(This article is originally written by dsmovie)
Two days ago, November 2nd, was the 20th anniversary of the release of "Sweet Honey".
Sir had trouble sleeping last night, so he re-watched it, and it was okay at first...
But after 118 minutes.
not only lost all sleep, but was in tears all over .
So in the morning, Sir swears that he will make you cry too... No, I will be deeply moved.
I believe Sir, watch it again, it still tastes spicy -
"Sweet Honey"
Comrades: Almost a Love Story
The 1996 poster still has a certain emotion that is not outdated now.
has been rated .7 by nearly 200,000 people on Douban.
is better than 97% of romance movies. Better than 95% of dramas.
has won numerous awards. Almost all the 1997 Hong Kong Film Awards were given to it.
In addition, it has won many awards such as Best Feature Film at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards and Best Film at the Seattle International Film Festival in the United States. It was also ranked second among the top ten best films in the world by Time Magazine in the United States.
is really awesome as a film that focuses on love.
Moreover, regardless of men, women, old or young, the comments are almost unanimous: cried like a dog .
Sir It is no exaggeration to say: it is definitely the best movie of Peter Chan , and it is also the top love movie in Chinese movies.
Wipe away the old tears and let’s talk about why it is so touching.
first of all, because it understands love .
There are many love movies, but most of them are vulgar love at first sight, vacuum love between a man and a woman, and a brainless domineering president falling in love with me.
has been able to capture such a special kind of love, which is rare over the years.
The protagonist has no halo, no background, just two little characters.
Li Qiao, played by Maggie Cheung , and Li Xiaojun, played by Liming, are both mainlanders drifting in Hong Kong. Compared with the tens of thousands of Hong Kong drifters, they are rustic and lonely.
There is no magic or coincidence in the occurrence of love.
Li Qiao has not yet met the wealthy Hong Kong businessman she wants to marry, and Xiaojun's lover is still far away in Beijing.
There are millions of people in Hong Kong and hundreds of millions of people in China. They only have each other around them and no one else.
The two of them can be together. It sounds like they are helpless, but it sounds bad... they are forced by loneliness.
The two of them were not the objects of each other's dreams.
is not Jack and Shredded's "you jump, i jump".
It's not Qiong Yao's style of "Mountains have no edges, heaven and earth are harmonious."
This kind of patchwork, somewhat tangled couple is more like realistic love .
screenwriter An Xi and director Chen Kexin know very well that if you want to talk about love well, the real essence lies in implicitness, in closing, not letting go.
Let’s take a look at how they filmed love -
The two of them accidentally went off while sleeping, but they didn’t tell the truth.
Last night, it was windy and rainy.
Two lonely people just had a reunion dinner in a muddle.
If you follow the logic of ordinary romantic dramas that you get on the bus first and then pay for it, the man will definitely feel guilty because he fell asleep, and love because of guilt. Then I got married and had children... and did everything. The woman even coyly accepted all the photos, thinking she had found true love.
However, the movie is definitely not so bloody.
went to sleep and nothing changed. Today is the same as tomorrow.
Xiaojun is worried about his girlfriend in his hometown, but Li Qiao is worried that "he is not the purpose of my coming to Hong Kong."
Two people who cannot be responsible for each other naturally have nothing to say except empty blessings to each other:
Progress in the new year. May you be happy and prosperous. Smooth sailing. In good health. Everything goes well. Dragon horse spirit. Good luck. good luck. All the best...
Finally, Li Qiao added: Long Live Friendship .
The phrase "long live friendship" is very ambiguous.
Sir thinks it has two meanings, one is friendship, the other...
is room 527.
Sir was amazed by the dialogue and scene cuts.
Just like this, two people who are friends and friends, and keep silent about the future, can only take one step at a time.
Isn’t this the love of many young people in reality?
The feeling of an uncertain future, the state of mind where even if you like the person in front of you, you are not sure whether there is really a future...
So, Li Qiao said:
After making it clear, he will get married, and she will To make her money.
The moment when love was truly tested came many years later -
Both of them realized their "ideals" and got what they "wanted" in the first place.
Xiaojun got married to his girlfriend.
Li Qiao found Brother Bao, a wealthy gangster, to sell real estate, open a shop, and become the proprietress.
met again, and when they looked at each other in an electric light, they suddenly realized:
wipe! After so many years, it turns out that stability is not important, and having money is not important.
What is important is the person who once cuddled up under the same roof and wandered in the same strange city...
The person I missed.
At this time, their love sublimated.
However, when Li Qiao went back to have a showdown with Brother Bao, he couldn't say anything. How to export
? As the days go by, hasn’t this once ideal destination changed from a supporting role to a protagonist?
Look at it this way, this drama respects every character: Every supporting role also plays its own protagonist very realistically.
Brother Bao, played by Eric Tsang, although he looks a bit more anxious and rough than Xiaojun, he is full of tenderness inside.
You can have a green dragon on your left and a white tiger on your right, or you can get a Mickey Mouse tattoo just to please Li Qiao.
When he was killed, these last words he said were a hundred times more charming than what Li Xiaojun said:
Silly girl, listen to me
Go home now and take a hot bath
Get up tomorrow morning, there will be men all over the street. All of them are better than Brother Bao
Xiaojun cannot give him this sense of security that he has seen through vicissitudes of life and has experienced ups and downs, and Li Qiao cannot escape either.
Love words should be spoken like Brother Bao.
Sir By the way, there is only one sentence "I love you" in the whole film from beginning to end.
Xiaojun coquettishly called his girlfriend Xiaoting and said it, not to tell Xiaoting, but to himself, to prove that love is still there.
The closest Li Qiao and Xiao Jun came to confessing, they sounded a bit discouraged -
We all failed in the end
What a failure, they finally turned around and found each other, but betrayed themselves that they had insisted on at the beginning.
tells the story of love well and has enough supporting roles. Plus, it is even more perfect -
has superb control over details.
Xiaojun became a chef and cooked a chicken one day. At that time, Li Qiao was still giving massages.
When they checked into the room, the camera glanced at the imperial concubine's chicken feet beside the bed.
It turns out that Xiaojun feels sorry for Li Qiao and wants to "make up for it with one's form."
Good emotions can be played through a box of dumb chicken feet.
Another time, they stayed up late waiting for the stock market to open.
Li Qiao suddenly discovered that Xiaojun's butt was dark.
It turned out that Xiaojun specially bought the chocolate for Li Qiao, but he forgot to take it out and it melted.
Compared with diamond rings and flowers, this mess of chocolate is more like love.
These unconventional details can make people think of the past at any time, making people cry like a girl even at their age.
However, if regards it as a simple romance film, it is still underestimated.
Its profoundness lies in the fact that transcends the love between children and expresses the wanderings of people of an era and the wanderings of Hong Kong as a whole.
Peter Chan said that the ten years (1986-1995) experienced in the movie, in his opinion, are the most beautiful ten years in Hong Kong:
Hong Kong drift and the wave of Hong Kong immigrants.
1986 was a time when mainlanders were flocking to Hong Kong crazily. Xiaojun went from Tianjin to Hong Kong, and Li Qiao went from Guangzhou to Hong Kong.
What did Hong Kong mean at that time? ——
A place where dreams come true.
Just like Li Qiao said:
In Hong Kong, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can do anything.
The life of a drifter in Hong Kong is actually very similar to the life of a drifter in the north or abroad.
When I first went there, Xiaojun was poorly dressed, couldn’t understand Cantonese, couldn’t speak English, and couldn’t even ride on the escalator.
When I go to McDonald's, I can't order Coca-Cola, so I write letters and rely on the saved McDonald's meal paper.
On New Year's Eve, I went to the street to sell records of Teresa Teng and drank Vitasoy. Eating wontons in a small and cramped room where I couldn't even straighten my waist.
The "vegetarian braised meat" played by Du Kefeng, the prostitute Kai Lan, and Xiaojun's aunt, aren't they all Hong Kong drifters?
all long for recognition in Hong Kong, a stable life, and an end to their displacement.
These can easily resonate with every foreigner.
The stock market plummeted in 1987, and Hong Kong people wanted to run away again. Run to New York, a place of bigger dreams.
However, Brother Bao, who was once famous for a while, died tragically on the streets of New York.
Kailan has AIDS.
My aunt died in a lifetime of waiting.
Under the uncontrollable fate, the question is - where is the destination of
Hong Kong? Where is the destination of man? Where do Li Qiao and Xiao Jun end up?
Teresa Teng sister is a recurring clue in the film.
Peter Chan recalled that Teresa Teng passed away halfway through writing the script, and it suddenly occurred to him that Teresa Teng fit the theme of the movie "Drifting" very well.
Teresa Teng is the first person who truly belongs to the "two sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places". Wherever there are Chinese people, there is her singing.
So what Teresa Teng represents is a sense of belonging. The appearance of the symbol
in the film is very clever. Every time it attracts the audience's emotions, changes from perception, to emotion, to sentimentality.
For the first time, when Xiaojun was riding a bicycle with Li Qiao on the streets of Hong Kong, Li Qiao suddenly sang "sweet honey". Because, for the first time, she felt it in a foreign land -
No. solitary. one.
For the second time, Li Qiao and Xiao Jun checked into a room at 527. Xiao Jun hugged Li Qiao and sang "Sweet Honey" again.
At this time, they already had happiness without knowing it.
The third time, it was Xiaojun who saw Teresa Teng on the street and ran to get her autograph.
Li Qiao was sitting in the car waiting for him. After signing the autograph, she couldn't help but give him a sweet kiss.
The last time was at the end of the film. After a thousand twists and turns, they stayed for the news of Teresa Teng's death and met on the street.
is not running for a hug, nor is it bursting into tears.
just looked at each other and smiled.
Sir feels that "Sweet Honey" is not so much the pursuit of love as it is the pursuit of the destination of wandering .
This is why the English name of the movie is, Comrades: Almost a Love Story——
Comrades, it is almost a love story.
The most touching thing is not love itself, but 's wandering destiny as a human being in the rolling world of mortals.
In addition to screenwriter An Xi and director Chen Kexin, the fact that
is able to achieve such a movie must also be attributed to the actors.
Maggie Cheung's acting skills, of course, can once again be written into the textbook .
screenwriter An Xi said: "I have always felt that I should apologize to her. Because at that time, Chen Kexin asked her to play the heroine Li Qiao. I opened my eyes wide and couldn't believe it - how could she play someone I wrote when she was so Westernized? That "Mainland girl"? But after watching the movie, I realized that I was totally wrong. She looked more like Li Qiao than what I wrote !
Sir couldn't watch the scene where Li Qiao went to see Brother Bao's body. Ten times.
The police asked her: "Is it him?"
She said tremblingly: "Turn him around."
Turn around, revealing the little Mickey Mouse behind Brother Bao. She smiled at first, and even stopped talking. (It seemed that he wanted to explain the origin of Mickey Mouse to the confused policeman).
Then, I cried at a loss. The more I cried, the more helpless and confused I became, mixed with a hint of disbelief.
In the end, it turned into a cry of real pain and despair.
The close-up shot got closer and closer, and the crying became more and more heart-wrenching - Sir admired Manyu in capital letters.
There is one more scene. The kiss between Xiaojun and Li Qiao many years later.
She stuck her head out of the window and was about to kiss him, but hesitated. She opened her eyes and looked at Xiaojun. She seemed to think for a moment and finally made up her mind and closed it again -
This is how a long-lost crazy kiss should come.
And Li Ming’s performance should be the pinnacle of his acting skills in this life.
In fact, he was born in Beijing and moved to Hong Kong when he was four years old. He is very close to the role of Xiaojun. Although
did not win the Academy Award and Best Actor, he still brought the cowardly, timid, and affectionate Xiaojun to life.
Watch this scene: Li Qiao said that he is also a mainlander and has no friends. The two fell into a moment of embarrassment.
Attention, when I drank milk in the morning and spilled milk, I hurriedly wiped it off. Is this a good thing?
and Xiaojun went to McDonald's for the first time. The subtle expression of his pursed lips, the shyness that he hesitated to speak...
really made Sir see the simple youth of the reform and opening up era.
But...after this film, he became a glorious facial paralysis again.
He said: "I lost interest in the Academy Awards when "Sweetie" didn't win the Best Actor. That was my most satisfying film. From then on, I only made films for the audience."
Best Supporting Actor Eric Tsang There is nothing to say about Brother Bao played by .
It is said that Eric Tsang liked the role of Brother Leopard very much, but he was never embarrassed to ask for it.
Because he felt that he was not good-looking enough, it was difficult for the audience to convince the audience that "Maggie Cheung did not marry Leon Lai but followed Eric Tsang."
It was not until two weeks after the film was launched that Peter Chan decided to let Eric Tsang participate. And the facts prove that
is an old gun.
In addition, Du Kefeng's guest appearance as the foreign teacher "Zhai Luwei" and the newly debuted Christine Yang are both outstanding. How about
? Watch it again with Sir, you won’t regret it.
It is precisely because of Hong Kong movies like this that Sir feels:
As a filmmaker of this generation, including Peter Chan, Onishi, Lai Lai, and Maggie Cheung, no good story is wasted.
As a generation of strangers outside the screen, they have not been buried in vain.
As an old audience 10 years ago, we have not wasted our youth.
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