I don't know much about Western religions, so this not really a film review is more of my far-fetched.
In the film, the devil who makes deals with the ancestors of the heroine's in-laws is obviously Satan, the guy who enjoys the women of the Laliang family going into the water. For the poor boy who wants to be successful and has nowhere to ask, Satan will tempt you to make a deal with him, which is the devil's contract. Let the poor boy sacrifice his life to himself in exchange for glory and wealth.
In reality, we accuse or curse those who have no bottom line in order to succeed, and we often accuse him of selling his soul to the devil.
That's how Satan tempts you to kill innocent people in order to succeed. That is to say: in order to succeed, completely abandon the conscience and bottom line of being a person.
There's a cellar full of dead sheep, offerings to Satan, and the unlucky guy who got killed in the first place. But does Satan care about these offerings? Actually not uncommon at all. What Satan really wants to harvest is actually those fallen souls. As soon as the contract is signed, OK, just wait for the day you breach the contract, I will come to collect your head. In fact, the day the devil's contract is signed, your soul has already belonged to Satan, in other words, it has completely fallen. As for the flesh, sooner or later it also belongs to Satan. And the more fallen souls Satan absorbs, the more powerful he is. If you can make all mankind fall, you will have the capital to challenge God.
However, there is one very key point: Satan will never force you to sign a contract, but only tempt you. If you can stick to the bottom line and never harm others for your own success, you can avoid becoming Satan's walking dead. Writing here, I suddenly feel that these Western myths or religions such as Satan and the soul actually allude to reality. In China, people who have no bottom line usually say "the conscience was eaten by a dog", and the West will say "the soul was sold to Satan", which means similar things. It's just that Satan is more intimidating than a dog. Western culture has created soul reapers for those who have no bottom line, using a devil image to vividly depict the dark side of human nature.
In the end, I thought that this film actually has the meaning of "three words and two shots" in ancient Chinese novels, to persuade people to be kind. To use a movie line to describe it, it is "Come out and hang out, you will have to pay it back sooner or later!"
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