Affectionate love in a chaotic world

After watching the first part, I wanted to check Wang Zuxian's information, but suddenly felt that it was meaningless. Xiaoqian's aesthetic imagery is like Xiao Feng, the heroic imagery of Jin Yong's novels, and can never return the feelings in the works in reality. It would be better to keep her in the works forever, not to be polluted by the reality, she only belongs to the unseen Lanruo Temple, a terrifying pure land in the absurd world where the treacherous officials are in charge of the morals. Such a sorrowful god, such a desolate story before and after his death, would be even more precious when it happened in that distorted era. In the first part, except for Xiaoqian and Xiaoqing, the other women are extremely ugly; except for Ning Caichen, Yan Chixia and Xiahou, the other men are not very personal. I guess the director must have deliberately found some ugly extras to play the human figures who are distorted with the times by the ignorant worldliness living in the chaotic era. There are butcher-like soldiers everywhere in the market, savagely arresting people; the ugly man who sells hexagrams and the ugly county magistrate who speaks dialect. . . All the people are so ugly, maybe it's nothing, and it's the same in many dramas, but they are not only ugly, but they also form a suffocating picture of a depressing and disgusting social atmosphere. It is so godless, so alive but exudes a stench like a corpse. In contrast, Xiahou, who is dedicated to chasing the illusory reputation of the number one sword in the world, is more personable. After all, he has his own clear pursuit, and this pursuit is very high compared to the pursuit of the ugly people in the market; and that Zhao Master, living in the crowd of ugly people, but finally recognize Yan Caitou, who hates corrupt officials. When talking to Yan, he always looks a little more human. In that perverted society, ugliness has become the norm, and beauty only exists in the hearts of the recluses who do not care about the world and the poor scholars who are bullied everywhere by the ugliness in this society to take their lives as jokes. This is not the biggest in society. sadness? . . . . . .
Therefore, the tree demon who has practiced for thousands of years can also make a high-profile claim that he is acting for the sky and eliminating evil for society; thus, Yan Chixia will lament that he is a human but does not want to be human, and Xiaoqian is a ghost but wants to be human; therefore, the most touching Only love will appear between people and ghosts. . . This society has nothing to make one's heart pounding, and everyone has gone with the flow, not knowing where their hearts are. Like a pool of stagnant water, there are no more moving stories to tell. Therefore, the story of ups and downs naturally occurs on the dark edge of society, where there is a true love and a pure personality intertwined with love and hate, and finally retains a mysterious corner for beauty in this world. It is for this reason that we are deeply attracted by the story of the ghost in the Lanruo Temple in the deep forest, although the story is ups and downs and terrifying. , Everyone pursues two things, beauty and security in their hearts. When they cannot have both, what will you choose?
In my opinion, the love between Ning Caichen and Xiaoqian is exactly the pursuit of beauty without any sense of security. I think the audience who made the same choice as the director will feel more emotional about this film. In such an era, during the day there are gangsters who try to assimilate you into the same withered mind, and at night there are ghosts trying to turn you into a withered body; to survive in such a crack is the torment of the whole body and mind. . In such torment, however, there is that fluttering white robe, walking through the depths of the night, which has become the last sustenance of beauty, which can deeply touch the hearts of the audience.
The quiet and subtle music at the beginning and Xiaoqian's tears when Xiahou died are the classical and sad beauty for this ghost in white. Such beauty may lack personality, but it can be so thorough and moving. Such a life may not be happy. , but it has achieved the real art of life, haunting endless incomprehensible helplessness sinking into the hurried past of the years. Such an encounter is destined to be a pity, one is a human and the other is a ghost. Either the human leaves the ghost in pain and continues to be a ghost in pain, or the ghost is finally reincarnated and the human falls into a love that never returns. This kind of regret is not the painful regret of life and death in many loves, but the best ending that a pair of people and ghosts can get in that era. Isn't this what hurts people's hearts the most? . . . As Yan Chixia said: Why is this world so absurd, it's ridiculous. . . Perhaps it is this irresistible regret that makes Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen's short-lived love a timeless classic that touches countless hearts. I don't know where the secluded Lanruo Temple is today, and Xiaoqian's water residence has long since turned into dust, and the things that can be paid for in this world have long disappeared, only the dream-like yearning in my heart is left. This story has opened a long distance from reality, showing the trembling beauty and the misty love in the ugly background of the times, leaving a deep sadness to return to the world, just regret and helplessness. This structure is suitable for the aesthetics of art: distance, regret and helplessness deeply awaken the dusty artistic sense in people's hearts.
The atmosphere that pervades the film deeply shrouds the soul, which is naturally thanks to the touching music, and the singing of "Don't Come at Dawn" makes you cry. Movies without music, no matter how meaningful, are ugly in my opinion, like The Shawshank Redemption. The first part of the music sounded just right in every scene where there should be music, and with just a pluck of the strings, tears rolled down my cheeks.
Shili Pinghu remains the same, and Yiren will never be seen playing the qin again. There is only one old painting left. Every time I stare at Xiaoqian in the painting, I have a lot of thoughts and dreams of returning to Lanruo Temple. When I wake up, I find that the tears are still there. It is midnight outside the window, as if the flowers are still falling on the last night.

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