As a bystander, he can easily see through his desires - both the desire for power and blood, and the desire for love. His calmness and indifference are actually full of flaws, and they are just expressions of self-denial. Yu Xiulian said that what you need in the arena is familiarity, trustworthiness, and loyalty. In such a seemingly rude and regular arena, it is impossible to become famous by being indifferent. In the rivers and lakes, no one can be truly pure and kind. He told Xiulian about the sword... "Look at him clean, because it kills without blood"... This sentence is absolutely perfect - no matter how clean and how many moral motives there are, it can't cover up the fact of killing. Where there is struggle, there is grudge. Even if he doesn't kill innocent people indiscriminately, he can't hide his bloodthirsty nature, but every time he kills, he hides under the disguise of morality. What is the meaning of the rules of the rivers and lakes? Even if people kill people, they kill them gracefully and gracefully, and kill them "without blood." Rules, in the final analysis, are used to whitewash and suppress the desires of people's hearts. The less a person dares to face his desires, the easier it is to fall into barriers, the more well-versed in whitewashing, the easier it is to be overwhelmed by desires.
The desire for power may gradually fade with age, but the desire for feelings deepens over time. So in that silent sadness, he finally saw his desire for Xiulian. In the face of this desire, the rivers and lakes are no longer important, and the rules of the rivers and lakes are of course lost together with the rivers and lakes. He saw through the chivalry that advertised violence, and realized their vainness. In this way, he let go of the rivers and lakes, the sword, the grievances, and the righteousness of his master and Qiu He to his brothers. When he finally broke the moral shackles over the years and walked in front of Xiulian, there was no ending in which the two ran to the peach blossom garden on the mountain. The appearance of Jiaolong complicates everything.
He actually stepped into the rivers and lakes he had decided to abandon, and insisted on taking Jiaolong as his disciple. He doesn't care about swords, so is he really afraid that Jiaolong will turn into a poisonous dragon and make trouble with swords? Is it really just to teach the stunts of Wudang School? I'm afraid not. He has already realized the vainness of chivalry - they are just excuses for murder, good martial arts and good excuses will only create more entanglements. If so, what's the point of training Jiaolong? Even if he is trained to be like himself, what can he do? It can only continue to create tragedies of oneself and others in the grievances and hatreds. So Li Mubai fell in love with Jiaolong. But didn't he come to Xiulian to beg for rescue? Didn't he always love Xiulian from the beginning to the end? Why did he fall in love with Jiaolong...?
Li Mubai may not love Xiulian as much as he thought, and Xiulian may not be his real salvation. There was not much love between his brows and eyes, no matter when he held her hand and said he wanted to be with her, or when he finally revealed his true feelings, he was not so emotional, and even appeared hastily. His feelings for Xiulian, I am afraid, only gradually deepened in the repression, and it exists as the reaction force of the repression, not the original force of love. In the silence, he saw the strong desire in the huge gap in his heart. He thought that the strong desire was because of too much love, but in reality, it may only be because of excessive self-denial. Therefore, the pursuit of his beloved is nothing more than a rebellion in the name of love, not love itself. Correspondingly, when he rushed to love Xiulian, he only broke through the obstacles related to that love - he did not know that the essence of the problem was his cocooning. So when he soon encounters another forbidden love, he once again binds himself with the ropes and escapes from one cage to another. He didn't even realize his feelings for Jiaolong, he still thought that Xiulian was his desire, the lover who saved him from becoming a lonely ghost.
In my opinion, Li Mubai actually tells a story of losing oneself in self-denial. In a space with many restrictions, passion can only be buried deep underground. Once it spews out, it can only be combined into a force of resistance, unable to follow one's true wishes. Under the constraints of the outside world, it is easy for people to misjudge their own wishes, and mistakenly think that what they are deprived of is their true love. Even if the power is released, they will only chase after the deprivation, and no longer have the energy to explore themselves. real heart. The tragedy of Li Mubai is that because of his former self-denial and his former deprivation, he didn't devote his energy to the end of his life to figure out why he was so lonely and what he really wanted. Maybe he didn't want a specific person or a specific feeling, but just a stretched and honest heart.
Jiaolong is different from them. She is very fresh and has a wild heart hidden in her boudoir. She loves when she wants to, and she fights when she wants to. She never needs a reason, and she never restrains. It was precisely because of the lawlessness that Li Mubai desperately wanted to transform, the ignorance and fearlessness that Li Mubai did not have, that she became a fatal temptation for Li Mubai. Although her heart is free, in reality she is imprisoned, so she is also born for rebellion, for the freedom she does not have. She tried to escape, tried to stay, tried to pretend, and tried to be enlightened, she kept exploring the boundaries of freedom and rules. She escaped from the high wall, she has tasted love, she has tasted the freedom she thinks about day and night, but she still has not found the answer. Seeing that she lost herself in this resistance, she was more desperate than anyone else.
It could be a story of desire. Why are you lonely? Why silence? because of desire. What is the control of desire? to be loved? Be enthusiastic? No, it is missing. Make up for what's missing and we'll be all right? Will not. Where is the answer? elsewhere. There, presumably there is no desire.
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