Because the new version of "Jade Face Love Demon" was released, so first look at the original version to find the feeling. The era of the film was too far away from me. At that time, people's thoughts and behaviors were emphasized and adjusted at a stage level. However, it is very symbolic and worth recalling.
The protagonist is Stan, a young villager who works as a "too" in the circus. At the beginning of the film, Stan wearing a "fake shirt" gives a long inner monologue in front of the "spiritual" magician Zina! This monologue can be described as the most empathetic cry of all young people who have just entered the society! Curious about everything and want to conquer everything. Standing on the stage seems to be God, but returning to life, there are many people! Therefore, Stan's tragedy is revealed at the beginning of the film. He is dissatisfied and injustice, and he hopes to rise and become a superior man, at any cost!
Although the film is full of irony and blackness, Stan can't be hated! Because that's how every young man starts out! When he encountered the injustice of life and saw the darkness of life, he was lost in the face of choice! Go with the flow or surf the tide, or be in sympathy or in awe, whatever you and I choose, Stan will choose!
In the film, he was not reconciled, so he expected to find the secret to success in Zina's "leader" Pete! However, like in all similar movies, Pete is a representative of depression and alcoholism. He has had brilliant moments, seen wonderful things, and once stood at the top overlooking all beings, and when he saw young Stan want to check the "secret book" in his hand, What he showed was fear. It's not the fear of being robbed of a job, but the fear that a good young man can't help the temptation of "cheats" and fall into depravity, so this is Pitt's remorseful confession. Very shocking and bitter, but it makes Stan very disgusted, just like the inner OS that every young man must have when he hears the teachings of his predecessors: This failed life is unique to you, I am different, if I... I will definitely be able to more successful! You are out of date, old man, sooner or later, I will board the top of the world with the cheats, watch the alcoholic, watch it, loser~!
Next is the climax of the film, Pete is dead! It was indirectly killed by Stan's kindness! And this also became the opportunity for Stan to decide to get out of the circus and become a master! He wanted to take a jasmine flower from the circus, but was forced to marry by the protector of the circus jasmine and others. This description is very true, because people at the bottom know that they can tie a person with the law, and this is the bottom line. Man's only belief, but this ridiculous belief is constantly being tested in a series of subsequent events.
Freed from the shackles of the circus, Stan really rose to prominence. Through tacit cooperation with Jasmine, Stan became a "great stanton", a "spiritual magic master" who was constantly mentioned in the upper class. And when all goes well, a spoiler, or the most important woman in Stan's life, shows up!
The psychologist Reiter is the most trusted doctor of the rich people in the city. She sneered at everything about Stan at first, but with the contact, the smart Stan gradually mastered Reiter's secret, and the two formed an underground alliance, Reiter. Give Stan the privacy of the rich, and when Stan demonstrates spiritual magic to the rich, he points out their dark side or where they care, and quickly becomes a money-making machine. Dirty secrets for the rich and unkind upper class become Stan's guarantee of making money, and Rhett also gets a lot in the meantime. Most importantly, Stan handed over the money he earned to Rhett to keep without Molly, which laid the groundwork for later events.
In order to make more money, Stan decides to go big. He was going to deceive the richest person in the city and let Jasmine pretend to be the "second wife" of the rich person. As a result, Molly couldn't help the torture of her conscience and revealed her identity, so the two became desperate couples. Stan asks Molly to seek refuge with her former circus colleague, and goes to Rhett to get her money back. However, he found that his money had been wrapped into counterfeit coins by Reiter. Annoyed and angry, but helpless, I had no choice but to become a tramp!
Then, when he was desperate, he saw a circus again, and he went back there to find a job. At this time, the circus owner gave him a job, which was a "clown" pretending to be a wild man and eating live chickens. This takes care of the savage "clown" in the circus where he started out. He couldn't stand the human "destroy" of the job, and when he was about to run away, Molly appeared. She was like an angel, calling back to Stan's true heart. Faced with the holy Molly, Stan was crying in pain and human. The light shines again in my heart.
This is the end of the film of reincarnation. There is darkness and light. Stan's life shines into the hearts of countless people. It is a ruthless mockery of the society at that time and a portrayal of the fate of the people at the bottom. Stan is unfortunate because of ambition and ability. No match, he lost everything, he was lucky, he had Molly, and the humanity was still there! Stan's situation will make "Vois sur ton chemin" when you lose yourself, don't let money, status, sensual pleasures blind you!
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