(First published in Toutiao: Tianya Xiaoniao movie)
Recently, there is a movie that has become popular in Korea and continues to be popular in China-" Walk with God 2: Cause and Fate ".
On the first day of the film's release in South Korea, the number of viewers reached 1.24 million (the total population of South Korea is more than 50 million), and it overtook "Mission Impossible 6" to become the box office champion.
Became the first Korean local movie that broke one million viewers on the first day of its release, and set the record for the number of viewers on the first day of "Jurassic World 2".
Its predecessor, "Walk with God 1" in 2017, won the TOP2 score in the Korean box office history, and 1 in 5 Koreans has seen this movie.
It's really a phenomenal national film .
"Walking with the Gods" 1 and 2 both revolve around Jiang Lin (played by He Zhengyu), the messenger of the underworld, and his subordinates (played by Zhu Zhixun) and Li Dechun (played by Jin Xiangqi).
The three of them were required to extradite 49 "nobles" to reincarnate.
"Noble person" refers to a good person who did good deeds during his lifetime, or a person who died in a foolish manner.
The messenger of the underworld will take them through seven trials including murder, laziness, deception, injustice, betrayal, violence, and heaven.
Only the innocent can be reincarnated and reborn.
"Walking with God 1" tells the story of the 48th "nobleman" Jin Zihong (played by Cha Tae-hyun) who was convicted by the king of guilty-he used a pillow to smother his mother when he was a child.
Who knows that there is a touching truth hidden in it.
Jin Zihong has a sick, deaf and mute mother and a younger brother who is preparing for the judicial examination. The burden of the whole family falls on him.
Finally one day, Jin Zihong was overwhelmed...
When he held his pillow to his mother, she was actually awake .
She knew in her heart that her child's life would be easier only if she died.
Therefore, she pretended to be still asleep, ready to die.
Fortunately, Jin Zihong stopped midway and did not kill the whole family. His heart was full of guilt. He left home for 15 years and never returned home until he died.
And mother, has been waiting silently for him to come back.
At the end of the first part, the messenger Jiang Lin muttered to himself: "Like my father..."
Jin Zihong's experience reminded him of his father who died in the same way.
This has to make people doubt Jiang Lin's past and the fact that this movie may be made into a series .
Sure enough, this sentence was answered in the second part.
"Walk with God 2", through the mouth of a new character - Cheng Zhuang Shen ( played by Ma Dongxi), reveals a secret of a thousand years ago.
Let’s talk about becoming a god. In Korean traditional culture, becoming a god is the god who protects the house.
The becoming a god in the movie, because he realized his grandfather's love for his grandson, he insisted on not letting the Yinsi take away the grandfather Xu Chunsan who had expired.
Enraged the King of Yama (played by Lee Jung Jae).
The king of Hades asked Jiang Lin, Jieyuanmai, and Li Dechun to clean up this unknowingly tall and solid god.
Because Jiang Lin wanted to extradite the 49th "noble man"-Jin Zihong's younger brother Jin Xiuhong (played by Jin Dongxu), the task of packing up into a god was entrusted to Understanding Resentment and Li Dechun.
Unexpectedly, the becoming gods were the messengers who brought them to the underworld thousands of years ago .
The memory of Jieyuanmai and Li Dechun were deleted by the king of Yama, and when Cheng Zhan Shen talked about what happened in the past, everyone had mixed feelings.
Thousands of years ago, Li Dechun was a girl of the Jurchen tribe, sheltering thousands of children. She influenced the legendary Goryeo warrior White Wolf who was originally murderous.
The White Wolf is the resolving vein of grievance a thousand years ago.
The White Wolf sheltered them and even distributed the rations to them. Eventually, they were known by the superiors and sent troops to chase them down.
Such a white wolf was the murderer who killed Dechun's parents .
Dechun was startled and angry at first, but finally forgiven him, and together with him resisted the chasing soldiers, and died together.
On the other side, Jiang Lin also told Jin Xiuhong about the past.
It turned out that a thousand years ago, he was the elder brother of White Wolf, who was originally a Khitan orphan, and was adopted by Jiang Lin's father, the Korean General Jiang Wenzhi.
Jiang Wenzhi prefers adopted sons and believes that adoptive sons are benevolent and righteous, and are the talents of generals, while his biological sons stick to principles and cannot become a great weapon.
He personally taught his adopted son, and before long, White Wolf's martial arts and chess skills surpassed Jiang Lin.
Jiang Lin remembered his hatred, and was afraid that the honor and power that originally belonged to him would be taken away by the white wolf.
In the First World War, everyone thought that Jiang Wenzhi died in the battle, only Jiang Lin knew that his father was still alive, but he didn't save him ...
Afterwards, he turned back in regret, and his father was dead.
Jiang Lin once said after seeing Jin Zihong's case: "Like my father..."
The second half is: " Unfortunately, he didn't hear my confession ." (Jin Zihong finally confessed to his mother and was forgiven)
But afterwards, Jiang Lin still pushed the fault of his father's death on White Wolf, expelled him, guarded him, and monitored him, and finally found him to take care of him.
Jiang Lin was the murderer who killed White Wolf and Li Dechun .
After sorting out the context of the story, the theme of this movie is ready to come out- tolerance and understanding .
"Walk with God 2" is like its subtitle "Cause and Fate", it is about the interlocking fetters among the people .
All the people and things in the world are closely related, aren't they all inextricably linked?
Among them, who is the wicked person through and through?
White Wolf killed Dechun's parents, but it was he who saved Dechun's asylum.
Jiang Lin framed the White Wolf, but didn't he have his father's preference in it?
Even the father himself said, "It's all my fault."
Cheng Zao said: " There are no bad people in this world, only bad situations ."
Anything can be seen backwards.
So, just as Dechun tolerated the White Wolf, the Resentment and Dechun also forgave Jiang Lin after a thousand years.
In addition to the two lines of White Wolf, Dechun, White Wolf, and Jiang Lin, there is also the line where Jin Xiuhong was buried alive by his comrades in arms, which directly led to Jiang Lin's confession.
The three lines are parallel, reflecting each other, the story is complete, and the levels are rich .
Compared with the first film, which is dressed in ghosts and gods, and is still Korean-style sensational inside, the second film has a blockbuster pattern .
"Walk with God 2" is known as "South Korea's "Lord of the Rings". Although it is exaggerated, after the first two films, a pattern similar to that of the European and American series has been formed.
First of all, the characters and clues between each part are related .
The first Jin Zihong case introduces Jiang Lin's life experience and Jin Xiuhong's case.
In the second part, Jiang Lin's life experience and the fetters between Li Dechun and Li Dechun are explained in detail.
At the end of the second part, Yuan Dongyan, who buried Jin Xiuhong alive, is introduced. Yuan Dongyan, as the next "noble man", is bound to become the protagonist of the third part.
Secondly, each part has its own system .
When the upper and lower characters and clues are connected, each part constitutes a complete story.
Third, there is a permeating theme among multiple parts .
Looking closely, the first and second parts, the stories of Jin Zihong, Jin Xiuhong, and Jiang Lin are all the same, and they all revolve around "atonement, tolerance, and understanding."
This is an important feature of the series .
Fourth, the plot is reversed in several layers .
The first part, the truth about Jin Zihong's case, the fact that his mother was willing to die at that time brought countless people to tears.
In the second part, Jiang Lin, who seems to be just, has such an unbearable history...
What's more interesting is that the second ending egg reveals an amazing truth !
After Jiang Wenzhi died that year, King Yan invited Jiang to be his successor.
Jiang Wenzhi looked at Jiang Lin who was confessing at his feet and kept rummaging for his father's body, and shed tears of heartache and regret.
He promised Yama's invitation, but with one condition: change his appearance and become exactly the same as Yama.
So for thousands of years, Jiang Lin, the messenger of the underworld, was actually his father!
It was his father who made him spend thousands of years to confess and redeem his sins .
This ending reversal is deliberate enough.
In the end, the blockbuster scenes created with an investment of 40 billion yuan (240 million yuan) are magnificent, with delicate colors and good texture .
What's more worth mentioning is that the special effects of the two films "Walk with God" were produced by the special effects company DEXTER Studios founded by director Jin Ronghua.
Completed independently, it is sufficient to prove that Korean film technology can afford blockbuster production .
As for whether this series of films will become a watershed in Korean films, we still need to wait and see the changes.
However, in recent years, South Korea’s main "small and refined" social reality movies are indeed too many, and the increasingly mature Korean Film Industry will definitely find ways to create new types of movies.
As a result, the so-called blockbuster was born with the packaging of ghosts and gods, and the traditional values that are easy to move the public inside are still born , and it is not known~
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