Hong Kong Wave Of Nostalgia Piece: Once To Activate The Cultural Memory Of The Ceremony

The tide of nostalgic films is a special movie phenomenon on the historical stage in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is always a basement of commercial film producing. Many scholars once have been anxious about the nostalgic films, which had fabricated the past insanely. They worried about the way of fabricating the past would erase history feeling and history awareness. However, nostalgia meet game by chance, and then the two cultural elements are mingled together in the tide of nostalgic films. One hand, the element of game is very different from the true past in these nostalgic movies. In the other hand, with the feelings of the true, the good and the beautiful, the element of game has poured the Hong Kong's makings into the nostalgic movies. In order to know how that element of game could active cultural memory and how interior cultural exchange is carrying on, this article starts with game composition breakdown. In a word, in Hong Kong, the tide of nostalgic films made the most of establishing the same feeling and mass unity. In it, the ritual is the appropriate means to exchange morale, feeling and thoughts among people. And game is an aesthetic process with human natural instincts. When game integrates with the ritual, the tide of nostalgic films actives cultural memory, and encourages to the mass beyond the home and the state. With regard to the forgotten Hong Kong by history, through combining game with ritual actives cultural memory, the means make it possible to set up Hong Kong's cultural identity. Also, as activator, game compositions with the basic features of the instable significant, is brought into symbol framework of the ritual. Then, their surplus significations are aroused out. The birth of interior cultural space or ritual must be predicated on it. Therefore, The tide of nostalgic films stands alone outside of the society of Hong Kong. The outside spirit establishes a symbol world for the violated worried mass. As the mediating ritual, the tide of nostalgic movies helps to bring about a happy union between individual and mass briefly.