The protagonist of the story, Caso, is an ancient book identification and resale dealer. His client, Professor Bargan, asked him to do one thing with a high commission - to identify which of the three "Ninth Doors" in the known bibliography is the real one. Professor Balgan, who studies magic, told Caso that Tokia, the author of the book three centuries ago, said that he completed this book with the devil, and the book contained the secret of entering the ninth gate. For the high commission, Caso hit the road... In the
film, everyone is looking for a way to enter the ninth gate of the devil. In fact, this is a metaphor for everyone's yearning for something. However, those who were finally selected to enter the ninth gate were not those who had worked hard for many years. A person who never cared about this path (but perhaps more potential) eventually entered the ninth gate. Perhaps this is just like what Buddhists say about transmigrating people with a predestined relationship. What determines your entry into that door is not how long you have cultivated, how devout, how hard you are, or how deep your research is.
The reason why many people didn't understand the film was that they didn't understand the identity of the green-eyed beauty who often appeared by Caso's side to protect him. (And then think the film is badly edited.) In fact, the film has already made a lot of clear explanations about her identity. Remember giving her two flying shots during the fight? At this time, the audience should be able to understand that the woman who Caso calls "Green eyes" is not an ordinary human being. (No one should interpret that short-lived flight as the director's Chinese Qinggong in order to show beautiful women, good skills!)
So, what exactly is she? She should not be the author of that book - the devil. (I was skeptical at first.) The film again gives a clear hint. There are two close-ups of the ninth picture in the book of Ninefold Pass. When Caso found the ninth real painting according to the guidance of the beauty, a close-up of this picture appeared, which not only implied that Caso had found the real ninth door, but also marked the identity of Green eyes. The viewer should already be able to understand that the green-eyed beauty is the nude woman riding on a hydra in the ninth painting. She is the guide of the ninth gate, and it was she who guided Caso into the ninth gate. In fact, before the film, I also gave a close-up of the ninth picture. That was when Caso was looking up materials in the library and saw the flickering beauty. (Of course, what I see here is a fake picture. There is only a castle in the sky. The dazzling light on the real picture is missing.) In fact, that close-up is also marking the identity of a beauty.
This green-eyed beauty is the devil's messenger. It is said that the woman riding a hydra in the Bible is a symbol of lust. (The Bible is too thick, I am too lazy to look it up and verify it.) Some people don't understand why Green eyes and Caso have a very passionate scene at the back of the film. She directly tells Caso the secret of the ninth door. (Therefore, some people think that the director added the plot randomly.) There are also some movie content introductions that explain this scene as "Casso and the beauty finally burst into love sparks", which is even more misleading.
There is absolutely no love here. Whether Green eyes is the devil in charge of the sin of lust is not discussed for the time being. This passionate scene is actually a ritual. It's not surprising if you've noticed a conversation between the baroness and Caso earlier. The baroness once mentioned that the devil-worshiped silver snake will not only read the "Ninth Gate", but also have sex with men and women. In fact, here she also answered the reason why Tao Fa sold the book and committed suicide at the beginning of the film. (Ashamed of Mrs. Tao Fa's red-briefing.)
Remember in The Da Vinci Code that the reason Sophie had a sour relationship with her grandfather was that she had witnessed an ancient ritual. Therefore, the passionate scene of beauty and Caso is actually a very important ceremony. In the background of the blazing fire, Green eyes also showed a few hideous eyes and teeth. Isn't this picture of the messenger of hell not clear enough? Perhaps this ceremony signifies that the beauty officially recognizes Caso as a person qualified to enter the ninth gate.
In the film, Professor Bhagan's research on "The Ninth Gate" is very deep, but he failed to enter the ninth gate. The reason in the film is that he didn't get the real ninth picture. (The ninth picture is of a beauty riding a hydra pointing at the ninth gate.) This implies that the reason for his failure is the lack of guidance from the green-eyed beauty.
In fact, the two old men who repaired ancient books in the bookstore also have very special identities. They should be messengers of beauty, or assistants. The beauty said that the reason why Balgan failed to enter the ninth gate was because she replaced the real ninth picture. Caso later found the real page of the ninth picture in the two old men's bookstore. It turned out that the two old men took down the real page of the ninth picture and added a fake page to the original book.
The two old men have said before that it is very difficult and expensive to forge an ancient book. Although he has this technology, it is not cost-effective. In fact, it has been implied here that the entire book is not completely forged, but it is not a problem to forge only one or two pages with the skills of the two.
Obviously, the two old men replaced the pages according to Green eyes' orders. Otherwise, the beauty should say that the two old men changed the picture, instead of saying "I" changed the picture.
There is something wrong with the translation of one of the authors of that book as "devil" in the film. (Or the Chinese lacks the classification of devils.) LCF should be the big devil (Lucifer?) with a relatively high status among the devils. The green-eyed beauty is also a devil, but she is a devil in charge of a certain evil in a lower position than the LCF. The two old men are people of lower status than the green-eyed beauty. Maybe the two of them are like enlightened monks who can talk to the Buddha.
The cultivation of the two old men on the magic path is quite high, and they obviously know the secrets of the ninth gate. Because it was under their guidance that Caso focused his research on the map with the LCF logo. When they explained the first illustration for Caso (the content of the picture: the person who was looking for the nine-fold gate was carrying a burden and was on his way, someone in the sky pointed an arrow at the traveler). , bring misfortune on its own." The two old men were the first stop for Caso to study Jiuzhongguan Shu. In fact, the two old men implied that if Caso wanted to seek the truth, he would encounter many dangerous things in the future. The last scene of the two old men's appearance is the "sneering" of the two who said "go to hell has to have a backbone". (It's hard to describe their smiles.) Maybe it means, "Boy, you've been targeted by our boss." When Caso went back to find the two old men, the two old men had already moved. Maybe it's a hint that what they've done for the beauties, the key work of dialing the pass for the chosen person, is over. (It turns out that they were there to wait for someone to be loved.)
"The Ninth Gate" is a film about pagans. Those who are familiar with Satanism should understand the content of the film more easily, and find more metaphors and symbolic language in the film.
At the beginning of the film, Caso's bookstore friend is killed and put up as an illustration in the book hanging upside down. The "hanged man" card in the tarot means that there will be disaster in the future. Maybe the symbol means that too. However, Caso, who has not studied magic, will definitely not know that this corpse is a symbol. "The Ninth Door" does not explain all the symbols in the film, and only some people who understand symbols can understand them.
And when Caso helped the beauty stop the bleeding, the beauty scratched Caso's forehead with her bloody hand. That action must be referring to something. The three blood marks on Caso's forehead must be a symbol, but I don't know much about symbols, so I don't know what it means.
Some people say that the magic researchers who are related to the book "The Ninth Gate" in the film are a little unfortunate. Tao Fa, the original book collector of the first book, committed suicide at the beginning of the film; Fergus, the book collector of the second book, was a lonely man. Although he lived in a villa, his family had almost no family and even sold his beloved collection. Many are trying to get food and clothing; the third book collector, the Baroness, is paralyzed with both legs and uses a wheelchair to move her body... I didn't particularly notice this misfortune, and I don't think it was intentional by the director.
Tao Fa, the original collector of Balgan's book, committed suicide at the beginning of the film because of something he couldn't think of. But the two old men said that the one who was really interested in this book was Mrs. Tao Fa, who was just a money maker. (The book was sold to Tao Fa by two old men who repaired the ancient version.) Later, the baroness, who made no secret of her infidelity, also said that Mrs. Tao Fa was the chairman of the devil-worshiping Silver Snake Society. Mo Dao is not interested at all, and does not know what his wife is doing. In this way, Tao Fa has nothing to do with the magic way at all. It would be too far-fetched to say that the loss of her husband was the misfortune of Mrs. Tao Fa.
The lonely Mr. Fergus had few things left at home—the violin that he kept in his hand, the metronome on the little table, the brandy. Of course, there are 834 books left in his collection. Not only did he lose the bookcase (the books were placed directly on a dry and clean floor), he even had to discard more than 4,000 books. However, Fergus does not seem to be interested in the magic of the book, he cherishes the book itself. Look at the look on his face to the book, "1844", "first edition", "immaculate", "text and illustrations are complete"... They are all about the book itself, not the metaphysical content in the book. When he saw another "Ninth Gate" by Bargan on Caso, he showed a complete fanaticism for the book, "beautiful", "gorgeous", "exactly the same", and even sophisticated to pay attention to the same Small imperfections on the same S on the printing of the page.
Of the three book collectors, only the Baroness truly unabashedly admits that she is a heretic. It would be more appropriate to say that her misfortune had something to do with magic.
It is also the two old repair old men who study the magic way. They said they had enough time to study the book before selling it to Tao Fa. And obviously, they know the book much better than other collectors. I don't see anything unfortunate about them. Could this be interpreted as the fact that the real wise man has no side effects.
There are also many great metaphors in the film that are worth thinking about. In fact, the worship of the devil in the West does not refer to doing bad things in the traditional sense. It should mainly refer to a kind of spiritual opposition. For example, Bulgan, who has done a lot of murder and arson, failed to become a person qualified to enter the ninth gate. Green eyes, though a skilled demon, never killed anyone in the process of protecting Caso. . . . The Catholic Church, which is called orthodox, often burns to death those who do not agree with its own teachings. As Satan said in "The Last Day of the Devil" starring Schwarzenegger, "I'm actually similar to God, but it's more popular than me."
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