First of all, I have to make it clear that I have not finished watching this TV series. I only saw that ep 5 was coming to an end, so I didn't have the motivation to keep watching.
The following comments represent my personal opinion only, and any spoilers are definitely not a coincidence.
I have nothing to do recently, and there is a shortage of dramas, so I started to look for dramas to watch. When I flipped to this drama, I felt that I should be able to eat. After all, the main purpose of watching dramas is entertainment, so I just It's gone.
It was pretty good at first, the plot is very compact, the fighting moves are decent, and the actors' looks are all online, so it's definitely a meal. By the way, I think the most sexy is the tall and big male supporting actor. The actor is Lewis Tan, do you guys have the same as me?
But as the plot progresses, I feel more and more that the show has changed a bit.
The comments below contain spoilers.
First of all, the background of the story is too blunt. The whole story revolves around the "Sacred Monk Order" and the Five Elements Order. The Order of the Holy Monk contains the power of 1,000 monks, representing light and justice; the Order of the Five Elements respectively represents the five elements, Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, representing evil. The successor of the Holy Monk Order is found by "Tao". After being "uppered" by the Holy Monk Order, the owner of the Five Element Order must be killed, the energy of the Five Elements must be collected, and finally sealed together with the Holy Monk Order to save the world. Purpose.
Regarding this point, I really have countless grooves and I don't know where to start complaining.
Since the relic is called the Holy Monk Order, it makes sense that it was brought together by the power of 1,000 monks. But the downside is: China is not the birthplace of Buddhism at all, so how come there are so many eminent monks? ! If it was really necessary in ancient China to gather the abilities of 1,000 masters to form a sacred object, monks can only be regarded as one of them, and there are such big IPs as Taoism and Confucianism. How can only Buddhism be outstanding? What's more nonsense is that the Five Elements Order corresponding to the Order of the Holy Monk, these Five Elements are derived from Taoism. Has the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism become so heated? I don't think Western melon eaters can understand such detailed background knowledge. The most likely explanation is that in their stereotyped cognition, Buddhism is Chinese, and all the elements that they think are very oriental can be mixed in. Therefore, ancient India and ancient Japan are actually part of ancient China. This idea is very Western. Shakyamuni might cry and faint under the tree! Amitabha, good, good~~
I will rant about the Five Elements Order again. The Five Elements Order represents the five powers, and the person who gets it is the villain, the villain who is destined to destroy the world, and must be eliminated. I want to say, why? ! Power is power. There is no evil and justice. Why is the person who gets the power of the five elements must be a bad person? What logic is this? Is the power of the five elements only the bad guys can pick up? In addition, the two masters of the Five Elements currently appearing in the play are both gang leaders, one is the adoptive father of the Chinese male protagonist in charge of Chinatown, and the other is a Russian prenatal Five Elements assassin who ran to Chinatown to grab territory. Please buddies, you are all super villains who master the power of the five elements, you are the ultimate BOSS destined to destroy the world, and that fighting nation is still a power user who has lived for more than 500 years, there are only two A jealous gang leader in Chinatown? ! At this level, this pursuit, and destroying the world? You TMD tease me! ! You have no pursuit too, it is simply a shame for the super villain! You don't deserve to have such "evil" Five Elements Orders, so quickly hand them over to more evil people to use them!
Let me spit out the conditions for finding the master of the Holy Monk Order. Yes, after passing the "Tao" identification, a sister Lin fell from the sky and gave it to you directly. Is there a sense of sight that transcends novels with online texts? Congrats to you little master, the golden finger you got this time, the auxiliary AI you gave is not the white-bearded grandfather, but the latest upgraded version of Sister Lin. Are you surprised or surprised? ! I have to mention here that Sister Lin, who was presented by this system, is the only authentic Chinese ancient style element in the whole drama. Dressed in the costume of a martial arts master in Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas in the 1980s, it brought back a lot of my childhood memories. ε=(´ο｀*))) alas~~~
Finally, I have to complain a little more. The Holy Monk Order can make the Five Elements Assassins transform their appearance. It sounds very convenient and nice, doesn't it? Sao Nian, you still have a picture of Tucson! The appearance of the Five Elements Assassin's illusion can only be the 1,000 eminent monks in the Holy Monk Order, then the problem is: Since you are a monk, of course you have a bald head, even if you can change into a thousand kinds of appearances, you are still a monk. ! ! ! What kind of protection is this TMD called! ! ! You are always a monk, and you will know who you are from thousands of miles away! ! ! Which assassin who engages in stealth assassination will run around the streets with a bald head! ! ! Isn't it reflective? ! !
Accidentally complained so much, well, let's talk about what makes people think about it.
I remember that there was a relatively popular question on Zhihu some time ago, about the issue of humiliating China with Marvel's recent new work "Shangqi". I haven't watched "Shang-Chi", but the plot of this drama is similar to "Shang-Chi", that is: killing the father.
The adoptive father of the Five Elements Assassin is the master of the Five Elements Fire.
According to the plot introduction, the male protagonist was smuggled into the United States by his father when he was a child. In the end, his parents died on the boat. He was rescued from the boat by his adoptive father, who was just a gangster at the time, and was raised as a son; When I was a teenager, I secretly ran to the basement of the gangster building with three other friends to play. Unfortunately, I happened to meet the male protagonist's adoptive father, who obtained the power of five elements of fire, and killed 7 members of the gangster with his supernatural powers. Dude, he planned to take the opportunity to take the position. Just when he was using the power of flames to burn down the entire building and destroy the corpses, he heard the call for help from the male protagonist in the basement, so he used his supernatural powers to expel the flames, saving the lives of the male protagonist and his group. He paid for the burnt friend. After the male protagonist grew up, he did not appreciate his adoptive father's upbringing and life-saving grace, but deliberately alienated his adoptive father. Of course, the adoptive father is now a gangster, killing people like hemp. The male protagonist wants to live a peaceful life, and it is understandable to deliberately distance himself. However, when the male protagonist obtained the Holy Monk Order, he was fooled by Sister Lin to kill his adoptive father. Because Sister Lin told him that those who possess the Five Elements Order are the wicked, and they must be killed to bring peace to the world, and then the male protagonist completely believed it, and cut off his love with his adoptive father, fighting and poisoning, doing everything possible. I'm so scared~~~
An adoptive father who rescued you from danger and raised you as an adult, his life was no match for a word from Sister Lin's mouth. This kind of value, I think, is a bit anti-human.
When the suspect in Zhang Baoying's case reported in the news some time ago, when the judge prosecuted him with the death penalty, his family members took the initiative to ask the judge to give him a lighter punishment, knowing that he had committed a crime, because they loved him very much. he. This is the family ethic of American society. Family love is greater than the law. When family love and law conflict, almost the vast majority of Americans will stand on the side of family love. They take it for granted that if someone takes the side of the law, bystanders will even ridicule and curse them as traitors.
In another piece of news a while back, a mother in Canada, who unknowingly learned that her son had broken the law, ended up reporting her son. Most of the Canadians who heard the news denounced and cursed the mother, who believed she had betrayed their son.
In China, although we also value the fairness of the law, how many people can be righteous and kill relatives? In ancient times, there was an official who, after learning that his father had violated the law, put his official seal on the court and went out of the city overnight with his father behind his back.
In such a situation, in fact, most people will still choose family. So from this point of view, the ethical concepts of people all over the world are almost the same, and family love is greater than law.
I do not encourage everyone to know the law and break the law, nor do I encourage you to cover up and condone crimes. I just want to say that the boundary between family affection and the law is actually from ancient times to the present, from east to west, the attitude of human beings towards such incidents, Basically the same thing, that's the way of human relations.
Let's go back and see what is this show about?
For an illogical "righteousness", the male protagonist is asked to kill his adoptive father who is affectionate and righteous to him. Isn't this anti-human?
The meaning of "Shangqi" is almost the same. If you want to join the Yingjiang camp, you have to slash at the flower gardener with a knife. In fact, Chinese Americans are not people who grow flowers. Everyone should be clear about this. They are down-to-earth hawks. Unfortunately, hawks don't see it that way, so the Chinese people caught in the middle are tragic. In Eagle sauce's eyes, they are always outsiders and can never be trusted. When the flower growers are weak, the Chinese are poor people who survive in the cracks; once the flower growers are strong, they will become Eagle sauce and rabbits duel , the first brick to hit the rabbit. Whether it's the brick breaking the rabbit's head, or the rabbit breaking the brick, Ying-chan will clap and cheer by the side. If I were Ying-chan, I would do the same, no matter who wins or loses, Ying-chan doesn't feel bad at all anyway.
Looking back at other non-Chinese superheroes, even if it is the super villain Thanos, his two daughters are doing their best to help him collect gems, if it is not because he gave up his family relationship firstly and traded his daughter's life for him Jewel, there's no way these two daughters could join forces against him in the endgame. As a result, Chinese superheroes have to rely on the murder of their fathers to squeeze into the big circle of superheroes. Unfortunately, their heads are not hard enough to break through the glass ceiling.
When I saw the end of episode 5, the uncle in the grocery store tried to persuade the male protagonist not to use poison to kill people, but after the male protagonist refused very plainly, I had no interest in watching it any more. Such a disloyal and unfilial, hypocritical five elements Assassin, it's not worth my time to cheer for him.
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