After thinking about it all night, I decided to analyze the plot of "Shadow" through various comments on the Internet and my own thinking.
There are three main points:
First, who sent someone to assassinate the mother of Shadowjingzhou?
Conjecture 1: The lord. Directed and acted a play to eliminate the shadow's estrangement from the protagonist, and make him completely helpless and have to rely on the protagonist. At the same time, he took the opportunity to kill Ziyu, completely obliterating the biggest stumbling block in the court. From then on, the country of Pei was owned by him alone (equivalent to relying on the emperor to command the princes)
Conjecture 2: Ziyu Yugong, no matter whether the shadow can survive the showdown with Yang Cang, his mother must die. If he cannot survive, kill his mother as a finishing touch, and then go to compete with the lord for the throne; if he survives, take the opportunity to frame the matter on the lord, watch the snipe and clam fight, and the fisherman will profit. Yu Si, being turned green by his own shadow, must not be able to swallow this bad breath... But Zi Yu really made a big mistake: why did he tell the "facts" directly in front of the shadow, he sent someone to assassinate him How did you know about the shadow mother? Why do you know? This logical relationship can be understood when you think about it...
Conjecture 3: Xiao Ai, I always feel that this person who is most unlikely to be suspected is the deepest person in the city (just a personal nonsense)
Second, what does the ending mean?
Xiao Ai rushed to the gate of the palace. The moment she was about to open the door, she stopped with a complicated expression. What did she mean? I have two opinions:
1. What Xiao Ai saw through the crack of the door may be that the ministers bowed their heads and bowed in front of the shadow, and the shadow completely became the real body and became the king of Pei. Why didn't Tian Zhan, who knew the truth, stop it? Ziyu had promised him before that when he ascended the throne, he would promote Tian Zhan as the governor of Pei. For the sake of profit, complicity can be made. What is Xiao Ai thinking? She was hesitating, whether to tell the truth or not. Pei Guo is now without a master, and a person must save Pei country from the fire and water, even if this person is only a "shadow". Moreover, she should also have a friendship for the shadow. If the truth is not exposed, the shadow becomes the king of Pei, and she can also become the queen. There seems to be nothing wrong with such a cowardly arrangement...
2. Another picture Xiao Ai saw may be that Tian Zhan killed the shadow, and the real body of the protagonist stood up. At the beginning of the film, the subtitles read "The ancient kings have shadows." Since Hou has a shadow, and Wang has a shadow, it should not be surprising. Another blank point of the plot is, how did the protagonist discover the identity of the shadow? It can be seen that in the first half of the film, the protagonist has found trouble with the shadow more than once and kept trying, but he just couldn't find enough evidence. Then what made him identify Zi Yu's shadow? In the film, only Tian Zhan, an "outsider", has entered Ziyu's secret room. It is very likely that Tian Zhan is a confidant beside the protagonist. This also explains why the killer knows how to enter the secret room. So, it was a game at the beginning: the lord used the triangular relationship between Zi Yu, Ying Ying and Xiao Ai to keep alienating him, and asked Ying Ying to help him block the sword. In the end, Zi Yu was eliminated, and the real beneficiary of this chess game was still he. However, another possibility cannot be ruled out. It was the real body of the lord who was killed, and the shadow of the lord stood up in the end. . . . . . . I saw the third statement on the Internet, that Tian Zhan is actually an undercover agent of the enemy country, this is all an alienation scheme by the enemy country...
Third, what exactly does Zhang Yimou want to shoot?
Whether he wants to show the art of ink painting, or to make a story about a stand-in, or to show us the bloom of life (all of the above are what Zhang Yimou said in various interviews). I don't think it's right. Zhang Yimou once said in an interview before that he is very interested in the subject of shadow doubles, and he has long had the idea of shooting. But in China's thousands of years of history, there are really few stories about "substitutes". As a last resort, he wrote an alternate historical story based on the background of the Three Kingdoms.
Why do it?
Because it's not written in the history books.
If you don't write it, you really don't have it?
During the Three Kingdoms era, the feudal lords fought and the court strategized. How many hidden stories and mysteries are hidden behind the history books?
Therefore, what Zhang Yimou wants to shoot this time is "unofficial history", creating those unheard of unofficial histories from his own perspective, taking the opportunity to express his unique attitude towards history.
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