strange-"Furthermore" and "Westward Journey: Moonlight Treasure Box", two unrelated movies , When the curtain ended, I found their intersection.
The first is the following shot, which reminds me of the shot of Monkey King bidding farewell to the sunset samurai and Zixia in "Moonlight Treasure Box".
Max's eyes, and the eyes of Monkey King when he left, were also full of blessings, perseverance and loneliness. When all the dust settles, the lonely hero will start again. This is his destiny.
When Friosa looked down at the hero from a height, wouldn't his line of sight be like Zixia looking down at the left back of Monkey King?
Max turned and submerged in the crowd, so similar to the posture of Monkey King turning away. The samurai said, "He looks like a dog." Max, the stray dog who wandered in the doomsday world, set foot on the road again.
At the end of "Journey to the West", Sun Wukong was given a look back at him. He still has nostalgia for the world.
On this long road of self-exile, Monkey King at least has partners. Max, on the other hand, can only be alone.
What is the consciousness of a hero?
In "A Westward Journey", before the war, Monkey King, put on a golden hoop, appeared in time with auspicious clouds before the war, saved everyone, and at the same time deprived himself of his lust.
In "Furious Road", Friosa discovers that the "green field" has disappeared, so he decides to travel lightly and explore a new base. At this time Max decided to part ways with them. He didn't think there was a place of salvation ahead.
If the two groups of people are separated, then it must be Max who will survive in the end. As Max said, Freosa will lead the crowd in the boundless desert to the end.
But Max hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't just sit back and watch. He caught up with Friosa and persuaded them to implement a dangerous but hopeful plan. Only then did everyone return to base camp.
Max will not know that if you take everyone back, it will be a road to death. But once, Max failed to save his favorite person, seeing all beings vanished, so this time, he would rather give up his chance of surviving, but also give everyone hope and a way out-this is a hero's choice.
The hero succeeded in the end, but did not stay to enjoy the fruits of his victory, and even gave up the love in front of him.
Because he knew that the road to salvation was not over yet.
Why do some heroes choose to put aside the happiness in front of them and go far away?
American Western movies ("The Wilderness", etc.), Japanese samurai movies (Kitano Takeshi, "Zatoshi", etc.), and Chinese martial arts movies ("New Dragon Inn", etc.), such roles emerge in endlessly. When all the dust settles, A hero full of blood, alone, drifting away lonely.
This kind of leaving means to go back on the road, to exile oneself, and to seek salvation.
In fact, self-exile itself is a kind of punishment and redemption.
In the world’s three major religious concepts, there are requirements for practitioners to punish themselves, self-inflict abuse, redeem sin karma, and even replace common people’s sins, and so on.
These heroes with profound reflection qualities are willing to give up this life in order to save sentient beings.
This is completely different from the superheroes in Hollywood Marvel and Marvel comics. While saving the world, Iron Man, Superman, and Spider-Man have added a halo of admiration to themselves.
And Max and Monkey King, on the way to save all living beings, bear heavier and heavier crosses. This artistic tradition can be traced back to Christ Jesus, to the tragedies of ancient Greece, and to the tragedies of Shakespeare. . .
It is precisely because of this tragic nature that people can glimpse the heaviness of life, and all good acquisitions need to be paid.
And such a role gives the audience more aftertaste; such a movie gives the audience more thinking.
Since the film was born, it has continued to carry meaning to itself, rather than as a pure entertainment method. Only filmmakers can figure this out before they can make a movie with substantial content.
In contrast, do you prefer superheroes? Or a lonely hero?
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