"Mong Kok Carmen" is Wong Kar Wai's first martial arts film.
Chinese martial arts films, similar to Japanese samurai films, are all about feelings and beliefs that cannot be recalled.
I am most impressed by two details, one is the eyes in revenge, and the other is the back before death.
The former was revenge, and that hatred made him so powerful that a dozen or so people couldn't stop him from going straight in... just like Jing Ke.
If those eyes contain the best things about martial arts, then this back is the ending of martial arts in this era. Back before his death, he used the last money to buy an air conditioner for his mother. Mom said, no, your stepfather bought it for the family. So the son threw the air conditioner into the river.
Only the back, you didn't hear him cry at all, he scolded.
I have to say, the five years before I was born were really good times.
At that time, the Chinese people's camera aimed at the tears of "Benming Year" and the back of "Mong Kok Carmen". Directors at that time seemed to be able to see that under the tide of urbanization, individuals would eventually become ants. His beliefs, her feelings, no matter how noble and pure, will be trampled down by the impetuous steel night scene. Therefore, the directors used the film to express the last regret and pity.
Now the movies don't have that kind of restrained cold anymore, maybe the death they see is already dead.
Now is the cheap tears and roars of The Later Us.
However, I always feel that when the most precious thing dies, people can't make a sound.
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