final panic

Roel 2022-04-22 07:01:53

I generally like to watch domestic films, a very strange habit. I'm always a little hesitant when I click on foreign films. If it wasn't for the effect, I would watch movies quietly at home most of the time. As for domestic films, whether they are from the mainland, Taiwan or Hong Kong, those people and events always make me feel familiar.
However, this movie, which was made in 1994, I downloaded and watched 15 years later, always had a sense of despair in the program. It seemed that watching her was to click on a destiny. Every time I read half of it and then turn it off, I don't know what it is, maybe it's a kind of worry. In fact, I have seen the beginning and end of this story on the Internet a long time ago, but such a familiar story still requires me to muster up the courage to read it.
In Lou Ye's films, Ma, Peony or Meimei are all minor characters, even marginal characters. The film made in 1994 is an era that I am familiar with and have passed through. Although Suzhou River is in Shanghai, there is also a big river outside my house. People on the river swept past it one by one, and they were generally dumb.
Life is mediocre and vulgar. The foam on the river in the first shot has already told me cruelly that all of this is not a beautiful scene, not an ordinary romance story, you and I. However, just like this soil, two beautiful flowers bloomed, one is a peony, the other is Meimei, and their love bloomed strangely from a barren swamp. In fact, all the women in the world are expecting someone to say, I will love you, I will find you and find death.
Suzhou River is cruel, so I watched half of it and turned it off again. Before I finished watching it, Jia Hongsheng, who played Ma Ma, jumped off the building and died. It seems that he did not jump off the building because of love, but has been trying to find his soul. But what does this matter?
Maybe Xiao Zhou will be as panicked as he was when he heard the news? In fact, what he said all the time was true, but she didn't believe it back then?
In the legend, Xiaomei would run away, but in reality, Xiaozhou has been searching.

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Extended Reading
  • Helmer 2022-03-21 09:03:17

    Two people who don't know each other sit together, and then, and then, of course, love.

  • Jaylon 2022-02-27 08:01:56

    The peony print is a trauma marker, pointing to eternal scarcity. Scarcity inspires eros, but eros cannot reach objects, so it is always seeking, never unstable, like a boat on a river. The mermaid is magical, blurring the boundaries between reality and fiction, and unifying the two functions of handheld photography (documentary and lyrical). Poetic of the common people, decadent at the bottom, and subjective to the end, this is Lou Ye.