In fact, as Zhou Bin said, why do many foreign audiences react differently to domestic audiences after watching it?
Because people who don’t understand that era and haven’t gotten to know Hong Kong Island at that era will indeed find it difficult to understand some things and some plots in the movie.
It might even seem a little embarrassing.
Why do mooncakes require monthly payments?
What are you eating on the table?
Is the love between the hero and heroine a bit bloody?
But the fact is that this story is Meng Qiguang’s true experience.
Zhou Bin's second film review is the real film review.
"The red sparrow appears many times in "Thieves of Time", and it can be said to be the highlight of the entire film.
The red sparrow is a type of fish and fighting fish. It is famous for its aggressiveness. When two males meet, they will definitely engage in a duel. When fighting, they open their gills and shake their fins. In the film, the earliest one who moved to Hong Kong Island from the mainland lived in the 1960s. People are just such a group of red sparrows who fight against fate and life.
Hong Kong people like to keep goldfish. On the one hand, they can keep them as pets. On the other hand, they believe that fish food brings good fortune. So at the beginning of the film, we can see the colorful fish in the fish tank in the goldfish shop. Some of them are called "Colorful Immortals" and some are called "Golden and Jade Mantang". Through the transparent fish tank, you can see the bright, clear and curious eyes of Luo Jiner (younger brother). It is under the guidance of such a pair of eyes that we also see the efforts of an era, a society, and a group of outsiders. Fight hard.
The younger brother is accustomed to using "stealing" to satisfy his curiosity and satisfaction. He is naughty and cunning, collecting the things he steals and treating them as his most beloved things. He stole the round fish tank and imagined it to be an astronaut's helmet to land on the moon. He put the stolen Eagle Country flag on his body and ran like the wind; he stole the old man's precious metal seal just because it had his last name on it. , these are the behaviors of innocent and naughty children.
He is like a carefree little fish in a fish tank, living freely in the water and looking at the colorful world through the bright glass.
In the eyes of his younger brother, his father always kept his head down and did his work. Sometimes he liked to listen to old dramas that he didn't understand. In that era when machine production gradually replaced handicrafts, his father still worked purely by hand, and his father always retained the shadow of the era when mainlanders worked hard and stuck to their duties. Compared with his old-fashioned father, he feels that his mother is a smart, capable and righteous "Mrs. Luo". No matter what happens, his mother maintains an optimistic and uplifting spirit. One step is difficult and one step is good; one must always believe in life. . This was not only Mrs. Luo’s philosophy as a person, but also the spiritual philosophy of the mainlanders of that era who went to Hong Kong Island to work hard.
Big-Eared Ox has the courage to resist when bullied, and it doesn't matter if he is teased about his poor academic performance, because he has a brother who symbolizes perfection and always strives for first place, the person he loves the most and the person he admires the most.
Wearing a fish tank helmet, he led the audience to see a deformed Hong Kong society in the 1960s. Although the times are advancing and society is developing, the gap between the rich and the poor is constantly widening, especially for the mainlanders who live in Hong Kong Island. They live a deformed social life. In an era when Chinese and English are equally important, and English is more important than Chinese in urban life, my neighbors still live in the poor environment of mainland China, where neighbors live in harmony and gather together like a big family. When big machines and factories appeared, when hair salons created by various men and women appeared, when various skyscrapers began to be built, they still stayed in this quiet, comfortable and hard-working neighborhood to spend their years.
Time is moving forward, but it is difficult for them to keep up with the changes of the times. They still retain the manual work of the past. The inherent way of living in the past has been deeply rooted in their hearts. For Mr. Luo and Mrs. Luo, they feel Just live your life quietly and comfortably, and don't want to change it.
But when it comes to their children’s education, they keep up with the times and let their children receive a good education. They hope that their sons can keep up with the development of the times, and they are the best backing, shelter from wind and rain, and no longer Repeat the same path as before. All hopes are placed on one person, to make him strong and then to be good to him. Jin Yi has been bearing it, he has been doing well, he is the biggest pride, and has become a role model for the neighborhood. It seems that the neighborhood has just been established, everyone is full of longing, and he is working hard, because tomorrow is not far away, and tomorrow is To come, a person must believe.
The younger brother saw his elder brother succeed, saw him fall into a sweet love, and deeply imprinted every word his brother said in his heart, but he also saw such a perfect and tall brother failed in front of him, unable to do anything. fell and left him forever. It is always difficult to achieve perfection in people's hearts. Faced with the coming storm, Mr. Luo and Mrs. Luo's family did not escape or retreat, but worked together to save their only property, the shoe store. However, facing Jin Yi's leukemia, the family tried every means but could not do anything.
Perhaps because he was so perfect, fate gave him the greatest misfortune. When the younger brother accompanied his elder brother to seek medical treatment in Peking, which he had longed for, he saw death for the first time, and it was so close to him for the first time. He was very scared, afraid that his brother, who was always so perfect in his mind, would leave him. Jinyi is like that beautiful red bird that has never been defeated, always fighting against the outside world and constantly working hard. When he saw his girlfriend's wealthy family conditions, he suddenly felt that he was very small. The world of the upper class was like the gorgeous fish tank of Fang Fei's family. Jin Yi, a beautiful red bird born in poverty, wanted to blend into such a world. But because "the water quality is different, there may be germs on the body" and he was isolated from it. From then on, he became silent. After getting sick, he could no longer compete with the world. His life had been burned out in the years.
Along with him, the years of Mr. Luo, Mrs. Luo and Luo Jiner were also lost. As time went by, her father left, and Mrs. Luo wore the "difficult and good" shoes that Mr. Luo made for her. She walked step by step, weathered the most difficult typhoon, and finally saw the beautiful rainbow.
But the years have stolen too many precious things. The father who was always the head of the family is gone, and the perfect brother who holds the hope of the whole family is gone too.
Luo Jiner heard from his grandma that if he wanted to reunite with his relatives, he should throw his most beloved things into the sea of suffering until the sea of suffering was filled. For his brother, he was willing to throw away everything he loved. These were also the best and most cherished memories of his childhood. Many years later, when he grew up, he, who once disliked studying, was admitted to the school where his brother was. He always believed in what his brother said and the promise he made to him.
"The Sword Comes"
All this time, he memorized the English alphabet backwards and was admitted to the Diocesan Boys' School. He was doing what his brother had not finished. However, he could not do it perfectly. He was never the brother, but he still accompanied his mother and walked on. I have always believed that "double shadow neon" will appear in the sky!
"Thieves of Time" uses a fish tank to describe the era of development and change, hardship to talk about the golden years, and the bottom to talk about the dreams of the elite. It is in such a fish tank of hardship that the red bird strives for its own dreams of the times and hopes for life. . The sincerity of "Thieves of Time" is that it restrains sadness, reveals smiles, and is always waiting for a melancholy hope. "
