Farewell My Concubine
This is a model of elegance and vulgarity in Chinese cinema, and is the most successful masterpiece of cross-strait filmmakers who have collaborated to make a film that won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Adapted from the original novel by Hong Kong author Li Bihua, it describes Cheng Dieyi, who was sold to a Beijing opera troupe to learn how to sing in a blue dress, and is confused about his identity as a man or a woman. His senior brother, Duan Xiaolou, is very close to him, and the two of them become famous for co-starring in "Farewell My Concubine". Unexpectedly, Xiaolou marries the prostitute Juxian first, and after the brothers betray each other during the Cultural Revolution, Dieyi feels lost in his lifelong pursuit of art, and finally cuts his own throat on stage while rehearsing his first play with Xiaolou again. The film is a magnificent, exquisitely crafted tale of two actresses' tragedy and joy mixed with a half-century of Chinese historical development, with an epic pattern and delicate male bonding, and director Chen Kaige has done an excellent job, as have Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li and Ge You.
Falling in Love Through Time
Kate McKay, the head of a large company in New York, is a young and talented woman with good taste, who can handle her career with ease and knows how to enjoy her life, making her an outstanding example of a successful woman in the 21st century. Leopold, the third generation of Albany County's 19th-century Duke of Albany, is a handsome man with a slightly rude nature and a manly demeanor that has made him a famous "bachelor" in the area.
While the time difference of more than 100 years, but the fate of this thing is very dramatic, a chance, Leopold opened a time tunnel, and the body through the tunnel landed in more than 100 years after the 21st century, the time change and the environment of the unfamiliar to the 19th century living in the big man confused, just at this time, he met in the streets, Kate. Kate, a kind-hearted woman, tries her best to comfort this strange man who has fallen from the sky, and after a series of chaotic events, love develops between the two.
But because of the different times, their feelings face a variety of problems, Kate's ex-boyfriend Stuart jumped out to prevent them from falling in love, but found that this enemy is not someone else, it is his own grandfather Lord ...... At the same time, learned of the matter of time scientists are doing their best to find ways to Leopold to be The two of them, no matter who to give up everything in the past to adapt to each other's life seems to be unfair, and the only thing that can link them together is the love in each other's hearts, how will they face this fate across a hundred years? What will happen to their love?
NOTTING HILL
William Secker (Hugh Grant) lives in Notting Hill, west London, divorced, with a strangely unkempt roommate, Spike (Rice Evans), and a miserably run tourist bookstore in the heart of Notting Hill.
One mundane Wednesday, William is surprised to find that the world's biggest movie star, Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), walks into the store and into his life, and in an ill-advised stroke of serendipity, Hollywood's biggest star turns out to be kissing a London-based bookstore owner, and neither understands why it's happening, but the story begins with William splattering Anna with orange juice. What happens next is every man's dream - William walks through his friend's door with the most famous woman in the world on his arm, and William has a wonderful evening. As they walk side by side through the gardens of Notting Hill and back to the hotel, they find that Anna's boyfriend has flown in from America and William has to escape with a broken heart.
William had a disappointing time, and six months later, in order to escape the nude photo scandal, Anna came back to London to find William, and for a week, Anna lived with William, and the two fell in love again. Can William take this chance to win the heart of the Hollywood superstar? And how will the two of them make choices in light of their different identities? The ending of the movie surprised the world's news media.
"Sleepless in Seattle," aka "Fate of the Furious"
In the '90s, it's surprising how much love is talked about, and the examples around us may change your mind about love. Although the love life depicted in the movie is too perfect, too detached from reality, and seems to be like a myth, the seriousness of love, the fear of sacrifice and persistence in the movie have won the applause of young boys and girls. This time around, the bluntness of Tom Hans and Maggie's attitude towards love is a perfect match for each other. Hans' frankness and Maggie Ryan's lively and lovely character. This time, Tong Hans's frankness and Maggie Ryan's lively and lovely character packaged the movie full of dreamy colors, and its theme also constantly emphasizes the word "fate". Sam is devastated by the loss of his wife and keeps the sorrow buried in his heart. After a long time of torture, he finally decides to leave the sad place where he lives with his son and seeks a new life in Seattle. On Christmas Eve, while Sam is reminiscing about his past as usual, his son suddenly dials a phone number to talk to a radio program, and Sam tells a poignant and touching true love story on the air. Coincidentally, Anne, who is driving along, is listening carefully and has a strange feeling about Sam, the center of the story, whom she has never met, and it makes her reevaluate the love between her and her fiancé. Annie is pulled by Sen all the way, and she finally chooses to travel a thousand miles for someone she doesn't know, and at the same time she is sure of this destined fate. The film's plot adds a lot of dreamy color, extremely beautiful attraction, especially Annie's obsession with destiny, depicted very beautiful, smooth plot with pleasant theme music, coupled with the soft color of the disc itself, giving people a feeling of extreme comfort
"Ruan Lingyu"
In 1991, Guan Jinypeng returned to Shanghai with a large number of staff led by Maggie Cheung and a large number of staff, who wanted to live the Chinese film history of a talented actress, but she was also the only one who had a good time in Shanghai. body and soul of one of the most gifted actors in the history of Chinese cinema.
Ruan Lingyu, the Chinese actress of the 1920s and '30s, committed suicide at the height of her career, leaving behind a suicide note that said, "People's words are fearful. She had been living with Zhang Damin for many years, but when she fell in love with Tang Jisan, Zhang's repeated demands for money made headlines in the tabloid press, leading to Ruan's suicide, a silent defiance of conservatism.
The Naked Heart
The protagonist of this film is an eccentric and extremely sensitive woman who has her own aspirations but can only earn her living by typing. When her boyfriend goes out of town, her affair with an artist puts her life in the limelight, and she is at a loss as to what to do with herself.
"Sweet Honey"
On March 1, 1986, Lai Siu-kun said goodbye to his girlfriend, Xiao-ting, and came to Hong Kong alone from Wuxi. His biggest dream was to bring Xiao-ting here to get married when he had money. Here he met Li Chiao from Guangzhou. The two loners finally became friends, and by chance, they discovered that they both loved Teresa Teng's songs. Until one day, they realize that neither of them is actually the ideal place for them to come to Hong Kong, so they break up, Siu Ting finally becomes Mrs. Lai, and Li Chiao goes with Brother Pao, who works in the triad society.
"Vanilla Sky"
This movie tells a bitter yet romantic story. A man (Tom Cruise) who is good at playing with women has his eye on his best friend's girlfriend (Penelope Cruz) this time. However, this time, he is no longer as successful as before in the love scene, because the next day he coincidentally met with a car accident. It's a premeditated disaster, as his girlfriend (Cameron Diaz), who is unhappy with his behavior and irresponsibility, intentionally crashes her car into a large tree. However, the philandering bachelor miraculously survives, but the accident takes away his handsome face and he becomes ugly. But the God of Fortune always favors him immensely. His best friend's girlfriend still expresses her love for him, and a plastic surgeon helps him to regain his looks. However, the real horrible thing is yet to come, he begins to realize that his fate is no longer under his control ......
The Eraser in My Brain
Cheol-soo works as a laborer in a construction company, he is an illegitimate child, although he has a mother, he has not enjoyed the warmth of a family, and his dream is to become an Architect. Su-jin is the daughter of a rich family and lives a life of fine clothes. Soo-jin has a very bad case of amnesia, and it's not uncommon for her to leave her things and wallet behind when she goes to the convenience store. One day, she leaves her coke and wallet at the store as usual, and immediately turns around to go back to the store to get her things when she remembers. At the moment she entered the store, she saw a man holding a cup of coke, this man was all scruffy, with a jagged beard on his chin and his clothes were a bit shabby, it was obvious at a glance that he was a poor vagabond, Xiu Zhen decided that her coke was stolen by this man, and she couldn't help but be furious and rushed up to snatch it and drank it in one gulp. "Hiccup~Hiccup~" and burped a few times. Xiu Zhen proudly stretched the empty Coke can in front of the homeless man, turned around and walked toward the bus station. Just getting on the bus, Su-jin suddenly remembers again that she hasn't taken her wallet. Retracing her steps back to the convenience store, the small clerk sees Soo-jin and hands her her wallet and Coke. Only then did Soojin realize that she had wronged the person, but the homeless man was long gone.
Soo-jin was finally given a chance to say sorry. Soo-jin's company's showroom needs to be repaired, and the man who comes is none other than the man he met at the convenience store, Chul-soo. But Chul-soo seems oblivious to Soo-jin, only to snatch the freshly purchased Coke from Soo-jin's hand, drink it in one go, and burp it up demonstratively. In the evening, Soo-jin is robbed by a thief on her way home from work, but Cheol-su passes by and runs away. This is the beginning of their relationship.
Over a period of time, they both fall in love with each other. Due to his poor background, Cheol-su did not dare to confess and promise easily. Soo Jin took the initiative and actually proposed to Cheol Soo, "I want to marry you!" "You fool, what do you see in me?" Chul-soo finally accepted Soo-jin's "proposal" and they got married.
After the wedding, Soojin's memories began to fade, as if erased by an eraser. The lunch she prepared for Cheol-su was only two boxes of rice, and after she left the house, she even forgot all about the way home that she had to take every day. In Cheol-su's eyes, this is all part of Soo-jin's "cuteness," but Soo-jin begins to worry. In order to find out the cause of her illness, Soo-jin goes to the hospital for a checkup and receives the devastating news that she has Alzheimer's disease and her brain is dying.
"Daisy"
That summer in Amsterdam, the cold souls of gunpowder and the warmth of the winter sun came to a woman ...... is preparing for a solo exhibition of the painter Hye Young (played by Jeon Ji-hyun) in the square painting portraits, in the strange city of Amsterdam can make her The only thing that sticks is the memory of her first love. A man she's never met before gives Hye-young a beautiful touch. Hye-young sends him the daisies she's painted, and he always writes back with daisy pollen. Suddenly from one day onwards, there is always a man who comes to paint portraits at the same time, and Hye-young's heart begins to change subtly.......
It turns out that the man is an Interpol officer, Jung Woo (played by Lee Sung-jae), who is just intentionally approaching Hye-young for the purpose of carrying out his mission. But during his contact with Hye-young, he was y attracted by her pure and lovely image. He knows that he is not the person Hye-young is waiting for, but he is afraid to tell her the truth for fear of losing Hye-young. And Park Yi (played by Jung Woo Sung) because of the identity of the killer can only silently hide themselves, heartbroken to watch Jung Woo and Hui Ying's love, but Park Yi sad love will not be easy to fold ......
A woman in front of the two men, are shaking for her, and even more surprising is the assassination of Park Yi's assassination mission on the designated Interpol's Jung Woo ......
Character Sketch
Destiny, love, daisies, remembering love is more painful than waiting for it, coming and going in a crowd holding the heart that must wait for someone, like Hye-young ......
Comprehending love too late to be more painful than never meeting love, because did not go to cherish the loss of time that can be together, went to the cliff that can not be turned back to see the flowers that bloomed in the depths of their own vulnerability, like Jung Woo ......
Cannot say that their love to be more painful than confessing love, in the Suppressing their eager hearts in the waiting that can't see the end, they wander around the imaginary courtyard every day, just like Park Yi ......
Chongqing Forest
The mysterious blonde woman (Brigitte Lin) utilizes a couple of Indians to transport drugs, and the Indians cheat her. She kills the class of Indians and escapes, and meets out-of-love plainclothes detective 223 (Takeshi Kaneshiro) in a bar. The blonde woman falls asleep at Chungking Mansions in exhaustion. 223 keeps watch all night and leaves in the early morning, and the CALLER receives a birthday wish from the blonde woman.
Police Officer 663 (Tony Leung) buys a chef's salad for his girlfriend at the Midnight Express every day, and later buys her fish and chips for a change. But his girlfriend says she wants to change her taste too. Faye Wong opened the letter that Leung's girlfriend left at the fast food restaurant for Leung and got the key to Leung's house, then she often went to Leung's house to clean and renovate the place when Leung was not there, as if she was sleepwalking. One day, she was bumped into by Liang. That night, Liang asked Faye Wong to meet him at the California bar. Instead, Faye Wong went to the real California and left him a letter. Liang never knew the location of the date in the letter. A year later, Faye Wong came back to her cousin's fast food restaurant, where Liang was already the owner. Wang Fei, dressed in a stewardess uniform, wrote a new "boarding pass" for Liang.
Love Has a Heavenly Will
Zixi and Xiujing are college students at the same school, and both of them have a crush on Sangmin, a member of the Drama Club. Soo Kyung, who has always been more active and outgoing, asks Jae Hee to write a love letter to Sang Min on her behalf. Jae-hee expresses her feelings for Sang-min unreservedly, but is forced to write Soo-gyung's name on the letters. Sang-min is y touched by the love letters and is gradually attracted to Soo-gyung. Zixi feels uncomfortable and guilty whenever she meets him, but the more she tries to avoid him, the more fate brings them closer together. When Zixi tidies up her room one day, she inadvertently discovers a mysterious box full of memories of her mother's first love. ......
Songs in the Middle of the Night
The story takes place in the 1920s and 1930s, when Song Danping, a singer who is very popular in a small town and who is also fond of the avant-garde and progressive stage operas, falls in love with a young girl, Du Yunyan, who is the father of a young girl, but who has no idea what she is doing. He falls in love with a young girl named Du Yunyan, but Du's father disagrees and forcibly betroths her to a powerful man. Du secretly meets Song Danping in secret, and the powerful man, Mr. Zhao, burns down the theater, but from then on, the theater begins to be haunted by the sound of singing at midnight. Ten years later, the arrival of a small theater troupe uncovers the truth, and a moving love tragedy unfolds.
The movie has worked hard on both the narrative and the setting, layer by layer stripping the horror story to a tragic love affair, and has done an excellent job on the atmosphere, which is important since this is a remake of an old movie. The movie not only grasps the nuances of the dramatic plot, but also inherits and innovates in the stage-play style performances, which gives the movie a modern flavor, and the theme song sung by Leslie Cheung is also very touching in the atmosphere.
In the temperament, Leslie Cheung is very suitable to play this kind of tragedy of the artist, his talent, performance, singing voice are performed with great tension, and even that kind of era's unique destiny color is written on his face. Meanwhile, Wu Qianlian and then mainland newcomer Huang Lei both did well.
"Rouge Buckle"
One night, a cold female ghost comes to a newspaper office begging to place an advertisement for a missing person, and haunts Yuan Yongding. The ghost is Ruhua, a famous whore from Shitang Tsui who fell in love with Chen Zhenbang, the son of a rich family, after she fell in love with a lot of people.
Chen's family does not accept prostitutes as their daughters-in-law and banishes Chun Pong from their home, leaving the two of them struggling in poverty. After the two of them are forced to live in poverty, Yuhua and Zhenbang make a pact with each other in the netherworld, and commit suicide by swallowing opium. After waiting for a long time in the netherworld but failing to see Zhen Bang, Ru Fa comes to the Yang world to look for him. Yongding and his girlfriend Chu Juan, sympathize with Ruohua's suffering, and help her to find someone. It is now 1987, forty years after the incident, and there are already two or three generations of people, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and Ruohua's seven-day period is about to expire.......
Lost in the Corridor
Fan Sijia's children are turning over their mother's old letters and gradually discovering a period of her life when she was still alive, but she is still in a state of shock. Gradually discover a moving period of her love life during her lifetime. A long time ago, Vasquez went to another country to marry a farmer in Iowa, but after the marriage, the two of them had different dreams; she met Robert, a photojournalist from National Geographic, and they fell in love with each other at first sight, but because of Vasquez's responsibility to her family, they decided to separate after four days of living together, but it was hard for them to leave each other. In the end, Robert left Iowa to continue his wandering photographic career. ......
Casablanca
During the Second World War, an American named Rick Blaine, who had been working as a photographer in the United States for over a decade, was forced to leave Iowa to pursue a career as a photographer. During World War II, an American named Rick Blaine opens a popular nightclub in Casablanca. The cynical Rick has two valuable passes. Nazi Major Strasser is on the trail of Czech Underground Front leader Victor Laszlo. When Nazi Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca on the trail of Czech underground leader Victor Laszlo, the local police chief, Renault, endeavors to please the Nazi major. Reich discovers that Victor's wife, Ilsa, is the love of his life, having been separated at the train station during the evacuation. Ilsa realizes that Ryker can help her and Victor to leave Casablanca and asks for Ryker's help, but Ryker has mixed feelings. But then Lake finally decides to help them after he learns the reason why Eliza didn't come to the train station with him back then.
A Shakespearean Affair
The young, downtrodden playwright William Shakespeare has chosen a name for his new play, The Shakespearean Affair. Shakespeare has a name for a new play, Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter, and struggles to put pen to paper for a while as his thoughts run dry.
Philip Hanslauer, a theater owner on the verge of bankruptcy, has a wandering mind. Hanslauer comes to him every day like a ghost, and the rising talent Christopher Marlowe is his constant companion. The rising talent, Christopher Marlowe, is a nightmare for him. Frantic to meet his muse, William looks to his girlfriend, Rosalyn, for inspiration, only to find that she is already in a relationship with another man.
In a fit of rage, William tore up the draft script. A casting test led William to his ideal leading man, Thomas Kent. He followed Thomas home. He follows Thomas home, but discovers that he is not a man, but a rich girl named Viola.
Viola has all the qualities of a high-society woman of her time: beauty, composure, a large dowry, and titled suitors. As soon as Viola's identity is revealed, William falls madly in love with her, and Viola falls hard for William.
Unfortunately, her powerful father betrothed Viola to the cold-blooded Earl of Wessex, a poor man with an empty title. The marriage has been authorized by Elizabeth I herself, and there is no possibility of repudiation.
In the previews of Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter, Viola's cameo as Romeo was a huge success. While on stage Romeo and his lover are finally married, in reality Romeo has to face the end of his broken love.
Under Viola's inspiration, the resentful William began to re-conceptualize the play, and the original slang comedy was changed into a love tragedy, renamed Romeo and Juliet. William and Viola, the undying lovers, still fantasize that their love will take a turn for the better ......
The Ghosts and the People
Sam and his fiancée, Mei Li, have moved into a beautiful apartment exchanged by their friend, Carl, for the young bank clerk Sam and his fiancée, Mei Li, who love each other to the core. They are making preparations for their marriage. One night when they return from the theater, they are robbed by thugs. In the struggle, Sam was shot and killed, and Mei Li was grief-stricken. And Sam turns into a ghost. He soon realizes that it was his friend Carl who turned out to be the mastermind behind his death. In order to steal the huge amount of money in the bank, he wants to obtain the secret code that Sam has. Now he is on a quest for Miri.
Sam gradually learns how to use the power. He often wanders around Miri, always protecting her, but unable to communicate. In an attempt to stop Carl, he finds Otta, a psychic medium who can communicate with ghosts, and through her he gets in touch with Miri. At first Miri doesn't believe it. But the truth finally makes her feel Sam's presence. However the two people who are y in love are unable to have direct contact and communication. In order to protect Mei Li and punish the murderer, Sam takes revenge on Carl. He takes out the huge sum of money stolen by Carl and brings retribution to several of Carl's men. Furious, Carl tried to hurt Miri. Luckily, Otta and Sam arrived in time. Faced with a ghost full of hatred, Carl finally took his own life. Sam, who has fulfilled his wish, is about to go to heaven. Before disappearing, Miri finally meets Sam, who has manifested himself. The two embraced each other tightly.
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Charles is a regular at weddings. Yet he has always harbored misgivings about getting married. But at a countryside wedding, the beautiful American girl Kelly touches his heart. Although Charles learned from his friends that Kylie is a private life is rather indiscreet and exclusively with the rich men of women, but he still put off the friends of the carnival plans and went to find Kylie. The two of them spend a wonderful night together. But the next day, Kylie left him and went back to the United States, leaving Charles distraught. One by one, Charles' friends began to prepare for marriage. Two months later, at a wedding in London, Charles meets Kelly again. But just as he was getting his hopes up, Kelly introduced him to her fiancé, Hamish. Charles is devastated. His girlfriend, Helena, expresses her love for him, but Charles has no desire to deal with it. Kylie comes looking for Charles and the two spend the night ****ing again.
A month later, Charles receives a wedding invitation from Kelly. While choosing a gift, Charles met Kelly. Kylie told Charles about her affair history. Charles is impulsive and wants to propose to Kelly, but fails to do so. Shortly afterward, Charles went to Kelly's wedding anyway, and a disheartened Charles accepted Helena's feelings. Charles' friend Gainos suffers a heart attack and dies suddenly. At the funeral, Charles sees Kelly again and makes his feelings known to her.
Ten months later, Charles finally decided to marry Helena. But before the wedding takes place, Charles sees Kelly again. She has already divorced her husband. Kylie's appearance caused Charles' mind to be in turmoil. With the persuasion of his brother David, he finally speaks his heart in front of the priest and rejects Helena. Kelly comes to visit Charles. In the rain, the two kissed each other tightly. The two agreed: to be together forever, but not to marry.
The Human Stain
The movie begins with a car accident in which a man and a woman are killed, Coman Hilker, a former professor at the University of Athena, and his lover, Vernia ......
Hilker had had a quiet and happy life. He was an excellent professor whose long years of hard work earned him the respect of his colleagues and the love of his students. His family was impeccable, with a loving wife who was also a teacher, and they had three children, all of whom had successful careers, and two of whom took up teaching as they did. Life seemed so good to Hilker that he was jealous. But beneath the harmony, he hid a secret. He was in fact an African-American who only lied about being Jewish because of his light skin color - even his wife didn't know that. For years he struggled to prove that he could hold his own in the white world.
Ironically, Hilker's inadvertent misuse of a racial slur in class was met with accusations from all sides. Under the principle of so-called "political correctness," Hilker became a poor victim. The incident triggered an earthquake that suddenly brought his life crashing down from the clouds to hell. Almost overnight, he lost everything. He was fired from the university, his friends shunned him, and finally even his wife left him, and his children wouldn't even talk to him. He was left with nothing.
That's when he met Fonia, and they soon fell into a wildly passionate love, which seemed to give Hilker the motivation to go on with his life. Fonia is his refuge and a reflection of his ego in another world. Perhaps the reason Hilker loves her is that they both carry the same psychological weight. Vernia is white, yet extremely inferior and full of shame about her past and present. Her memories are full of pain: a childhood spent in abuse by her stepfather, a mentally ill ex-husband, and the tragic death of their child. She was so tormented that she was too fragile to trust anyone.
So the two lonely people secretly seek solace in each other, filling their loneliness with passion and soothing their wounds. But the tragedy is doomed to continue ......