Wong Kar-wai's films are too beautiful to understand. Do you know the movie Ashes of Time?

Ashes of Time was published on 1994. The film is narrated from the perspective of Ouyang Feng, a killer agent, and tells the love and hate of seven Jianghu chivalrous men (another point: although the film is adapted from Jin Yong's novel, its content is basically irrelevant to the original). A major feature of the film is that it does not give a specific time, but only tells the story in seasonal order.

The director messed up the order? This year? Start, extract? Scared? Summer Solstice? White deer? The beginning of spring? Sting 2? The five solar terms connect the whole story in series.

This method of cutting the complete timeline reorganization fragments is not uncommon in movies, but why choose these five solar terms as the nodes of arrangement and reorganization?

From the narrative point of view, each of these five solar terms leads to a new love-hate relationship, and each chapter has a clear narrative theme:

The past of Huang and Murong Yan is the focus of Jing Zhe's article, the story of blind swordsman killing thieves and orphan seeking revenge is the focus of Xia's article, the story of red flag killing thieves and seeking revenge is the focus of Bailu's article, and the past of Huang Sao and Ouyang Feng is the focus of beginning of spring's article. Jing Zhe Chapter 2 Reveals the Final Outcome of Ouyang Feng.

It can be seen that although the film is out of order, the five chapters extracted are unambiguous. Combined with flashbacks interspersed in each chapter, the whole movie presents a hazy romance without being dazzled by deliberate performance.

The time described in Ashes of Time is to jump out of the specific time.

Lines from the beginning? Many years later, I have a nickname called Du? With the classic opening of One Hundred Years of Solitude, the boundaries between the past, the present and the future have been obliterated, and the subsequent narratives are all around the solar terms, not involving specific years.

This abstract expression of time gives people room for imagination, but also presents a sad feeling of the intersection of heaven and man.

Solar terms are eternal. From the beginning of the shock to the end of the next shock, the four seasons alternate, but there is no beginning and no end. It seems that a closed loop of time and space has been formed, and the joys and sorrows of the characters are insignificant under the huge time and space.

At the beginning and end of the chapter, the time point is fright, and the movie pictures are also connected end to end, all of which are scenes of Ouyang Feng talking about business with guests. That sentence? It's not easy to kill a person, but many people will take risks for their livelihood? The appearance of the beginning and the end twice seems to imply that no matter how turbulent the emotional tide is, it will eventually calm down and give in to life.