Feelings of watching "Hero"

Jocelyn 2022-03-23 09:01:30

The narrative structure and visual effects are really good, but the final theme is really painful, full of savior-style false narcissism, Can Jian Feixue's sacrificial love does not feel any aesthetic feeling, the real beauty comes from the true and profound experience of life , The two people's sacrifice for love seems like a mountain and flowing water, but this kind of contempt for life is just blind narcissism. The grand sacrifice scene is just to earn tears. Maybe the director wants to express some lofty and grand spiritual emotions, but many The scene does look very hypocritical, sublime for the sake of the sublime, in the whole movie, I don’t see who is living for myself, and pay attention to my own feelings inwardly. This kind of ethics and morality of sacrificing oneself and fulfilling others seems noble, but in fact it is illusory. , only by changing yourself can you change the world, and the prerequisite for changing yourself is to pay attention to yourself and recognize yourself, which is also the phrase "treat yourself sincerely" in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". It is also the difference between Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou. Zhang overplays the grandeur of the external world and morality and ignores the interior. It seems grand, but it is actually very empty; Li keeps exploring the interior, which seems to be a small angle , but let people see a wider, more real, and more concrete world.

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Hero quotes

  • Nameless: Halt!

    Sky: What can a minor official do?

    Nameless: This is my territory.

    Sky: And?

    Nameless: You are on the kings most wanted list; I am here to place you under arrest!

    [lifts sword ready to fight]

  • Moon: I am going to kill you and avenge my master!