The protagonists of time travel stories are always curious to discover that it was they who decided and took actions to change the past that made the past happen. Their struggle against fate is a decisive part of fate itself. Humanity has never defeated destiny. Just like the last time travel of the Supreme Treasure, the effort to find Bai Jingjing back five hundred years ago is the opportunity to bring him back to the right track of destiny.
But unlike the general time travel story model, the protagonist who went back to the past did not complete the arrangement of fate and went back to the time he set off (as if Nobi took a time machine back to the past, trying to stop the person who got into trouble, only to find that he was the one who got into trouble and that nothing changed in the end). The Supreme Treasure went back to the past, and did not return to the Supreme Treasure after 500 years, but became Sun Wukong, erasing himself from the new timeline after 500 years - the Moonlight Treasure Box cannot bring you back The past, the realization of the past, can only send you all the way forward. The words "Back to the Future" written on the Moonlight Treasure Box are no coincidence. For example, the Supreme Treasure, who went back to save Bai Jingjing again and again, didn't notice that the "past" second master actually had the memory of what happened before ("It's ascended again! Hey, why do I say 'again'?" ) In other words, going back to Bai Jingjing whom I met five hundred years ago, I feel that I am "very familiar" with the Supreme Treasure, who should have never met. According to the logic of the events, the Supreme Treasure never goes back to the past, and the story is always advancing towards the future. Everyone is just wiped out their previous memories again and again.
In the world line of Supreme Treasure, Bai Jingjing should have worshiped Zixia Fairy (Pansi Daxian) as her teacher, and she has been hunted down to this day because of Monkey King's betrayal. After he crossed over, Bai Jingjing had never seen Fairy Zixia, and she left silently because of a tear she left behind. The two stories don't match. The story of the Supreme Treasure five hundred years later will not happen again. The logic in classic time travel is not implemented. The story has a new ending, history seems to have been changed, but it is still in the arrangement of "fate".
So, rather, the time travel in "Moonlight Box" is not real time travel, but a dream of Sun Wukong. Sun Wukong became the supreme treasure in a dream, he could carry out his pursuit of lust, and then wake up step by step under the call of the superego (Guanyin). Dreams don't hide you from reality, they urge you to wake up.
As for the bridge section where Supreme Treasure dreams of Shuilian Cave many times, it can be said to be "Diemeng Zhuangzhou". Through the Water Curtain Cave, Sun Wukong continued to pretend that he was the supreme treasure in pursuit of love, and on the other hand urged himself to return to the Monkey King, who should not be nostalgic in the world.
In dreams, people relieve trauma by reenacting or modifying memories. After Zhizunbao learned about his real role and destiny (just an avatar in Sun Wukong's dream), he put on a diamond ring and disappeared. At the end of the dream, Sun Wukong interprets his letting go of Zixia (love). The dream function is complete. Sun Wukong woke up in the early morning, went to work, and went to Tianzhu to study scriptures with his master. There has never been a supreme treasure, nor Zixia. They stayed together forever in another dream of Sun Wukong (wind and sand in the city head).
Maybe it's absurd to blame the plot in the movie on the dream. But isn't the plot of the movie the healing effect of dreams for us? Countless people use "Journey to the West" to express their feelings, to cherish lost love, or the emotion of "loss" itself, which is just a daydream-like recollection of our irreversible past.
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