How to evaluate the movie "Ashes of Time"?

The first Wong Kar-wai movie I saw was Ashes of Time. I didn't understand it at that time, and I felt that the plot was very chaotic. What remains unchanged is the feeling that is hard to get rid of after reading it. This film is adapted from the movie Legend of the Condor Heroes. All the characters in the film are trapped by love, and the love-hate entanglements of the six protagonists are told.

Ouyang Feng, played by Leslie Cheung, left white camel mountain because her lover angrily married her brother, and entered the desert to become an intermediary to introduce the killer. As long as he can afford it, as long as you want him dead, he can help you settle it. It's like a real businessman making a living. Without money, he will never help, because it means nothing to him. In fact, there is also a killer in Wong Kar-wai's other movie "fallen angels", but his business was also introduced by others. He didn't make a fortune by this, and sometimes he even needs to work part-time to help people collect accounts to increase his income. In Wong Kar-wai's movies, the profession of killer is more common, not because of his superb martial arts, but because of life, and they won't save the whole life. They just like doing business as a job. At this time, they won't stand on high and look down on life. They are just equal. If the person who should have been killed also paid off the middleman, then this person became his client, just a simple transaction.

He also has his arrogance. His arrogance made him leave his lover, so that he didn't see his beloved in the end. He should treat each other like this when he clearly loves each other. Ouyang Feng's lover, played by Maggie Cheung, is also a tragic figure, who is also full of vigor and vitality. In a fit of pique, she married Ouyang Feng's brother, became Ouyang Feng's sister-in-law, made Ouyang Feng miserable, and finally left white camel mountain, never to see each other again. The reason is that he didn't want Ouyang Feng to get himself so easily, because Ouyang Feng never said he loved himself, so he made such a big bet. He didn't want to get rid of Ouyang Feng, so he died of depression. At last she realized that the sentence was not that important, but she understood it too late. Sometimes, a person doesn't need words to prove whether he loves you or not, but it can be seen from his eyes. On the contrary, the promise is just a lie with sugar. Who can guarantee that he will love you forever?

Huang is a prodigal son. Wherever he goes, he must be grateful. Murong Yan was schizophrenic because she didn't want to keep her promise. He even thought he had a brother and wanted to buy and murder his brother. However, all this is her own imagination. She cured herself with her own madness and lost herself. Murong Yan and Murong Yan, Murong Yan wants to kill ungrateful Huang, Murong Yan wants to kill Murong Yan who intends to kill Huang. She was caught up in this contradiction all day, unable to get it and unable to let it go, and finally went crazy. He practiced his sword against his reflection all day, and later he became a lonely man with superb swordsmanship and hard to admit defeat.

Taohua is the wife of a blind soldier. She is infatuated with Huang, but ignores her husband's love for herself. He didn't know that her husband had died by the sword of the horse thief, and he was looking forward to the love between the two men. Huang makes so many women miss her so much, but she can't get the love of the person she likes. That person is Ouyang Feng's lover. He knew what she had done to Ouyang Feng, but she regarded him as an invisible man. He goes to the desert to find Ouyang Feng to drink every year, and brings back what he has learned to tell her every year. She knew what he had done, and Ouyang Feng knew that Huang actually came to visit him for the people he loved, but they were all silent. In fact, they are deceiving themselves, and no one is willing to give in. In the end, everyone is just fighting a losing battle.

"I used to think that sentence is very important, because I think some words mean a lifetime. Now that I think about it, it makes no difference whether I say it or not. Some things will change. " There are some truths that can't be redeemed if you understand them too late. The English name of the film is "Ashes of Time", which translates to "Ashes of Time". She gambled on her love, thinking that she had already arrived. It was not until one day that she looked at herself in the mirror that she knew that she had lost and that her youth was gone. At her best, the person she loves most is no longer with her. Time will eventually pass, some things will eventually wake up, but unfortunately it can't be made up, and what is lost can't be recovered, and it will eventually turn to ashes and become history. Ouyang Feng never said he loved her, because he knew that what he couldn't get was always the best.

In the last year, Huang brought Ouyang Feng a pot of "Let Life Be Drunken", saying that after drinking it, he could forget what he wanted to forget. After that, Huang went to a place called Peach Blossom Island, known as the East Evil. He doesn't have to go to the desert to drink with Ouyang Feng anymore, because his beloved has passed away, and there is no need to send her any more information. A year later, Ouyang Feng received a personal letter from white camel mountain, and he finally realized that his actions made both of them very painful. His stubbornness prevented him from seeing his lover for the last time. He still can't forget the "drunken dream" she left, because "drunken dream" is just a joke she played with him. The more he wants to know if he has forgotten, the more he remembers. Two people who clearly love each other will torture each other to death. Love never wins or loses. How can it win or lose? You have to wait until you lose it to realize that the lost talent is your favorite. When your brain can't judge, the pain in your chest will tell you.

I once heard that when you can't have it, the only thing you can do is not to forget it. Ouyang Feng eventually burned down the hut in the desert and returned to white camel mountain to become a hegemon, known as Xidu.