#He Zhiwu

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fallen angels (1995): he zhiwu icons.

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Fallen Angels (1995)

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The Communist Party’s main theoretical journal has laid out a new ideological framework for the financial system that emphasizes the primacy of China’s top leader and Marxist principles. [...]

The Communist Party issued a detailed ideological statement on Friday in Qiushi, the party’s main official theoretical journal, that made clear that it expected banks, pension funds, insurers and other financial organizations in China to follow Marxist principles [...]

The Qiushi paper, which was being closely studied by bankers and economists in China, could cut against efforts by Beijing to show that the economy is open to investment even as it places a heavier hand on business.

Barry Naughton, an economist at the University of California at San Diego who has long studied China’s transition to a market economy, said that the document signaled that the finance sector would be subject to ever-tighter oversight and forced to serve government policies more actively.

“The financial sector will not be expected to push for market-oriented reforms or even necessarily maximize profit,” he said. “As a program for the financial sector, it is ambitious, disappointing and somewhat ominous.”[...]

“Politics will for sure further dictate China’s finance, effectively moving China even closer to how it was before the reforms started in 1978,” said Chen Zhiwu, a finance professor at the University of Hong Kong.

Some of the policy targets set forth in the essay would not be unusual as regulatory goals in the West. For example, it calls for banks to emphasize financial services for the “real economy,” which the party has long interpreted to include ample financing for the country’s industrial base.

But it also calls for a strong role in finance for [...] Marxist ideology generally. That follows a pattern that emerged for other sectors during the national congress of China’s Communist Party a year ago, but has been less apparent in finance — until now. [...]

Moody’s, the credit rating agency, announced on Tuesday that it was lowering its credit outlook for the Chinese government to negative. It had previously assigned a stable outlook for the country’s credit rating, which remains at A1, near the top of the ratings scale. [...]

Qiushi is the main journal providing pronouncements on China’s current ideology, which is known as Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The statement on Friday said that Mr. Xi’s speech to the financial conference, “is a valuable ideological crystallization formed by our party’s unremitting exploration of the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics.” [...]

“Politics affects all important areas, and economic or financial issues are themselves political issues,” he said. Indeed, Communist Party control over finance comes up repeatedly in the Qiushi statement. “We must unswervingly adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the party Central Committee over financial work, uphold and strengthen the party’s overall leadership over financial work,” it said.

5 Dec 23

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FALLEN ANGELS: Journal Entry (6/8)

grateful I didn’t watch this movie when I was 19 cuz I would’ve been insufferable. That said, I’m really glad that I gave myself the opportunity to successfully watch and engulf myself in Fallen Angels. Watching this, I was able to understand where a good deal of underground visuals came from circa 2021; step printing and the aesthetic of the mercenary alike. Furthermore, akin to Chungking Express the screenwriting takes four characters (or better) and intertwines them as the script progresses. Unlike its predecessor however, this movie goes a step above what Chungking Express did — fusing and letting individual character progressions intersect a lot more prominently than the former. While I wasn’t as passionate about this movie as I was with Chungking Express, I still can appreciate this film and dissect what I did and didn’t appreciate.

I hadn’t realized initially that I signed up to watch an assassin’s tale. At first, I felt little attachment to Wong and it was truly because I’m not into brooding anti-hero archetypes. As a matter of fact, I felt a bit more connected to the women he was involved with — Blondie and his unnamed partner alike. Blondie yearns for love in a man unable to provide it sustainably. Wong’s unnamed partner is in love with a man who only ever agreed to be business partners with her. In both scenarios, Wong inevitably acknowledges his inability to satisfy both of their needs, inevitably parting ways with both in the hopes that they find the love they ever so seek.

One of my favorite aspects of this specific story’s progression was the cinematography. The step printing effect, the increased shutter speed, the exaggerated fish eye lens (which was advocated for by cinematographer Christopher Doyle) all contribute to a distorted harmony of restlessness. To continue, the cinematography illustrates more of a spontaneous freeform of shots than it follows a traditional structure and whether it intended to or not, this is a crucial blueprint for many music videos within the last decade. Lucki via Lonewolf, Travis Scott and Pop Smoke via Cactus Jack/White Trash Tyler, Migos via Sing J. Lee — the influence is prevalent.

Every character was written in lonesomeness and loss in their own right but He Zhiwu was a character I couldn’t help but feel for. Personally, I felt more attachment to him and the navigation in his limerence. He doesn’t experience these things quite like the average joe as he is mute and socially awkward. Given these details, I empathized a bit more though he seemed to handle his shortcomings with a childlike bliss. To switch lanes a bit, I felt the love between him and his father. An awkward relationship and at times funny by the will of Zhiwu’s mischievous behaviors, but an honest one. He expresses his love for him through his cinematography and it gives us a truly pure essence of the relationship they have. Truly, he’s a very layered character and his silence speaks volumes in quiet settings. Limerence can be fleeting. Love hits like a stray bullet. Hardship can be a thunderstorm. Zhiwu felt everything, and as child-like as he was, he was just as analytical. Stop to feel these things out — don’t just neglect these sensations.

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Chungking Express (movie) - He Zhiwu

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Everything I Watched This Year

I have watched the most movies this year of my life, which is still so few that I can fit them all into one tumblr post, so here they are in approximately chronological order (along with TV shows). I almost exclusively watch visual media with other people, and they're often the ones picking. Favorites get an asterisk (*), and this does not include rewatches.

*Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-Wai): Five loosely connected lonely people chase imagined versions of each other around the Hong Kong nightscape. I didn't go into a plotless arthouse film expecting it to be extremely funny, but it is. He Zhiwu (my new tumblr icon!) deserves to be up there among the deranged autistic blorbos of all time.

What We Do in the Shadows (Showrun by Paul Simms and Stefani Robinson) [First half of S4]: If you're on tumblr you probably know the premise already. I was disappointed that after S3, which felt like a build to huge shifts in the characters and status quo, S4 felt like a walkback. Don't remember much else about it other than crying laughing at the sequence where they try to get baby Colin Robinson into private school.

Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee): Everyone knows what this movie is already. It's well-made and solid, but it wasn't anything that exciting for me. I expected it to be more striking. Love the 70s home production design in that one scene though, and that kiss truly is good.

*Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes): A reporter tracks down the truth of a rock star gay affair that sparked his own queer coming of age. Dreamy, gorgeous, and I could not describe the plot scene to scene if you paid me. Just a really lovely film to experience for me, someone who had latent and unnamed transgay feelings as a teenager about the concept of "emo boys kissing."

Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma): Phantom of the Opera-inspired drama about a songwriter getting revenge on the predatory producer that ruined his life. Total delight of a campy melodrama.

Kamikaze Girls (Tetsuya Nakashima): A delinquent and fashion-obsessed scam artist strike up a lesbian-tinged unlikely friendship. This movie is bananas. Way more stylistically experimental than I'd expected--there's a sequence of the protagonist's birth, people just float offscreen sometimes, the townspeople constantly turn to the camera and advertise for the megamart they buy all their clothes from, etc. A really really surprisingly fun watch.

*Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury (Hiroshi Kobayashi and Ryō Andō) [First 6 episodes only]: Optimistic young pilot of a war machine that she may have an illegal psionic connection with goes to space high school and is promptly drawn into political plotting via accidentally getting gay engaged to a corporate heiress. Highly enjoyed the parts of it I saw - great action sequences, fun character drama, and just enough political substance. Not as weird as Utena, which it's inspired by, but can be brutal where necessary. I should watch more!

*In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai): Two Shanghainese emigrants in Hong Kong discover their spouses are cheating and embark on a tragic affair of their own. God, this movie deserves every bit of praise it gets. I gasped out loud multiple times at the gorgeousness of shot compositions. Top notch acting, gorgeous colors. This tends to be a movie pitched as being about a repressed love affair, but it's also a movie about the positionality about being middle class colonial subjects and the relationships they have with the world. This gave me so much to chew on after I watched it.

Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai): Two Hong Kong expats living in Argentina have a toxic gay relationship trapped in a tiny apartment. This one felt very opaque to me, and it is allegedly an allegory for Hong Kong being returned to Chinese rule after British colonialism, which I absolutely do not have enough background to really get. Wong is a great director though, and I constantly think about the sequence of the main character seeing the abusive ex walk into the club, beat while he finishes his drink, and then he breaks his bottle off and goes in to screams.

Bound (The Wachowskis): A lesbian handyman falls for a woman married to an abusive mobster that they plot to rob. The first 45 minutes were very enjoyable as a lesbian heist film. Unfortunately, once the gunshots started the torture scenes became so stressful for me to watch that I sweated through my shirt. (I also had Covid).

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First watch: Fallen Angels 1995

Here are some things I noticed or/and loved:

He Zhiwu's seemingly hopeless pursuit of romantic love from the most unattainable people ending by meeting someone else who also gave so much to a too-consuming love

I loved how when these two finally got together the first glimpse of the day was shown after the entire film taking place at night

The tragedy of Wong Chi Ming's ( the killer) character

That one scene where He Zhiwu leaves a chair out for his dad while he keeps repeating the video of him smiling after his passing away (crying screaming throwing up)

Loved the various references to Chungking Express

Beating up Blondie

I loved reading the occasional Korean store signs

All the colors

I loved loved loved the 1818 song scenes ( all of them)

To conclude I really liked this film and I personally think it is one of the best and I can't wait to share it with someone who I love.

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He Zhiwu : We rub shoulders with many people everyday. Some may become close friends, or confidants. That's why I'm always optimistic. Sometimes it hurts. Not to worry - I try to stay happy. That night, I saw that woman again. I knew we'd never be friends or confidants. We'd let too many chances pass us by. Nothing happened, there was no chemistry. Maybe it was the weather, but that night I found her very alluring.

Fallen angels (1995) - Wong Kar Wai

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   #ProyeccionDeVida

🎬 “ÁNGELES CAÍDOS” [Duo luo tian shi (Fallen Angels)]

🔎 Género: Drama / Romance / Thriller / Historias cruzadas / Secuela

⏰ Duración: 92 minutos

✍️ Guión: Wong Kar-Wai

🎼 Música: Frankie Chan y Roel A. García

📷 Fotografía: Christopher Doyle

🗯 Argumento: Leon Lai es un asesino a sueldo cansado de su trabajo que se plantea dejarlo. Michelle Reis es una prostituta que, además de buscarles los encargos, le hace el trabajo sucio a Leon. Pero ella vive apasionadamente enamorado de él, aunque nunca se hayan conocido en persona. Lai conocerá a una mujer, Karen Mok, con la que comenzará una relación. Ésta, con el tiempo, coincidirá con Reis y les preparará una cita en la que Lai le confesará sus deseos de retirarse. Reis, sintiéndose rechazada, le preparará un ultimo trabajo. Intercalándose con esta historia nos encontramos con un joven mudo, Takeshi Kaneshiro, que viviendo con su padre tiene una difícil existencia debida a su deficiencia física. Sus días transcurren entre los dispares trabajos nocturnos y servir de consuelo a una joven engañada por su novio.

👥 Reparto: Takeshi Kaneshiro (He Qiwu), Michelle Reis (The Killer's Agent), Leon Lai (Wong Chi-Ming), Charlie Young (Cherry, Charlie), Lee-Na Kwan (Woman Pressed to Buy Vegetables), Man-Lei Chan (He Zhiwu's Father), Karen Mok (Punkie, Blondie), Toru Saito (Sato), Benz Kong (Ah-hoi), Chan Fai-hung (Man Forced to Eat Ice Cream) y Hermione Corfield.

📢 Dirección: Wong Kar-Wai

© Productoras: Chan Ye-Cheng & Jet Tone Production

🌎 País: Hong Kong

📅 Año: 1995

📽 Proyección:

📆 Jueves 02 de Mayo

🕗 8:00pm.

🎦 Cine Caleta (calle Aurelio de Souza 225 - Barranco)

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Ingreso libre

🙂 A tener en cuenta: Prohibido el ingreso de bebidas y comidas. 🌳💚🌻🌛

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01012023: Fallen Angels (1995) / Wong Kar-Wai

Lu y yo empezamos este año como Sen Senra, proyectando Fallen Angels de Wong Kar-Wai.

De esta película me ha encantado He Zhiwu, el personaje de Takeshi Kaneshiro, un sordomudo que en su humor me recordó a Chaplin. Su historia, absurda y tierna, quiebra la tensión de la trama paralela entre Wong Chi-Ming y su socia. Así Wong Kar-Wai logra justamente acentuar toda la ternura de He y su padre, y la explicitud y crudeza de las historias del asesino y la mujer que trabaja para él.

En algún momento He Zhiwu ve hacia la cámara y esto me hizo sonreír: siempre es el que parece más 'loco' el que está más consciente de todo lo que está pasando, hasta de que está siendo observado por nosotros.

Me llamó la atención lo platónico en las tramas, que ambas historias se conecten por la obsesión por una persona que no está. En una, el amor desenfrenado de la socia de Wong Chi-Ming por él - aunque prácticamente le conozca, y en otra, el amor de Charlie, la mujer que He consuela, por Johnny, un personaje a quien no vemos jamás.

El desarrollo de las historias paralelas entre estos personajes y sus amores transcurre dentro de sus cabezas. Estos buscan y se enfrentan a una persona que no ven, y la 'lejanía' entre los personajes está también en el soundtrack: beats aletargados, pesados, que suenan como si los escuchásemos desde otra habitación o como si proviniesen de las profundidades del agua, hacen evidente el hecho de que hay algo que les separa a ellos, y nos separa a nosotros de lo que vemos. Es tanta la distancia, que prácticamente escuchamos a los personajes hablar para sí mismos más que entre ellos.

Resalto y me parece bellísimo que He Zhiwu solo se sienta realmente un 'adulto' desde que le hace falta su padre, es como si se cerrara su arco como personaje al tener lo que los otros ya tienen: la añoranza por alguien que no está.

Elementos que también amé profundamente: por supuesto, las tomas (¿fish-eye?) que confirmaron en mí esa sensación de estar espiando la escena escondida desde una lata en la despensa; Las autopistas, los túneles, las motos, las voces en off (cómo me encanta ver a los personajes contar su propia historia); el vestuario y la estética en general de la película.

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takeshi kaneshiro as he zhiwu in fallen angels (1995)

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Fallen Angels (1995)

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━ Fallen Angels (1995), dir. Wong Kar-Wai

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1:32AM…… im sleepy