In those turbulent times, everyone was doing their best to earn a bite to eat. Are opportunities, abilities, and talents useful? Maybe there is, or it may be submerged in the flames of war, submerged in corruption. What is useful? Face. If you don't believe me, after the prostitute Lu Shui was brought back to the palace with a face, the actor Kong Ji was favored by the king with a face and was awarded the fourth rank.
You say the face is useful, so why did Kong Ji cut his wrists at the end and the queen didn't run away when faced with the mutiny in the end? It shows that we can't do everything by our face.
Sex has been the eternal theme of human beings since ancient times. No matter what country it is in. However, China hides it and does not dare to reveal it directly. At the beginning of the movie, Kong Ji's group performed a slutty and vulgar play to win the laughter of the villagers and survive. Hey, ancient live tertiary. But that's more powerful than a third-grade film, which is a third-grade film with juggling and musical instrument performances mixed in. They are pariahs. They are lowly, lowly, lowly working people. Struggling to make a living, you have to sell yourself from time to time, who told you to be such a charming boy? When a person does not want to rely on his face to eat, a good face is a burden or even a disaster.
The ancient masculinity prevailed. No matter China, South Korea or North Korea, every king may have a male companion who can see flowers bloom. In recent years, Korean films have dared to express this theme, such as this "The King's Man" and "Frost Flower Shop". In contrast, my dynasty is still fiddling with sex and violence. This is off topic. Kong Ji, who saw the flowers bloom, accidentally fell into the eyes of the emperor. The so-called beauty and misfortune are not unreasonable. But the disaster was originally a puddle of bad water.
The role of the emperor is very simple, violent, greedy for beauty, and only thinks with the lower body. Get angry at every turn, and kill at every turn. In one movie, a total of seven people died, four were killed by him in a fit of anger, and one was killed by him. This makes it easy for the audience from the perspective of God to complain: stupid, you are here to deceive you at first sight; stupid, the emperor should abide by the rules specified by the previous emperor; How to be king? It's true that they were later conspired to become emperors, so what's the hurry? Poor people have something to hate, and vice versa. The palace is a place of annihilation of humanity. Humanity is annihilated, stripped of being a part of man, and only sex remains. Maybe that's why the emperor is lustful.
Kong Ji smiled beautifully. For Kong Ji, performing arts is like selling oneself. There is no way, he is so beautiful that he is always favored by dignitaries, and in the end, he becomes the king's man. With mixed emotions of anger, sadness, and doubt, Wang resolutely kissed Kong Ji's lips. He had already thought about it, and emotions gave him a good excuse. The workers at the bottom had to endure it, including Changsheng, a good friend of Kong Ji, who had a great personality and ability. Changsheng Kong has a talent and ability, but unfortunately he was born in a theatre troupe and became a slave and a pariah. If he was named a military officer, this person would be incredible. Untouchables are untouchables, and untouchables can have character, but cannot fight against their superiors. Changsheng, who lost his eyes, and Kong Ji, who cut his wrists, should have died together in the end.
At the end of the film, a group of their actors sang gongs and drums on the hillside. The actor's wish is nothing more than that. The aspirations of the working people at the bottom, but that's it.
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