When Zheng Yusheng's Jiang Asheng appeared, I burst out laughing: Is this a story between a sportsman from a courier company and a mature woman at a roadside cloth stall? When I saw Bao Qijing matchmaking for Michelle Yeoh, I sighed across the ground. It turned out that the issue of leftover males and females is difficult to solve. I suppressed my wild thoughts and hurried into the play.
The story clearly didn't go the way I thought it would. In 130 minutes, the director filmed this "Sword Rain" very tightly. Although the sword, the sword and the shadow, the blood feud, it does not belong to any martial arts film I have seen before. It's not the "Swordsman" that I like, and it's not like Wong Kar-wai's "Evil in the West". It seems to be trying to create a new attitude between good-looking and durable, looking for a way between the life of the common people and the battle between the rivers and lakes. balance. Ordinary martial arts films are light, clear, happy and vindictive, with no danger, and everyone is happy. The style of "Sword Rain" is relatively gloomy, with no sunlight and only heavy colors. A few rains that came by coincidence were suspected to be another kind of blunt "artificial rain increase" by the director - not "Sword Rain", there is no "rain" that can't be justified. Compared with the presentation and expression of "sword", "rain" appears to be a little nihilistic.
"Sword Rain" is quite philosophical. Lin Xilei's Drizzle and Michelle Yeoh's Zeng Jing are the same woman. After plastic surgery master Li Guitou's surgery, they look exactly the same. The rain of "drizzle" is the rain of wind and rain in the rivers and lakes, and Zeng Jing's quietness is the quietness of "the tree wants to be quiet but the wind does not stop". The names are so revealing. Why is it called "Sword Rain"? Women are named rain, women are like rain. This is a martial arts film shot from a female perspective. It is a confrontation between masculinity and femininity, as well as "struggle" and "destruction". In the rivers and lakes of women, there is still a warmth in my heart. Later, in a bank robbery case, Zeng Jing witnessed her husband in danger, and he suddenly thought of killing. As a result, Zeng Jing, who had been washing his hands for many years, "moved". Kill, lead to immortal cable, lead to Wang Xueqi.
Jiang Asheng, who was hidden in the streets, was actually Zhang Renfeng, the son of Zhang Haiduan's capital who was killed by the drizzle (this name, what a Miao Renfeng)! Zhang Renfeng's heart is on the right (this is in Jin Yong's novels), he was protected from being killed by the drizzle, fell into the water under the bridge, was rescued, and ran to Li Guitou to ask for plastic surgery, which became the later Jiang Asheng (if Li Guitou was alive today, relying on such a miraculous cosmetic surgery...). Jiang Asheng knew that the cloth-selling woman was his enemy, Drizzle, but he helped each other indifferently, until they became husband and wife, and it was not until a major event came out that he broke the news that I was Zhang Renfeng (this, how infernal). The revenge of killing his father is naturally to be avenged, but the fake drama has already shown the true feelings, and the true feelings cannot be overwhelmed. Hidden for so many years, just for revenge. But no matter how deep the hatred, all fermented into love. In the so-called Jianghu philosophy, there must be such a rule: Children who are "haters of the second generation" are always born for love. Zhuang Juxian in "Tianlong Babu" is somewhat similar to this Jiang Asheng.
The most philosophical thing is that the wheel-turning king who has been talking with a heavy breath turned out to be an eunuch who was committed to the court. It took so much effort to snatch Rama's body, not to practice peerless martial arts, but to be a most basic and normal man. The identity of the wheel-turning king is very interesting. In the imperial court, he is the subordinate of the eunuchs, and he is the black boss of the Black Stone Organization in Jianghu. The ultimate purpose of the battle of the rivers and lakes is deconstructed here. In the past, the number of martial arts films was nothing more than the main theme of "dominate the martial arts and unify the rivers and lakes", which is the projection of the temple thought in the rivers and lakes. From the perspective of King of Wheels, "Sword Rain" is a story of an abnormal man who wants to be a man and finally dies of "evil retribution". Blossoming green pearls and round jade runes played by Da S are grasshoppers on the same line as the runner king. Zhanqing kills her husband because he "can't". Would rather die than be a widow, and set up a chastity workshop. She is desperate for love. This and Drizzle's "living life", the runner king "being a man", Shawn Yue's "opening a noodle restaurant", and Zheng Yusheng's "eating bean curd" are all simple wishes from the rivers and lakes. As soon as the rivers and lakes turn around, it is market life. This "Sword Rain" is very human.
But the ending, many, what, vulgar, set, ah. In the end, a desperate struggle was inevitable. No matter how the scene was shot, it was all wonderful, wonderful, tragic, tragic and tragic. After Jiang Asheng was stabbed, and after the runner king hung up, Zeng Jing also fell to Jiang Asheng. At this time, I thought: too many cups, no one will benefit from the battle between the rivers and lakes. Bad people are evil and evil, and good people may not be good and good. It should be said that "people are in the rivers and lakes, and they can't help themselves." I even started waiting for the cast and end credits. However, Jiang Asheng was not stabbed to death by Zeng Jing's sword, and he came back to life at dawn. Because he was given a must-have item for pretending to be dead - Turtle Breath Scatter! And Zeng Jing didn't die, and could speak clearly. In the end, Jiang Asheng picked up Zeng Jing with a happy face, as if to fulfill the agreement between Xiao Feng and Aju Saishang to grazing.
In "Philosophical Martial Arts", "Sword Rain" seems to want to incorporate a bit of Zen and poetry. Rama's body and peerless martial arts have this meaning, and the emotional entanglement between Li Zonghan's Lu Zhu and Drizzle is even more in the confession "I would like to turn into a stone bridge and endure five hundred years of wind and rain..." It's full of Zen. And this sentence, even the evil wheel runner king kept in his heart, just like a buzzword in the rivers and lakes at that time. The Jiangnan town where Jiang Asheng and Zeng Jing live is like a long scroll of ink painting. In the section of the road to shelter from the rain, under the rain curtain, Zeng Jing's dress fluttered, very poetic.
Unfortunately, in the arrangement of the characters, they are all older. Lin Xilei's drizzle made her skin as smooth as sebum, but the years were unforgiving, and she was terribly old. Zeng Jing is Drizzle's vest, looking older, so that she blurted out: "Yellow-faced woman..." In ancient costumes, Jiang Asheng turned into a middle-aged man. Only the blooming green of Big S is vivid and fragrant, and the film will not be blindly gloomy and low-key.
I have a doubt about the characters' clothes: Why haven't they changed the wool sweater of the runner king, the orange cloth skirt of Zeng Jing, and the sharp hemp rope suit of Jiang Asheng from the beginning to the end?
The theater lights came on, and the waiter stepped out of the aisle. The audience dispersed one by one, and I continued to listen to Soda Green and Sa Dingding sing the theme song, "I am a free-walking flower", with a little pleasure.
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