For the drama version of "Flowers", people can find many reasons for complaints.
Exaggeration, inconsistency with the original, too short editing, too intense in the Shanghai dialect in the quarrel...
I still remember the first day of 4 episodes in a row, which ended up attracting a lot of negative reviews.
Is it wrong?
Nor is it wronged. Wong Kar-wai, a genius director in the film industry, turned to shoot TV series, and he was filming Mao Dun Literature Award works, he prepared for this matter for nearly 10 years, and personally directed it for more than three years, and the final work was broadcast on CCTV, which is really rich and rich in layers.
As the number of spectators increased, so did expectations, and accidents seemed to be expected....
Later, after the people who watched the excitement dispersed, some people were left and began to experience the fun gradually, and the evaluation began to reverse, and the Douban score reached 81. Nearly half of the audience gave a five-star review.
Everyone praised again: Wong Kar-wai really knows the 90s best, he never wastes beautiful actors and actresses, and after training people with poor acting skills, they all show dazzling light.
Tonight, "Flowers" is about to usher in a perfect ending.
An Jing has watched 28 episodes, and "Flowers" can be called at least half an excellent work in the eyes of crows.
I'd like to talk about some of my favorite aspects of the show.
A dish of "Night Tokyo".
I would like to express my gratitude to Director Wong Kar-wai for bringing back memories from my slumber. There was once a famous dish in Jiangsu and Zhejiang called "Farewell My Concubine", which was steamed grass chicken with soft-shelled turtle.
Mr. Wei, a wealthy ghost, negotiated business in the "Zhizhen Garden", and as soon as he was happy, he had to give a valuable "Farewell My Concubine" to each table**, and the gift of the entire 88 tables cost tens of thousands of yuan.
Even in the 90s, it was very rare for someone to have tens of thousands of dollars, and now it is a lot of wealth.
The drama version of "Flowers" shows the side of people who are drunk with money: on the Yellow River Road, everyone is spending a lot of money and doesn't care, because everyone is eager to earn more wealth.
For the prosperous narrative of "Zhizhen Garden", there are many voices of widespread skepticism. In 1993, could Shanghai be called rich?This has become a question in the minds of many people.
In my opinion, whether it is true or false is secondary, and it is more like the director has concerns and deliberately exaggerates in the hope of maintaining the rhythm of the story through intense dramatic conflicts.
In stark contrast is the "Night Tokyo" of Jinhyonji.
I think the play here is the most interesting.
From the director's performance, it can be seen that he is not nervous, as if he is strolling casually and leisurely, which is his familiar and comfortable state.
Some people believe that "Zhizhenen" represents the workplace and the image on the surface, while "Night Tokyo" represents life and the real inside.
At the corner of the street, you will enter a lively neighborhood called "Night Tokyo", which is filled with the atmosphere of the city with fireworks.
Whenever he finishes a social event on the Yellow River Road, Mr. Bao always enters this small shop and finds a small round table next to the kitchen to sit down.
Reiko's proprietress is preparing a bowl of rice and six side dishes.
No matter how many luxurious delicacies he ate, the general manager always had to come to a bowl of rice, and only the rice could warm his stomach and make him feel comfortable and satisfied, so that he felt that the day was worth it.
The relationship between Mr. Bao and Reiko is like this bowl of rice, seemingly ordinary but better than many other relationships.
In this small restaurant, one person is the investor and the other is the operator, and their conversation always revolves around money.
He was dissatisfied with her ability to run a business, believing that she was always losing money. She retorted that it wasn't because she was mismanaged, but because he signed too much. He said that she was sinister and only cared about asking for money. She changed her hand and multiplied a pair of earrings worth two thousand six tenfold, asked for twenty-six thousand, and forcibly sold them to him.
At first glance, you'd think that Reiko was taking advantage of the situation to take advantage of Kaiko.
However, when it comes to the details, there are some differences.
At the beginning of the story, Mr. Bao suffered a car accident and his life and death were unknown.
The once warm and friendly friends in the rivers and lakes have now all become demons who come to collect debts: if Mr. Bao dies suddenly, who will repay the debts he owes?
Only Reiko generously threw money: I'll pay!
On another occasion, Mr. Bao helped the "Zhizhen Garden" and found one of the most important ingredients in the world: the king snake (the king snake is part of my sleeping memory).
When it was time for Reiko to disguise herself as a Japanese again to buy goods, she successfully deceived multiple censors and inspections by virtue of her "gang crime" technique, and sent the goods to the "Zhizhenyuan".
Reiko is very kind to Mr. Bao and is willing to support him at all times, no matter what kind of difficulties he encounters.
What's more, when no one was noticing, she secretly picked up the glass he had just drunk, examined it carefully, and then drank it in one gulp.
Wong Kar-wai is very good at portraying this relationship.
You think he's showing the ambiguity in their relationship, but he's talking about the calculations in the relationshipYou think he's going to talk about women who like money and just want to pursue careers, but he happens to be talking about how sincere and uncaring she is.
Later, I realized that at first, Reiko managed Mr. Bao's money wholeheartedly, as if she was asserting her authority to him.
His willingness to bear the grievances for her is tantamount to surrendering to her.
And, again and again, she asked him to help fix the roof of the house, which seemed to never be repaired. Did he never doubt it?
He may be smart and witty on the outside, but in front of her, he needs to pretend to be ignorant, not to expose the other party's intentions, and tacitly.
Reiko's confidence has made her enjoy a different treatment.
In order to maintain this delicate balance, she is careful not to clarify or clarify, both to protect her self-esteem and to fear failure.
Only by remaining silent can we have a chance for lasting development.
However, that day, Reiko had an argument with her friend and was stabbed in the heart by her best friend in public: You are so old and you still think you are a little girl, how can Mr. Bao like you...
When the window paper was punctured, she was immediately embarrassed and angry. However, it was because of this sentence that she began to rethink.
I have been trapped in it for a long time, and I almost lost the consciousness that I had the ability to completely get rid of.
I really like two scenes in the play.
Reiko decided to say goodbye to the past and redecorate"Night in Tokyo"The storefronts were all smashed.
Letting go is a kind of real courage and decisiveness, not hesitating to throw away all unnecessary constraints and troubles, and face the future calmly.
However, the director had to wear the story of how he built the store with his own hands in the first place, and every old thing was full of memories.
The shop is closed, but I can't erase the things in my heart.
In the small attic of the alley, Reiko and Mr. Bao are enjoying delicious hairy crabs.
Love brings madness and disorder, but on the surface it is always quiet and peaceful...
It's just that the singing of "Baoyu Crying Grave" came from downstairs, and the rain that was dripping down from the ceiling...
Reiko's mood is expressed through a sad song and a string of tears.
Today's audience is very enthusiastic about the plot of career women encountering "not falling in love", however, the truth is not as easy as the plot.
However, the feeling of longing and not being able to get it, the entanglement of love and hate, the confusion of advance and retreat, and the confusion of thoughts that are difficult to straighten out, have not been noticed for a long time, but fortunately Wong Kar-wai has preserved the memory for us.
II丨Jinxian Road is a road located in Rika Akana.
Reiko and Po's first encounter in Tokyo seems to be just a small episode in a memory, but deep down, it is the climax of the whole story.
Listening to this story today, it feels like a fairy tale.
Po arrives in Tokyo to find the help of a rich and powerful man, who knows nothing about the place and doesn't speak the language in the harsh winter
I got lost in Ginza and felt confused, but not long after, I heard a familiar country voice in a nearby ** pavilion, like a light in the darkness.
I only asked about it and found out that the place where Reiko worked was the place agreed between Po and the boss.
Before the boss arrived, Reiko offered to invite him to enjoy a bowl of noodles with him and waited with him on the snowy streets.
She said something bits and pieces: I've been in Tokyo for three years, and I just started working as a waitress in a restaurant, but in the future I plan to return to Shanghai to be a hostess, and I've even come up with a name for the restaurant, which is called "Night Tokyo."
A woman in her 30s, struggling alone in a foreign country without any family to rely on, Reiko is very lonely. Only when faced with strangers did she dare to speak up.
At this moment, Ah Bao is thinking about business, and said casually: How can I have the heart to listen to this.
Reiko didn't get angry, she smiled and took out the "sign" she had asked for at the shrine a few days ago and gave it to him, saying that she wanted to lend him some good luck.
In the end, Po got what he wanted and ushered in the arrival of the big boss....
Six months later, Reiko received an airmail from Shanghai.
The letter included a flight ticket from Tokyo to Shanghai, as well as a business card of the manager of the hotel in Tokyo at night.
At the wine cabinet, Reiko lowered her body and stared at the words on her business card, confirming it over and over again, tears filling her eyes.
In fact, he was really listening to her dreams.
The background ** sounded, and it was the theme song "Sudden Love" of "Tokyo Love Story". Off the screen, the audience couldn't help but burst into tears.
Director Wang, please don't choose a way like "East Love" to hurt me!
Raven Movie's "Kazumasa Oda - A Sudden Love Story" is only 4 minutes long.
The story is only 15 minutes long, but it is emotionally rich and moving. Imagine, if it were other domestic dramas, it might drag on for three or four episodes.
At that time, we believed that more romantic stories would happen, just like "Pingshui meets, draws a knife to help" and "The grace of a drop of water is reciprocated by a spring".
In today's age where the internet and communication are so convenient, most of the time we don't need to rely on strangers for help, let alone recognize and support each other for speaking the same dialect, even if we are in a foreign country.
The world is becoming more and more individual-friendly, but the connections between people are becoming more and more unstable...
In the 90s of the last century, "East Love" was all the rage, and Rika became the idol of countless boys, and her smile was like the winter sun, warming the hearts of many people.
However, young viewers may now be confused by this: what kind of liking does Rika have for the male protagonist?Didn't she say that she was a love clumsy?
That's right, previous relationships don't need much explanation, and it's easier for people to show a friendly attitude and believe that love has great power.
Nowadays, it has become difficult to love someone, and our hearts are full of guards, injected with more trade-offs, and overemphasized rationality.
Of course, there must have been people in the past who calculated and were deceived, and no matter what era it is, there are things that are inappropriate....
However, we would like to believe that in that energetic nineties, such innocent and beautiful things would have happened.
This is our psychological filter for that era.
No matter that time has passed, at least we have witnessed the most beautiful scenery in the world.
Three丨"I am my own port".
In addition to Reiko, there are many other moving female characters.
I used to think that "flowers" was based on the way in which flowers are used as metaphors and depictions of various women in Dream of Red Mansions, referring to the diverse women in the story.
Their authenticity, vividness and naturalness make everyone shine.
Take Miss Wang, for example, her popularity is very high.
She is a newcomer to the workforce, busy helping her mentor with stamps, and her hands are in a hurry.
She is a delicate little girl who enjoys pork rib rice cakes with Po. Not only did she boldly say to Po: "I am willing to accompany you to sell tea eggs", but she is also a real warrior of pure love.
Even if there is no love and no glamorous job, she can still be a Hongkou Xiaowang who can endure hardships, with messy hair and dirty clothes.
She said: I only make my own harbor.
Whether it is Miss Wang, who is wearing pearl earrings and has a lazy voice, or Xiao Wang, who is wearing wide glasses and is wet in heavy rain, they are all very good-looking.
Wong Kar-wai is very familiar with filming female characters.
He photographed Li Li's cold and mysterious atmosphere, photographed Manager Pan's noble temperament, and also photographed Minmin's lively feeling that was both foreign and simple...
It also shows the aroma of Mei Ping's tea and the extreme lack of self-confidence, and shows Jinhua's indifference and care for her disciples as a leader in the system.
Even Lu Meilin as a villain, when she faces the frustration of her incompetent husband, you can empathize with her misfortune....
In my opinion, in the drama "Flowers", the atmosphere of the Peace Hotel, the commercial competition on the Yellow River Road, and the intelligence war in the ** market all have a good-looking and unsightly feeling.
The charm of this work is that it can't help but remind people of the scenes of martial arts, such as the siege of Guangming Peak and Huashan on the sword. At the same time, it also gives people a feeling of old-time Hong Kong films, such as the confrontation between police and bandits, the struggle between black and white, as well as the duel between gambling kings, the god of food, and so on.
Blood and violence, tense and exciting plots, how can it not be fascinating?
However, it doesn't look very good either, because this narrative gives a sense of fiction, which does not quite match the familiar Shanghai and is slightly alienated from the common people.
With Shanghainese, rely on the fireworks to bring it back to the real world.
Its true beauty lies in the fact that it brings to life the unique personal image of that era.
The women, in particular, are what Ms. Wang calls "I am my own pier".
If you have to be picky, it is that there are limitations, how could there be so many pure love warriors in that era?
In the context of Jin Yucheng, these smart and witty men and women have already acted in secret....
It was a time of vitality and hope, and the Chinese at that time could not stop with endless enthusiasm and curiosity.
They'll flock into a store chasing a designer t-shirt. Who doesn't know that once Montejiao was even more popular than Nike Adi....
They will spend a lot of money on imported color TVs, refrigerators, mobile phones and other products.
As we all know, money is spent and it is earned back again, and tomorrow will definitely be better than today.
They have a keen sense of the most popular trends, tailor suits for their clients, focus on choosing high-quality fabrics, and study hairstyles that mimic Japanese, Hong Kong and Taiwanese hairstyles.
They love to enjoy"Farewell my concubine"and King Snake three meals of delicacies.
Various delicacies such as Huaiyang cuisine, Cantonese cuisine, and local cuisine present a colorful scene, and at the same time, KFC has also entered the Chinese market...
In which free shipping area, the post-80s generation has not participated in a dinner with their parents?The scene was one of adults clinking glasses and talking to each other, while children were eating with their heads down.
By the way, as an audience who grew up in "Full House of Gold", when I saw Zhong Zhentao play the role of a Hong Kong celebrity chef, my heart was full of emotion.
The master chef has returned, but his apprentice has been far away.
In those days, people's eyes were shining with dawn, and their bodies and minds were filled with infinite energy, and the pioneers of those times struggled to move forward in the mighty waves, full of hope and motivation.
In the blink of an eye, more than twenty years have passed since that colorful 90s.
We may never be able to go back to that time.
Some people believe that "Flowers" and "The Long Season" are stories that echo each other, both of which take place in the nineties of the last century, one describing the story of the rise and the other of the story of the fall;One describes the man who has successfully caught the Times Express, and the other describes the man who has been run over by the wheels;One depicts the blooming eyes of flowers and plants, and the other depicts the white and flawless earth.
However, when the time dimension is extended, "Flowers" will also disappear after that.
Rokugami Lei Lei pointed out that it is not that a certain era is about to end, but that you are about to leave....
Now, we have entered middle age, and we can only fall into memories in the background of a song**.