For people after middle age, ten or eight years seem to refer to Gu Jian’s affairs. But for young people, three or five years can be a lifetime. ——Zhang Ailing's "Half a Lifetime"
Men have the most troublesome questions that women ask. There should be two questions. One is who will save your mother and girlfriend from the water, and the other is what happens if your best friend falls in love with you. The core of the first question lies in men, how to choose women who give their lives and love, while the core of the second question lies in women, who is more important, men or best friends?
33-year-old Zhang Aijia tried to explore this issue in his first movie "Favorites".
"Favorite" poster
is like Plato's "ideology", Aristotle's "entity", Kant's 's " matter-original ", and Hegel's "absolute spirit"... What thinkers have been thinking about throughout their lives is often a concept. For many literary and artistic women, love and friendship are consistent themes. Especially when the two are intertwined, it is even more dazzling.
On one side is your close friend, close sister, and on the other side is the man you love the most. The person who spends his life with them. When these two people have intersections, how can they deal with themselves?
01 Love
The theme discussed by Zhang Aijia in "Favorites" also did not give up in "203040". "Favorite" can be said to be the middle-aged version of " July and Ansheng ", which lacks the youth and impulse of July and Ansheng, and has a bit more restraint and restraint. But there is no passion.
"Favorite" Sylvia Chang hit it off at the engagement ceremony with Junyan (Sylvia Chang) who came back from abroad. The two of them took that step even after being entangled and hesitated. Before Amin's mother passed away, she noticed Yunyun's feelings for Junyan, and told Yunyun to take care of Amin and reminded Amin and the two of them to have feelings for each other. Because he couldn't bear to hurt Ah Ming, Junyan still married Ah Ming, and Yunyun quickly found a doctor who was much older than herself to start a family. It was not until many years later that the relationship that had been hidden in the hearts of three people was revealed by the two women.
The two I met at the engagement ceremony
only reads the kernel of the story, and now they will be simply labeled as "green tea bitch and scumbag". Many young viewers even sneer at the "incorrect views" and "literary and middle-aged" criticize the values of films. However, such a movie requires a certain life experience to taste. Time is enough to dissolve everything, including love, and understanding of love.
Zhang Ai Jia's shot is delicate, restrained, and full of emotion.
The old age of children
The beginning of the video is Yunyun and Amin chatting when they are old. Their husbands are all dead and their daughters are accompanying each other. The time in the movie is just one afternoon, and the two women chat until the end of dinner. The content of their chatting is the life of two people, the two sides of one man.
02 Double-sided
Everyone has some hidden attributes, which are only open to specific people. Treat others as cold as ice, and treat that person with infinite gentleness. When facing work, he is a "domineering president", and he is gentle and considerate to his wife; a strong woman who is decisive and dependent on others in front of her husband, this is the selling point of this kind of novel.
Only when they are with someone do they show their other side. That's what others can't see, and it's the best self.
Junyan in Ah Ming's eyes is steady. Since Amin was Junyan's secretary, he saw Junyan more in his work state. He was not conscious of the charm, did not know romance, was down-to-earth and steady, and was worthy of entrusting.
What about the other side of Toshihiko? Amin has never seen it, but Yunyun is familiar with it.
Junyan will peel the tomato skin into a flower while making salad. Junyan would exchange the hooked fishing rod with Yunyun when fishing, making Yunyun think that she had caught it herself.When Yunyun rode her bike and refused to send her off, Junyan drove her bike behind Yunyun and went to Yunyun's doorstep. At night, she sent Yunyun to drive a detour in order to let Yunyun listen to a song played in the car. In front of Yunyun's suitors, Junyan, who has always been steady, will compete and act like a young man.
Junyan will not use these little thoughts on Ah Ming. But it cannot be said that Junyan is not good to Ah Ming. Junyan can see Amin's seriously ill mother, buy apples with Amin, and even have a gentle relationship between beds. But his heart is not here.
If a man loves, he is cute and innocent; if he doesn't loves, he is virtuous and generous, and he is boring and boring. He will try his best to please a woman, but that woman, not you.
Faced with a gentle and gentle man who has a successful career and pursues this kind of pursuit (not to mention that he looks bad), there are probably few people who can refuse it. Yunyun is no exception.
But pursuit is one aspect, and after pursuit, it will be another stage.
Marriage, there are too many unscrupulous things.
03 Marriage
Chinese people’s attitude towards marriage is the most contradictory. "Marriage is a person's second reincarnation", "Men are afraid of entering the wrong industry, women are afraid of marrying the wrong man", "Marriage is not virtuous and ruining three generations." Whether for men or women, marriage is a major event in life. But people get married so hasty, so sloppy that there are all kinds of strange reasons that can lead to marriage: for face, for money, for parents, for age, for children... but I lack myself.
Junyan himself said that he is a very unintentional person. He is in his thirties. All decisions in life are made by others and actions are pushed by others. Marrying Amin is just because Amin, who is secretary, is suitable.
Junyan is like Shi Jun in "Half Life" and has no opinion. Fighting in front of Yunyun's suitors is already the ultimate goal of Junyan. He couldn't bear it next.
"I can't bear" is a double-edged sword, because "I can't bear" can be gentle and considerate, put yourself in your shoes, think about you, understand other people's difficulties, and find various reasons for other people's behavior. But it is precisely because of "unbearable" that I cannot refuse, I pretend to be confused when I disassemble and let others make up my mind, and also find various rationalities for my own behavior.
If Shijun did not meet Manzhen, if Junyan did not meet Yunyun. Shijun and Cuizhi, Junyan and Aming have similar family backgrounds and backgrounds, and both are both beautiful and loving. The trivial matters in marriage are not harmful to the general public. Life does not mean happiness, at least peace. This is what an ordinary Chinese couple looks like. If the error rate of everything in the world is counted, marriage must be the highest. Until the last moment, no one knows where the variables in marriage are. Junyan met Yunyun at the engagement ceremony, so the originally good marriage went wrong.
Junyan invited Yunyun to go to her house at 8 o'clock. Aming knew it very well and found a way to entangle Junyan. He imitated Junyan's notes and sent flowers to Yunyun, and attached a card: It is better to see each other than to meet. But she didn't know that the two had seen each other in advance, not only had they seen each other, but also went to Wushan passionately.
Amin saw the two people sitting on the sofa together and knew they were going to showdown.
Amin entered the door and Yunyun and Junyan in the mirror
Amin kept talking about the various things he prepared for the wedding, not giving the two a chance to speak, "I finally have my own home." It was a frank confession, and even a request, asking them not to destroy the "home" they had just had. In love, people are so fragile. Amin's fragility is a sharp knife to the unintentional Junyan and Yunyun who values feelings. Who would have the heart to hurt such a pitiful woman? What's more, that person is still his best friend since he was a child? Is he a good subordinate for many years?
So they finally missed it and lost all the possibilities of this life.
In Junyan's silence, Yunyun chose to endure.
Just as she rejected the necklace that Junyan gave her, "I'm afraid that if I take a little of you, I'm greedy and want more." She only has his little bit of it. This is enough to support her until she grows old.
04 Parent-child
years are the most urge to grow old.The elderly Amin finally explained the thoughts of Yunyun throughout her life: Who is more important to her close friend or her husband? Amin accused Yunyun of this, leaving only a piece of paper she forged. But Yunyun said that she had a good daughter.
Yes, the young and beautiful girl in front of me is Junyan. This is also why Yunyun hurriedly married a doctor who is much older than herself. Doctors know everything, Yunyun said that when a couple is together, there will always be feelings. But this feeling is not love, "I respect him."
She only loves Toshihiko.
Meet after marriage, Yunyun peeled the flowers made of tomato skins that Junyan had peeled when they first met. Junyan said, "I know you will remember it." He knew she loved him. She also didn't shy away: "It's always good to remember something."
Junyan walked out of the kitchen with Yunyun's daughter in her arms and played. The camera seemed to Yunyun's gaze, following Junyan holding her daughter. Yunyun had fantasies in her heart at this time. How great it would be if this was her husband! But the camera is restrained from beginning to end, without making any clear statement, just a faint hint.
Many young viewers accused the movie of being too "green tea" and actually left the heroine with the male protagonist's child. But this is the most gentle part of the movie and the best ending for two best friends who fall in love with the same man. The ending shot of the movie hinted that between Junyan's two daughters, there is a faint friendship between the previous generation A Ming and Yunyun. Will they repeat such stories?
05号
"The closest relatives and most distant couples", Junyan and Aming are better than Zhu Hongcai and Manlu Manzhen. The one whom the Red Rose and the White Rose finally became the leftovers overnight, without any "appetite", and the one whom the Unmarried was always a goddess, drooling. This may be a person's bad nature. If a couple is unfamiliar, it cannot be summarized by the word "sparse". Many of the once loving partners went to court when they turned against each other, and they were very fond of their property, and they were afraid that the word "hate" was not enough to describe it.
From this perspective, "Favorite" is gentle. She just quietly opened the story of two women to the audience, without storms, without hysteria, without heartbreak.
"Favorite" feelings are like tears in your eyes, crystal clear and shining, but they don't fall down. In this way, when others ask why they cry, they can stubbornly cover up and say, "I didn't cry." In comparison, the movie " Biyuntian " adapted from the novel " Biyuntian " ten years ago (1976) was much more straightforward, as if crying loudly, and both women were telling their love and reluctance to give up for men.
I don’t know if it was a coincidence or intentional arrangement, Zhang Aijia played the beloved poor child Bihan in "Biyuntian", and was rescued by Qin Han (Haotian) and Lin Fengjiao (Yiyun) from his abusive mother. In order to give Yi Yun, a child of Haotian, who cannot give birth to children, Bihan and Haotian are together, but they also fall in love with Haotian.
"Biyuntian" poster
This is also the story of three people. The two heroines in the story are not only best friends, but also teachers and students, mixed with complex feelings of kindness, friendship, and teacher-student relationship. The reason for the story is much simpler - children. Haotian, who has been single-handed for generations, has a strong and traditional mother. His mother became a villain (assisted), helping the three people face their feelings. In the end, Bihan gave birth to Haotian's child and left Haotian Yiyun and his wife. The man in "Biyuntian" confesses his naked love when facing the relationship between two women and the straightforward lines of the woman when quarreling, which makes the film adapted a lot by the director, it is still immersed in the richness of Qiong Yao in his bones.
is rich, which makes people feel exaggerated and unreal.
Of course, many "correct three-view" incidents in recent years, especially the remarks of a very famous person that "the original wife and mistress are family members", make people feel that Qiong Yao might have been exaggerated back then, but now it is out of date.
years can distort everything and correct everything.
06 Time
In "Favorite", the two women love not only Junyan, but also each other.
When the love is so strong that it cannot be rejected, but after the desire is over, you can calmly withdraw.Leave the technique and leisure of making roses with tomato skin.
and the best daughter.
In the warm tea restaurant, in front of the hazy candlelight, the two daughters and their daughter's lovers smiled at each other. Although they felt the regret of entrusting nothing, in the face of half a lifetime, what knots can't be untied? They are already lucky enough to still have each other after the man passed away. They have not fought for the man's blood or the jealousy of jealousy, as if they have been in the best time.
At this moment, Lin Zixiang's gentle singing sounded, as if it was the male protagonist's confidant to the two women, or the confession of the man.
Looking for a lover in the world/I found it but wanted to be together/However, half of my life has passed/I just regretted it again
Farewell to her for you/Keep love and keep sin/Who expected that the heart that accompanied you has broken now/But she is in the dream
Why are you parted?/But you want to be with each other again/Why can we be together/Why can we be together/Why can we be as plain as water?/However, we have half of our life together/Why do we want to continue/Why do we want to continue/Why do we think we are not right/What is love/In fact, we only love the most
-"Who is the most"
People's lives are always getting faster and faster. When they were young, the vigorous years of their youth, the impression was deeper than the ordinary life after middle age.
For Yunyun and Ah Ming, during the years of obsessed with Junyan, most of the life has passed, and the rest is just the past like smoke and wind, and the memories of calm and gentle breeze.
I remembered the lines from an old TVB drama " turn ":
There are many things to say in life, which takes a lifetime. But after it is explained clearly, life becomes boring.
Even if there is still some grudges and regrets, so what?
Liu Lang has already hated Pengshan far away, and it is even more ten thousand miles away from Pengshan.
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