Xu Qing: The Last Rouge in "The Ring Messenger"

Drake 2022-03-21 09:01:07

The National Day file is the busiest arena in the movie market. The head-to-head confrontation between American blockbusters and domestic movies is still going on, and women are also fighting secretly on the big screen with a smoky attitude. So Yang Ying in "The Promise" is chivalrous, Fan Bingbing in "Double Exposure" is confused and tangled, and "The Ring Messenger" makes Xu Qing the most gorgeous touch of rouge in the film. When talking about this character, Xu Qing herself also said: "This character is a character with emotional clues. Without her, Bruce would not go back to the past to hunt down Joseph. In other words, my character is the origin of the whole story. Without her, The whole story won't happen."
In this film with the theme of traversal, telling how the epiphany of human nature breaks through the encirclement of fate, Xu Qing has become the most critical part of the film with very few scenes. The Shanghai woman she plays is heartbreakingly beautiful, mature and without dusty taste, can put up an arrogant middle finger to Bruce Willis who has been so courteous to her, and can also do her best as a lover after becoming his wife. Although this character is like Kelly Ann Moss in "The Matrix", it is the spiritual pillar for the hero to fight for, and a theme for the sublimation or fall of love. Therefore, in just a few episodes, Xu Qing always has high hair, melancholy eyebrows, and sadness for falling in love with a killer who has arranged to leave her eventually. She is his angel, and even more so. The so-called "fighting a crown to become a beauty" means that a man changes the destiny for a woman, and even pushes the future of mankind to the direction of disaster.
The two female characters in "Loop Messenger", Xu Qing and Emily Blunt, have their own styles. If the latter is a wasteland rose, then the former is a beautiful and beautiful lily in the wind, which will be easily broken. Become the root of the hero's revenge. In this complex circular time and space, Xu Qing appears as the most perfect woman. Her goodness even makes the future male protagonist prefer to take risks with his body, and never miss the opportunity to meet with him, even in this encounter. Bring it to the utter disaster. Although Xu Qing is the style of European beauties in the film from makeup to dress, her gestures are full of the subtleties and sorrows of Oriental women, so that the drama of the hero's life entrusted to her can be convincing. It can be said that she is the culprit who destroys time and space, but she is also an innocent and pitiful infatuated woman. Therefore, Xu Qing became the highlight of "The Ring Messenger" and the eternal pain in the killer's tragic life.
Ryan Johnson, director of "Loop Messenger", was also deeply fascinated by Xu Qing and praised her for her "unassuming oriental beauty and mysterious elegance". As a result, the female actor who was initially arrogant and beautiful on the big screen, intermittently obsessed with obsession, and died like a nightingale crying at the end. This "transnational love" has thus become thrilling and heartbreaking. In fact, in this tough-tempered, brilliantly conceived science fiction film, the rivalry between Xu Qing and Bruce Willis is the most tender and affectionate part, like the sunny side of human nature, until death comes, played by Bruce Willis. The actor has completely subverted his beliefs and dealt with the gloomy life with a dark face.

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Looper quotes

  • Older Joe: This is a piece of indentifying information on the Rainmaker. He's here. He lives here now. In this county. And I'm gonna use this to find him. And I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna stop him from killing my wife.

    Joe: Fuck you. And your wife. None of this concerns me.

    Older Joe: This is gonna happen...

    Joe: It happened to you. It doesn't have to happen to me. You got a picture right there in my watch? Let me see. Show me the picture. As soon as I see her, I walk away. I'll fucking marry someone else. Promise. So when I see that picture, that fog inside your brain should just swallow up all the memories, right? She'll be gone. If you give her up, she'll be safe.

    Older Joe: Give her up?

    Joe: Yeah, give her up. You're the one who got her killed. She never meets you, she's safe.

    Older Joe: You don't understand. We don't have to give her up. I'm not gonna give her up. I'm gonna save her.

  • Joe: There's a reason we're called loopers. When we sign up for this job, taking out the future's garbage, we also agree to a very specific proviso. Time travel in the future is so illegal, that when our employers want to close our contracts, they'll also want to erase any trace of their relationship with us ever existing. So if we're still alive 30 years from now, they'll find our older self, zap him back to us, and we'll kill him like any other job. This is called closing your loop. Eh, you get a golden payday, you get a handshake, and you get released from your contract. Enjoy the next 30 years. This job doesn't tend to attract the most forward-thinking people.