What role does Takeshi Kaneshiro play in the film Chongqing Forest?

Chongqing express

English title: Chongqing forest

Director: Wong Kar-wai

Photography: Liu Weiqiang, Du Kefeng

Actor: Brigitte Lin Takeshi Kaneshiro Tony Leung Chiu Wai Wang Jingwen Zhou Jialing

Chongqing express

"Chongqing Forest" is not in Chongqing, nor is it a forest. Chongqing Forest is a hotel, which is the residence of Wong Kar-wai when he first immigrated to Hong Kong-Chongqing Hotel.

The first story: the lovelorn and boring policeman 223 fell in love with a female killer wearing a golden wig. The mysterious blonde used several Indians to transport drugs, and the Indians cheated her. After killing the Indian, she ran away and met a lovelorn plainclothes detective in a bar. The blonde was tired and fell asleep in chungking mansions, and 223 watched her leave in the early morning. Policeman 223 runs away every time he is lovelorn. When he was about to leave in the rain, the pager received a birthday wish from the blonde.

The second story: The girl who works in a fast food restaurant has a crush on the policeman who comes to buy snacks every night. Police 663 buys chef's salad for his girlfriend in the "midnight express" fast food restaurant every day, and later buys her fried fish steak for a change. His girlfriend suggested that she change her taste. The girl in the fast food restaurant opened the letter left by the policeman's girlfriend in the fast food restaurant and got the key to the policeman's house. Later, she often secretly went to his house to clean and decorate, just like sleepwalking. One day, I was caught by a policeman. That night, 663 asked her to meet in a California bar. The girl went to real California and left him a letter. 663 never knew the place agreed in the letter. A year later, the girl came back to her cousin's fast food restaurant. 663 is already the owner of this shop. The girl is wearing a stewardess uniform with a new boarding pass of 663 written on it.

● The ashes of time

Ashes of Time tells n intertwined stories, and Chongqing Forest consists of two basically unrelated stories. The relationship between the two stories is like Takeshi Kaneshiro and Wang Jingwen passing by, infinitely close, but not intersecting, "only 0.0 1 cm away".

Time has a precise definition. "1 May 199410: 00" is the moment that makes Takeshi Kaneshiro (Alarm No.223) feel heart palpitations, because he believes that day (his birthday) will be the "expiration date" of love failure. For a whole month from April Fool's Day, he fell into a ritual waiting: he bought a can of canned fruit that expired in May 1 day every day.

Brigitte Lin is also waiting for this day, but she is not passively waiting, but looking for a target in the maze of chungking mansions like a wild animal. She is a strong person in the urban forest, a modern animal with no lust but survival. The secret of urban jungle survival is not a simple mind, but a heavy disguise: wigs, sunglasses and raincoats, which are never enough to cope with day and night, rainy days and sunny days.

When loneliness reaches the depths, loneliness becomes armor.

● On the one hand, the inevitability of time is awesome (worship the "validity period" of countdown); On the other hand, the chance of time always ambushes the world at random for no reason: "I fell in love with this woman after 56 hours" and "she fell in love with another person after 7 hours". The orbits of all living things in urban galaxies will inevitably intersect, producing sparks. "Chongqing Forest" is just two nebulae of lonely people at midnight. The time coordinate is midnight, and the spatial coordinate is the English topic "Chongqing Express"-"Midnight Express" in Lan Kwai Fong fast food restaurant, chungking mansions, Tsim Sha Tsui.

Birthday is coming, and it is also the time when love fails. The two lone stars met at midnight and parted ways after dawn. In this passage of chungking mansions, the style is cold. In contrast, the story of Midnight Express is simply a light comedy. The singing of "California Dream" was deafening, and Wang Jingwen danced in the California Dream. She looks forward to wandering like the characters in The True Story of Teddy Boy, but her attitude is hippie. It doesn't matter: "Go or not." Her date with Tony Leung Chiu Wai (Policeman 663) turned out to be a far cry from each other: Liang went to the "California" bar in Lan Kwai Fong as promised, and in the stormy weather in Hong Kong, she couldn't help but imagine "whether another California is sunny or not", and finally followed the wings of her dream and flew to California on the other side of the ocean. A year later, Liang got Wang's promise-a "boarding pass" similar to a blank check, but his destination was not clear.

A year later, the tired birds in Wang Jingwen flew back. In her words, "California, nothing special." At that time, Tony Leung Chiu Wai had entered the Midnight Express. That's where they met by chance, but he is waiting for the inevitable ending here. Hong Kong in 1994 is different from Hong Kong in 1990. The "due date" is closer, but people gradually learn to adapt to and take care of themselves, just like Tony Leung Chiu Wai who is lovelorn. Talking with towels and soap is also a way to relieve loneliness. We should not blindly curse the materialization of modern society, but should explore human nature in the materialistic society.

Chongqing Forest is a hippie-style casual humorous sketch, which is in contrast with the baroque tragedy Ashes of Time. In a word, the styles of Wong Kar-wai and Du Kefeng are typical "kaleidoscope, MTV and postmodernism".