The film mainly tells the legendary story of Monkey King who was punished by Guanyin Bodhisattva and reincarnated as a supreme treasure before Tang Seng and his disciples went to the west to learn the scriptures. The film premiered in Hong Kong on January 22, 1995 and was nominated for the Best Screenplay Award at the 15th Hong Kong Film Awards. With this film, Stephen Chow won the Best Actor Award at the Second Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.
Speaking of Journey to the West, you can think of Zhu Bajie’s billowing belly and pig ears, you can think of Monkey King in yellow clothes and monkey hair, or a Tang monk who is serious about compassion, but in fact, Journey to the West can also be like this. play. The white bone spirit can be the passionate Karen Mok, the scary white bone in the mirror of the demon, and the white Jingjing outside the mirror, and finally commits suicide in love.
And Monkey King was both righteous and evil. He was imprisoned at the foot of Wuzhi Mountain for five hundred years. After he came out, he still had a back bone. His wild character was bound by the curse. When Monkey King finally put on the curse and cut off his emotions and desires, he was really sorry for him. But there is no way to change it, that's how it should go.
In the letter Bai Jingjing wrote to Zhi Zun Bao, "Your conscience tells me that you love me the most, but another woman. When I saw what she left in your conscience, I felt that you passed through here. Five hundred years, it was not me who came back to look for, but her." This love is really a sin!
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