Cai Liangming's "Water Town Trilogy"
Cai Liangliang's style is unique in Chinese films and even in the world film world.
If Chen Guo and Jia Zhangke discuss the relationship between society and people, then Cai Mingliang pays more attention to "people" themselves.
Under his lens, space is cramped and time stands still. Cai Liangming is notoriously stuffy, and some people joke that his films are comparable to sleeping pills.
"Teenage Nezha": Cai Liangliang's story will always have only one protagonist: Xiao Kang. In this movie, Xiao Kang is a rebellious teenager who drinks heavily, drags cars, fights, and does nothing wrong.
In the film, the sewer blockage has been flooding with water that cannot be pumped, symbolizing the insatiable desire of their young and young flesh.
"Long Live Love": This is the work that really made Cai Liang famous, three young people looking for love in a lonely apartment.
The water in the shot is the water in the bathtub, it is tears, it is a hint of sexual nakedness.
But even with these things, where is love?
"River": This film has a bit of a heavy mouth. The well-off who has a strange illness, and the gay father who covets the body of a young boy, grope each other's bodies in the dark...
The water here is dead and rotten, losing its vitality. Pain, numbness, and illness breed here, and there is no way out.