What story did Chuxiang tell?

The First Furnace Incense tells the story that Ge Weilong, a female student, was used by his aunt, Mrs. Liang, and skillfully launched a love tug-of-war with playboy.

Ge (Sandra), a Shanghai girl, goes to Hong Kong to study and takes refuge in her aunt Mrs. Liang (Faye Yu). Ge Weilong was used by Mrs. Liang as bait to attract men, and gradually became obsessed with money, and later he was attracted by playboy Joe (Eddie Peng Yuyan Yuyan). In order to continue to live a luxurious upper-class life, he sold his soul and tried his best to marry Joe, eventually becoming a tool for his aunt Mrs. Liang and Joe to collect money. Finally, when Ge Weilong lost his use value, he was mercilessly abandoned by Joe.

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The First Furnace Incense really lost all the advantages of Zhang Ailing's novels. Although the film looks so faithful to the original, the dialogue is basically copied as it is. Because there are a lot of psychological descriptions, scenery descriptions and subtle metaphors in the novel, it is really difficult to translate with images, but this is also the true taste of Zhang Ailing's novels.

They respectively reflect Zhang Ailing's penetrating power to people's minds, her attitude of overlooking life from a strategically advantageous position, and her ability to express it with the simplest and most incisive images. This is the part that really needs to be re-created, but in this movie, none of this exists. The film is neither a cool film that meets the needs of simple viewing, nor a heavy work that can make people feel a certain mood.