Song of the Exile reveals its veil with an extreme close-up of a bicycle wheel, accompanied by Hueyin’s sentimental narrations. Hueyin, the narrator and one of the protagonists, isa Sino-Japanese (ethnically) studying in London. Aiko, Hueyin’s mother, is a Japanese who has been living in Macau and Hong Kong since the end of the Second World War.Hueyin’s grandparents, in reliance of their illusionary imagination on Mainland China, choose to settle down in Guangzhou in the shadow of Cultural Revolution. Seemingly all the main characters in Song of the Exile are in displacement from motherlands and resettlement in host lands (Yue). This essay will analyze the displacement and its reconstruction of identity in the context of Song of the Exile.

As to Hueyin, a subtle implication on her contradicted ethnicity and nationality arises when she is typing another resume after she receives the rejection letter from BBC. The heading of her resume indicates that she was born in Hong Kong (“Place of Birth: Hong Kong”) but she is a British (“Nationality: British”). The scene not only epitomizes the colonial history of Hong Kong, but also portrays the discrimination Hueyin encounters as an ethnical Chinese. She should have been treated equally as her local friends on application to BBC in terms of nationality. Yet more often she is isolated in the pub and unintentionally alienated when her friend mentioned about using chopsticks, which symbolizes a classical imagination of orientalism. All these subtle fragments pile up, Hueyin gradually realizes that although she lives in London and speaks fluent English, she still belongs elsewhere. She is indeed “an exile in a foreign land” (Erens).

That’s probably why Hueyin erases her resume and instead types a farewell letter to her friends in London. The opening scenes depicting the landscapes and culture heritages of London, especially appealing to most people in Hong Kong at 1990s after the demonstrations on Tiananmen Square. The image of London is somehow embellished in the diffusing suspicion of returning to socialistic China. In terms of Hong Kong, the model of One Country Two Systems “includes Hong Kong as a part of China but excludes it from legal structure” (Yue) and economic coordination. All those British culture and heritages left in Hong Kong cannot be simply replaced like the replacement in nationality derived from the handover, not to mention the reconstruction of recognition of Chinese identity. It seems that Hong Kong itself, like Hueyin, also lives here but belongs elsewhere.

The same displacement occurred to Aiko,Hueyin’smother, who has been living in Macau and Hong Kong for most of her life. She tells her older brother how difficult her life is in a “foreign country” upon reaching her hometown in Japan. As a Japanese living in Macau and Hong Kong after the Sino-Japanese War, Aiko was prejudiced and even despised by Hueyin’s grandparents and neighbors. She speaks Japanese. She is more in favor of Japanese cuisine. She always reminds herself and Hueyin of the reputation and wealth of her family in Japan, which constitutes an explicit contrast to her floundering life in Hong Kong and Macau, trying to adapt to local lifestyle. When returning to Japan, she picks up her mother tongue, her Japanese name and all other Japanese ritual habits, thus reaffirming her identity as Japanese. She seems to be no longer the “otherness” but one of “the same” with similar social practices and collective acknowledgement of identity.

However, the authenticity of favorite food, the familiarity of language and the comfort of coming back home do not last for long. When Aiko deliberately shows off her well-educated daughter studying in London to her relatives in an attempt to create a “glorious return”, her relatives respond in indifference and ethno-centrality. The Japanese food she used to favor feels cold and tasteless. She even complains about the traditional hot baths for their impracticality and inconvenience. Those yeas living in Macau and Hong Kong unselfconsciously alter he cultural identity. “The years of acculturation in Hong Kong have changed her attitude towards the homeland” (Yue). For Aiko, the journey to Japan is supposed to be a resume of her original identity, but it turned out to be a reminder of her new cultural intimacy towards Hong Kong created by her life of displacement.

At the end of Song of the Exile, Hueyin’s grandfather, who is severely beaten by the Red Guards in Cultural Revolution claiming to topplebourgeoisie, mentions about sending the book of Song Poetry to Hueyin in case she forgets the profound traditional Chinese culture. His reference to this particular period of divine Song Dynasty infers “the national sentiments of modernity, exile and reunification” (Yue) in the horrific shadow of Cultural Revolution. The poverty, brutality, and disorder in Guangzhou smash Hueyin’s grandparents’ fantastic illusion on homeland when they are in Macau. The distance from home procures an ideal to restore the original identity. Yet Hueyin’s grandparents have already become the “otherness” when they return. Only marginalization and hostility towards the Kuomintang’s nationalism embrace them.

In Song of the Exile, the elements and implications of displacement and resettlement constantly affirm and reshape the characters’ recognition of their own ethnic and cultural identities. As for Hong Kong, 15 years has passed by since the handover, seemingly it still belongs elsewhere. In a time of globalization, borders and boundaries may be easily blurred out and they are no longer obstacles for commerce and communications. However, frequent communication does not directly lead to mutual understanding between Mainland and Hong Kong. Conflicts may also arise. The recognition and reconstruction of Chines identity are far more difficult than the reconciliation between mother and daughter in Song of the Exile. As for Hong Kong cinema,local contents (food, language, cultural heritage) in Song of the exile seem to be “a nationalistic response to globalization” (Teo). Nonetheless, maintaining and distilling local features in the pressure of globalization“would not have been and still is not easy” (Yue) in 21st century.

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由深圳市知慧文化传播有限公司出品，香港著名导演罗棋执导的影片《鸡飞狗跳》定档4月7日在全国各大院线上映。片子主要讲述了富家少爷张之恒为了挽救家族危机，前往张家界寻找祖传宝藏，在四大家族的帮助下，终于击败觊觎宝藏的国际大盗，并最终将宝物上交给国家的喜剧故事。


从演员阵容上看，《鸡飞狗跳》汇集了香港影视圈很多金牌配角，如在周星驰电影中以经典恶婆形象示人的“烈火奶奶”鲁芬，在成龙、李连杰功夫电影中的以铁血硬汉著称的狄威，更有香港老牌艺人陈观泰鼎力加盟，演员阵容不可谓不复古。而导演罗棋也是香港著名的功夫片导演，他曾执导过的《A计划》是成氏功夫喜剧片的代表之作。罗棋对于功夫喜剧类型片的把握经验非常丰富，因此在《鸡飞狗跳》中也多见一些传统的功夫喜剧元素，不难想象这其中有着向港式功夫喜剧致敬的因素。


从香港电影史上看，功夫喜剧可以作为一个单独的门类来进行研究。首先，功夫片一直是香港电影最大的特色，也是香港电影最大的成就，不夸张的说，现在世界上对于中国功夫的理解，很大程度上都与香港功夫片的推广有直接关系；其次，喜剧片是香港影坛的强项，根植于一个开放包容的环境下，香港电影最早期的萌芽就直接受到好莱坞的影响，而作为观众最喜闻乐见的类型片种，喜剧片的内核在香港电影中被无限挖掘，最终奠定了港片在世界影史上的地位。


功夫和喜剧，本来就是一组非常融洽的元素，其产生的化学反应直接可以说是惊艳，功夫喜剧由此诞生。如果说李小龙的功夫片还算得上是纯粹，那成氏功夫喜剧的诞生可以说是一种开创，自从成氏功夫喜剧诞生之后，世界上就没有纯粹的功夫片了，提起功夫，就可以直接和喜剧挂上钩，而后面李连杰的严肃搞笑，周星驰的夸张演绎，将港式功夫喜剧推向了极致。


而从共性上看来，港式功夫喜剧还有着精神内核上的一致性。无论是李小龙还是成龙，亦或者李连杰和周星驰，在面对港式功夫喜剧当中主角塑造的时候，无一不是在发扬一种惩恶扬善的侠义精神，而这种侠义精神其实就是功夫片的内核，也是中国武者的精神诉求。这点在《鸡飞狗跳》中也得到了很好的发挥，影片的主角张之恒从最开始只是单纯地为了拯救家族危机而去寻宝，到后面对抗国际大盗，将宝物上交给国家，其实正是体现了当代中国武林人的侠义精神——以爱国为前提，行侠仗义。


从这点看来，很多观众会觉得这属于政策要求下的三观正，但其实站在功夫喜剧的层面，这是一种很朴素的价值观塑造，就跟早期港式功夫喜剧，也是充满了惩奸除恶、弃恶从善的价值观，这并非是假大空的灌输，而是一种功夫人的诚意，中国武者的武者精神向来如此。《鸡飞狗跳》当中，四大家族为了信守承诺，坐拥宝藏却一定要等故人之后到来，这种坚守也是中国武者最直接的信仰体现，因为真实，才更能让观众体会到感动，因为有力，才更能让观众接收到影片想要传递的侠义精神的内核。


罗棋是最早和成龙合作的导演和演员，而《鸡飞狗跳》当中又多是成家班和洪家班成员，这些都是香港功夫喜剧的开创者和弘扬者，以此班底推出的电影《鸡飞狗跳》，在港式功夫喜剧类型上可以说是根正苗红，而在影片中随处可见的致敬动作，夺宝的主题、双雄对决的格局，无一不在彰显港式功夫喜剧的经典元素，而这些元素在让观众捧腹大笑的同时，更是在精神层面回溯到八九十年代，回顾到那时候，港式功夫喜剧巅峰时期所带来的独特体验。

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