Some of the plots in "Flowers" need to be rebrushed to discover. For example, Wong Kar-wai's preference for Reiko.
That's right, it's preference.
The plot has been updated to twenty-two episodes, three female characters, and Reiko's character line is the longest and most complete. Although the relationship between Li Li and Po has begun to emerge, the truth of the past is still a mystery.
And what about Miss Wang?
Although the story between her and Mr. Bao seems to have a beginning and an end, the growth line of this character has not yet been closed.
Only Reiko, from the first episode to the twenty-second episode, almost every episode has her role.
The story of the characters, from the acquaintance and acquaintance with Bao, to the final cutting of love, breaking the big career and starting a career, everything has formed a closed loop.
The director spent a lot of shots and carved out all the details - her love for Mr. Bao, although it is not loud, is full of evidence.
And the best proof of Wong Kar-wai's preference for Reiko is his way of shooting.
When Wong Kar-wai filmed other people, he used the method of making movies. Only when filming Reiko, he used Wong Kar-wai's characteristic monologue.
Reiko's house never seemed to be repaired, and it leaked every year at this time, and I repaired it three times since the day she moved in.
Why is Wong Kar-wai so partial to Reiko?
The core of this character is the most fascinating.
Reiko is a person, and there are two things that suffer the most.
One is that she has a three-year Japanese part-time work background, has no culture, and is beautiful, which makes many people mistakenly think that she is a wine escort in Japan, so they preconceived to define her as "undecent".
Teacher Ge has been eating in Tokyo at night for three years, and after Reiko left, the first question he asked Linghong was whether Reiko had ever accompanied her to drink.
This is true of those who are close to you.
What about the others?
The other is that he has a hard mouth and does not speak softly. With these two things, coupled with her search and "stalking" of Mr. Bao, many people in the play are prejudiced against her. Or disgust, or contempt.
Uncle scolded Lingzi for being a debt collector, insatiable, and only in and out. Linghong sarcastically said that even if she posted it upside down, she was not worthy of Mr. Bao.
And Mr. Ge is the most intriguing, and he has been waiting for Mr. Bao to take over after abandoning Lingzi.
And the audience hates Reiko, most of it is because of her philistine, greed, and being a godsend.
This is Reiko in the eyes of outsiders.
And how should the real Reiko be interpreted?
In fact, if you want to understand Lingzi, you still have to start with what Wong Kar-wai said, the two most attractive characteristics of Shanghai women - love and righteousness, but at the same time, we must treat them separately.
In the play, it is what Reiko was like when she didn't meet Mr. Bao, and what she was like after she met Mr. Bao.
Reiko went to Tokyo for three years and it took a year to learn to bow. ”
In just one sentence, Ling Hong explained a Shanghai woman who was in the most prosperous place in Japan, faced with drunken gold fans, but was unwilling to bow her head, and was delicate.
In addition to being stubborn, Reiko at that time also had her own freedom. Bottles of dish soap with famous liquor are taken out of the clubhouse. On the streets of a foreign country, there was snow all over the sky, and Qiang Mujie secretly drank, and he didn't forget to tease the Japanese on the street when he was done.
This wanton and indifferent, who is not happy to see it.
Obviously, he is poor, and he is still serving dishes in his thirties, but when his father wants to buy a refrigerator, he is persuaded to buy a big one. When Po was down, it was a request to eat ramen, and it was a kind gift.
And Linghong, whether in Japan or in Shanghai, Reiko has always been helping. Tao Tao deliberately ate white food in Tokyo at night, and she saw through it without saying anything.
In Wong Kar-wai's lens, Reiko is the most beautiful at two times, one is her first encounter with Po in Tokyo, and the other is when she stands in front of the window and always wants to be beatty when she looks at Po.
One is Reiko, "the original Reiko".
Full of life, she is so beautiful and glowing in every frame of the shot that people can't take their eyes off. The other is Lingzi who fell in love with Mr. Bao, with a heavy affection on her face, as well as a gentle **.
Because of a ticket to Shanghai and a business card to Tokyo at night, Reiko fell in love with Mr. Bao. And this kind of love made her start a three-year entanglement with Mr. Bao.
Reiko once said that there are many people who like her, and none of the ones she likes can escape.
Therefore, Reiko did not hesitate, and with just a letter, she left everything she had worked hard in Japan without hesitation and returned to Shanghai.
If you watch the drama carefully, you will find that she pursued Mr. Bao at the beginning, and she was completely rushing to get married.
Mr. Bao wanted to send Ye Tokyo to Reiko, but she refused, saying that she couldn't afford such a big gift when she met in Pingshui. I am only willing to help the general management, and then give dividends when I make money at the end of the year.
It was Mr. Bao who used technology to take shares, emphasizing five or five points, and Reiko accepted it. So, Reiko is not a greedy person.
But why did Reiko become so greedy in the back, and she was able to take a little bit of food from Mr. Bao?
In the back, Mr. Bao did not respond to her love, but she lost herself in Mr. Bao's affection and the bowl of rice made for Mr. Bao.
Only then did he retreat, not get married, and get along like this for a lifetime, and it doesn't matter if he "leaks" every day. But Lingzi can hear the discussions of others, and she can also see Miss Wang next to Mr. Bao.
Reiko knows everything, but she can't do anything.
She could only keep watch at night in Tokyo, waiting for Mr. Bao to come over for dinner. Reiko, who is shrouded in this huge insecurity, will make a move in front of Mr. Bao again and again, looting his money.
self-deception, he gave himself the title of "wife", and constantly brushed a little sense of existence with Mr. Bao, striving for uniqueness.
Mr. Bao's connivance has become her greatest comfort.
And stealing the beer left by Mr. Bao, the accounts that he deliberately couldn't calculate, and the specially "customized" chair in Tokyo at night to see the most beautiful chair of the proprietress have all become Reiko's feelings that she doesn't dare to sound clearly, but there are rings everywhere.
But Mr. Bao's silence made Lingzi's affection fall into the dust again and again. In the relationship between the two, Reiko also retreated again and again.
The love illusion created by Reiko herself is only immersed in it, and others see through it but don't say it. And Miss Wang's earrings were in turmoil, but this layer of window paper was pierced, and Reiko's love was torn apart.
Some abscesses that you don't puncture can be when it's not there. But once it's broken, there's no going back.
Reiko, who has been strong all her life, will she continue to hide this embarrassment and get along with Mr. Bao? Therefore, she who returned was completely separated from Mr. Bao.
If you understand Reiko's mental journey, let's savor what she said to Li Li, "Whenever possible, few women are willing to be bosses."
If you interpret this sentence from Reiko's standpoint: She is nearly forty years old and has not yet started a family, she has been adrift for half her life, and her father remarries at home, and it is not easy to make an international call, also to ask for money.
In this case, Reiko's heart must be longing for someone to give her stability, a home that truly belongs to her. Mr. Bao's air ticket and business card gave her the ultimate surprise and the ultimate romance.
She's tempted, and it's normal.
When Reiko returned to China, she didn't want to be a boss lady.
And Bao's silence and the contempt of the people around her finally made her choose to be the boss lady.
Why did Reiko, who seemed the most unlikable, become Wong Kar-wai's "favorite"?
In Wang Jing's evaluation of "Flowers", it is said that Lingzi played by Ma Yili is a lightweight character, and the implication is that it is also the most difficult character to control and interpret.
Reiko has the most Shanghai-core spirit of the gang. She is not perfect, but she is full of life.
Treating her friends, Reiko is affectionate and righteous, and she is full of kindness to the people around her or strangers. Treat love, when you love, love without hesitation. When he decided to let go, he pushed it back and started over without hesitation.
will not admit defeat, but will not go all the way to the black, seemingly weak, but in the face of fate, it shows as strong as grass.
Miss Wang is most afraid of gossip from others, which is the confidence and arrogance given to her by her family and academic qualifications. But Reiko, who was born at the bottom and has been adrift for half her life, never cares about these.
But in addition to this, Reiko also has imperfections.
Compared with Miss Wang's truth, kindness and beauty, she is shrewd and calculating. Even in love, don't forget to care about gains and losses.
She likes Mr. Bao, but why never says it?
That's because once something is punctured, but if the ending is not what you expected, then there is no way back.
Reiko's silence is just to "attack and defend". Reiko Aibao is always true, but she loves herself more. In the past three years, I have actually kept myself in a safe area.
She scavenged Bao Zong's money, but she actually had two intentions.
Yifen is really to buy him "insurance", but this situation is based on the fact that the relationship between the two has not broken down, which is the choice of a Shanghai woman as a "wife".
The other point is to give yourself insurance, which is calculation.
In Reiko's opinion, she is not Mr. Bao's woman, but in the past three years, she has been bearing the gimmick of Mr. Bao's woman.
The lost reputation, the delayed youth, and the meal that Tokyo made for Mr. Bao at night, the beds left for each night, the single business that facilitated, and the "use" of Mr. Bao.
All of this is to be discounted.
Love to love, life to life.
With the words of Miss Wang, who started a business with Jinhua's advice, Reiko is a person whose heart is hot, but her head is cold.
On the one hand, there is affection and righteousness, and on the other hand, it is shrewd and calculating, which is the core of the spirit of this gang.