Chapter 14 The body does not act, the soul does not act

In other people's movies, people usually act with their bodies, but their souls don't. But in Cai Mingliang's "A Cloud in the Sky", for all people, their souls don't act, and their bodies don't act. Li Kangsheng still had a bitter face, playing his Xiaokang, Mr. Miao Tian really passed away, Chen Xiangqi returned to Taiwan in "The Bridge is Missing", but passed by Xiaokang, until in this movie, the two talents finally I met in the park, but I didn't have the joy of "so you are here too". I liked it a little, but it was also mixed with the tiredness of "the same people who have fallen into the end of the world".Xiaokang didn't sell watches this time. In "The Overpass Is Missing", he applied for an AV boy, and "A Cloud in the Sky" became his new career showcase.At the end of the movie, Chen Xiangqi finally discovered Xiaokang's real occupation. Through the window purlin, Xiaokang's hope of love and desire finally woke up together.Who knows.

Living in Tsai Ming-liang's movies is a heart-warming thing. In the past, there was always sewage and unpleasant liquids everywhere. In "A Cloud in the Sky", it is hot and dry, and there is a lack of water everywhere. Watermelon juice is the only way to quench your thirst. , I couldn’t take a shower, and I had ants crawling on my body, and the AVs that continuously shot bathroom scenes had to rely on mineral water to create the effect of the shower.Since there was no water, she became paranoid about the water container. Chen Xiangqi picked up mineral water bottles everywhere, one or two, ten or hundreds. In the house, there were water corpses and water plastic coffins everywhere.

Cai Mingliang himself said that this work is about the body, desire and anxiety: "Every one of my films is about the body... We are used to abusing our bodies and using them to make money, including making pornography. The use of the body is messy, and we pay the price for it.” So, it’s an erotic sign, but there’s no real sex scene in it, people seem to have been eunuched, drained, like empty space without water. Bottle, very anxious, but can't find the reason, even the real AV girl Yazakura Lizi invited from Japan, also has a kind of long-standing fatigue of life, always lack of energy, more like meat than flesh.

There is no desire in it, only the shell of desire, the corpse of desire.Desires cannot be nourished by the soul, let alone have time to recuperate. They are displayed there and gradually dry out and become fossils. But it's still good-looking. The film is interspersed with many Taiwanese song and dance styles of the 1950s and 1960s. They are vulgar, colorful, hot, but ghostly, and are used to express the characters' aphasia of emotion and speechlessness. As far as the intercepted fantasy is concerned, its function is similar to "Dancer in the Dark" and "Six Feet of the Wind", and the accompanying song is "Song of the Times", including Hong Zhong's "Wonderful Date", Grant's "Compassion", "The Beginning of Love" by Yao Li, and "Meditation and Waiting" by Zhang Lu.If you are used to Cai Mingliang's style, you will like this film more. His dullness is anxious, plump, sexy dullness, not pale at all.

Watching a person grow up in a movie is also very interesting. Li Kangsheng is our own Antoine. During the thirteen years with Cai Mingliang, he grew up little by little, even if he ran to "A Thousand Words" to reveal On the one hand, we still feel that he can only be Cai Mingliang's Li Kangsheng.Other actors also sacrificed a lot. Yang Qian never forgot to laugh at herself as a third-level actress when she played the role. However, "A Cloud in the Sky" has a larger scale and does not add any beautification. Lu Yujing's singing and dancing scenes , you can see her bloated and out-of-shape body, what they show us is the real and horrifying life.