The first part: the beginning of the timeline
story, Zhou Xingchi is a bandit who meets Chun San Thirty and Bai Jingjing, assuming this time point is 1994.
Going to the end of "Moonlight Treasure Box", Zhou Xingchi returned to 500 years ago through the Moonlight Treasure Box, then the time is 1994-500=1494, that is, Zhou Xingchi met Zixia Fairy (Pansi Daxian) in 1494.
When the plot went to kill the Bull Demon King, Tang Seng and his apprentice traveled through time and space through the Moonlight Treasure Box, which was 500 years later, in 1994. That's right, at the same point in time as the beginning of the story. However, because Zhou Xingchi (the bandit) traveled back to 1494 and did a lot of things, he changed people and things 500 years later: the second master (Wu Mengda) was admitted to the champion, and Bing Bing became the man in red who helped the champion, Bai Jingjing and Spring Thirty Niang became tofu Xishi, and Bodhizi became a tour guide. Let's call this the year 1994 after changing history.
So far, we have come to three time points: 1. Zhou Xingchi became a bandit in 1994. 2. The bandit Zhou Xingchi traveled back to the changed year of 1494. 3. 1994, after changing history. In the end there is only one question, what happened in the real 1494, which is actually mentioned in the film. Mainly reflected in the fight between Sun Wukong and Guanyin.
The real 1494, Zhou Xingchi was Monkey King, he wanted to eat Tang Seng with the Bull Demon King, marry the Bull Demon King's sister, and then fight Guanyin, but the result was not enough. At this time, Tang Seng said that he was willing to use his own life in exchange for Wukong's life. So Wukong can be reincarnated as a human being and become a bandit after 500 years. This also explains why Bai Jingjing and Chun Thirty Niang both said that the bandit Zhou Xingchi was entrusted to the world by Sun Wukong.
Here is a small detail. In the real 1494, when Tang Seng was about to sacrifice, he was sucked into the moonlight treasure box of the bandit Zhou Xingchi, and then went to the bandit Zhou Xingchi's side. That is to say, Tang Seng went from the real 1494 to 1494, which was changed by the bandit Zhou Xingchi, but he still recognized that the bandit Zhou Xingchi was the reincarnation of Sun Wukong.
In general, there are 4 time points, arranged in the order of appearance in the photos: 1994 with the bandit Stephen Chow -> the bandit Stephen Chow, the changing year of 1494 -> 1494 when the Monkey King and Stephen Chow fought with Guanyin -> Changed 1994.
The second part, the themes explored in the film.
The film mainly discusses two themes of love and sacrifice of life.
Two episodes about the sacrifice of life for righteousness: 1. In order to give Sun Wukong a chance to be reincarnated in 500 years, Tang Seng is willing to exchange his life for another life. 2. The thief Zhou Xingchi traveled back 500 years to find Bai Jingjing, and died under the sword of Chun Thirty Niang. As a result, the thief Zhou Xingchi wanted to resolve this 500-year-old hatred, and made up his mind to get the Western Classics, no longer nostalgic for the love in the world.
Regarding love, first of all, of course, the bandit Zhou Xingchi and Bai Jingjing, a kind of love that is more common today. Then there is the love between the bandit Zhou Xingchi and the Zixia fairy, representing a kind of love destined by heaven, a love that has no solution. Just because he pulled out the Ziqing sword, Zixia recklessly fell in love with the bandit Zhou Xingchi. At this time, the bandit Zhou Xing still loves Bai Jingjing, and Zixia also knows the truth through his heart.
Later, 500 years ago, the young Bai Jingjing also entered the heart of the thief Zhou Xingchi, but at this time, the heart answered that the person he loved the most was Zixia, so the young Bai Jingjing left a book and left, and told the thief Zhou Xingchi, "You came back after 500 years. In order to find her, this is fate."
At the beginning, the thief Zhou Xingchi did cross for Bai Jingjing, but it was destined that the moonlight treasure box had a "failure", so that Zhou Xingchi returned to 500 years ago. In the process of retrieving the moonlight treasure box, he fell in love with Zixia. Bai Jingjing in 1494 also knew that the bandit Zhou Xingchi was in love with Zixia, so there was no love between the bandit Zhou Xingchi and Bai Jingjing, so in 1994 after the change, Bai Jingjing became Tofu Xishi.
Finally, let's talk about the ending.
Because the bandit Zhou Xingchi found out that he fell in love with Zixia when he was about to die, it was already too late, he couldn't be resurrected. So he simply didn't reincarnate, went to get the Western Classics, and resolved the hatred in the world. After the change in 1994, when Monkey King Zhou Xingchi went to the city gate, he helped a sunset warrior. The Sunset Samurai likes the woman who looks like Zixia, but he is not sure, and quoting the Sunset Samurai's words "I shouldn't be here" is enough to prove it. Isn't this the former bandit Zhou Xingchi, who fell in love with Zixia but didn't know it. In the end, when the sunset warrior said that Sun Wukong was like a dog, Zhu Yin's eyes were complicated, because 500 years ago, she had let the bandit Zhou Xingchi play the dog.
This is a very memorable movie. Many questions about the movie can actually be answered from the movie. I hope this movie review can also help you.
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