This article was first published in the movie public account "Yunhe Movie". It can be eaten safely before the spoiler split line. The overall score is 8 points.
In March of this year, I wrote a popular Korean fantasy movie "Walk with God: Sin and Punishment" about hell trial and reincarnation. In less than half a year, I wrote the sequel "Walk with God 2: Cause and Fate". It has also been released. Today we will continue this magical journey together. Those who have not seen the first part may wish to click on the link below to learn about the general content of the first part.
If you have to go through seven hells after death, can you still be reincarnated?
The second part of the plot succeeds the upper end. After his brother Jin Zihong successfully passed the trial of seven hells, the underworld sent the trio to their 49th nobleman. The upper part was once the younger brother Jin Xiuhong, and this Once the forty-nine nobles succeeded in reincarnation, the three underworld ambassadors completed their tasks and got the chance to reincarnate.
At the end of the upper part, the underworld messenger played by Ha Zhengyu, Jiang Lin, after making a fuss in the underworld, he will punish him. If Jianglin cannot prove Jin Xiuhong’s innocence, he will lose his identity as a underworld messenger and go to hell to suffer. Within a few days, the elderly Xu Chunsen, who had expired but had been stranded in the world because of the shelter of the city lord god, was brought back to the underworld. So the three soldiers were divided into two groups. Jiang Lin was responsible for bringing Jin Xiuhong to the hell to be tried, while Zhu Zhixun played Resentment and Li Dechun played by Jin Xiangqi was responsible for bringing back the soul of Xu Chunsen from Yangjian.
On the one hand, there is a lack of evidence to prove that Jin Xiuhong died because of an injustice. On the other hand, Jin Xiuhong, who was unwilling to reincarnate, was extremely uncooperative. In order to appease Jin Xiuhong's emotions, Jiang Lin had to tell the story of his life. It turns out that Jiang Lin was the eldest son of the Goryeo general Jiang Wenzhi thousands of years ago, and he succeeded him as the general after his father died.
On the other hand, the old man Xu Chunsen and his grandson Xiandong depended on each other. His son owed a huge gambling debt and fled abroad. The two of them lost to the mighty city lord god, unable to take the old man away, and at the same time they sympathized with their grandfather and grandson. The city lord god was the messenger who led the Jieyuanmai and Li Dechun's soul in the past. Neither Jieyoumai nor Li Dechun had any memories of his own life, so he begged the city lord god to inform them of their life experience. Before his death, Li Dechun was the frightening general "White Cat Li" who guarded the border with Korea. Li Dechun was an ordinary girl from the Jurchen village near the border.
Although there are two main lines in the story, Judgment in the Underworld and Ecstasy in the Sun, the main plot actually uses the development of these two lines to tell the story of Jiang Lin, Jieyuanmai, and Li Dechun, as well as their grievances and entanglements in previous lives. The advantage of this is the two-line development, which casts a layer of suspense on the story. Through the clever narrative structure, the process of gradually revealing the three people’s life experience firmly captures the audience’s emotions and attracts the audience’s attention. The uncovering of the ending truth and the climax of the story formed a powerful foreshadowing.
The shortcomings are also obvious, that is, the two open lines have become tasteless. Jin Xiuhong’s line is okay. The first part has already explained his story very well, while the story of Xu Chunsen's grandfather and grandson is restricted by the three main lines. , Completely reduced to tasteless. Recently, it is often said that there are too many functional characters in some movies. The main storyline of the film is directly functional. The characters in the whole line are for the shaping of other characters, but such a setting is inevitably the whole The story is slightly loose, and the functional main line is like the branches of trees, making the whole structure look rather bloated.
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1.Tips:
The level of special effects in this work still continues the level of the previous work. Although it’s almost as far as Hollywood, it’s much more elaborate than some of our country’s oriental magic masterpieces that have invested hundreds of millions of dollars. The film only cost 240 million yuan, so it’s really pretty good. Curious, did those blockbuster films that have invested 6,000 or 700 million yuan really cost that much money? One of my favorite special effects is the strange fish full of human faces. It is both gloomy and interesting, and there is a little foreshadowing buried here. Jiang Lin likes to tie people to the mast to go fishing. Tie him to a tree to feed the wolves, so this implies that Jiang Lin is the secret word of the superior for resolving grievances.
One of the big laughs in the film is the tireless black stock market. Even the city lord god who has lived for thousands of years will be locked up by funds and will come back from the stock market. He persuades everyone not to buy stocks. Gods can’t resist. The temptation shows that stocks are really harmful hhh. The most funny thing is at the end. The Chinese stock market's boom drove the Korean stock market to rise. It is really worthy of our A-shares. Unfortunately, the market has been quite bleak recently. Come on, A-shares. If you don’t get up, the Korean people are living in dire straits. So please be sure to carry forward the spirit of international humanitarianism. Of course, it may be due to the director’s desire to survive. It is reported that the film was sent to China for trial, but ultimately failed. It is estimated that the theme of ghosts and gods has always been a red line of Chinese movies. Look at the domestic horror films that have never had ghosts and gods and the repeatedly postponed "Zhong Xie" "You know, but there are also images of Koreans slaughtering Jurchens who speak Mandarin in the film, which really affects national unity.
The elite is the elite, and the elite is still in hell. Look at the protagonist's family. His father is Hell, his elder brother is a middle-level cadre, and his younger brother and younger sister-in-law are key members. The local government is about to be contracted by their family.
2. Cause and Fate
I feel that the subtitles of these two films are very appropriate. The first one is crime and punishment. The highlight of the whole film is the correspondence between a crime committed before life and punishment due to death after death, which symbolizes a kind of causal cycle. , The second part is about cause and fate, the whole film is also about the fate of the past life of the trio of the underworld, and the cause of the three-year-old mission with them.
The author has adopted a very sensible and tolerant attitude towards these evil causes that produce evil results: there are no bad people in the world, only bad situations. The Jurchen massacre of Jurchen people was a kind of resistance to his brother's relegation to the bitter cold land on the border, because his brother said he was too kind to the enemy, Jiang Lin hated his brother because of jealousy, and because of fear of losing what he deserved. He didn’t save his father, and at the same time, he tried every means to beat his younger brother. In the end, his narrowness and selfishness had a lot to do with his father Jiang Wenzhi’s excessive preference for his younger brother and his neglect of discipline, and Jiang Wenzhi died. Shi finally realized this problem, so he said it was all my fault. After he became the king of Yan, he gave Jiang Lin a chance to reform and reform. This thousand years has been Jiang Lin's atonement as well as Yan's own atonement.
It now appears that the chance of reincarnation by helping 49 nobles in a thousand years may be just a cover. The original intention of Yan Wang or Jiang Wenzhi is that Jiang Lin will always remember himself during this thousand years of work. He always confessed the evil he committed, and learned to empathize, learn to empathize with others, and finally get the forgiveness of his murder and Li Dechun’s forgiveness. Only in this way, he Only through the seven rounds of hell can you be reincarnated and reborn.
Jiang Lin, who retains his memory, had to face his younger brother Li Dechun and the innocent girl Li Dechun, who was killed every day. Although his heart was very tormented, he could not express it in front of them, and this guilt and regret were tortured. For a thousand years, although he has not received physical punishment, his heart is already full of holes. This is a torture that is more thorough than physical pain, and Jiang Lin has also used this thousand years of pain to complete it. This atonement. Knowing the truth, Li Dechun chose to forgive, instead of indulging in the grievances of dying with grievances, but also to understand the profound meaning of the city lord’s myth, learned to look at the problem from another angle, learned to forgive, and the world, and the enemy , And reconcile with myself.
There are no hurdles in the world, they are just knots.
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