"Famous Name": The Endless Elegy of the World of Men's Love

Verna 2022-03-21 09:03:19

"Famous Name": The Endless Elegy of the World of Men's Love

To say "Voice in the Name", it is impossible to describe the role of Jet Li's eldest brother Pang Qingyun with pure "ambition" or "unrighteousness". If he is so pure and bad, this movie will be nothing to watch. This is also the place for people to discuss and debate, his heart, his choices - the kind of man's tenacity and pain implanted in him, it is him The profound content endowed by every look and detail is also the deeper part of the tragedy. In fact, after the movie ended, the repressed emotions that echoed in the theater for a long time and could not be dispelled were always the entanglement, puzzlement, heartache and suffocation of the world due to his character.

Brother Zhiyi's concession to the ambition and righteousness is so embarrassing, because the ambition is not just for his own glory. Pang Qingyun's heart still embraces the larger world. Thousands of people, he feels that he can serve them for them. It is your ambition to strive for a little bit. And his insistence on this made him "walk on thin ice" all his life, and even took the risk of proposing "three years of tax reduction and exemption for the people in the city" when he went to Beijing. This result made him think that all the sacrifices of his brothers and the abandonment of the righteousness of brothers were worthwhile. The tears he secretly shed when Erhu was assassinated by him until his death was still worrying about his safety were real, and everything he said was "worth it" was the comfort he thought was worthy of forgiveness, and it was the righteousness of giving up brothers As for the righteousness of going to the world, this is the driving force and reason why he wants to become the governor. Unfortunately, the world is not in his control. He will definitely be the victim of others. The saddest thing is that even if he abandons the righteousness of brothers, he will The righteousness of the world cannot be achieved. He is such a complex person that even though he has his own ambitions, he never forgets his ambition to serve the people of the world. For him, he is a person who will do anything for the purpose. As long as the purpose is a little bit off, his character will become a character that is despised by everyone.

The second brother Erhu played by Andy Lau and the third younger brother Wuyang played by Takeshi Kaneshiro are bandits. They only fight for their own food, and it is their responsibility to talk about the livelihood of the common people. For them, in such troubled times , the righteousness of the brothers is everything they live, "from now on, the life of the brothers is the life, the others can be killed, this is the name of the name." In the opening narration of Takeshi Kaneshiro, "he (eldest brother) said that he did not believe in the vote, but only believed in the second and third brothers", which showed the narrowness of the meaning of brotherhood to Qingyun, which made him use his brother from the very beginning. Zhiyi achieves his plan for the righteousness of the world, and he also knows that they will sacrifice for the "righteousness". It can be said that they have a different outlook on life. Politics is about sacrificing everything.

But brotherhood has a stronger sense of substitution for human feelings, and no one will not be moved by this sincere friendship. In this regard, while not focusing on Andy Lau too much, he expresses his sincerity towards his brother's death and his persistent belief in faith, which incisively and vividly permeates the screen and is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This is the unique charm of Chinese chivalry, and "Taoyuan" The story of "Three knots of justice" has finally become a strong contrast and contrast in reality.

On the surface, the one shown is "used" by the other, but it can only devote himself to the historical torrent of "mantis catching cicadas, oriole behind". Under the huge background of the shadow of the times, all three of them became the most simple chess pieces, and finally became silent. is true? Is it wrong? Who can tell the difference between them, and who can tell the torture and pain that each other will endure?

The most unrighteous people are walking towards the parallel line of wearing official uniforms and holding the heart of benefiting the people. Pang Qingyun is the most incomprehensible and painful person, but he at least has a clear determination. The most tragic is Liansheng, the wife of the two tigers played by the most innocent third brother Wu Yang and Xu Jinglei. Wu Yang didn't know what the righteousness in his heart was, and he couldn't even tell which part of his heart he was pursuing between the eldest brother and the second brother. The contradiction of the eldest brother is to abandon the brotherhood, the contradiction of the second brother is to believe in the brotherhood, but his contradiction is that he does not understand the brotherhood. In the end, I thought my sister-in-law Liansheng was a chaotic brother and killed her, but found that she still couldn't change everything...

And Liansheng is entangled between Erhu and Qingyun, and she is unwilling to give up either party even to death. She yearns for a better life, "I want any color of cloth". Her feelings for Qingyun may be forgiven because she is only grateful to Erhu, but her sadness is that she doesn't know what she wants, so she runs away again and again, and comes back again and again; she refuses again and again, Cheating again and again. She is a soft tragedy, she is neither heavy nor overly sensational, Chen Kexin is very smart to put her in the right position, and makes her a bad face. The scene of Xu Jinglei chasing Jet Li in the trenches will be quite moving with escape, desire, rejection and attraction.

Chen Kexin's portrayal of characters and extension of connotation are undoubtedly successful. The above-mentioned choices of righteousness and the analysis of characters are the condensed and extracted parts in a fully three-dimensional narrative. We cannot ignore the shock brought by extreme realism, let alone the more complex processing methods. From the first-person perspective used in photography to the montage of music, Jin Peida's film soundtrack and more prominent movie sound effects directly shake the audience's emotions and hearts by expressing the suffering and the unspeakable part of the emotions. The drama, a highly expressive national treasure, is applied in several places, and the rendering of real scenes has the effect of emotion in the situation, which makes people's eyes shine. All these clever narrative techniques not only enhance the conceptual space and artistic level, but also reflect the deep pain in the hearts of the three protagonists. On the other hand, the entanglement of suffering and friendship in the eyes of the three people makes them run towards their different endings. , but still can't escape the bloody blade behind this sadness.

In fact, such a heavy and practical theme has one of the best performances in historical films. The tension lies between the different positions and the backside of human nature, and in the fate of being unable to have intersection because of positions, the endless sad song of the "voting name", the world of men's love, is sounded.

2007.12.3

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The Warlords quotes

  • General Pang Qingyun: Remember my face, so you can seek vengeance in the next life.

  • General Pang Qingyun: to Zhang Wen-Xiang: Let them eat. It's their last meal

    Zhao Er-Hu: But I promised to spare their lives!

    General Pang Qingyun: Winning is all that matters in war!

    Zhao Er-Hu: A man who breaks his word is a beast!