The time was in the early morning of a certain thunderstorm in the summer of 2005. The location was a window seat on the second floor of an Internet cafe in Meicheng. Sitting next to me was my close friend. He saw my movement and didn't say anything, not a word of consolation, as if it should be.
I don't remember how many times I watched "Journey to the West". When I saw it before, I was also emotional, but at most it was red eyes. But this time, in an Internet cafe where strangers gathered, tears were pouring down.
After watching it so many times, I can recite the lines along with it. The story still sticks to the bottom of my heart. This story made me laugh and made me cry. Take me to think. It is no exaggeration to say that this film has accompanied me throughout my adolescence, and it has left a trace of happiness and sadness in my heart along with time.
Almost everyone knows the film now, but when it was released in 1995, it was almost unpopular. The box office was bleak, and there were few successes in major film festivals. One of the important reasons is that Liu Zhenwei and Zhou Xingchi were too advanced at that time. This is most prominently reflected in several important clues throughout the film. For example, the time-traveling story; for example, the postmodern technique reflected everywhere in the film; another example, the parody of the spiritual concept of the famous novel. And there are many thought-provoking philosophical propositions interspersed in it. In addition to the oriental Zen flavor everywhere in the story, the cycle of cause and effect and the concept of numerology are constantly appearing. At the end of the story, Sun Wukong wakes up and finds that the world is completely inconsistent with what he has experienced before, which is obviously similar to the analysis of Freud's dreams. thinking about it. You can take all the stories of Sun Wukong before he wakes up as his dreams. The reason why the various moods in the stories are so different from reality or even completely opposite is because there is another self in Sun Wukong. In the story, the split between Zhizunbao and Sun Wukong is a concrete manifestation of this. The film thus brings a deep sense of fateful helplessness.
But in the end, the director broke through this fate, and thus broke through the story itself. When the awakened Sun Wukong turned into a sunset warrior and kissed "Zixia" deeply. The emptiness of the dream was completely shattered. This kiss makes all the stories meaningful. The Sunset Samurai has gained happiness, and most importantly, Sun Wukong has become a man who believes in love. No matter Bai Jingjing or Zixia, at this moment, all their love has value. Sun Wukong can only go to fetch the Western Classics, but he has already contained this immortal love in his heart. Zixia said, I guessed the beginning, but not the end. However, at this moment, she has the process and really has the love.
Liu Zhenwei is too cruel. He clearly let his Bodhi son live fearlessly in the world, and he was able to accept the repayment of the Supreme Treasure generously; he clearly let everyone except Sun Wukong cure his paranoia; he clearly let everyone come Later I believed in love. Why do you have to add "he looks like a dog" at the end?
This is so cruel. Yes, when one day we all believe in love and believe that happiness must be actively strived for, so what? Dreams don't always come true. There will be too many times, hard work will not necessarily come back, and hard work will not necessarily yield results. There will be a day when you stretch out your hand, but love has already passed. Reality can force everyone into a dog, even if it is the Monkey King, who can change seventy-two times and turn around a thousand miles away.
Four years ago, I thought about it in the sound of howling rain. Today I still can't get rid of this helplessness. But more often, I think in the other direction, I extend my hand, not necessarily to have love, just to prove that I have loved. I work hard, I don’t have to let myself reach that place, as long as I try my best, I can look back on the past and not regret that I have not struggled. If reality really wants to force me to be a dog, then I have to live out my own meaning with the dog's way of living.
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