The first impression when I walked out of the movie theater was that this film was good except for the plot, the pictures, the soundtrack, the acting skills of the actors, as well as many details and ideas that made me very emotional. the director's intentions.
Everyone in the movie seems to be a symbol. Guangming (Sanada Hiroyuki) is a confident and arrogant general who values dignity and rights the most, and was later harmed by his self-respect and pride; Wuhuan (Xie Tingfeng) is a cunning and hatred who was deceived in his childhood and led to his life. The duke, he likes flamboyance, tricks, and the feeling of victory, but in the end he finds out that he doesn't even like himself; Kunlun (Jang Donggun) is a slave who slowly awakens to seek freedom through his own efforts. Got love; Qingcheng (Cecilia Cheung) chose desire and gave up true love when he was young and ignorant of the world, and also laid a bitter foreshadowing for his own destiny at that age; Guilang (Liu Ye) is a mortal, a sincere person. , a kind, cowardly ordinary person, so he is my favorite.
In fact, there is also a character called Manshen (Chen Hong), who comes and goes without a trace. She is the master of fate and knows how the future will develop. She seems to hope that someone will change the future, but she always looks at fate proudly and sadly. People who dominate are hard to change. It seems to be satisfied that all living beings submit to their own authority, but also feel the loneliness of doing everything according to the rules. I understand it this way, otherwise there is really no need for this character to exist. Especially every time she appears, the cruelty she reveals when she talks about the future that has been set, I always take a deep breath.
such as light. I don't know why I always have some sympathy for Guangming. Except for being arrogant, he doesn't seem to have committed any fault, but he is doomed to fail and end in a tragic end, even if he tried his best, such as sending Kunlun to pretend to be himself, and even thinking about it later. To passively but gladly beg for death, without success. He was doomed to lose everything, to fail at the fate determined by his character. So when Manshin appeared and told him that he would never win again, that he would die when he shed his first sad tears (in fact, he didn't die when he cried? Doubt~~~~), I felt extremely cruel.
Suddenly thinking of "Ambush from All Sides", everyone dies on their own weaknesses, or rather, on their own strengths. Character determines everything, and this may be the fate that cannot be changed for thousands of years.
Besides Wuhuan, this is a sympathetic child. As soon as he appeared on the scene with a bit of coquettishness and asked Wang to give her Qingcheng, I knew that he was the little boy who was deceived when he was young, because he only wanted revenge, not love. From childhood to adulthood, he has always been a son and brother, thinking that he can get what he wants, with a little naivety in his cunning. There is nothing wrong with him, but he was traumatized as a child and took a more extreme method to deal with it. But is he himself responsible? No one came to teach him what to do, and the first thing the world taught him was deception. Wuhuan is cruel, but not cruel, everything he does seems to be a prank of children, he built a big bird cage for Qingcheng, he made all kinds of gorgeous facilities and outfits for himself, he even hanged himself deceive the light. However, after revenge, I found that I got nothing, and the result was far less satisfactory than the process. When he was crying, I thought he was still a blind and needy child.
In the final duel, Guangming lied to him twice more. Wuhuan has already said that he doesn't believe anyone anymore, but he still believes him, let go of Guangming, and let go of Qingcheng. Although the last time Wuhuan took advantage of the situation to kill Guangming, I would like to believe that if Guangming hadn't tightened the rope immediately, at least he wouldn't have died so quickly. I am willing to sympathize with Wuhuan being deceived again for wanting to believe.
The person they are fighting for is Qingcheng, the woman who seems to represent perfect love. But they all died for her. Qingcheng is also in a fate that is hard to get rid of. She deceived people in order to survive when she was a child, which resulted in the biggest tragedy in her life. I am very emotional about the fate of this causal cycle, and I hope the director can focus on this. It's just that although the film spends a lot of effort to explain that Wuji is the place of destiny, it arranges Kunlun to run away from his destiny. As a result, I began to wonder about the director's intentions. Can fate be surpassed? Why can't other people try to get rid of it?
Personally, I prefer the narrative of fate, perhaps more pessimistic than optimistic. Therefore, for Kunlun, there is not much feeling. Although I admit, this is a very infectious and powerful man whose sincerity and simple humanity ultimately transcends fate and even time. I also admit that he impresses me in many ways. For example, he looked at Guangming and said, "Follow you and have meat to eat." That kind of simplicity and shyness. For example, he sent Guangming to Qingcheng and said, "I'm going home." A kind of peaceful sadness...
Finally, the ghost wolf, one of my favorite characters. When his life was dying, he chose humiliation to survive. When he was a minion, he tried his best not to hurt anyone. When he saw his compatriots, he was sincerely happy, and he sacrificed his life to help. At the last moment, he saw clearly the path he had walked. turned to ashes. This is a story of how mortals face choices. There are struggles, hardships, shame and introspection, and final sublimation. Such mortals are the closest to your life and mine, and they are also the most inspiring to us who may make the same choice.
I think the best acting in this film is Liu Ye, and then Nicholas Tse.
In addition to the symbolic meaning of the characters, there are many things and scenes, such as the surrounded royal city, such as the spotless snow country, such as the black robe that can save lives but also lose freedom, and so on. Some I understand, some I am still ignorant.
In the end, taking back what I said when I walked out of the movie theater, "there is nothing to remember", there is actually a lot of fun. It's just that there are many more that I still can't figure out.
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