In the East they like to talk about karma, while in the West they talk more about the conservation of energy. Either way, it is a process of gain and loss.
The film consists of three story strings, including: mother and son and brother, father and daughter and husband and wife, sister and lover. The character configuration of the story is like the configuration of a large family.
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The queen only sees her son. For the arrival of her son, she is unmoved by sacrificing the king's life. She also replaces her husband's throne as the queen. The huge possessiveness makes her son more and more alienated from herself, and the alienation is so far that she can mistake her servant daughter. is his own son. For the Queen, the closeness of her son and daughter-in-waiting is a challenge to her possessiveness. To this end, the queen did not hesitate to turn into a hideous monster that her son could not recognize to kill the maid's son. However, the son and the daughter-in-law were deeply fraternal, and the son desperately maintained the integrity of the brotherhood, and the queen eventually died at the hands of her own son.
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The princess who was to be married had a king's father who was distraught, and the great flea fed by the king with his own blood died. It is a pity that only a rude giant can know. The princess suffered unprecedented hardships in the cave full of bones of the giant. The handsome family of the circus who saved her also died at the hands of the giant. The princess finally gave the giant by herself. The husband cut his throat, returned to his motherland with her husband's head, and became queen.
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They were two old women who depended on each other for life. One day, the song of the younger sister attracted the lecherous king. The elder sister tried not to show her face to have sex with the king. After all, the king found out that he was sleeping with an old woman. Throwing it out from the window of the palace, the sister was rescued by the witch, and the witch used milk to make the sister rejuvenate and return to the king's arms. The younger sister was invited by the elder sister to the palace to attend her conferring ceremony. The younger sister was jealous of her youthful beauty and said that the queen was her elder sister. The elder sister wanted to expel her from the palace. Otherwise, she would never leave. The elder sister roared and said, "Because I skinned myself." The younger sister took it seriously. She used the jewelry from the clothes given by her elder sister to pay for the money to find someone to skin her, and then dragged her skinless body to the palace. Looking for my sister; and the young and beautiful sister also suddenly turned back into an old woman due to the failure of the milk magic, and fled in embarrassment.
The three stories of this movie are going on at the same time, and the total length of the movie is more than two hours, which is very slow overall. It is expensive to serve the way and the scene is exquisite, there is no magic special effect, but it is very artistic.
To put it bluntly, this film is a story of desire. When it comes to desire, I remember the saying in "The Eighth Pawnshop" that "the moment when desire is fulfilled is the moment of repayment", which is also in line with the values of this "Story of Stories".
There are gains and losses. For example, you sacrificed the enjoyment of youth in exchange for success in your career; if you kill others to gain other people's property, other people's descendants and relatives will definitely kill you for revenge. People will always be controlled by various desires to win, and what they can get is ultimately exchanged for other things, and the last thing exchanged is life.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with desires. Desires will drive people's progress and breakthroughs. Just like the princess in the film, she is eager to get rid of the life controlled by her husband, but no one can help her. She is eager to get rid of the controlled life. Desire turned her into a ruthless character who could kill her husband without blinking an eye. It's a pity that people's desires are easily inflated, and eventually they are tired of endless desires. Just like the queen in the first story, her endless possessiveness towards her son eventually led to her death at the hands of her own son. In "A Dream of Red Mansions", it is said that "sometimes in your life you must have it, and you should never force it in your life". For something that you shouldn't have in the first place, forcing it will only be a waste of joy and take your life. Isn't that what an old woman does? Damn it!
The three stories interspersed are actually quite good. It can be understood as: one day he will become him, she will become her, and they are all people living in each other's stories, and they are all intertwined in various desires write. At the end of the movie, the protagonists of the three stories are already mutilated: only separated brothers are left in the mother-son and brother unit, only father and daughter are left in the father-daughter and husband-and-wife unit, and only the daughter becomes queen, sister and lover unit is only left with sexual excitement The king is now the king, and the assembled protagonists watched the high-wire performance to bring the film to a close. You see, isn't this our life? There will be parents, siblings, husbands and wives. Each of us plays a different role in each other's lives, and we all gain and lose through our desires. But once you can't master the balance, you may sacrifice your life.
Recommended index: ★★★★⭐️
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