After reading "Jing Ke Assassinates the King of Qin", I found that Ying Zheng, the most legendary emperor of Qin, was a firm and somewhat perverted idealist.
At the beginning of the film, Ying Zheng was asked by Yan Guan, "Have you forgotten the great wish to rule the world?" A series of actions later proved that he not only did not forget, but also practically practiced it.
"Unifying the world" is such a grand ideal that it sounds.
Dramatically, as he approached his ideal step by step, he gradually lost all the people around him, and not the last one left.
Why is this so?
The key point is because behind this seemingly bright and great ideal under the guise of "all the world", Ying Zheng's personal desires and darkness are wrapped in too much.
The whole film is about a series of sparks that Ying Zheng's ideals are constantly intertwined and collided with under the pull of light and darkness. When the dark side completely prevails, his tyranny is fully revealed. betrayed him.
This is doomed to the character's self-splitting. Therefore, we saw the madness, volatility and hysteria of Qin Wang Yingzheng in the movie. From this point of view, Li Xuejian's performance is very vivid and wonderful.
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People have ideals in order to give meaning to their lives.
The ideal is most beautiful when it has not been realized. Because it has not been realized, everything is an illusion, so it is very pure and exudes a seductive fragrance, which can not only intoxicate oneself, but also attract others.
When Ying Zheng's childhood sweetheart Zhao Nv was about to leave, Ying Zheng said nothing and took her to Jiangshan Pavilion.
There, he asked people to open the "Map of Four Seas Returning to One" drawn for him by two Koreans. On this huge map, he depicts that after the world is unified, the war will stop, and then the Great Wall will be built to defend against foreign enemies. The people inside the wall will live in peace with each other. For the people who lived in the vassal state and fought constantly, this painting was so beautiful that the two Koreans who had been wiped out of the country stopped crying, and Zhao Nv, who was about to leave, also stayed.
What's more, Zhao Nv was not only moved by Ying Zheng's ideal, but also decided to help him realize this great ideal. In this regard, she did not hesitate to tattoo and disfigure her face to gain the trust of Prince Dan, so as to induce Prince Dan, who was a hostage in Qin State, to return to Yan and stab Qin.
During this period, Ying Zheng exuded a pure idealism, and even the general Fan Yuqi was willing to protect him.
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Until Ying Zheng went to his mother's place to eat meat, and found out that the illegitimate son of his mother Zhao Ji and Concubine existed.
The illegitimate child broke the family harmony, and the illusion of the mother's filial piety. Especially when the doll broke in, the tension behind the curtains, the masters who were privately raised, were eager to try.
This scene is quite dangerous and exciting for Ying Zheng. But the reason he shivered was not because of fear, but because of the loneliness after being abandoned and betrayed.
This brought back memories of his difficult life in Zhao Kingdom. Ying Zheng was a hostage in Zhao State with his parents when he was born. After returning to Qin, his father Yiren died before he was thirteen years old. The dissolute mother did not give him much love, and now even the only mother's love was taken away. Ying Zheng tasted the loneliness of the bone for the first time.
This loneliness inspired his cruelty. So after the failure of the disease, he did not hesitate to fall to the death of two illegitimate children in front of his mother. It was, of course, a form of revenge, but it was just the beginning.
The mystery of Ying Zheng's life, revealed before the death of Concubine, fully inspired Ying Zheng's darkness.
It turned out that the king of Qin who ordered Qin to wipe out the six kingdoms and rule the world was not a native of Qin, but the illegitimate son of Zhao Ji and Lu Buwei. This is a great irony for Ying Zheng, and it is also a great threat to his ideals.
So after Ying Zheng imprisoned his mother, he forced his biological father Lu Buwei to death in the ancestral temple of Qin.
This scene is also the most contradictory and divided moment in Ying Zheng's heart. He seems to be acting, because only when he is acting can he dare to show his true self.
While he was grateful for the kindness of Lu Buwei who rescued him from Zhao State, he was constantly questioned by ideals. If he accepts Lu Buwei's existence as a father, he will not be able to continue to realize his ideal. If he wanted to continue his ideals, Lu Buwei had to die. In the end, Lu Buwei understood his scene and decided to kill himself.
Why do you say this is his self-splitting? Because even Ying Zheng himself couldn't tell what was true and what was false.
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At this time, Ying Zheng's ideal was no longer pure and began to become bloodthirsty.
A series of court scandals simmered resentment in his heart. And his way of venting is to use the power in his hand and the slogan of "dominate the world" to blatantly kill.
Destroying Zhao is the proof of this psychological change.
When he asked Wang Jian to prepare to destroy Zhao, he made it clear that he was going to start revenge.
The ten-year hostage life in Zhao State was the greatest humiliation in his life, and it was also the beginning of the tragedy of his life, because it was in Zhao State that Lu Buwei gave Zhao Ji, who was pregnant, to Ying Zheng's father Yiren.
Only by destroying Zhao State and killing the enemy of the year can we wash away his shame. In this sense, how weak Ying Zheng is, his weakness comes from his inferiority complex. Only through force and violence can he achieve the purpose of covering up and sealing his mouth.
With this new hatred and old hatred against Zhao, his methods are extremely cruel. Obviously, he has promised Zhao Nv to rescue the Zhao children who were forced to die by the Zhao king. After being spat on by a child in Zhao country, he decided to kill all the children of Zhao country in a blink of an eye.
Is he afraid of revenge by Zhao people? No, he can't stand a little insult, even if the other party is a child. Again he used violence to maintain his dignity.
It was this kind of cruelty that led to Zhao Nv's betrayal of him, and Jing Ke also asked the nightmare brought by the blind girl to make up his mind to assassinate Qin. At the same time, it also made Fan Yuqi, who was loyal to Qin, willingly stab Jing Ke. Qin offered his head.
At this time, the strongest cruelty inspires the most general justice.
Therefore, we will feel the tragic and solemn when Jing Ke stabbed the King of Qin before he set off, because he was fighting for justice. And the always weak Prince Dan was so awe-inspiring for a moment. Even when the enemy was strong and I was weak, he was reluctant to attack the Qin army and adhered to the principles of war at that time.
Ying Zheng's injustice contrasts sharply with the righteous actions of others around him.
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Ying Zheng himself did not understand the betrayal of the people around him.
After he killed Zhao, he said in his mother's ear like a dutiful son, "Son, kill all our enemies in Zhao's country", but in exchange it was his mother's spit and the last scolding before his death. At this time, Ying Zheng, like a child, pouted and cried in grievance. He didn't know why this happened.
The ideal is getting more and more full, but his heart is getting more and more empty. Because no one understands him, and no one really wants to share his achievements, he is still a lonely man.
In the end, the assassination failed, leaning on the pillar and smiling like Jing Ke, seeing through the loneliness and nothingness behind his ideal.
In Nuoda's palace, when an emperor was assassinated, Ying Zheng was chased by Jing Ke like a clown jumping off the beam. Hundreds of officials came up to stop him.
Therefore, Jing Ke kept laughing, because Ying Zheng didn't really win. He was still so isolated and unpopular.
Ying Zheng was obviously frightened by Jing Ke's smile. He seemed to see the question that he had been avoiding in his heart: I am clearly doing a great thing, why is everyone opposing it?
He dared not give an answer because it would shake his ideals.
When Zhao Nv finally left, Ying Zheng lost everything and fell into the greatest loneliness. This quiet loneliness is driving people crazy, so he couldn't help asking himself, "Yingzheng, King Qin, have you forgotten your great wish to rule the world?", and then showed a tearful smile.
Because at this time, he only has ideals left, and ideals are the greatest meaning of his continued survival.
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