If there is one more ticket for "In the Mood for Love", will you go with me?

Stan 2022-03-20 09:01:36



There is a saying in the media promotion about this year's Oscars, there is no classic movie without classic dialogue. When I was sitting cross-legged on the ground alone and anesthetized myself with alcohol, I also asked myself: "What is the classic dialogue you remember in your mind?" Birds without feet" squeezed into my brain cells one by one, and "Secrets in the Tree Hole" appeared. I began to find that the dialogues in Wong Kar Wai's films left me the deepest memory, so I turned to "In the Mood for Love" which I watched the least times.

"In the Mood for Love" is a simple and delicate story, and it is a film that will move you every time you watch it. Although, since it was branded with a petty bourgeoisie, I rarely watch it again, but this time, I Still moved, or, there is another kind of moving. Maybe it's because I've been alone these days, maybe it's because I'm approaching the age of Zhou Muyun.

People always have feelings, and when a relationship starts and ends, no one knows, just like Zhou Muyun and Su Lizhen, who just played each other's lovers at first, they are always thinking about how those two people started, When did it start, and finally one day, when they found out that they were playing the role of themselves, they realized that when it started and how it started, it didn't really matter at all. What matters is whether and when it will end. Zhou Muyun said this sentence in it: At first I was worried about when he would come back, but now I hope he will never come back.

I have always felt that if it weren't for the lack of good directors and screenwriters, the interpretation of love by the Orientals must be better than that of the Westerners. Just like the delicate, subtle and forbearing love in the Mood for Love. Although almost everyone is willing to have a vigorous love, but in fact, we are more occupied by those bland love. And when we sit quietly and rummage through the vivid or fragmented memories in our minds, I think we will still be moved by those seemingly insipid things. Love may not have to be life and death, not necessarily earth-shattering, but it must be real. That seed will really flow slowly in the blood, gradually filling every corner of the body. From that moment on, there is no longer any distinction between right and wrong, and the so-called morality or betrayal has become irrelevant. Just like Zhou Muyun and Su Lizhen said before: "We will not be like them." But later they found out that "some things happen before you know it."

The most touching thing in the film is another sentence: "It's me , if there is one more ticket, will you go with me?" Zhou Muyun and Su Lizhen both said this, but no one answered. I can't help but feel sorry for it, but I also contradictly agree with this tragic ending. Yes, don't say the answer, think about how many of us in reality can really ask this question? We will only treat all this as a secret, bury it deeply in a certain corner of our brain, let it be dusty, and then at some point, we will gently blow away the dust that has fallen on it, and carefully hold it up , looking at it, it is like looking at a photo album locked in a cabinet when one is alone, and there is actually only one photo in it. Or on a certain night, look up at the sky, looking for the brightest star.

Maybe one day we'll leave that secret in the tree hole and seal it up with mud. I don't know what I would be like at that time, and where would you be at that time, maybe it's like the words left at the end of the movie:

those years that have passed away
seem to be accumulated across a piece of Dusty glass, you
can see it, you can't grab it.
He has been thinking about the past.
If he could break through that dusty glass,
he would go back to the days long gone.

I can't help but wonder, is there 2046 there?

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  • Hoyt 2022-03-28 09:01:02

    The logic of Wong Kar Wai's protagonist is usually: although I want you to go with me, I will only buy one ticket... Because I am too afraid of being injured, I don't want to give myself a chance to be disappointed, so I have an excuse to regret it. Store all possibilities and expectations in the fantasy, so that it is better to be fragile than to be smashed in the face. The reason why I was so tossed and tangled was because I didn't have the courage to be direct. Since active people are always more vulnerable, I choose to wait or leave.

  • Letitia 2021-11-15 08:01:27

    Over the years I have been asking you, if there is an extra ticket, would you go with him?

In the Mood for Love quotes

  • Chow Mo-wan: It's me. If there's an extra ticket... would you go with me?

    Su Li-zhen Chan: It's me. If there's an extra ticket... would you go with me?

  • Su Li-zhen Chan: Am I hopeless?

    Chow Mo-wan: Not really.