? -"Across the Sea"
? "Across the World" is a gunfight film directed by John Woo, starring Chow Yun Fat, Leslie Cheung and Cherie Chung, and released in 199 1 year, a "thief" film. This is an old Hong Kong film that I personally love very much. It is a rare film that can make me relax, a film that makes me feel that life can be planned step by step, and makes me feel comfortable and calm after watching it.
The three starring actors have already laid their own half of the country in Hong Kong at the time of shooting, and they are in their prime and full of ambition. The filming period of "Across the Seas" is also the most "high-spirited" period of Hong Kong movies-such well-known works of art as Ghost Story, Hero's True Color and Farewell My Concubine are still repeatedly tasted by people today; Police and bandit films, ghost films, literary films, Stephen Chow, Wong Kar-wai, John Woo, Tsui Hark and other films with strong personal brand, all kinds of films are in full bloom. Compared with the flood of popcorn movies and PPT movies today, it is an unforgettable mood for love, last romance.
Wu Yusen's films are famous for their violent aesthetics, and his masterpiece "True colors of heroes" is a masterpiece that applies these elements to the extreme, such as gunfight, tough guy, brotherhood and affection for children. And "Across the Seas" is more and more romantic in continuing its consistent style. The Eiffel Tower in the sunset, endless bullets, powerful protagonist aura, slow-moving rhythm, humorous lines, exaggerated and clever expressions, bright and happy soundtrack, gun battle with oriental aesthetics, and a happy ending with clear retribution between good and evil-this film has no profound theme connotation, but all aspects are just right, like a home-cooked dish with good color and fragrance, without noble ingredients or novel cooking methods, but it is memorable. This is a movie that is very suitable for preparing potato chips and melon seeds cola on a sunny afternoon, and it will not be lonely to taste it alone, and it will not be too noisy to sit around with friends and relatives. It will be a happy afternoon.
The story is not complicated. It tells the story that the theft gang composed of three people, Zhan, Hongdou and Bozi Cake, has repeatedly stolen priceless paintings. In the process of stealing famous paintings, they were deliberately betrayed by their mercenary adoptive father. After a gun battle, the Bozi Cake and the bombed ship disappeared in the sea of fire, while the injured Zhan and Hongdou fled to Hong Kong by plane. Hongdou, who had been deeply in love with the Bozi Cake, and Zhan, who had always secretly loved her, gradually fell in love with each other. A few years after it disappeared, the alms cake appeared, but he was in a wheelchair-it turned out that his legs were disabled. The adoptive father abandoned him like a rag, but fortunately, the police officer sir who watched the three of them grow up took good care of him. They also gradually found out that the pursuit of the French was instructed by their adoptive father. The adoptive father also ordered Zhan to take risks and steal the painting. Knowing that the red bean of the alms cake was not dead, he took the initiative to visit him at the residence of the alms cake and begged him to help Zhan. The three men cooperated again and successfully stole the painting. But this time, instead of giving the painting to the adoptive father, they set a trap and gave the adoptive father's uniform and the painting to sir A.. At the same time, in the decisive battle, the alms cake jumped off the wheelchair-it turned out that his previous disability was a disguise. In the end, Azhan and Red Bean have a lover, and they have a son and a daughter, and the alms cake also lives in this big family. Everyone finally lived a fireworks-filled but warm and happy retirement life like the birthday wish made by Red Bean.
? Under the simple story, it is the ultimate romance and strong friendship.
They are Jiang Yang thieves who are romantic and chic, pursuing passion and pleasure. Spray perfume as a clue to trace the painting, hold a red wine glass through the infrared organ, successfully get the key to the vault by tango dance, eat dessert and drink red wine to tango before stealing, and drive a sports car for a birthday and take a cruise after stealing; Light music, bright seascapes, suits and long skirts, wine and cigarettes all add a bit of romantic poetry to the theft-the audience is not nervous or disgusted by the emotions of the characters in the film when watching their theft clips, but just relaxed and happy, as if watching a well-planned performance, marveling at the coup they came up with and cheering for their vigorous skills-those who were fooled around.
They are the children of Jianghu who attach great importance to feelings and righteousness, and are brave and lofty. Although the three people laugh and curse at ordinary times, they are even out of proportion to outsiders, but they are a life-long friendship at a critical moment. Bozi cake loves to trick red beans, and Azhan loves to help red beans trick Bozi cake. On weekdays, the three people fight like children, which makes the audience's corners of the mouth unable to stop rising. When stealing, they have a clear division of labor: Hongdou is responsible for diverting the attention of the guards and receiving them, and Azhan and Ahai are responsible for breaking through many defenses to achieve the goal of stealing a masterpiece smoothly, which cannot be separated from the tacit understanding and absolute trust in each other cultivated by the three people growing up together. A flash of eyes, gestures used since childhood, silent opening and closing of lips, that is, outsiders spy on unknown hearts no matter what. It is precisely because they realize the weight of this friendship that no matter how expensive the painting is, no matter how luxurious and free the life is, they finally stop traveling around the world and live a fireworks-filled retirement life; It is precisely because of this precious feeling that the three people who might spill dog blood in other works and fall into an awkward triangle relationship can continue to live together without any bad feelings-when the alms cake shouts "Wait for me" and jumps on the sailing ship, the three people really become a family that will never be separated again.
In fact, is it full of freshness and excitement, and a happy and carefree life more attractive, or is it more worthwhile to spend the rest of your life with your loved ones? Different people have different opinions. For me, coming and going naked without care may be an indispensable state of mind to realize true freedom, but it is a shortcoming that we ordinary people may not be able to digest. "Give me liberty or give me death" is certainly a passionate belief, but it is not the only rule I will choose. There is an irreconcilable contradiction between longing for freedom and heart.
Bo Zi Gao is a "sleep in the wind" general character described in The True Story of Teddy Boy. He evades stability, pursues freedom, and values brotherhood more than affection for children. However, his narrow escape and his adoptive father's indifference made him realize that the thrill of adventure was only passing away after all, and the most important thing for him was to live safely with Azhan Hongdou. During his dormant period of pretending that his legs were disabled, he painted, raised parrots, and studied computers. His once bohemian edges and corners were smoothed away by the experience of surviving-indeed, the past was just a small fight. When the threat of death really came, how many people could continue to insist on shouting "If it is for freedom, both can be thrown away"? What's more, I don't think the final choice of the alms cake in the movie conflicts with its nature of pursuing freedom. Maybe you love life, don't lead your life in a mess, and spend the rest of your life in the way you like, instead of deliberately avoiding fetters. This is the real way to listen to your heart and pursue freedom.
It's true that I'm young and energetic, and there's always a rebellious and restless blood in my body urging me and encouraging me, but I'm different from Azhan, who enjoys the excitement brought by the danger of going back. I have a comfortable circle that I can't walk out of, and more importantly, I have my caring family and unshirkable responsibilities. Fortunately, when watching movies, I can temporarily forget that stealing is unjust, that love triangle is bloody, that I can temporarily forget the fear of death, and that I am constrained in the real world. I just need to enjoy every frame and travel around the world with them, even if it is only less than two hours!
Although what the three people do is despised by gentlemen, what they say and do is aboveboard, chic and happy.
What's more, the identity of thieves does not conflict with their own kindness and innocence. They stick to the justice and bottom line in their hearts and do what they think should be done. Chen Li's "Walking Horse" has a lyric that is very suitable to describe their attitude-"The world encourages me and makes him ridicule, and I only keep my silence and understand what is good and bad". When I was a child, the three men stole bread from the shop to give it to a poor mother-in-law who was hungry; After recognizing the adoptive father's face, they set a trap together and sent him to prison. It can be seen that sometimes the secular evaluation criteria for good and evil may not be accurate, human nature is complex, and many people's behaviors are even more contradictory and unexplained. What is quite interesting is that there is a Sir who has been advising them not to steal and go on the right path. He didn't arrest the three children after knowing why they stole bread, but took them to dinner and gave them money, and played the role of father in the following years. Even if he guessed that they were the mastermind of the theft, he always chose to believe them, and finally let Ah Hai stun himself in order to let them go (of course, the three children didn't do it).
The reason is that Sir Ah knows the nature of the three people very well, so in front of them, he did not choose his own identity as a policeman to arrest them as thieves, but chose his father's identity to take care of the three children with good educational nature. Therefore, it may not be necessary to follow the "public order and good customs" all the time, but sometimes you have to ask your heart whether it is right or wrong.
I have a strong preference for these three thieves. True temperament is sometimes more valuable than good virtue-Huang Yaoshi hates secular legislation, but he respects loyal ministers and dutiful sons the most in his life; Yang Guo acted only by his own likes and dislikes, but no matter how many mistakes he made, he was also a great warrior of the condor. In fact, the three of them are the embodiment of the contemporary "chivalrous man". They value emotion and righteousness, and their temperament is true. Perhaps their actions do not conform to the secular value judgment, but they are worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth.
What impressed me most was the attitude of the three people towards life-living hard and loving with all their might, but with a touch of carelessness and cynicism. In other people's world, it seems that the sky is falling. In front of such a big event, they just smile. If they can't get past this hurdle, they cry or fight, and then they go on living as if nothing had happened, to be exact, they don't care if it did. They seem to recall the past but never fall into it. They are always young and always look forward to the future.
I think, for them, "traveling all over the world" is not only infinite in space, but also free to come and go, and it is also free and unrestrained in mind. The tragedies in their lives seem to have been stripped of the spikes that can hurt them-the adoptive father's heartlessness, the lover's empathy, the misery of childhood, the bullets that penetrated the body, the fists that were punched, and the ridicule, all of which seem insignificant. Just smile and it will pass. Just like the classic lines of the alms cake quoted at the beginning, you don't have to force yourself to have what you love, love is perfection and achievement, letting go and appreciating-this kind of open-minded state of mind is the real "crossing the world". Let your life be less bloody and complaining, and you will be more decent and complacent. "There will always be helplessness in life, and it will be wonderful after crossing it." We can't live a smooth and carefree life, but we can do it in the mentality like the alms cakes, "Don't be humiliated, let bloom fall before the court; I have no intention of staying or staying, and I look at the clouds in the sky. "
Finally, with the theme song "The Wind Keep Blowing" sung by my favorite brother as the end of this article, I hope that you and I can find freedom and romance in all directions for a moment in the trivial daily life, and we can also stay with the most precious people around us for a long time, and join hands in chasing poetry and distance in the fireworks-"How much is the past, happy memories, why not go with you?"