Chen Kexin made Twelve Nights, and whether intentionally or unintentionally, he made several firsts. It was my first time as a producer, and it was also my first time as a director.
Oi Wah Lam, the director, originally graduated from the Faculty of Arts of Hong Kong University, and later worked in many different jobs, but none of them made her very satisfied. So, she chose to go to the United States to study film courses, and began to write plays when she came back. The screenplay she participated in is naturally to cater to what kind of commercial movies the Hong Kong market is. Only Twelve Nights can be said to be a very pure art film. The script was written by director Ai Hualin himself.
Personally, I think: a very obscene film is also a neglected good film.
The first night of love is like a serious illness. It will be fine after that.
The first night was Cecilia Cheung's birthday party. There are countless faces in the dim light. I can't tell which one is Lu Qiaoyin, which one is Chingmy Yau and which one is Zhang Shenyue. There is also an eccentric charlatan named Cheese Mushroom. In fact, these are not important, they are just a singing and dancing drama, which sets off the hero and heroine.
The director told a story about love in detail, and described a story that "she" pursued love for more than a year from a female perspective. It took 12 nights to explain the 12 ups and downs of the relationship between the hero and heroine.
/kloc-within 0/year, a young man and a young woman met and fell in love, and began to have differences in the relationship between men and women, separating, reuniting and breaking up. 12 emotional relationship stories are connected in series to show the development process of a relationship.
12 night to sum up a love, talk about the sentient beings in contemporary love, and the great love story is just that.
The next night, only people in love thought that their meeting was not accidental.
The next night, Cecilia Cheung said to Eason Chan, first of all, if Clara hadn't asked you to take me home that night and didn't think of looking for you to pretend to be my boyfriend in the car, these things wouldn't have happened. Coincidentally, if Clara hadn't exposed Johnny that night, and you hadn't broken up with her before, she wouldn't have let you take me home. If you hadn't sent me home, I wouldn't have seen you in the rearview mirror. If I can't see you, I won't take you to see Johnny. If I hadn't seen Johnny, I wouldn't cry, I wouldn't break up, and so many things wouldn't have happened, so I think everything was predestined.
The director said her idea was simple. Everything in the world has a process from prosperity to decline, and so does love and marriage. She just wants to show this process in a classic way through a movie. "Twelve Nights" is about how marriage broke down at first, reunited after separation, and then separated. Finally, each partner cheated each other and came together again to tell them in detail. In the process, she integrated them into Twelve Nights. All the plots are not the usual movie clips, but there is a feeling of deja vu in her life. This is a subtle but convincing fragment.
Every relationship can't escape the life of chapter 12, no matter how long and how deep you love it.
Beware of people who fall in love on the third night, because they are all crazy.
On the third night, Eason Chan, who is busy with work, often snickers, looks silly and falls in love. Talk on the phone until three o'clock in the morning, and have a meeting later. Even if the car breaks down, I will walk there by myself, even if it is dawn. Singing Italian opera loudly all the way. I wonder why people in the early days of love are always eager to light all their enthusiasm, just like fireworks that can only be lit once. After a brief dazzling, love will end hastily. But I always don't understand this truth when I am in love.
Two people eat together, go shopping together, go home together and live together; Use the same towel, use the same cup, drink the same glass of water and go to the same bed; Eat together, go shopping together, cross the road together, talk nonsense together and go home together; Use the same toilet and do the same action; Talked together for another afternoon; Take a nap together, study each other's five senses together, think about the future together, chat together, think about what happened before, and think about what happened afterwards. And director Ai Hualin himself, with a sly smile, reminds you, "Be careful of those who are in love, because they are all crazy!"
What is good love? What will good love become in life?
On the fourth night, because I was madly in love, I could come to see you with breakfast.
On the fourth night and the fifth night, after getting along for too long, love has stripped off its original good impression, and quarrels began to penetrate everywhere. In fact, they are trivial matters, and they are also typical quarrels between men and women. Quarrel inexplicably, and finally make up inexplicably. In such a hurry that people have no time to think about what the problem is and how to solve it in the future. Alas! Falling in love is always simple, but getting along is too difficult.
Twelve Nights had a story, but it can't be told as a story. The hero and heroine of this film are Eason Chan and Cecilia Cheung respectively. In the film, they all have names, but that name seems to be ignored and can usually be replaced by him and her.
Twelve Nights describes a "she" on the road of love. He was lovelorn, wrapped in pain, and he and she met unexpectedly, so they fell in love. This beginning is very common and plain, but it has profound implications. It seems to indicate the end of one love cycle and the beginning of another.
They loved each other and had a warm and sweet time. "She" thought that her years of searching had finally come to fruition, and she was full of longing for her feelings. Who knows that the "she" she imagined in her heart is not the "he" she hoped in her heart, and two people are inseparable.
Who said that true love can settle things between men and women? She loved him, but he had no feelings, so he ran away. Over and over again, the original feelings are lost in this repetition, and what can be sustained in the future is probably no longer feelings, but a feeling that has long since passed away. So, being together means endless quarrels, quarreling with each other for a small problem. Similar scenes are always repeated.
However, after be lovelorn, the attractive man/woman in front of him, seems to be an ordinary person passing by without any love or hate. On the contrary, it's a little queasy, and it's still the same after walking around, which is ridiculous.
So, if you are sick, just bear it. When you get over it, it will be fine. If you get well, you will get sick again and come back again.
On the fifth night, men's dignity was placed on women and other men.
On the sixth night, a woman's dignity is on her face.
On the sixth night, she will accompany him to a very important dinner. He is very picky about her clothes. She tried again and again. He repeatedly commented, "Don't you think it's like a circus?" "Like a nightclub lady." "Your hairstyle is not good-looking, and your face is too big." "You don't look good in a short skirt, your calves are too thick." Finally, she got angry and threw something at her. "In the past, you said that everything I wear looks good. Now you say that my calves are thick and you fart!" From this, I will smile. It was so good! It's a pity that flowers don't bloom for a hundred days.
However, she lowered herself and dressed herself as he asked. There is some silence between words. "What do you like about me? If I were not like this, would you be with me? If you do, I like you, too. I still like you even if you have nothing. " The man gave a perfunctory smile.
When the two are still in the ambiguous stage, the boy seems to be the one who has fallen faster, or silly infatuation is waiting for you, or chasing after you. Although he has worked hard at work or studied at school all day, he can still go on a date in the evening with great interest, just like the hero in the play. Even if the heroine refuses and the car has a flat tire, he can still overcome all difficulties and rush downstairs to the heroine's house with breakfast just to see her.
This behavior is really crazy and sweet. Even if the girl scolds her with nervousness, she still can't help being diligent and deeply feels that she is really infatuated with herself! Although flattered, I can't help but worry that all this is going too fast, so I can't help but start to be a little reserved in my behavior. Don't look for me too often. I also have my own things, so I don't necessarily have time to date ... When I finally become a "formal" boyfriend and girlfriend, I won't chase after it until I fight with myself. It's even more well-founded, surpassing others. If I don't care, I will cheat others. If I don't care, you must apologize. Most of them are willing to bow their heads and apologize, but they are somewhat unhappy. These unhappiness are either deliberately suppressed or not realized at all, so girls naturally have no way of knowing their arrogance, which has faintly shaken the foundation of their relationship.
The deeper the relationship, the better the two sides know each other, and they begin to criticize each other's clothing taste, words and deeds, and even friends. Quarrel is inevitable, but quarreling too much really hurts feelings.
In fact, accepting each other's feelings from the beginning means accepting his or her external image and internal connotation. In that case, why force the other party to make a big change? Around a strange circle.
On the seventh night, you are happy and I am happy?
On the seventh night, the more persistent you are, the more annoying you are. She called, and he said he was working overtime. We kept silent on the phone. She called to wait for him to get off work, but he kept waiting for her not to call. So deadlocked. A person, very lonely, she said she wanted to see him work, and his voice was very cold. She walked back and forth in the subway station many times, hesitating whether to go or not. Finally decided to go home, and then took the empty subway. He breathed a sigh of relief and got up and went home.
As a woman, she loves it too much to know what to do. The great power of love keeps her running, and the strong inertia keeps her walking. But he stopped, not because he didn't love, but because he couldn't bear her so much love. Such a heavy love really made him unbearable. Sometimes, being loved is also a burden, a kind of pressure that is hard to refuse. Maybe if you love him less, he will feel more comfortable.
He said to her, "Your calves are too thick to look good in a short skirt."
She said, "You used to say that everything looks good on me, but now I'm not good at anything."
She asked him, "Do you love me?"
He didn't dare to answer, but said, "I'm busy."
Or he said, "I thought you had a personality."
She immediately retorted, "So I have no personality now?"
After breaking up, they still cared about each other, so they came together again and reunited.
When she finally had the courage to tell him the pain of parting and wanted to get back together with him, he fell asleep.
This deeply hurt her, and she began to realize that this man might not be so suitable for herself.
Later, he gradually understood that he decided to say "I love you" to her and also decided to take her out for a year's holiday. However, she was completely desperate and ready to leave him.
On the last night, on the way to see him, she suddenly changed her mind and decided to turn around and leave. He looked for her all over the street. On the other side of the road, she glanced at him in a hurry, but went in the opposite direction. At this time, she met another man and printed a subtitle on the screen: "First night." Another cycle begins, an extremely cruel cycle.
Watching Twelve Nights is like reading your own story. Almost all these things happen to you. There is no question of principle, but it is trivial. This may be life, life and marriage.
Eighth Night Woman: Why don't you appreciate everything I've done for you? Man: I didn't ask you to do so much for me.
On the eighth night, she managed to retrieve the repaired computer for him and sent it over. He sent her home coldly. She is very wronged: in a woman's world, a man is the only sky above her head. It's a little cold. For her, the day is already gray.
"Why do you never appreciate everything I do?" She resented.
"I didn't ask you to do so many things. Why do you always have to do so many things? " He was angry, too.
"Because I love you!" "Hurting people is not like this." "The better I am to you, the more you push your luck? Are you satisfied that I don't care about you? " "I really don't understand." "I don't understand either." So these two confused people impulsively decided to break up.
There is a famous saying of Eason Chan in the movie: Do you think you will still like a person after you know him very well?
After they broke up for the first time, Cecilia Cheung became sadder and uglier. She has been fantasizing that Eason Chan will come to see him again. She even thought that Eason Chan's breakup was just to scare her. She began to cry to her friends constantly, making herself haggard and messy, and looked poor and sad when she was lovelorn. Finally, she went to London with pain, but she still missed him in the foreign campus where she had stayed in Eason Chan.
After Cecilia Cheung came back from London, her dress became noble and solemn. But she found Eason Chan again and told him that she still thought how much he loved him after breaking up-but Eason Chan sitting opposite didn't listen to this at all, and he fell asleep. But soon they got back together enthusiastically. It's hard for you to say why, but it seems clear at a glance.
Twelve nights, a cycle of love, and some plots in the movie have made our hearts sad, and each of us has played a role.
Kuya's first friend: Why do you think you are useless when he doesn't like you?
The first time Kuya, she couldn't bear to part with him and couldn't stop. Tears welled up anytime and anywhere, and that person planted a continuous acacia in her heart. She is humble and stubbornly in love with the pain he left her. She began to talk to people everywhere like Sister Xianglin, but she didn't feel tired of being forced to listen. She hoped that he would call again, but she couldn't wait for his call. She tried to listen to his voice. She took the old road and went to the original cinema, hoping to meet him again, but in the end she found nothing. A hopeless obsession.
A scar, a darkness.
She left.
Twelfth Night, one of Shakespeare's four famous comedies, has a happy ending, and everyone has found their own happiness and true love. However, the separation and misunderstanding interspersed in the play, as well as the bitterness of not getting love and all kinds of tortuous plots, are also the basis for making simple words attractive.
"If a person thinks too much, he will lose interest in being a man." Why don't we borrow Shakespeare's advice and accept failure, tears and sighs? Life is like this.
On the tenth night, I saw my former lover and felt that I couldn't have liked it. I didn't know why I blamed each other when I broke up, thinking that others were not good to me and sorry for myself. Later, I learned that I was immature. When we first broke up, I hated you! I think, I am so kind to you, you have no reason not to want me, so you quarreled and said things you shouldn't have said. I just want you to be as sad as I am, which is actually immature. ...
On the tenth night, it was probably a long time. She went abroad and came back. She asked him to meet in the cafe and exchanged a few pleasantries. Cecilia Cheung had a long monologue, "After I left you, I hated you very much for a while and hated your guts;" I even think that I am so good to you that you have no reason not to want me; I like you very much. You have no reason to do this to me. But unexpectedly, it turned out that it was none of anyone's business at all. It's all because I'm immature. Then I went to England, and I wanted to cry when I got off the plane, because I remember you said you would definitely take your girlfriend to see a university professor, and then you asked when we would go. Now I am here, but I am alone. I got off at the railway station and went to your old university. Suddenly I feel that you are far away, and I am afraid. How did you become so strange? If I don't even feel this way, then I really have nothing. On the third day, I went to your university again and sat in the dining hall. I thought you were here. Then I cried. Am I not good enough? I think it's over. Suddenly all the feelings came back, just like moving out after graduating from college four years ago. Everything has just begun. Suddenly, my heart stopped hurting, I was no longer unhappy, and my heart seemed to come back. I think I can start over. I thought about looking for you and wrote you many letters, but I didn't send them, because I told myself that if I wanted to change my mind, I wouldn't allow myself to do so. Because I can't let others hurt me like this anymore. I told others that I came to you to tell you that I am no longer nervous about you; She said that if you are not nervous, you don't have to look for it at all. I know, so I don't lie to myself anymore, so what I want to say is that I really like you, and then I'm sad. Then, I hope that one day, my injury will be healed and I can start over. I have been waiting for this day, hoping to come soon, and this day has finally come. " After this affectionate conversation, the scene where Cecilia Cheung has been telling stories is switched to Eason Chan who is already asleep. It's ironic Who is more serious about love, man or woman? There's no need to say it.
The idea of Twelve Nights comes from ingmar bergman's Marriage Scene. There are only five or six scenes (long and short versions) in the play, which tell how a marriage broke down from the beginning, to the reunion and separation of two people, and finally to the derailment of each other's partners. It's very delicate.
It is different from other scripts with similar plots, because the scenes it appears are very subtle fragments of life. Although subtle, it can reflect the relationship between two people and the ruthless struggle in the relationship between the two sexes. I like this drama very much, so when I conceive a love story, I want to use this method to turn life fragments into the front page of the whole drama and piece together some non-dynamic bridges and scenes into a story.
The reason why 12 night is adopted is only because Shakespeare's famous plays have the same name. Because it is also about love, it is used, with no special intention. The whole story lasted for a year. A pair of lovers met, fell in love, broke up, got back together and broke up again. What happened in the play is all some ordinary but representative trivial matters. It's difficult to create this story, because I'm afraid the audience will get bored, but after the work is finished, I don't think it's an interesting attempt, and I feel good.
12 nights, 12 nights passed by us, and everyone seemed calm. They come and go leisurely, no different, just breathing ups and downs. ...
On the eleventh night, the old love rekindled.
On the eleventh night, everything seemed to be sunny after the rain. Two people get back together. This seems sweeter than love. Can two people really be happy together?
Cecilia Cheung in the play is a typical woman in modern society: no matter how successful her career is, she always puts love in a very important position, but society, culture, education and environment have always made women play a charitable role in her emotional life, and the pursuit of perfect emotional results is often a tragedy.
Maybe everyone will have a similar experience. 12 nights is enough to sum up a love.
I read a passage in the newspaper, which is worth reading carefully, to the effect that:
Any love is beautiful at the beginning. After getting along for a period of time, the novelty between two people gradually disappears, and the dull passion is erased little by little, often replaced by misunderstanding and complaint, boredom and boredom.
Over time, the dust is getting thicker and thicker.
A person who loves you doesn't have to love you all; If you love someone, you don't have to accept everything. There is no perfect couple in the world, let alone a perfect relationship. Whether it is appropriate for everyone to be together requires both parties to pay and sacrifice and create together.
Keep love fresh. Trivial and sweet.
The twelfth night was still wrong.
On the twelfth night, the night wind blew and floated in the black sky. Cecilia Cheung suddenly found that breaking up with her boyfriend Zheng Zhongji was a complete misunderstanding. She was at a loss. Is the beginning and existence of her love with Eason Chan also a misunderstanding? The heat of love suddenly decreased and the low tide hit. Burnout comes faster than love at first. However, this time it is not called breaking up, it is called awakening. She followed him quietly, watching him anxiously looking for himself everywhere in the street, watching him toss and turn and leave anxiously. The distance from the camera can also measure her confusion and desolation. Suddenly, that's it. I don't love it anymore Love is either you retreat or I retreat, cleverly grasping the key of primary and secondary, and the love sketch wants a fresh and happy ending. So that night, while avoiding Eason Chan, Cecilia Cheung met Nicholas Tse. The next paragraphs of "Night 12" and "Night 1" begin again with the rise of subtitles.
The twelfth night is over, and the new first night begins again. In and out of the play, it's all the same twists and turns.