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Ashes of Time is a film directed by Wong Kar-wai in 1994. 15 years later, in 2009, it was re-edited and improved, and renamed as "East Evil Xi Du Ultimate Edition" and released again.

The three main characters in the film, Huang, Ouyang Feng and The Legend of the Condor Heroes from Jin Yong, are like the prequel of this novel. However, the characterization and narrative techniques of the whole film are infinitely close to Gu Long's style.

When I was a teenager, martial arts books were all the rage. At that time, there were many bookstores on the street. After applying to his father, he would get back a stack of books by Jin Yong or Gu Long. Every winter and summer vacation, the happiest time is to stay at home and read martial arts novels from morning till night.

According to my father's preference, he prefers me to read Jin Yong's books for two reasons: first, Jin Yong's novels basically have a historical background, so I can learn some history while reading novels; Second, the characters in Jin Yong's novels are clear about right and wrong, and they can know the position of right and wrong.

Obviously, I am a little rebellious to my father's kindness. Compared with Jin Yong, I always prefer Gu Long's books and those characters who are not so open but circuitous and comfortable, full of joy and entanglement.

Just like Gu Long's novels, Ashes of Time is not a complete story. The film presents some repetitive scenes, short and meaningful dialogues and more inner monologues.

When I first saw this movie, I should be about twenty years old. To be honest, I don't understand. In retrospect, only fragmentary fragments and words emerged. About desert, about peach blossom, about specious emotional entanglement.

Comparatively speaking, this film seems to be less impressive than the one I saw at the same time. At least that movie made me laugh my head off. Strangely, even so, Ashes of Time has quietly become one of the classics in my heart with an indescribable charm.

Later, I watched the film again. From beginning to end, all love and hate become clear. I suddenly understood some meanings that I couldn't understand when I was young, about love, about humanity, and more importantly, about life.

Ouyang Feng: If you don't have it, you won't lose it.

The sun is shining, the yellow sand is all over the sky, and the dilapidated inn. Ouyang Feng lives in a corner of the desert, and is in the business of introducing killers to people.

He is a master negotiator and is good at discovering the needs and weaknesses of others and using them for his own use. He is good at calculating and weighing the pros and cons of everything, and will never do business at a loss because of temporary weakness.

A weak woman came to the door and her brother was killed by Qiu's family. She wants revenge. Ouyang Feng asked her how much she could pay. The woman took a donkey and a basket of eggs and said it was all her property.

Ouyang Feng turned down the deal and offended Qiu Fu for a basket of eggs and a donkey, which was not cost-effective. He said to the pleading woman, "Revenge comes at a price. If you are ugly, I advise you to die. Seeing that you look ok, I want to tell you that if you want to sell it, you are more valuable than that donkey. "

The woman flatly rejected Ouyang Feng's suggestion and said, "I can wait. I believe that there will always be people who are willing to help me. "

Ouyang Feng thought it was naive and ignored it. From beginning to end, he really didn't want to avenge that woman, which is not what a shrewd businessman should do.

Outside the inn, women stand in the hot sun day after day, waiting desperately and stubbornly. Ouyang Feng looked at it day by day, and then dreamed that the peach blossoms in his hometown had blossomed, and it suddenly occurred to him that he had not returned to white camel mountain for many years.

In white camel mountain, which is full of peach blossoms, there is a person that Ouyang Feng has been trying to escape from all these years. That's the woman he likes very much, although he never really shows it. On the night when the other party was about to become her eldest sister-in-law, Ouyang Feng finally let her go with her. The woman refused, and Ouyang Feng left white camel mountain and never came back.

What Ouyang Feng doesn't know is that my sister-in-law asks her friends to bring him news every year. She told her friend again and again, "I just need him to say something, and he never says it." Why wait until you can't get it? I won't let him get what he wants. "

Solar terms cycle year after year. Ouyang Feng stayed in the desert, looking at the distant sky, doing business carefully. In faraway white camel mountain, that woman listened to the news about him every year and became old in her memory.

From a certain year on, she finally stopped being angry and the light in her eyes began to dim. She said to her friend, "I thought I won, but something will change." I didn't know I had lost until I looked in the mirror one day. At my best, the person I love is not with me. "

Ouyang Feng is an orphan, and insecure people are most obsessed with self-protection. If you don't want to be rejected, the best way is to reject others first. This is his way of thinking. If you don't have it, you won't lose it. Never show your sincerity. After all, you are still afraid of losing it.

After learning the news of her sister-in-law's death, Ouyang Feng drank half an altar of wine left by Huang. He didn't want to drink this wine before, and running away doesn't mean he wants to forget it. Huang said that this wine is called "Drunkenness leads a dream to death", and you won't remember anything after drinking it.

However, Ouyang Feng, who drank the wine of "let life slip past him", didn't forget anything. It's like a cruel joke. The more you want to forget something, the clearer you remember it.

Ouyang Feng said: "I watch the sky change every day, but I have never seen this desert clearly." Even if you know the world well and look down on human feelings, you can't escape the dilemma of the authorities.

Time is the most ruthless. Even if you have nothing, you have been losing it.

Huang Shiyou: What you can't get is always the best.

After the annual fright, Huang will go to the desert to see Ouyang Feng.

Only Huang knows the meaning of drunkenness. Leaving the desert, he will come to white camel mountain where peach blossoms are in full bloom. There is a woman here, waiting for him to send a message to Ouyang Feng. He listened to the woman quietly and watched her immersed in memories. Those memories have nothing to do with him. He knows that he is just an object to talk to, just as he knows the burning jealousy in his heart.

But Huang always looks calm. As the person who knows Ouyang Feng and his eldest sister-in-law best, he will neither tell Ouyang Feng what this woman thinks nor let this woman see his feelings.

In front of other women, Huang is bohemian and easily confused.

When passing through Gusu City, Huang Shi was drinking with Murong Yan, who claimed to be the son of Yan State. After getting drunk, Huang Shiyou stroked Murong Yan's face and said, "If you have a sister, I will definitely marry her."

Murong Yan's look is somewhat shy. Although she is disguised as a man, she believes that Huang has seen her daughter. The implication of this sentence is also the same. She responded: "It's a deal, don't go back on your word. If you go back on your word, I will kill you. "

Later, when Murong Yan appeared at the appointed time in a skirt and long hair, Huang Shi did not arrive as scheduled.

The following story is the part I didn't understand at all when I was young.

Murong Yan found Ouyang Feng and said that Huang Shi had abandoned his sister and asked him to pay to kill Huang Shi. Murong Yan also found Ouyang Feng to kill Murong Yan, saying that Murong Yan wouldn't let her be with Huang Shi Yao, so she had to die.

Actually Murong Yan and Murong Yan are the same person. She loves Huang, but Huang Ai is another woman. She felt disappointed. On the one hand, she wants to kill Huang. She can't let others get what she can't get. At the same time, on the other hand, he was tortured by the surviving love, and he was determined to protect Huang.

The fierce conflict between love and hate turned into two identities to show people, and even committed suicide by saving his loved one with another identity. Under the toughness of punishing others and oneself, it is a soul divided by great pain.

Another man tried to kill his best friend Huang Shiyou, a blind swordsman. Huang seduced his wife when this friend got married. The reason seems simple. Her name is Peach Blossom, which has something to do with white camel mountain in full bloom and the woman who makes Huang feel dejected.

Although this explanation is far-fetched, feelings themselves are probably unreasonable. Just like when he promised Murong Yan easily, he just drank under the peach tree and had no sincerity. Maybe he couldn't explain himself.

Huang is not dead after all. The woman he liked died with regret. Huang Shi took the can of wine she left to see Ouyang Feng for the last time.

"Not long ago, I met a man and gave me an altar of wine. She said that this kind of wine is called "Drunkenness leads a dream to death", and after drinking it, you can forget anything before. She said that people's biggest trouble is bad memory. Huang Shi said this to Ouyang Feng. Until the end, he didn't tell Ouyang Feng who the man was. He likes that woman, but he doesn't want her to know. He was jealous of the person in her heart, so he provoked pity everywhere, just wanting to know what it was like to be liked, which hurt many people.

Huang said: "What you can't get is always the best." When he loves the person he can't get, he makes himself the person others can't get. In the end, I got nothing.

Unlike Ouyang Feng, Huangshi Yao really can't remember anything after drinking "hypnotic wine". Accurately speaking, he only vaguely remembers that his favorite thing is peach blossom. Maybe only a selfish person like Huang can drink this wine.

Anyway, since then, there has been a famous Peach Blossom Island.

Hong Qi: The simpler, the freer.

Hong Qi comes from the countryside, dressed in rags, and often walks barefoot. He is ugly, and he is an extremely fast swordsman. Ouyang Feng took a fancy to Hong Qi's martial arts and persuaded him to stay as a killer.

"Don't you want to plow? You are not ashamed of robbery, and you don't want to appear in the street. How do you live? If you are good at martial arts, you must eat. There is a career that suits you very well. It can not only earn some money, but also help others. Think about it, but quickly. You know, you will be hungry soon. "

Ouyang Feng's remarks can be described as comprehensive. For this poor boy with a martial arts background, survival is the most urgent problem.

After receiving the money, Qi Hong will count it carefully. Ouyang Feng said that people who usually take money without looking at it will soon run out of money, while people like Hong Qi know that he won't stay with him for long.

A person with a goal will not want to be trapped in the problem of survival forever. In any era, it is a long-term solution for a person to despise money strategically and attach importance to money tactically.

The woman whose brother was killed by Taiwei Mansion stubbornly waited for revenge with a basket of eggs and a donkey, and finally got what she wanted. Hong Qi lost a finger in the battle with Qiu Fu swordsmen.

Ouyang Feng asked: Is it worth losing a finger for an egg?

Hong Qi replied: Not worth it! But I feel happy, this is myself.

Hong Qi agreed to this woman's request, which is a kind of resistance. His knife is not as fast as before. In the past, he was very direct and did what he thought was right, so he acted quickly. When the woman first asked him for help, he refused because he knew Ouyang Feng wouldn't agree.

As a result, he found himself assimilated by Ouyang Feng and lost himself. Ouyang Feng would never risk his life for an egg, but Hong Qi can. This is the difference between him and Ouyang Feng.

Hong Qi, who was recovering, decided to leave the desert and take his wife from the countryside to roam in rivers and lakes. Ouyang Feng disagreed, saying that everyone wanted to know what was beyond the mountain. When you get there, you will find nothing special. Looking back, you may think it is better here.

After all, Ouyang Feng admitted that he was jealous when he looked at the distant back of Mr. and Mrs. Hong Qi. Maybe he thought of someone in white camel mountain at this moment. If he were as simple as Hong Qi, maybe the result would be different.

Things that appear repeatedly in movies, such as deserts, birdcages and peach blossoms, now seem to be metaphors.

Ouyang Feng's escape, Huang Shi's indulgence, sister-in-law's strength, Murong Yan's obsession, everyone has a cage to trap themselves. Inner desire, such as peach blossom. Look out of the cage and cross the desert that can never be crossed. The more desires, the more desperate people are, which is probably a tragedy doomed by human nature.

I don't know why, but I don't remember the role of Hong Qi before. When revisiting this movie, Hong Qi became the most vivid character in the whole movie, which matched the peach blossom in the long memory.

The heart is born free, just like a carefree age. You will be happy if you read a martial arts book without distractions. The simpler, the freer.