After being constantly praised and criticized, the two of them not only did not get eliminated by the years, but remained in this world more and more firmly, and then continued to usher in more The flowers and swearing.
And when mentioning this "Promise", we can't help but mention a spoof short film.
Why mention it by the way? Because of its value, it's only worth mentioning this incidentally.
Many people who have watched this film think that Chen wants to give the audience too much, and his ability is not so strong, so it affects the quality of the film.
I think, regardless of Chen's ability, even if there is really a person with super ability, who shoots a film with a strong meaning and a deep connotation, after a tiring day, the mood is low, and the grumbling buys it Do you really have the patience to experience these things in the movie carefully after the expensive ticket is crowded into the cramped, dark and stuffy movie theater where you can't even straighten your legs?
From this point of view, even if we really don't like Chen and "Wuji", shouldn't we let a vulgar short film blind our tolerance?
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_ After re-reading it, let's scribble some.
In the eyes of many people, one of the criticisms of "The Promise" is that it is too messy. Why is the protagonist always holding his voice when he speaks? Why does it feel that the protagonist is always crossing? Why does Wuhuan deliberately drip other people's blood on the fan when he kills people? Why did the hero and heroine fly away at the end of the movie? Why does it feel like Liu Ye and Zhang Dongjian are doing the basics and so on.
Of course, an amateur movie fan like me may have said it inappropriately, but there is one thing that cannot be denied, that is, watching Chen's films if you don't experience them carefully is basically equivalent to watching them in vain.
There are many things that we can't understand and accept at first glance. After careful experience, you will find that these are actually very interesting things.
For example, regarding the femininity of Liu Ye and others in the movie, I didn't understand it when I just watched it. But then, when I was bored, I did an experiment, that is, after earnestly experiencing their sissy emotions, I said the lines with their emotions and recorded them. I was amazed to find that my voice was miraculously softened and motherly. (Especially Wuhuan's resentful lines and the king's bravado, sinister and cowardly lines)
I use this example to say that if you don't really understand the characters' emotions, it's difficult to understand some of Chen's expressions.
But who thinks so much while watching a bad movie?
This explains the feeling that Chen always tells bad stories. In fact, Chen's story is pretty good, but I didn't read it carefully. As long as you look in, there are finishing touches almost everywhere.
Of course, performance is secondary. The most messy thing for people is the messy protagonists in the film and the crappy stories that happened between them. This is the end of appreciating "The Promise". If Chen's symbols and metaphors are extremely magnificent, then what do these characters and this story symbolize? Let me tell you my opinion.
I understand several main characters in the film as several kinds of human natures that are abstracted from real people, and the whole story is just a metaphor for the confrontation of several human natures and the ending after the collision.
The name of the film is Wuji. What is Wuji?
Many people don't pay much attention to it. In fact, Chen already told us at the beginning of the film.
It's what Manshen said: In Wuji, there are everyone's birth, old age, sickness and death, everyone's joys and sorrows. It can give you the best food in the world, the most beautiful clothes, and it can give you the favor of the strongest man in the world. Everything in the world is yours. But one small condition is that you will never get true love. Even if you get it, you will lose it immediately. This is infinity. Promise is the inevitable result of different choices made by different human natures, and it is also the inevitable outcome after the coexistence or confrontation between human natures. Buddhism is called karma, and materialism is called law.
What Chen wants to tell us is that in our daily life, the moment we make a choice, whether it is an accidental choice or an inevitable choice, whether it is an intentional choice or an unintentional choice, Promise has arranged for us a result. The result is birth, old age, sickness and death. The result is autumn and winter, delicious food and clothes, or the loss of true love.
It is the thousands of choices in the world that make Wuji keep running, and Wuji also makes choices.
But with all kinds of human nature, when we face choices, we usually say a simple "I do" without even thinking about it. Does this reflect the humbleness and sadness of people from a certain aspect?
Kunlun, played by Jang Dong Gun, represents human beings It is the simplest and purest kind of human nature.
In the film, Kunlun appeared as a slave and competed for a piece of meat. After watching it, some people felt that the human nature symbolized by Kunlun should be greedy and selfish, which I think is wrong.
If a hungry man chases a hare, can you say he is greedy? What is greed? A person who is full chasing a rabbit is called greed.
This kind of the simplest, purest and most simple human nature is like a baby. It is necessary to eat milk when it is available, cry and grab it when it cannot be eaten. This is actually very reasonable. That's why I oppose the rhetoric that human nature is inherently evil.
So is this kind of human nature good? Neither. We saw in the film that Kunlun grabbed the meat and did not share it with others, but ate it by himself, which is not good.
So I understand that Chen is using a symbolic method to say to us: In the beginning, people are neither good nor evil.
But there is a question, if Kunlun is not good, why did he save the slave owner, why did he persuade Qingcheng to live well?
I think it's because this most authentic and pure human nature and the "Dao of Heaven" talked about in the Book of Changes have the same goal, that is, "birth". This life represents survival, continuation, movement, development, and corresponds to destruction and cessation.
So it can't be said that Kunlun is good when he saves people. Maybe what he does is a good deed, but the reason that motivates him to do it is only his desire and appeal for life.
The power of this kind of appeal is very powerful. I think Kunlun represents the most powerful power of mankind----pure power.
Many people may have the feeling that when we do something with extremely pure motives, it is often unprofitable. Even if this matter was not what we wanted in the end, when we look back on the past, we can’t help but marvel at how I actually came over and really persisted to this day. Yes, that's pure power.
In human society, there are not many simple and pure people, because everyone knows that the pure cost is very high, it is hard to endure, or even impossible to live. But we may all have this feeling: I am not as good as a pure person like so-and-so. Even if he is very SB, very 2, very lack of heart, I am not as good as him. (Anyway, I have this idea)
There is a saying, "When the world is shallow, the dyeing is also shallow; when the world is deep, the machine is deeper. Therefore, the gentleman is not as refined as Pulu, as restrained, as sparse and mad." - Pure People are often very powerful.
to be continued...
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