This is my best film recently, even it has been hold in 1994, still worth to watch today. The screenplay is a famous female writer in 1930s, Zhang Ailing(Eileen Chang).
There is a scene, makes me a very deep impression, is after Zhen Bao see Jiao Rui again, be overcome by one’s feelings crying, whispering a few words:
This is ridiculous
In this meeting, there should be people cry
She should
She should, he should comfort her." Then, the lens glass out of the window at the rain left Jiao Rui flickering back.
After a few years, has repeatedly read Eileen Chang’s novels, have seen some of Stanley Kwan’s other works, and the most important is the change in mood, so when once again to see the film, the feeling is completely different.
Change is me, let me in the Eileen Chang all works out of a movie, I would choose the red and the white rose. Eileen Chang between the lines have a sober attitude, but she frame stories are sitting on the fence, structure characters have complicated and emotional. So her work into the script is not easy. I like the red and the white rose, because the integrity of the story, the character’s plumpness, especially in the big background of war,a group of highly educated young people, a negative feelingstowards love, a little bit of penetration, to the end of the outbreak, very dramatic sense of conflict.