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Chapter 1216 Dark eyes and your smiling face
For many fans of old Hong Kong movies, "A Lang's Story" can be said to have definitely exceeded their expectations.

I thought that no matter what, I was afraid it would be a trick to sell dog meat. After all, the times are different.

But in the end, "A Lang's Story" did give them a big surprise. What they didn't expect was that even the two episodes of the soundtrack had the unique taste of that era.

The same is pop music, but different eras have unique imprints of the times.

The two songs "Love Song 1990" and "Your Look" obviously have the unique taste of the 90s, which can be said to be completely different from the style of popular songs nowadays.

Moreover, although the plot of "A Lang's Story" is a drama of "The Prodigal Son Turns Back", it is completely different from the current "Prodigal Son Turns Back for Money".

So, let the video look more flavorful.

The speed of the media is very fast. Regarding the evaluation of "A Lang's Story", whether it is the media on Hong Kong Island or the media in the Mainland, they have all given very surprising evaluations.

"Director Li Yi's new film "A Lang's Story" reproduces the taste of Hong Kong films in the 90s and [-]s!" - "Hong Kong Island Entertainment News"

""A Lang's Story" has an urban feeling, but it has a unique Jianghu flavor that belongs to that era!" - "One Week Movies"

""A Lang's Story" - Falling in love with a prodigal son is like falling in love with the sea, with turbulent waves and endless joy coexisting." - "Wen Wei Po"

At the same time, film critics from all walks of life also joined the battle.

Ah Bing, a Hong Kong film critic, wrote in his film review: "I always think that the unique Jianghu flavor of Hong Kong films can no longer be reproduced with the changes of the times.

However, "A Lang's Story" makes us seem to have returned to the 90s, just like the episodes of the two films "Love Song 1990" and "Your Look", which perfectly reproduce the taste of Hong Kong movies in the 90s.

The film shows what love looked like in 1989.
Back then, young people were dancing disco, and everyone dressed like Elvis.

Girls always wear exaggerated bows on their heads.

Racing, in addition to being injured is dead.Those who survived were mediocre.

The scenery on the car is the funeral for the rest of my life.

Back to the movie itself, "A Lang's Story", in fact, the plot of the story has not changed for thousands of years.

The Chinese nation is a nation rich in stories, and it makes sense to think about it.

Our history is too long, our territory is too vast, and our products are too rich. In this kingdom of heaven, we always feel that we are too small to be ignored.So we desperately created many stories to tell our children and grandchildren, and put our hope on our children and grandchildren. We hope that when we tell our children and grandchildren, they will say "This is what I told me" by the way, and I hope that more people will tell it. Then, he can emit a little faint light in the long river.

Just like the Eros people always take the name of the old elders because their winter is too long, so they call each other's long names to pass the cold time.Therefore, the full names of the drivers are so long.Therefore, everyone loves to hear the love story of the prodigal son returning to the gold.

Just like the current domestic family dramas, they all seem to come out of a routine: for some reason, such as infertility, financial problems, the seven-year itch or something, the husband cheats and finds a new love, and the wife seeks harmony in the family , not only not to insult and beat her husband, but also to tolerate the scumbag man, to influence him with love, and to negotiate with a third party. In the end, the scumbag man was deeply moved, the prodigal son returned and returned to the family, and everyone was happy.

It seems that the prodigal son is a rare and rare pearl. If you don’t look back, it’s because your wife didn’t manage the marriage well. Get back together, otherwise you will be a femme fatale who caresses about every detail.

It seems that a woman must "take a step back to the sea and the sky" and "focus on the family" to be a good wife and mother worthy of praise.

But A Lang said: People can't do wrong things, otherwise they won't turn over for the rest of their lives.

This is the essence of "A Lang's Story". Perhaps after watching the film, many people will rationally say, why should a scumbag like A Lang turn back?
But in fact, what "A Lang's Story" tells is not a story of a prodigal son turning back.

A Lang used to be a prodigal son who could not be more prodigal. He smoked, drank, burned his head, cheated on his wife and beat his wife, hit people on a motorcycle, and finally ended up in a prison.

His wife, Bobo, gave up on him and immigrated to the United States with her parents.After Alang was released from prison, he changed his past and worked as a coolie to drive a cart to support himself and his son. Unexpectedly, after ten years, he met Bobo again.Alang tried his best to reconcile with Bobo, but unfortunately the other party already had a new boyfriend and was unwilling to accept Alang.In order to prove that he has been reborn and can take on the responsibilities of the family, A Lang returned to the motorcycle race and died at the finish line due to an accident.

The prodigal son was not forgiven, but died on the racing track for no apparent reason.Stories like this are the norm in life.

Young people may always feel unwilling to watch this movie.

You may ask why Bobo is unwilling to reconcile with the reformed Alang?

Why did Alang insist on going to the arena regardless of his physical condition?

But I believe that people who are more mature will understand that Alang is doomed to die.

Not just because the prodigal son needed a heroic death
Dying suddenly in the struggle is the only chance for Alang ten years later to be forgiven and redeemed.

After making mistakes for ten years, Alang has become a superfluous person: the former lover has a successful career, and has a gentle and elegant gentleman as his new partner; the child needs a complete family and a good education-this movie is not like many cliché movies The new lover who also deliberately discredited his ex is a hypocrite with a honeyed belly, but he portrays Bobo's new lover as a good man who still loves Bobo and is willing to accept Bobo's son despite some hesitation and struggle!

The child and the mother's new family need each other, and Alang's position is very embarrassing. He used to be just a thorn in Bobo's chaotic memory when he was young, but now he has become a roadblock in Bobo and his son's frank new life.Regardless of whether A Lang is a dirt truck driver or a vigorous racing driver, what is certain is that he will not be accepted by Bobo. She will only forgive the dead A Lang, but will not be with the living A Lang.Alang's final struggle always carries the determination to die: if he wins alive, he can prove himself to the one he loves; what about dying?Dying is also a win, and the win is to help the lover pull out an untimely roadblock.

So this is definitely not a so-called "Prodigal Son Turns Back For Money" movie!
The story of the prodigal son's return can only be put in the eight o'clock plot to deceive the boring housewives.However, when we saw Alang who had to die decisively stepping on the motorcycle, we couldn't help but shed tears, as if we were the one who took the dead end of atonement regardless.At this time, we think of ourselves, of the wrong things we have done more or less, and we also need a forgiveness that we have never received, but we have no way to die calmly like A Lang, we can only be in our hearts Substitute yourself into the movie and cry with tears.

In A Lang's story, if I want to talk about the point that touched me the most, it should be the motorcycle.When Chen Weijie stepped into the car, I remembered General MacArthur's words: Veterans don't die, they just fade away.A Lang is not a brave warrior, he is just a prodigal son, but prodigal sons and warriors are the same in that they have all fought for something and charged bloody.

A Lang once so arrogantly despised everything he could see, rules, order, self-discipline, and his own woman.

It was as if he was riding a motorcycle running in the night of the city, he was like a lightning that was destined to tear the clouds, drowning everything in sight in his wild laughter.

But he can't change the world, and the world won't lose anything because of it, but his woman can no longer ride on the back seat of his motorcycle.

Sometimes I can't help wondering, what kind of mood did Bobo leave Hong Kong Island?

The director is very smart. He turned all the plots after Bobo rolled down the stairs into dark scenes, and he had to take them all in one stroke. The tears and pain that spewed out of the sky were all lightly skipped. What we saw was only when A Lang visited the prison. With a well-cut hairstyle and a dull face, I only heard Bobo's mother holding the child and telling him that Bobo has gone far away.So what we saw was the slumped A Lang and the lovely Bo Tsai ten years later.All difficulties, all unwillingness, and all regrets are covered up in the laughter and play of the father and son. We can't see it, but we can see it deeply.

A Lang's story is not about father-son relationship, love, or family.

He's about a once-proud prodigal who realizes his mistakes without losing his passion.

I always feel that if a man really loves a woman deeply, he will definitely fight once almost in a fit of anger, to prove the fire that is always burning in his soul—even if he is a father, old, and needs help.

But every man, whether he is a 20-year-old ruffian or an [-]-year-old old man, must have decades of unquenchable flames burning in his heart. Just once, he wants to step on the car and go lap after lap at a fast pace to prove: I can do it.

Even if everyone understands that Bobo can no longer come back to him like in a fairy tale, the kiss on the beach can only be a specimen of old love.But A Lang will still choose to fight once, and he has to grit his teeth to prove once, to prove that he has loved, hated, regretted, and persevered, all of these, even if he loses to fate, even if he can only smile wryly, but It is still as heavy as Mount Tai for yourself.Even if his shoulders couldn't bear the ridicule of fate, he would still carry them all without frowning and smile proudly.

So speaking of it, it doesn't matter whether Bobo forgives Alang or not, because after all ten years have passed, Bozai has become so well-behaved and sensible, and the old love will always become a memory that cannot be deleted or changed.

The prodigal son with long hair fluttering, smoking and drinking, and riding a motorcycle to dance Cha Cha, the scars he caused on his heart began to scab over time, and he lost the pain.

When I hugged Bozai on the runway, facing the burning flames in front of my eyes, facing the child in my arms who had no mother in the first ten years and no father in the second half of his life, facing the flight back to the United States that might return to the United States the next day, What else can she not forgive, what else can she blame.Just like Li Taibai's sentence: "But when I see the tears are wet, I don't know who to hate"

In the wilderness of time where weeds are everywhere, we have nothing to believe in, but when the song full of melancholy sounded, the injuries that have been washed away over the years, and those nights filled with alcohol, all faded away, leaving only The hollow roar of motorcycles still echoed through the city.

In fact, A Lang has been a prodigal son from beginning to end. What kind of person is a prodigal son?

The prodigal son is romantic and passionate, the prodigal son is rebellious, and the prodigal son does his own way.A Lang played by Chen Weijie is a prodigal son. He lives in his own world and does everything according to his own preferences.

If you like drag racing, go racing, if you like to pick up girls, you can have girls, if you like unusual styles, you can style them differently, like a prodigal son, chic and unrestrained.After meeting Bobo, he also did not change.He doesn't accommodate others, he always makes others accommodate him, he clearly cheated before, but he has no intention of repenting, instead accusing Bobo, the nature of a prodigal son is evident.

In the movie, A Lang had two racing cars, and these two racing cars ran through the whole movie.The first car race made Alang lose Bobo.A Lang lost his life in the second race. These two races are worth pondering.

When he raced for the first time, A Lang was still a prodigal son, and he raced all for excitement.He wanted to experience the speed and passion, he sprinted with a girl on the back of the motorcycle crazily.He thinks this is the life he wants, exciting, fresh and passionate.The carefree feeling made him feel like a hero, a king.

But what he didn't expect was that the fast-moving king was also imprisoned because of this.The former cronies and dog friends had no one to associate with him anymore, and he gradually understood what was right and what was wrong.Alang's first race car not only caused him to be imprisoned, but also lost Bobo.It is precisely because of this time that Alang started to turn his prodigal son back.

During the second car racing, Ah Lang was already a truck driver, he changed his mind, worked hard to earn money, and raised his son Bo Zai well.He never touched a motorcycle again, even though his friend Aaron kept persuading him, he was unmoved.It wasn't until Bobo came back and he wanted to fight for Bobo that he got on the track again.

But time has changed, he is getting old, not to mention he still has old diseases, which is not good for A Lang.But Alang wanted to start over, wanted to prove himself, wanted to let Bobo know that he had really changed, so he resolutely entered the arena.What kind of person would prove himself in this way?In fact, in his bones, he is still the prodigal son, even if he wants to turn back, he still does not change his nature as a prodigal son, so even if he has not practiced for many years, he is still young and still far ahead.

How similar is the process of the second racing to the life of A Lang's prodigal son?

The front is fast and full of vigor, but joy turns into sorrow. Although he struggled to get up and continued to sprint with scars all over his body, God failed and he was buried on the track, explaining the difficulty of the prodigal son turning back at the price of blood. .

Maybe the one with regret is the most beautiful, right?If the three of them are reunited and everyone is happy, it seems a little too easy, and it always makes people feel that something is missing.

If A Lang successfully rushed to the finish line, then he would not be a prodigal son.

At the cost of A Lang's loss of life, leaving more room for the audience's imagination seems to be a kind of fulfillment.

For his own dream, A Lang must have left with a smile at that moment.

Bobo can take her child back to the United States without worrying about it. She has a career in the United States, and Bozai also has a better environment for her growth.

This choice is no longer at the cost of heartbreak.The withdrawal of one person achieves the happiness of two people. Of course, happiness comes with regrets.

It is just imagination, giving a meaning to the ending.

The story is like this. If you don’t experience disasters, the ordinary happy life will always make people feel unsatisfactory.This kind of shock, this kind of impact, this kind of tragedy, this kind of change, let the audience remember it even more.

I have to say that the music of the movie will always sound at the right time, pushing the plot to a climax and rendering the atmosphere.When the "Love Song 1990" and "Your Look" full of age feel sounded, I immediately sympathized with it.

Sometimes I like a song because of a movie, and sometimes I have a new understanding of the song or a deeper understanding of the song because of the song that appeared in the movie.A Lang's story is over, and the real life story is still being staged.

In fact, it's the same thing, the movie is fake, who knows when he suddenly realizes that his life is just a movie. "

(End of this chapter)