Now looking back at 1997, it is a special year for Hong Kong movies.
Someone left this year——
Superstars and guides such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat, and Wu Yusen have left Hollywood to seek new development.
Wang Jiawei took Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung to Argentina and finished "Happy Together" .
Some people also chose to stick to it-
To Qifeng and Wei Jiahui led the galaxy image to go upstream, A masterpiece such as "The Birth of a Prefix" came out.
Comedy director Gao Zhisen used a biopic "南海三郎" to look back at the cultural history of Hong Kong's century-old colony.
But when it comes to the most important Hong Kong film of 1997, it is an independent film with a low cost.
The investment is only 500,000 Hong Kong dollars. The actors are randomly found on the street. There are only 5 staff members from shooting to completion of the film.
Even the film used for shooting is borrowed from other film companies.
However, I did not expect that after the film was released, it won numerous awards, sweeping the Golden Horse and Golden Statue, creating a legend in the history of Hong Kong film and television.
This movie is——
《Made in Hong Kong》Made in Hong Kong
The director of the film 陈果, is one of the most important independent directors in Hong Kong in the 1990s.
Immigrated to Hong Kong with my parents when he was ten years old. When he was in his twenties, he accidentally entered the Hong Kong film circle. He started as a small job in the field and lighting team and became a director.
As the director Chen Guo, his most important work is:
Return Three曲 ("Made in Hong Kong", "Last year's fireworks are so many", "Small Road Cheung") and Prostitute Trilogy ("Durian Fluttering", "There is a Hollywood in Hong Kong", "Three Husbands" ).
In these works, most of them are about paying attention to the bottom society and marginalized people, and the style pursues obscure realism.
"Prostitute" trilogy04b#a7d#b0248 "Made in Hong Kong", I think it is the best work of Chen Guo's career. It is also the best youth film in Hong Kong movies in the past 20 years.
The producer signature of the film is 刘德华, because the film used for shooting is provided by Andy Lau's film company.
As for the starring role, he is completely amateur, and 李灿森, who later became a gold medal supporting role in the Hong Kong film industry, is in this movie from the plumber on the street to the hero of the movie.
The story began in Hong Kong in 1997.
The protagonist's name is 中秋 (played by Li Cansen). He is a Hong Kong youth who has dropped out of secondary school.
The Mid-Autumn Festival has explained the reasons for dropping out:
half of it is due to poor performance and half is due to the worse social education system.
So, the mid-autumn festival who had nothing to do, became a small gangster who was just gangling on the street and fighting gangsters.
In the eyes of the Mid-Autumn Festival-
In Hong Kong, young people like themselves are so muddled all over the street.
His father abandoned his mother and him very early for a mainland woman.
Mid-Autumn Festival hates his father's behavior of abandoning his wife and children, and at the same time hates his own mother. Just for the alimony of a few thousand yuan, he acquiesced to the scumbag father to raise his second wife.
The only job during the Mid-Autumn Festival is to help the gangster big brother Rong Shaoye collect the bills, but in fact there is no evil.
Although the Mid-Autumn Festival is confused about the future, he is very bold and loyal.
He said:
In this world, either following others or being followed by others, everyone must have a backer.
As the "Big Brother" Mid-Autumn Festival, the only subordinate is Ah, who is seriously lacking in intelligence and has obstacles in action and expression. Dragon.
Aaron picked it up from the street during the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Others bully Aaron, only the Mid-Autumn Festival treats him as a brother and always protects him.
Later, the two met the heroine 阿屏 (played by Yan Xuci) when they collected the accounts together.
A Ping is a young girl suffering from kidney failure. Her father owes a butt loan shark and runs away, leaving A Ping and her mother to depend on each other.
Faced with the Mid-Autumn Festival that came to collect debts, Aping not only was not afraid, but took the initiative and boldly drew the Mid-Autumn Festival.
She proposed to use her body to pay off debts, a bit embarrassing Mid-Autumn Festival, but pretended to say:
The first time?
Is it the first time for a girl now?
Although I say this in my mouth, my body is honest.
In the past, Mid-Autumn Festival often used planes aimlessly at night.
But since I met Ah Ping, no matter how many planes I flew at night, I was fighting for him.
In his words:
That night, countless planes flew in my dream.
I haven't recorded in detail how many fights I fought, but I can be sure that every plane was fought for Aping.
For this reason, he even wants to assume the debt of usury for Aping.
so much so that even the boss of the Mid-Autumn Festival scolded him:
You are crazy, those little sisters, you don't need to be so serious, you just want to have sex with her.
Maybe it is destined, the Mid-Autumn Festival that has no hope of life, so she just fell in love with the desperate girl who was about to end her life.
can also be-
Because of this "destined", it has aggravated the despair in the Mid-Autumn Festival youth.
The turning point of things happened on an ordinary afternoon when a girl named Xu Baoshan committed suicide by jumping off the building.
was just seen by Aaron who was picking up rubbish, and he picked up two suicide notes from the corpse.
As the Mid-Autumn Festival said:
Since Aaron picked up two letters and returned, something bad Then came one after another.
The Mid-Autumn Festival began to dream every night, dreaming of Xu Baoshan who committed suicide.
The girl's body in the dream is always flowing with big pool of blood, sometimes blood red, sometimes it turns white...
So the Mid-Autumn Festival, Along and Aping went to Baoshan's school and home to find the truth behind her suicide.
It turns out that Xu Baoshan chose to commit suicide because he fell in love with a male teacher and could not bear the pain of feelings.
At this time, the Mid-Autumn Festival still can't understand-
Why would anyone choose to commit suicide? She can obviously choose to start again.
Soon after-
Mid-Autumn Festival's mother also chose to run away.
After being abandoned by his father during the Mid-Autumn Festival, he experienced another time being abandoned by his mother. Angrily, he carried a knife and wanted to find his father at his mistress's house.
can be in the toilet.
He saw another middle school student cut off his father's hand with a knife because this perverted father raped his younger sister many times.
At that moment, the Mid-Autumn Festival seemed to see another clone of himself.
He felt inexplicable despair-
The adult world is far more than his own little bastards Life is even more filthy.
He came to the cemetery with Aping and Aaron, hoping to find Baoshan's tomb.
The girl who has passed away seems to have been living in their hearts. The three of them hopped around on the tombstone, calling her name loudly.
In the cemetery without any vitality, it became the most free moment for the three souls.
The problem is that the Mid-Autumn Festival is just a small gangster.
He doesn't even have any ability to change his life, let alone repay the debt for Aping.
Later, Mid-Autumn Festival decided to be a killer in order to help Aping pay off the debt owed.
He even signed an organ donation agreement-
If he dies, he is willing to donate his organs to Aping.
But the Mid-Autumn Festival is after all just a 17-year-old boy who has not been involved in the matter and has never killed anyone.
Sure enough, the mission failed. Even he himself was assassinated by the killer from the other side, causing serious injuries and coma.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival wakes up and leaves the hospital, everything around me has changed.
Aping has passed away due to a serious illness.
Along was used by Young Master Rong. He missed while taking drugs and was killed on the street.
After experiencing the departure of relatives and friends around one by one-
The desperate Mid-Autumn Festival decided to go Revenge in this cold and merciless world.
The moment he stood on the rooftop of a high-rise building, he felt that he suddenly understood the reason why Baoshan chose to commit suicide:
When you have nowhere, you will Choose this way.
After shooting and killing Master Rong to complete his revenge, heXu Baoshan's suicide note was returned to his parents.
Then he came to Aping’s grave and committed suicide with a gun.
Because Aping’s mother once said:
We are so young and dead, so we will always be so young...
From the perspective of the script-
"Made in Hong Kong" is a cruel youth epic full of despair and resentment.
The film takes the Hong Kong society before the reunification as the background and uses alternative gangster films to show the confused youth of several young people who cannot see tomorrow and the future.
Under the lens of director Chen Guo, the frustration and struggle of that generation of Hong Kong people are vividly demonstrated.
The adult world is full of violence and lies. Before the new era is about to come, they can only respond with numbness or hesitate to escape.
Sadly, the young generation like the Mid-Autumn Festival-
can't see hope, tried hard to survive , But fell and frustrated again and again.
In the end, they can only be forced to perish in all kinds of dissatisfaction with real life and unresolved depression.
The whole movie is excellent in photography and editing.
The rough film lens makes the film appear vigorous and powerful, especially the large number of stream-of-conscious variable-speed lenses in the film, which adds a somewhat depressing and sad style to the film.
As for the quotations played on the school radio at the end of the film, it is full of strong irony:
The world is yours and ours, but in the final analysis it is yours.
Even more embarrassing, the title of the film seems to have become a fable:
The Hong Kong movies that have entered the new millennium have gradually deteriorated, and the former "Made in Hong Kong" has finally become the past tense.
Even the director Chen Guo himself lost himself in the wave of co-productions in Beijing.
Looking at director Chen Guo's work history in recent years, almost most of the mainland co-production films are very terrible and terrible.
2019's "Nine Dragons", starring Zhang Jin, 3.3 points, 2016's "Murder Like Water Years", starring Yang Ying and Ruan Jingtian, 3.8 points......
alsoXu, it's really like the line in the movie:
Things are getting too fast. When you haven't had time to change, the world is different.
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