Make no mistake, this is not the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, but a mysterious novelist from Hong Kong from China. It is said that he is mysterious because many people do not know what he looks like. Uncle ruffian Shuai didn't know, and he was curious.
Maybe he used such a pseudonym because he is a fan of Haruki Murakami.
The biggest reason why his novels are liked by people is that he can always accurately address topical issues and social pain points, and then express them in a relaxed and funny, unlimited Y way.
His masterpiece is "the writer's lie: the crime of loyalty and seduction", but the audience is familiar with that famous film, and many people are looking forward to the second sequel, "all the way to the West." this is an adaptation of his novel of the same name.
In fact, Haruki Nishimura has a lot of novels, all of which have been adapted into movies. This work to be introduced in this article is another topical work after his "all the way to the West". In the past, it can be said to be a pain point for many ordinary Hong Kong people, but now it seems to have become the suffering of most young people in the country, that is, the housing problem.
Although this film does not have the kind of "color full" picture of "all the way to the west", it is no less wonderful than the former, and it is a microcosm of social reality.
The film the Prince capsule is a comedy directed by Wu Hanbang and Wu Zhaolin, starring Zhou Baihao, Lin Minyi, Cai Hanyi, Lin Shengbin and Zhang Jicong, and was released in Hong Kong on September 7, 2017.
As mentioned earlier, this film is based on the novel "lie in the West" written by the Chinese and Hong Kong writer Xiang Xichuangshu. The main content of the film is about a group of people living in the "space capsule" whose ages cover all ages. There are three levels of youth, middle and old, but without exception, they are all "useless" people in the Hong Kong population.
They struggle to survive in one lie after another for the ideal life in their hearts.
Seeing this film title, I believe that friends who are not familiar with Cantonese must look at a loss. What does this film title mean?
Here, I would like to explain to you that Xilio is actually a Cantonese homonym for "Western bliss", which means "too crowded", and the prince is a place name in Hong Kong. The capsule is a joking name for cheap rental housing unique to Hong Kong.
It is said that rental housing is not accurate at all. In Hong Kong, the so-called space capsule is actually a place that can only allow one person to sleep in. To put it bluntly, it is as narrow as a coffin, but because it is cheap, it is a place for many people who cannot afford to rent a house to sleep at night. The space capsule is also the main place where the story takes place.
Therefore, the title of the film itself is full of banter and teasing. Taken together, it is too crowded in the western world of bliss.
"all the way to the West" deals with the special relationship between Hong Kong people and mainlanders in the special era, as well as the youth of young Hong Kong people with nowhere to be released, while the Prince capsule of the West lies about Hong Kong's lack of land and large population, living environment and so on.
Several protagonists in the film all live in the capsule. The first one is the landlord of the capsule, Ah Cheng, played by Lin Mincong.
Before the financial crisis, he was a well-off rich family, even because he was good at financial management, and he also had the nickname of "King of Building Amoy in 1997", but people often said: things are impermanent. It was precisely because of the impermanence of the world that all his assets came to naught overnight, but fortunately, there was a little bit of space that was converted into a capsule and rented out to others to make ends meet.
It may be the blow after the accident. Ah Cheng is sometimes a little crazy and doesn't play his cards according to common sense. But even if he is a little crazy, he still has business acumen. He not only changed his small place into a space capsule, but also made a small ashes yard, earning more than the space capsule. It is ironic here that the money of the dead is easier than that of the living.
The second is Ah Xuan, played by Zhou Baihao. The capsule in which he lives is the cheapest and the smallest, but he does not feel the pain, because he can save 8,000 yuan in rent every month, which is very important for a young man who has just graduated from college and just left the society. because it's saving money for him to get married and buy a house later.
But the girlfriend can wait, her family can not wait, this is not, drink morning tea with the girlfriend's mother, was sour words, mockery insinuated some.
So, if you don't have a house in Hong Kong, it means you have to break up with your girlfriend, and you can't get married.
Third, A Ming, a minivan driver played by Zhang Jicong, whose capsule is obviously larger than A Xuan's, and is decorated like a "flower field" by A Ming. With colorful lights, if accompanied by dance music, it is a disco.
Judging from his capsule decoration, A Ming is definitely a playboy, and it is suitable for Zhang Jicong's role, which must be the kind with frequent golden sentences. in fact, this is true, but it is very surprising that he only loves that girlfriend who is close to 200 jin.
Every time they want to exchange ideas with their girlfriends, they have to look around for temporary rooms. And also looking for a cheap one, as a result, I went to a lot of places, and there was a "full" sign hanging at the door. I found my girlfriend late at night from the early morning, lost his temper and left.
A-Ming is faced with a dilemma. If you want to save money to live in the capsule, you can't "fight". If you want to be happy, you can't save money. Like Ah Xuan, if A-Ming wants to "bury the skylight" with his girlfriend of 200 jin, "sooner or later fry the pile", you have to have your own house.
Fourth and fifth, mixed-society and once-mixed-society "confused boy", young A Feng (Cai Hanyi) and Ah Chang played by Lin Shengbin of the old Youtiao.
The younger A Feng, like many young people who liked to watch gangster movies and then became obsessed with them, got lost in the Brotherhood and domineering scenery of Chen Haonan and pheasants, and then even learned them to join the club.
However, today's society is no longer the original society. There is no one in the "Kowloon Ice Room" who can "cover the sky with one hand", and the community has also become a sunset industry. therefore, A Feng not only does not look like a person, but can only park on behalf of passengers every day. sometimes acting like a freighter, naturally he can't make any money, so he lives in the space capsule.
Ah Chang of the old Youtiao once had "scenery". This scenery has a literal meaning, but also has another meaning. he was really brilliant. In this age, he still wanted to rob, and then he was caught without an accident. He thinks that mixed society is just like before, really can not keep up with the trend, "Xiang" can not keep up with the hot, after parole, destitute, can only live in the capsule.
These protagonists have gentle and highly educated, rough people at the bottom of society, rich and ambitious bosses who have been in the past.
But in the face of the difficult problems of the house in this century, they all lost the battle!
They live in different circles, but when they return to the capsule, they have the same virtue-mourning!
That kind of mourning is involuntarily emanating from the body, you say, what kind of society is forcing people?
House is not just a problem for Hong Kong people, it has now become a century problem for most people in the whole society.
The film starts from this starting point and hits the sore spot, but like other novels written by Haruki Nishimura in the past, when throwing out topical questions, it uses relaxed and witty techniques, even nonsense.
This film is no exception, because there is a dog-hunting notice, which has changed the lives of these people.
One day, there was an advertisement on the Internet that said "Find a dog with a lot of money." The reward amount reached an astonishing 2 million yuan. This dog happened to wander near Cheng's space capsule. Several people would throw something to it to eat.
When they were about to send the dog back, they unexpectedly discovered a kidnapping case. The dog owner was kidnapped, and the dog owner was not an ordinary person. She was the apple of a Hong Kong real estate tycoon.
In return for the dog, a few people accidentally participated in the rescue of the kidnapped beauty action, more accidentally rescued the rich girl.
Now, their fate has completely changed. In order to thank them for saving their daughter, the real estate tycoon not only gave back the reward for the dog, but also gave them several houses in one of his high-end residential areas with a big stroke of his pen, one for each.
This, they may struggle for a lifetime, or even a few lifetimes can not earn a house just like this? And there is money, they are really floating three feet, shotguns have changed guns.
Several people were ecstatic and gathered on the dilapidated balcony next to the capsule to celebrate the realization of a hard-won dream that had never dared to come true.
Ah Cheng, the crazy space capsule landlord, withdrew some broken cement stones from the dilapidated walls, saying that they were precious stones for you as parting gifts, because the next day everyone had to leave the capsule and live in a luxury mansion.
Funnily enough, the camera moved to the place where several mudstones were detained, and it began to crack slowly.
Then, in the news report the next day, it said:
"at 10:00 last night, an accident occurred when the roof collapsed. Although no passers-by were injured, we did not know the casualties at the scene."
So, do some of them have no luck? So did they have an accident when the balcony collapsed?
The report only said that he did not know the casualties at the scene and did not point it out directly, so he gave the audience a guess that this was an open ending, and at the same time, he also pointed out that some things were destined to be yours, yours, not yours, and they could not be forced.
As Xu Guanjie sings in the song, "sometimes there must be something in life, but don't force it all the time!"
Although the film is crazy, funny and even nonsense, it is in this relaxed and humorous atmosphere that it throws a topical question to people. The house really crushes a lot of people!
In the film, there are also some metaphors and boundary jokes, even black and self-black.
