Chapter 68: The Borderless City (Part II)
"Do you want to send it? Brother Ping said as she sketched her eyeliner.
"Is it because of yesterday?" Xu Jing felt a little complicated in his heart, and couldn't help asking, "Are you hating me?"
"Hate you?" Brother Ping stopped what he was doing, turned around, leaned against the wall and lit a cigarette, tilted his head and spit lightly, the smoke spread slowly, in the dim light, like a devil, devouring her: "What right do I have to hate you? I have been watching my mother do it with others every day since I was seven years old. Love, at the age of ten, I followed my dad to suck D, and at the age of twelve, I watched him being hacked to death, you are not wrong, a girl like Qingqing really shouldn't make a friend like me. ”
"Anyway, I misunderstood you yesterday, I'm sorry. Xu Jing didn't know what to say for a while, so he had to say: "If you are like this because of yesterday's incident, I hope my apology will make you give up your current thoughts, you can not be like your mother." ”
"Otherwise?" Hearing Xu Jing's apology, the suppressed grievances in Brother Ping'er's heart instantly came to his heart, his eyes turned red, and finally turned into a trace of self-deprecation, and said: "A child like me who grew up in a walled city has been spurned by people all over the world since birth. NV, what else can you do? continue to slash people and then be hacked to death?"
Brother Ping'er's two lines of tears finally flowed out, and she spent her freshly put on makeup, perhaps, in her heart, she would prefer Xu Jing to appear here and yell at her 'Three hundred, you belong to me tonight', and then she can make a ji... nv, in the future to give birth to a small stream who doesn't know who dad is.. Hooligans, little ji.. NV, if the cycle continues, it is the life trajectory of the walled girl.
"We can't choose our birth, but we can choose our future, can we?" Xu said.
"Why are you talking to me about this?" Brother Ping turned his head sideways, a ripple appeared in his eyes, and his eyes were full of indescribable complexity, looking at Xu Jing and asking, I don't know if I listened to Xu Jing's words.
"I have also had dark days, and I have struggled in despair, I can't say that if you go to fight, you will definitely be able to get out of your current situation, but if you accept your fate like this, are you really willing to be like your mother?" Xu Jing was in a trance, remembered some previous things, said quietly, and then hesitated for a moment, and added: "Moreover, Qingqing must not want to see you go on like this." ”
"Qingqing... Ping Ge'er muttered, bowed his head into his thoughts, and did not speak again.
"Think about it, if you need my help, you can come to me at any time. Seeing that she no longer spoke, Xu Jing said goodbye and turned away.
When Xu Jing's figure went out, Brother Ping still kept his head down, not knowing what he was thinking, as if he hadn't noticed that Xu Jing had left. After a while, I saw her step on the cigarette butt, wipe the tears on her face, straighten up and take off the wig on her head, throw it into the trash can, and then rushed out of the door, shouting at Xu Jing's back who was about to disappear at the end of the corridor.
"Hey, can I go see Qingqing once?"
"Bring that bracelet, the youth will like it very much. Xu Jing turned his head, looked at her thin body, smiled slightly, and replied.
On the other side of the corridor, Brother Ping'er's eyes overflowed with two lines of tears, but a bright smile also appeared on his face.
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Walking along the alley where he came, Xu Jing didn't frown any more for the hermit gentlemen who gathered in the corner to suck D, even the D-making factory controlled by the black state not far away could exist safely, what were those hermit gentlemen?
Out of the walled city, looking back at the walled city like an ant nest, on the dense windowsill, there are old people smoking big cigarettes, and there are ji... NV, there are also children folding paper airplanes.
The sparse crowd shuttles through the alleys like ants. There was no sorrow or joy in their faces, and they had nothing but what fate had brought them.
Born in a walled city, with no future, no hope, no money, no way out, their lives reveal a kind of fatalistic sadness.
After getting into a car and returning to the company, Xu Jing did not return to the editing room to continue the editing work of "Haibian King", but went straight to the office, took out the manuscript paper, and wrote a few big words "rustle".
"Borderlands".
In fact, with the completion of "The King of Haibian", Xu Jing had already expected the next movie to be made, but because he accidentally broke into the Kowloon Walled City, he was extremely depressed.
Whether it's the extremely dirty environment, where rats and insects eat and sleep with people, or the Ping Ge'er family, the sixty-year-old grandmother who is still selling Y, or the thousands of ji... NV, the hidden gentleman, and the black state elements all made Xu Jing feel unhappy.
The Kowloon Walled City, it is the paradise of the community, the holy land of the black state, and the hell on earth.
If there is any film that can depict such a dark childhood, absurd youth, erosive environment, the most brutal black state, violence and gunfire, it must be the original time and space "City of God" released in 2002, and "Borderless City" is its Hong Kong translation.
"City of God" is a film adaptation of a semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, which is a very special film because its protagonist is not a person, but a place.
Despite its name, the city of God is ironically a place where there is no God, but a place of D-pins, black states, and firefights, and it is a slum in the southwest of Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Basi.
The film is a ukiyo-e depiction of the extreme darkness of the brutal black state, focusing on the pervasive evils of theft, robbery, smuggling, trafficking, murder, and robbery in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, whose roots have penetrated deep into young children.
Speaking of which, "City of God" is a legendary film, it is directed by an advertising director, and its actors, except for one supporting actor who is not an unknown actor and a few who are part of the crew, all the rest of the cast are from the slums.
But it is such a film, once released, it replaced the 98 Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear Award-winning film "Central Station", and became the representative film of Bassi's films, when people mention Bassi's films, the first thing that comes to mind must be this film. Director Fernando Merrills has also become a world-class film master with this film.
It is worth mentioning that "City of God" has won more than 60 awards at various large and small film festivals, but when it was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 03, it was unexpectedly not even shortlisted, which caused many doubts about the Oscars from all walks of life, forcing the Oscars to change the selection rules for the best foreign language film, and in 04, it scored twice, giving four nominations including 'Best Director', which made countless people fall through the glasses.