Many people are complaining about "Shadow", two men and one woman are bloody, the story is a mess, and the symbols of yin and yang, gossip, mountains, flowing water and playing the piano are piled up.
Uh, I have a slightly different opinion, so I'll just open up a brain hole for everyone's reference.
Actually, I think the main mistake of "Shadow" is that Sun Li mishandled the role of Xiao Ai.
He handled a woman who was obviously very powerful and weak, and failed to find her spiritual essence, which affected the temperament of the whole film.
"Shadow" is actually a movie with a very unique style. It not only draws on the drama, but also has many symbolic meanings, such as yin and yang gossip, such as Xiao Ai playing the piano with two men.
Many people are saying that the contradiction between Xiao Ai and the fake shadow of the real husband is often driven by the lines, and the turning plot without internal motivation is Barabala. It is the flaw in the script that caused Sun Li to not handle the role of Xiao Ai well.
In fact, on the line of Xiao Ai, it makes dark energy.
I think this is because Sun Li is only acting on the surface, treating it as a drama.
Sun Li didn't know where the key connection point of the task Zhang Yimou gave her was, so the whole performance went off track.
That point is that Xiao Ai's erotic side and power side are one and cannot be viewed separately.
Humans are not a white lotus at all.
If Xiao Ai is just an ordinary female prey that two men compete for:
So, why did Zhang Yimou give Sun Li the scenes of the power struggle at the beginning and the end and the power of life and death?
Why was she the one who created the feminine umbrella skill and broke Yang Cang's swordsmanship, and not someone else? It's not like she made it just because she was with a woman.
What is the symbol of the yin and yang gossip that frequently appears in the film?
Why is there a murderous confrontation between Xiao Ai and Zi Yu in the film?
You know, the piano is sometimes a weapon.
In the film, Xiao Ai plays the piano twice. The first time is to cooperate with the shadow and fool the king. It is not a personal will at all. It is the hope that a man places on her.
The second time she played the piano, but she took the initiative, and this time it was no longer a foil, but a contest of strength.
Why did Xiao Ai take the initiative to have sex with Yang Cang on the last night of the final battle between Shadow and Yang Cang?
Because she counted the shadow's ending.
She thought he might die.
No matter if you win or lose, if you can't beat Yang Cang, if you die, if you fight, you will die when you come back. If a real person can get out of the hole, he doesn't need a shadow.
So on the last night, she used the warmth of women to pity the weak under the power system, as well as a backstop, what if this person came back?
Xiao Ai is no stranger to power, and even just around the corner.
At the beginning of the movie, she looked at the king, followed the false shadow to fool the king, and cut her hair and did not play the piano, for fear that the emperor would see through the plot.
Her real husband cultivated false shadows in order to be king, and she supported and offered advice.
And using her body to soothe the fake shadow is also because she is very clear about power and knows that you will probably never return once you leave. If you come back, you must remember my kindness today.
When her real husband found out that she had an affair, she was very calm in the face of his questioning, and even proposed to fight him.
At the end of the movie, the real husband is dead, the emperor is dead, what about the fake shadow?
It didn't matter, he was so hurt, and he was going to hand her his bloody purse.
He is hers.
Shadows are used to being shadows, and puppets will always be puppets.
This is the characteristic of the umbrella art she designed, Yin Yang gossip, and Yin overcomes Yang, and finally became the biggest winner.
So, what do you think will happen when Xiao Ai finally opens the door?
Will she clarify the truth? Is this false shadow that killed my real husband and king?
Will not.
She would say that this person is the real Governor.
Guan Xiaotong's Qingping is still a little girl, so she asked angrily, what is true and what is false?
And Xiao Ai, played by Sun Li, knows that there is nothing true in this world, and there is nothing false. The one who has the power is the truth. It's that simple.
The two female characters are both very powerful, forming an intertext of "light and dark", which was originally a very wonderful handwriting.
The little girl is not deep in the world, so what she is fighting for is her weak power of "belonging to herself", while the older woman, who sees through more, is fighting for the power of "you all belong to me".
But because Sun Li was accustomed to the acting mode of TV series, she did not get the brilliance of the character Xiao Ai, so she was treated as a traditional woman who was indifferent, panicked and even contradictory.
For example, in the last scene, imagine a woman who deals with power every day and gives advice to her husband to defeat the enemy. When she sees everything before and after the coup, the shadow comes in and panics. This person kills that person. Her wallet, she was still frightened, are all emotions only frightened frightened frightened?
I humbly think that this kind of treatment is at least monotonous.
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