep flying until death. The fact is that the bird hasn't gone anywhere. It was dead from the beginning.
Yuddy: Hey, have you heard of a kind of bird...

Tide: [interrupting] The kind without legs, right? This kind of nonsense can only fool the girls!
Leung Fung-ying: When did I say I'd come home with you?

Yuddy: You never said you wouldn't.

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Days of Being Wild short comments

Wayne 2022-03-27 09:01:15

Wong Kar-wai's second feature film is also the first time he has collaborated with Du Kefeng, which has laid a solid foundation for his style. I have fully expressed my praise for the King of Sunglasses in other short film reviews. Instead, I will emphasize his self-repetition. The shadow of the true story of Ah Fei can be found in almost every subsequent work. "In the Mood for Love" is a sequel to this film. "Evil in the East" can be found here. There are more than ten movies in total, with repeated actors, repeated stories, repeated lines, repeated narrative methods, repeated photography styles, and expressed themes. It's more and more repeated. Wong Kar-wai's films can almost be summed up in one formula [(Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung, Jin Chengwu + Lin Qingxia, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau + Side Jinyu + cigarettes) × (foreground occlusion, frame drop processing, tight composition, ultra-low illumination + wet and sweaty weather + love) = Wong Kar-wai-style Endless loneliness and melancholy] Just like Li Ronghao's songs, they all feel the same. Different works can be seamlessly connected without any sense of incongruity. The name of Jay's song describes it as "The Same Key", and Wong Kar-wai is the same, but so Extreme yet so refined! Amazing!
Julio 2022-03-22 09:02:30

I gave it five stars because of someone's obsession... I didn't know much about Hong Kong in that era, and I didn't quite understand what the director wanted to express, but I saw the acting skills of the lead actor. Leslie Cheung's gestures are full of drama, and his eyes can speak. The joining of many powerful factions is a classic!