Looking at it again today, there are still too many places that make people feel heavy and inexplicable.
I can't help but have a different feeling in my heart. I wrote it down and discussed it with everyone.
Maybe that's how good works are. There will never be a correct answer. I must not have the correct answer. I just thought of it and wrote it.
Cheng Dieyi always wanted to protect only the best overlord on the stage, not Duan Xiaolou.
There are several scenarios as follows:
one,
When Cheng Dieyi rescued Duan Xiaolou from the Japanese, he was very excited. This was not just because Duan Xiaolou was released. He shouted at that time that there was a Japanese who knew Peking Opera!
But what Duan Xiaolou was thinking was ethnic hatred, and he couldn't understand how he could think about the drama at this moment.
two,
Duan Xiaolou decided to marry Juxian. Cheng Dieyi threw the sword into Duan Xiaolou's hand and let him recognize it because he wanted him to understand that there should be something in his heart that needs to be guarded from the beginning to the end, and once he entered the marriage, Entering the world, he can't protect this thing.
Between Duan Xiaolou and Juxian, there is a collision between art and reality, and Duan Xiaolou has always been pulled by art and reality. A person who can't end in one, finally gets nothing.
three,
When Cheng Dieyi was arrested, she received a letter from Duan Xiaolou, saying that she would never cooperate again from now on. Cheng Dieyi was heartbroken, so she insisted on begging for death in front of the court.
Losing the Overlord made him more sad than losing Duan Xiaolou. When Duan Xiaolou got married, it was when Cheng Dieyi lost Duan Xiaolou, and his sadness was far from what he felt at the moment.
Cheng Dieyi was sentenced and asked if he was kidnapped by the Japanese to sing for the Japanese. Cheng Dieyi still insisted that he was not kidnapped. He even said excitedly that if the Japanese who knew Peking Opera hadn't died, Peking Opera would not have died. Can be imported into Japan! Art knows no borders!
Four,
Duan Xiaolou sang Overlord for the last time, but because of his old age and lack of practice all the year round, he couldn't finish it successfully. I think maybe this is the reason why Cheng Dieyi chose to die, because the Overlord he dedicated himself to guarding is already dead.
I think this can also explain why Cheng Dieyi died when they were reunited 11 years later. If it was because he couldn't adapt to the new era and world, he should have died long ago. He has never died, maybe because his In his heart, there is another overlord who needs to be guarded by him.
"I am a man, not a female Jiao'e."
Cheng Dieyi sang this sentence again before he died. I saw a film review saying that this was his return to his own gender identity. I thought it was really logical and reasonable.
But I want to try to interpret it from another possibility.
In fact, Cheng Dieyi has never loved Duan Xiaolou. What he fought with Juxian was never Duan Xiaolou. He just didn't want Duan Xiaolou to walk into the fireworks of the world. He was afraid that Duan Xiaolou would destroy the overlord. In his heart, Duan Xiaolou was the best king on stage.
Cheng Dieyi is a firm supporter of the art of Peking Opera. He simply and single-mindedly wants to protect this art.
He sang this sentence, maybe he wanted to tell Duan Xiaolou that I was just the guardian of Nu Jiao'e, I didn't become Nu Jiao'e, but now I don't need Yuan to protect her anymore, because the best overlord already dead.
Therefore, how could the crazy Cheng Dieyi have love for Duan Xiaolou? Everything is just distorted by ordinary people with the eyes of the world. Cheng Dieyi has always been a man, he has never changed, and he doesn't care what others think.
(PS: I'm not saying that homosexuality is not good. It was precisely in those times that Cheng Dieyi was considered to be homosexual and didn't care. He didn't care about that kind of pressure. He only had drama in his heart and couldn't see anything else.)
If I have to say that the person who really cherishes Cheng Dieyi's heart, I think it may be the fourth master. When he and the fourth master were drinking and playing, his beauty was a thousand times better than that on stage! If it wasn't for Cheng Dieyi's willingness, who could force him to the Fourth Master's side? Fourth Master will not be willing to force violence!
But Cheng Dieyi and the fourth master are both idiots. They know the scale too well, and they keep a proper distance from each other, for fear of destroying the beauty of art.
Therefore, the fourth master has never violated Cheng Dieyi, and he has made the best Cheng Dieyi.
In fact, my conjecture is very limited, and the angle is narrowed. Maybe it's because I don't want Cheng Dieyi to fall in love with Duan Xiaolou. Cheng Dieyi shouldn't fall in love with such an ordinary soul.
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