Xiaoqing was in the stupa, wrapped around Bai Suzhen, and said with a seductive coquettish manner: We have been together for hundreds of years, day and night, you and him have only met for a while, what is the difference between him.
Bai Suzhen's expression was gloomy, and a few words came out of her mouth: "He is different."
He is different. This is almost the core value that runs through the stories of Bai Suzhen and Xu Xian. In the TV series "Legend of the New White Snake", Bai Suzhen believed that Xu Xian was an independent and handsome young man, so she showed contempt when she saw those gamblers and butchers in the previous life. In the movie "Green Snake", it's not that Bai Suzhen didn't know that Xu Xian was bewitched by Fahai and fell in love with Xiaoqing, but she still firmly believed that "Xu Xian has only one" and was willing to steal grass for this "different" honest person, and the water flooded Jinshan. Take a thousand years of life.
This is human nature, and it is the ultimate blind obedience to loving a person. It is more blinding than magic, and more spiritually satisfying than cultivation. It happened to the demon, and it highlights the different paths and the same path between the demons. Therefore, when we carefully use value judgments to think behind this poignant myth, we will always feel that Bai Suzhen's efforts are not worth it. And Xu Xian's eloquence, lust, powerlessness, lack of assertiveness, and lack of responsibility are always more or less reflected in every white snake-related work, from "The Legend of the New White Snake", "Green Snake", to "The Legend of the White Snake" There is Love in the World", and even the Japanese 1956 film "The Legend of the White Snake", without exception. This is also human nature, it happens to people, it is the nature of human beings.
So we can't blame Xu Xian, probably because we know that if we are in such a position, we will not be any better than Xu Xian when we are pampered and fearless.
But Xu Xuan in "White Snake: Origin" is different. As Xu Xian's previous life, in front of the demon, of course, he inherited the powerlessness of being born a human. He can't hold up a protective umbrella for Bai Suzhen when the enemy is in front of him, and he can't be a fairy couple with her in the air. Retrieve lost memories. Until the other party remembered everything, and after a short night of joy, he was decisively told: We are destined to be unable to be together.
I thought that Xu Xuan would accept his fate. In the social hierarchy sequence of "immortal-human-demon-ghost", forget the emotions of this dynasty and return to the days of mortals. But Xu Xuan obviously broke the role of "Xu Xian" in all White Snake works. He resolutely went to the fox demon, gave up his human identity, and used his most precious essence in exchange to move towards the inferior sequence of social identity. . He became a demon, and a little demon who started from scratch, just to be with Bai Suzhen. The fox fairy warned him that it was irreversible and not to regret it, and Xu Xuan said: "If we are not together, I will regret it now."
How is it different. Xu Xuan knows that he has become a demon and is the lowest level of demon. He will be yelled at and bullied by demons, but he uses everything to realize love. What a huge commitment and courage it is. Perhaps only this kind of sacrifice in the past life is worth waiting for a thousand years in the next life. However, the screenwriter and director obviously did not overly sensationalize this kind of love, and even used Xu Xuancheng's puppy's "belly pocket" tail to dilute this sense of tragic and solemnity. It seemed like a bystander, but it shaped the white snake story , the most courageous image of Xu Xian.
After all, even in "The Legend of the New White Snake" with the most positive image of Xu Xian, he just shaved his hair to become a monk and accompanied Bai Suzhen to the ancient Buddha. And this seems to be enough to pay for his inferiority in the word of mouth from generation to generation.
However, another character in "The Legend of the New White Snake" has the same emotional setting as Xu Xuan in "White Snake: The Origin", that is, Hu Meiniang, a little goblin at the bottom of the demon world, killing her beloved In the daily hesitation of being killed, he finally resolutely chose to save the person he loves and sacrifice himself. Of course, this is a derivative of the story of the white snake, but it is a supporting role with the most human power in this thousand-year-old myth.
Hu Meiniang is no different. Unlike Bai Suzhen, she has a strong background setting and a positive sense of destiny. Like Xu Xuan, in this unequal relationship, she fell in love with the "unattainable" person, but her future was uncertain. But they are all willing to become each other's appearance, and don't mind burying themselves in the end and saving each other. At the end of the story, Xu Xuan's soul melted into the ice, and Hu Meiniang scattered on the floor of the hotel as fleeting flowers. They seemed to have never been here, but their love was even more tragic.
The most burdened love has the slightest trace, which seems to be a narrative carrier of the unreachable and beautiful hope of human beings. Tsui Hark wrote and co-produced the cartoon "Xiaoqian" in 1997. When Ning Caichen and Xiaoqian were at the threshold of their reincarnation, the camera disappeared in the peach blossoms of Beicun. Andersen's "The Daughter of the Sea" ends, "They looked at the churning foam mourningly, as if they knew she had jumped into the waves."
I like this kind of quiet way of leaving the stage. The creators who are clever and restrained will not over-exaggerate this kind of separation.
Because there will always be an inadvertent moment, and this departure will return as an emotional return. In "White Snake: The Origin", this moment is fixed at the moment when the prelude of the original sound of "The Legend of the New White Snake" sounded at the end of "Past and Present".
"Could it be that the glance in the past life is only for seeing one in this life."
At that moment, Xu Xuan's contribution, Bai Suzhen's contribution, and Hu Meiniang's contribution all seemed to have a bright future. (Finish)
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