What the hell is Chongqing Forest talking about?

Judging from the content of the film, the story of Chongqing Forest is actually very simple, that is, the two most common love stories, but if the style, thought, composition and narrative style of this film are combined, it is actually a dramatic film full of profound meanings.

Although Chongqing forest has the word Chongqing, the story itself has little to do with Chongqing. Probably because the place where director Wong Kar-wai lived when he first immigrated to Hong Kong was called "chungking mansions", which is also the place where the story happened. Chongqing Forest tells two seemingly unrelated but inextricably linked love stories. In the first story, the "233 police officer" suffering from lovelorn syndrome fell in love with the "female killer" who was supposed to be just a dew love affair, but their story ended here; In the second story, miss fast food restaurant secretly loves the police officer who often comes to eat. She stole his letters, stole his house keys, stole his room, and then slowly stole his heart.

These are two stories that look so similar but so different-the protagonists of both stories are policemen, and both stories are related to chungking mansions. The characters of the two stories have played the background wall that passed by each other in each other's stories, and both stories are love stories; But a story is the end, but a story is the beginning. The ways and reasons of love are so different. Perhaps this is what the story of Chongqing forest wants to express. No love story can be different, and no love story can be completely copied.

In fact, Chongqing Forest is not only irrelevant to Chongqing, but also irrelevant to Chongqing. It expresses the little people living in this diamond and cement forest and their insignificant love stories. Just like in the movies, Wong Kar-wai's handling of characters' names has faded into a group meaning, which is not only reflected in the names of characters such as "Police xx", "Waitress" and "Black Boy", but also the costumes of the characters in the play are all close to the group. This way of shooting that downplays the personal image of the characters is also the central idea expressed in the story told in this film, that is, the human desire and emotional support in the urban forest. Therefore, Chongqing Forest is not so much a love movie as a drama that uses the shell of love to describe the love of urbanites.

Many people say that "Chongqing Forest" is a must-see movie for petty bourgeoisie, because it is one of the movies with the most classic lines in China film industry, and every classic line it shoots is the kind that can attract many people today. Even the classic "Ten Thousand Years" in Stephen Chow's A Chinese Odyssey was inspired here.

However, if we only regard Chongqing forest as a literary film or a simple romantic film, it is actually a depreciation of Chongqing forest. Because this film not only has the connotation far beyond other ordinary love movies, but also has the film aesthetics and lens language technology with cross-era significance. It is no exaggeration to say that this is a textbook-like film, not to mention that the lines, stories and structures in the film are actually just the plus points of this film.

In fact, it doesn't matter if you don't understand Chongqing forest. Most viewers who don't know the story of Chongqing forest have experienced too many hardships and sorrows in life and have not yet become a member of ordinary people. To some extent, it is a kind of luck not to understand this story.