Sword Rain is an underrated work.
That said, it doesn't mean how good Jian Yu is, but its low reputation lives up to the spiritual image it presents and the aesthetic connotation that the director wants to convey.
Martial arts are the happy feud of Tsui Hark's "Swordsman: The Undefeated in the East" series, the solitary smoke in the desert in the style of Wong Kar-wai's "Evil in the East and the West", and it is always separated by a distance in Ang Lee's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". The oriental aesthetics of the layers, the style is the style, and the layers are tinkered with.
In today's popular Internet language, the previous martial arts were all "upper class", rich and wealthy;
"Embroidered Spring Knife" is not grass-roots either, because the characters in the Embroidered Spring Knife are already Jin Yiwei, and the size is a civil servant who guarantees income under drought and flood;
Xu Haofeng's hard-line martial arts does not count, the core is still happy and grudge;
Only Jian Yu really aimed the camera at the "grassroots", and the "Jian Yu" with trivial details made up for the blankness in the market, filled with the smell of cooking smoke.
The rivers and lakes are made up of people, and if they are people, they have to eat and drink, and they have to worry about their livelihoods. The previous martial arts movies objectively and unconsciously avoided the proposition of "how does a hero make a living". The Wentailai couple's tip is 10 taels of gold, which is about 500 grams. Calculated at a gold price of 300 a gram, it is 150,000. , The heroes never worry about money.
But heroes are also human beings. Heroes are in embarrassment.
The characters in "Sword Rain", no matter how high their martial arts skills, sink into their lives and worry about their days. Zeng Jing sells cloth, talking about taxes, rent and rice prices; Jiang Asheng works part-time as a courier and runs errands, anyway, as long as the money comes in work; Lei Bin sells noodles, and he is thinking about how to make the noodles not rotten for a long time and improve the customer experience ; Blackstone makes a living by conjuring tricks, and his specialty is "fairy cable".
As revealed at the beginning of the movie, once the heroes start to walk on the road of Jianghu, they cannot retreat completely, but after they are deeply immersed in the quagmire, they feel ordinary good, but how can it be so easy to quit, want a piece of the leaf Not sticking to the body, it is impossible.
This is the beginning of Lu Zhu's "crossing".
Killer Drizzle has two layers of transformation, the first layer comes from Lu Zhu.
"Sword Rain" is obviously imitating "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". The character Lu Zhu is the standard of Li Mubai, and Drizzle is to some extent the standard of Yu Jiaolong. Li Mubai teaches Yu Jiaolong, and Lu Zhu in the broken temple teaches fine detail. The rain sword method is a kind of common goal, "breaking all laws, breaking all the pains in the world, breaking out of the sea of suffering, and reaching the other shore".
And that famous line - I would like to be a stone bridge, to be blown by the wind for 500 years, in the sun for 500 years, and hit by the rain for 500 years, but ask this girl to walk across the bridge. Although it is hypocritical, it really touched a large number of female audiences, with strong self-sacrifice and self-devotion.
The second layer of crossing, from the wheel-turning king. It's not that Jiang Asheng is unimportant, but that he has already merged with Lu Zhu. He is another Lu Zhu.
But the wheel-turning king, Drizzle had to kill her. According to her, "to end this sin and end this fate." She needed to say goodbye to the past completely.
This is why everyone is dissatisfied with the ending of "Sword Rain". The happy ending satisfies the wishes of the world, but falls into the rut in art and leaves too little space.
Director Su Zhaobin was born as a screenwriter. The story text of "Sword Rain" has twists and turns, and there are many unexpected places.
For example, the head of the Kongtong faction was stabbed through the chest by his wife, but the biggest turning point was the identity of Jiang Asheng and the wheel-turning king.
The film has reached two-thirds, and the true identities of Jiang Asheng and the Wheel King have surfaced.
Let's talk about Jiang Asheng first.
When I first watched it, I thought it was a Ming Dynasty version of "My wife is a boss". Later, I learned that it was an ancient version of the story of "Smith VS Smith".
Jiang Asheng is Zhang Renfeng who was besieged by Heishi before.
Surrounded by powerful enemies, the scene where Zhang Renfeng sits alone to sharpen his sword is the scene with the most martial arts mood in recent years.
Hearing the sound of gold and stone hitting each other, while drawing out the sword, it went down smoothly against the texture of the whetstone.
The director focused on the disclosure of his identity and created a climax for us with the absolutely overwhelming fighting scene.
Let's talk about the wheel king.
Many people on the Internet jokingly called the story structure of "Jianyu" as "a eunuch's journey to find his roots" or "a tragedy caused by JJ".
In the film, Rama's body was endowed with the magical function of regenerating good fortune and making up for defects.
So some people don't understand, as the wheel-turning king of Blackstone, who owns countless gold and silver and controls the world's largest terrorist organization, why is he brooding about "JJ's rebirth"?
But isn't it easy to understand?
I want to get what I lost, and I want to add what I don't have. It's a normal thing.
Other than that, some of the details of the movie are great.
For example, the part of cosmetic doctor Li Guishou, Hanjiang Lonely Lamp, has quite the artistic conception of ancient paintings.
Given that it is a martial arts film, it is impossible not to mention martial arts dramas.
The battle of the city wall between Blackstone's internal personnel and Jiang Asheng's fight against Lei Bin were elegant and agile, and the movements were hearty and incisive.
Lu Zhu's four phrases—hidden clumsy to skillful, dark to bright, Yu Qing to turbid, bending to stretching, and martial arts to embody life, can almost sum up a person's life. Some people commented on the barrage that there is a taste of Yuan Heping's martial arts.
It can be seen that "Sword Rain" is imitating Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but fortunately, it has done its best, learned three points out of ten, and posted a little bit of what the director and screenwriter want to express, and handed over a qualified " seven-point answer."
The plot is naturally buggy.
Drizzle could kill the Wheel King when they met for the first time, why didn't he kill him? Is it because the King of Wheels is so powerful?
Why did the wheel-turning king die under Zeng Jing's sword? Is it because Zeng Jing can only kill him with the sword of avoiding water?
In the killing battle at the end, why did Zeng Jing let Jiang Asheng fake his death? Obviously, the two people have a better chance of winning together. Of course, if you want to insist on creating an ending that pays for love, then I have nothing to say.
But that doesn't matter anymore, just like Lu Zhu said that life is not necessarily happy, and death is not necessarily bitter, it is rare to be confused to be a qualified spectator quietly.
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