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Chapter 898 The feelings of Hong Kong people, the tears and laughter of a generation

at the Venice Film Festival.

Many Chinese tourists who come here may not be from Hong Kong Island, but there are some things in common.

One step is good, one step is difficult, this is true for anyone.

Because everyone's life cannot be so smooth.

For this reason, Chinese audiences can more or less resonate with this movie.

Liu Fei, although he was born in a wealthy family, the years are fair to anyone.

It will always steal some of your most precious things.

Liu Fei and his wife Chen Jingning returned to the hotel and each wrote their own film reviews.

"What topic do you want to write about?" Chen Jingning asked curiously.

"Of course it's the past on Hong Kong Island." Liu Fei said with a smile.

"What about you?" Liu Fei also asked his wife curiously.

"I want to write about love!" Chen Jingning said.

"Love?" Liu Fei couldn't help but frowned slightly. Although the love between Luo Jinyi and Fang Fei in "The Thief of Time" does occupy a lot of space, it is only a part of the movie from the beginning to the end.

"What? Is there any problem?" Chen Jingning looked at Liu Fei calmly and asked.

"No, it's just a bit of an accident. After all, the love in this movie may even become the point of attack by many people. After all, the love between the frog and the princess is always too old-fashioned and bloody!" Liu Fei shrugged.

Chen Jingning nodded, then shook her head and said, "That's why I wanted to write about love. Nowadays, many people watch movies, and as long as the plot is a bit clichéd, they feel like shit, but they don't know that the love in this movie, It happened in the past, and it was experienced by director Meng Qiguang’s elder brother. Life is more bloody than the movie. But I like the love in the movie.”

"Okay, let's start separately." Liu Fei nodded.

The two each held their laptops and began to write their impressions without interfering with each other.

"This time, Li Yi used "The Thief of Time" to prove that Hong Kong people also have feelings!
Even though Hong Kong Island has been reunified for more than ten years, and even though cross-strait exchanges seem to be very frequent, we still rarely touch on the past of Hong Kong Island. First, there is no opportunity, and second, there is no material.

For many mainland audiences, our understanding of Hong Kong Island is almost all through film and television works.

In the glorious era of Hong Kong Island movies, many of us are no longer unfamiliar with Hong Kong Island. We know that Hong Kong Island has the Independent Commission Against Corruption, that Hong Kong Island used to be dark, that Hong Kong Island has young and Dangerous children, etc., etc., but we are very concerned about it. Few people know what life is like for people at the bottom of society like the Luo family on Hong Kong Island, let alone Hong Kong Island in the 60s.

Because of the past movies, it is rarely mentioned.So "The Thief of Time" has become a window for us to understand the old Hong Kong Island. Although it may also be biased, there are not many left in those turbulent years.

This is a family who migrated from the South China Sea to Hong Kong Island. The two brothers occupy both ends of an empty street. The elder brother opens the door for a haircut, and the younger brother makes shoes at the end of the street. The story begins from the perspective of the younger brother's second son.

Luo Jiner is a naughty boy, he likes to steal small things, his academic performance is not good, he doesn't feel sad at all being punished by the teacher, on the contrary, he enjoys it.The older brother Luo Jinyi is on the contrary. He has been an outstanding student in the school since he was a child. Not only does he have good grades, but he is also proficient in sports, literature and art.

Luo Jin's admiration for his brother is almost a feeling of worship.In his young heart, his brother was the authority in the world, a man who knew everything, and a great role model who could do anything.And Luo Jinyi did live up to his younger brother's expectations.

I believe that everyone has a person like this in childhood, he or she is older than you, but willing to play with you, tell you many things you don’t know, tell you the colorful world, when you look at him, it’s like him There is always a halo on their bodies, even though they may change later, that image will always remain in memory.

Hong Kong people have always had a strong spirit of forging ahead, otherwise they would not have transformed from a small fishing village back then into a world-renowned metropolis today. Some film and television works or music on Hong Kong Island in the early days praised this spirit. I believe everyone would not feel that strangeness.

Hong Kong Island still retains many traditional customs. For example, before the filming of most films, there will be some opening ceremonies, and after the end, there will be a final celebration. The gangsters on the street, the big brother of the underworld, also want to pay homage to the second brother Guan at home.Rather than saying that these are superstitions of Hong Kong Islanders, it is better to say that they have some stubborn, cute and valuable beliefs.

At the beginning of the film, through the perspective of Luo Jinyi wearing a fish tank, a bustling old Hong Kong is displayed in front of his eyes.The life in the market is vivid, and the old neighbors are talking and laughing among themselves, living a normal life.

However, director Li Yi is undoubtedly a liar who can tell stories.The plain but hopeful and beautiful performances before were all illusions.How beautiful life is, how cruel life is.Originally, there was a booth in Hong Kong Island where every inch of land was expensive. The husband and wife were loving, the neighbors were harmonious, relatives and friends were around, and there were two handsome sons. Life seemed so satisfying.If business has been good?What if the son is "No. [-] Scholar and No. [-]"?What if Luo Jinyi doesn't get sick? Will life get better and better...

But life is like a shed in the wind and rain, if the wind is strong, it will be so easy to disperse...

The real wind can only blow a house to pieces, but as long as you "keep the roof", you can also pick up the shoes, fix the glass, and rebuild the house.But when the "storm" of life blows in, people are so fragile that they have no power to resist.As soon as Luo Jin walked into Fangfei's luxurious villa, the sky of his life was clouded for a moment.But when he fell ill, a "storm" came, which not only crushed his beautiful life, but also brought the life of the family into a cold winter.

Luo's father is not so radiant anymore, his gray hair is overgrown, his beard is unshaven, and his hands are beginning to be stained with oil. Life forces him to bury his head in beating, but no matter how difficult it is, he never complains, and always endures it.In particular, when he ran into the pawnshop in a hurry to pawn the ring, the deep ring mark on his finger made people cry.But even after transfusing fresh blood, I couldn’t fight against fate. The moment my son fell down, and when my son’s original song sounded, my life was already in ruins... Fortunately, I tried my best to uproot the flower tree for a moment, and my life still needs to start again. One day, there will be a rainbow in the sky, and flowers will bloom everywhere... Life is one difficult step, but one step is better.

The film has a panoramic shot of Hong Kong Island on the way Luo Jinyi returns to Sham Shui Po from Fang Fei's house.Looking down at these glimpses among the crowds, the silhouettes in the busy traffic may have become group portraits of the times in our eyes today.The metaphor in this group portrait is the cultural alienation of the seemingly integrated Hong Kong Island and the lack of authority in the face of cultural conflicts.

The story of Hong Kong Island represented by the Luo family, Fang Fei, and especially Luo Jinyi is actually a melancholy epitome of Hong Kong culture in the 20s, full of hope, disappointment, joy, and pain.

Just like we often feel pity for a person's fate, because similar encounters can easily lead to our own past.The cultural metaphor of the character Luo Jinyi is more profound, and what he carries is the memory of a group.When the carrier of memories suddenly rises to a group of people, the meanings are hard to explain. The tears and laughter of a generation, together with the flashing neon lights of Hong Kong Island, choke in the throat. "

(End of this chapter)