Text: Shen Jiake (famous critic, million-selling author)
Many years ago, when Stephen Chow was a star with high box office in funny movies, Liu Zhenwei persuaded him that he must play romantic movies well.
Because only if you have acted in a love-themed movie can you become a master.
So Zhou Xingchi performed "Journey to the West".
Liu Zhenwei is right, there are so many stories in the world, only love stories are the most immortal.
After all complicated philosophies and all ignorant and restless souls have been washed in the sea of love, after years of clarification, the dust can be settled and the fate can be revealed.
If Fairy Zixia hadn't encountered the Supreme Treasure, she would always be just a beautiful fairy, in front of the Buddha, be a quiet wick, and let the gods in the sky admire her beauty. What's the fun in living like this for 10,000 years? Finding your sweetheart, even if you guess the beginning but not the ending, even if you are crushed, is better than thousands of years of repetition.
Fairy Zixia thought about it, supported the bamboo pole, crossed a swamp reed, and gave a boy three moles on the soles of his feet.
When Zhu Yin was young, looking at the Supreme Treasure, the stars in the sky flickered in her eyes. At that time, she really liked this different man too much.
And the little monkey, Supreme Treasure, five hundred years ago, was still a king of bandits, eating, drinking, robbing, and living like a low-level animal. When he met Bai Jingjing, he pretended to be a mature man and pretended to fall in love with Bai Jingjing. In fact, he is extremely naive, doesn't understand shit, knows nothing about love, and doesn't know what love is at all.
Until he met Fairy Zixia and met true love, he finally turned from a little monkey into a man, from a little boy into a man.
The mystery of love constitutes the eternal motif of all literary and artistic works. Love doesn't know where to start, it goes deep. Ask what love is in the world, and directly teach life and death. Why is love so powerful? Because love gives meaning to our lives, like lightning illuminates the sky in the middle of the night. Let us go beyond the quagmire of fame and fortune in the vague world, beyond eating, drinking, and Lhasa, but to exchange our hearts for our hearts and to prove our hearts with our hearts. I have been loved deeply and have no fear of death. Because in the sea of people, finding you, life becomes meaningful, and a heart has support since then.
The profoundness of "Journey to the West" is that it penetrates human nature and returns the most ancient propositions to the audience and to us. To become a real man, you must first understand the taste of tears, the sorrow of life and death, the helplessness of ecstasy, and the choice of morality, responsibility and love. The world is safe and full of the law, living up to the Tathagata and the Lord?
The treasure mirror of the wind and moon in "A Dream of Red Mansions" teaches the world that if you want to understand the world, and if you want to understand the world, you must read it in reverse.
When you cry bitterly, your expression is exaggerated, and your mouth is full of love for you for 10,000 years, it is actually a lie. Underneath the laughter and scolding nonsense, the deepest affection is hidden. "Journey to the West" is exclusively for Stephen Chow. A serious, affectionate and unsmiling Stephen Chow has occupied the forefront of the Hong Kong film market for many years with his exaggerated and nonsensical jokes. I acted in "Journey to the West" that many people couldn't understand at the time. After many years, we all understood. Because we were still young at the time, we didn’t know how to cry, we didn’t feel sad and sad, we didn’t cry, we just smirked.
In the water curtain cave, the wind blew the hair of the supreme treasure. He closed his eyes, narrated the same love words calmly, and slowly put the gold hoop on his head. It is the flag moving, the wind moving, and the heartbeat.
Why is Tang Seng always grinding and chanting about Sun Wukong? Because there is not a child in this world who is not talked about by adults. But when you really grow up, no one can restrain and restrict your heart, and then you can find a place to live. No one will talk about you anymore. You set boundaries for yourself and take on whatever you choose.
In my opinion, the Tang monk in "Journey to the West" is the greatest wise man and the most precious prophet in the world. A wise man understands human nature too well, and his realm is too high to be understood by the world. Of course, his words will be disliked and too long-winded.
The sisters, Fairy Zixia and Fairy Qingxia, have been fighting for thousands of years. The way they love each other is that you fight for each other. When he was hurt by the Bull Demon King, Tang Seng said that his sister saved her sister, but she couldn't help but put down her resentment and sacrificed herself to save her sister. Sure enough, Tang Monk got it right. This is human reconciliation and letting go of obsessions.
When Tang Seng chose to sacrifice himself for the Supreme Treasure, he knew that he would eventually gain the understanding and growth of the Supreme Treasure.
People grow up because of loss, and understand morality because of growth. Awakened by fighting the gods and Buddhas all over the heavens and killing all the monsters and monsters, the Bull Demon King is just the incarnation of darkness in the heart of the Supreme Treasure. Was the Bull Demon King ruining his love? On the surface yes, in fact it is not. He wanted to be a real person, and when he was in a dilemma, he still had to choose. This world is not a fairy tale, everything you want is fulfilled. We got a lover, but lost our country. We chose morality, but not love. Because we are only mortals, with all our skills, we can only fight against the evil outside, but cannot resolve the conflicts and contradictions in our hearts.
It is not difficult to kill the Bull Demon King, but it is the most difficult to resolve the loss of the love of a lifetime. It is okay to ignore the sufferings of the world, but can your heart be stable? What about those who died because of you? Your ability is irresponsible, what is the use? With great power comes great responsibility.
He lost Fairy Zixia, but he did not lose love in his heart. This is the most essential thing explained in "Journey to the West", about love and liberation.
Real liberation is not resistance, not avoidance, not distortion, not forgetting. It is to remember the sadness of the loss of a loved one and melt it into my heart. Just like Zhizunbao always loves Zixia, he protects Tang Seng and his own memory on the long journey to the west. Whether he is Sun Wukong, the Supreme Treasure, a monkey or a human, if he cultivates into a Buddha, becomes a hero, and exists in the world, then the love between him and Fairy Zixia will not die out completely.
Once re-screened in 22 years, we already know the story of "Journey to the West", and we are too familiar with it, but we are still willing to watch it again, just because people are not grass and trees, no matter how we grow up, we can't do it. to ruthless. People who are affectionate will inevitably never forget, reviewing the past and knowing the old feelings.
Literary works also have their own rules. The more you deliberately want to make art films, the more you make stupid garbage. Most of those movies that pretend to be serious and delusional are immortal, and most of them have been forgotten by us and become fleeting.
And this crazy and emotional "Journey to the West" was remembered by us and became a classic. Just like the non-mainstream barnyard official novel "A Dream of Red Mansions" three hundred years ago, it defeated time, defeated mainstream literature, won the hearts of countless people, and became immortal.
Shen Jiake: Famous writer, critic, and founder of new media. He has published 36 works of psychology, such as "You Deserve a Better Life" and "Parallel Towers". It has sold millions of copies and has repeatedly entered the major best book lists. In 2014, he was listed in the China Influential Book Promotion, and in 2016, he won the Best-Selling Writer of the Year Award. In 2015 and 2016, he won the two influential writers' literary contribution list.
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