On July 24, 2014, Han Han's "We Will Never See You Again" was released. That year, I was 19 years old, during the summer vacation of my freshman year.
On August 16, 2020, this movie was opened again. This year, I am 25 years old and have been employed for one month.
The opportunity to return to movies was during the completion report of the new employee orientation training. As a planner, I added a line from the movie to the last paragraph of the report: "Be sure to use a little more force and say one more word when saying goodbye. , maybe it will be the last line; if you look at it one more time, it might be the last one." Later, I mentioned it to someone, and my friend said that it had been so long ago that he could no longer remember that this line appeared in the movie. Where is it? By the way, everyone who has watched this movie has already become aware of it.
I was a little surprised at first. Pu Shu's "Ordinary Road" seemed to be a new song in my mind, and Deng Ziqi's masterpieces seemed to still be stuck in "Bubble" and "Unexpectedly". The memory seemed to be slowly and imperceptibly torn apart by time, and a twisted crack was torn apart. I didn't know at which point it started, but it slowly stopped in place.
In short, let’s not talk about movies today.
Watching it this time, I tried to find more details. Looking back with the current information and perspectives, I discovered many interesting details. For example, Jiang He (Chen Bolin) and Hao Han (Feng Shaofeng) began to fly on the airport runway, facing the roaring plane. This scene reminded me of the ending of Han Han's later "Flying Life". For example, the mentally retarded Hu Sheng, who was thought to be the male protagonist, turned out to be a racing driver and later appeared in "Riding the Wind and Waves". For example, I discovered that everything in this movie turned out to be beautified autobiographical stories written by Jiang He. For example, Haohan, who has never been able to find a serious job and make no money, casually pushed an annoying old man in a wheelchair to a slot machine in the billiard hall, threw a coin and let the old man play by himself, and the jackpot game could be heard in the background. The sound of coins jingling.
"We will meet each other indefinitely", everyone will meet each other indefinitely.
Haohan and others blew up their ancestral home on Dongji Island and began a long journey from the east to the west, with the goal of sending Jiang He to teach in the west of the country. The first destination is to find Haohan's childhood sweetheart, an extra girl who is filming in the film and television city. When we were leaving, she said that if she had a bad time, she could come back to her. But if you live a good life, she said with a smile, if you live a good life, you won't think of her again. After the separation, her next drama was about the Japanese army shooting students. There was a gunshot, and she fell to the ground skillfully. I think of Yin Tianchou in "The King of Comedy" who reads "The Actor's Self-cultivation" all day long. In fact, I am an actor. The little people are as humble as dust and fall to the ground in order to make a living, but they are closer to the dreams in their hearts.
Jiang He met Xian Rentiao, but in a very stupid and naive way, he secretly fell in love with the female liar Su Mi. When saying goodbye at the gas station, the female liar said in sign language to her mute brother: I seem to have fallen in love with him. But in the end, he was pulled back to the car by his relatives and continued his life of deception. She said, I have listened to a lot of great truths, but I still can’t live a good life. She said, I am pregnant and I need money to give birth abroad. She said, I still have many stories I want to tell you, but I don’t have the chance. Jiang He tried hard to save the only way to contact the female liar - the small card in the hotel that was not authentic or fake, but was later stolen. After all, there will be no future meeting.
Haohan has been a female friend who has been exchanging letters with her since childhood. He has been attracted to her for a long time and is ready to take advantage of the opportunity of sending Jiang He to join the job to express his feelings to her. But the truth is that she is his father's illegitimate daughter. Haohan's father pretended to die in an accident at sea, but in fact he returned to her mother to compensate them. The exchange of letters was the result of his and her identical father wanting to know Haohan's living situation. Before leaving, she said, you have all my contact information, so feel free to go. But Haohan, whose dreams and cognition have been shattered, will definitely not look for her again. Jiang He, who didn't know the truth, asked him what happened with her in the car. Haohan smiled and said it was nothing. A light sentence is nothing, but I know how heavy it is inside. After all, there will be no future meeting.
The last person I met was Alu, a motorcycle rider whose motorcycle was stolen. Lu Yao knows that the horse power is insufficient, and as time goes by, he sees that people's hearts are not as old as they used to be. When Haohan laughed at him, he said that he rode for his dream, while others rode for life. He would stand on a hillside and shout that his idol was a satellite and his name was Voyager 2. He would print his dead wife on his motorcycle helmet and keep going.
But he was a despicable villain. After defrauding Jiang He's trust, he stole their car. This is probably the case with people. It is difficult for us to define whether a person is a bad person or a good person. Evil people will also have lofty dreams, such as the unscrupulous hero Blackbeard in "One Piece"; good people will also have to face evil choices, such as the cruise problem presented to Batman by the Joker. Are you willing to sacrifice some people in exchange for more lives? Go down. Therefore, a sentence from the Immortal Dance chapter runs through the whole play: Children only distinguish between right and wrong, adults only talk about pros and cons. A Lu drove away in a hurry, getting further and further away. After all, there will be no future meeting.
Finally, the river can reach its destination by climbing over a hillside. Haohan, who lost his car, no longer had any worries and decided to go in the opposite direction to find a new job and life. From beginning to end, Haohan emphasized that he traveled all over the country and had connections and friends everywhere. In the end, even Alaska, whom he and Jiang He raised together, took the initiative to follow Jiang He and left, leaving his lonely figure behind. In life, we always feel that there are so many people around us, smiling politely in front of them. In fact, loneliness is an eternal and inevitable proposition on this road of life.
During the journey, Jiang He told Haohan that he would write this journey into a short book, and at the end he would write what he wanted to say to Sumi. At the end, Jiang He has become a best-selling author many years later and returns to his hometown. On the boat landing on the island, Sumi falls asleep on his shoulder. This seems to be the only person who will never see him again.
Han Han gave an open ending, and I have never read other people’s movie reviews. But I think this is actually the beautified ending of Jiang He's novel. After all, at the beginning of the movie, the lost Hu Sheng said that this drama is the novel of Jiang He that he is reading. How much Jiang He hoped to spend this life with Su Mi, but he could only write it down in words and illusions. People always feel that the people who gather around them for some reason at a certain period of time will stay with them forever. But in fact, most of them are just passers-by. The reason why we call them passers-by is because goodbye is true and we will never see each other again, and reunion is true and we will never meet again. Everyone will understand the truth, but the most helpless thing is that people think they can reverse the encounter that has ended. Thinking that you are special, thinking that you and I are special. Many times when we say goodbye, we smile rather than say goodbye, because we always feel in our hearts that we will see each other next time. In fact, what I didn’t know was that it would be the last time we met.
From then on, the mountains and rivers never met again.
Keep following in the footsteps of another person, using letters, chats, and visits to delay this irreversible alienation. In fact, everyone knows that two intersecting lines will no longer intersect after a brief encounter. But I still want to use all my strength to make my own line bend and twist, to change the trajectory that is completely opposite to the other line.
Can it be changed? Can't it be changed?
There is no way, who makes that line very important in my heart.
"See You Again" is a road movie with a strong style, full of black humor and famous aphorisms. The rough and unkempt male protagonists, the dilapidated and depressed towns along the road, and the ordinary but persistent lives of the people at the bottom run through the movie. It is said that Han Han is good at photographing actresses. I agree with this point. Wang Luodan and Yuan Quan in "The End of Time" and Zhao Liying in "Riding the Wind and Waves" are both extremely stunning in appearance and full of charm in their characters. By the way, there is another little Easter egg: in these two movies, the shop where Yuan Quan and Feng Shaofeng stood in front of them when they said goodbye in "Later" is the same shop where Zhao Liying and Deng Chao stood in "Ride" when they were talking. Well, it fits Han Han’s melancholic character very well. Han Han wanted to talk a lot in his debut film, wanted to establish his shooting style, and wanted to incorporate the core and words from his literary works into the script as much as possible. It turns out that he did it, but not that well, but the next few movies got better and better. Especially when I think about the "Little Times" series launched by my lifelong enemy Guo Jingming in the year of "The Future", I think the movie "The Future" is actually okay.
So are you really getting old? At this age, when we talk about youth, dreams, etc., we are beginning to be called "greasy"; listening to "Garden Party" still feels very summery, and people will jokingly call me "I don't deserve it" "(laugh). After watching the movie, the image that stuck in my mind was that of Chung Han-liang jumping onto a hillside and shouting under the stars that he was Voyager 2.
In the movie, time has eroded his face and his face is covered with frost, and unfortunately the only lover who understands him dies. But he is still full of fighting spirit and passion. I don't care whether he was pretending or real, at least at that moment he showed his true feelings.
In the movie, everyone seems to be doing something meaningless. Jiang He, who had never traveled far, was assigned to be a geography teacher in the far west of China; Hao Han didn't know what to do; the extras sister spent all day filming stand-ins and passers-by without lines; the female liar worked day after day to defraud money. Perform a fairy dance. But most people in this world are actually screws, doing repetitive and meaningless things. As Shen Jiayi said in "Those Years", there are many things in life that are in vain, but we still have to experience them.
So, so, so, stay young forever and always have tears in your eyes. Whether you are 25, 35 or 55 years old, it doesn’t stop you from watching the movies you loved in college and high school, it doesn’t stop you from still being proud of your childhood idols, it doesn’t stop you from liking toys, games, and anime. It prevents you from chasing the waves. Love life and experience all the things you want to experience. It never stops. I like things that are messy and meaningless, but I just fucking like it. Because this is your own life. There is no need for everyone to understand, it is enough if one special person understands.
Be sure to be more forceful when saying goodbye. One more word may be the last one; one more look may be the last one.
But I really hope that this is not the last sentence or the last look. It’s a long road, but we’ll see you soon.