First of all, let's take a look at the Tiangong. The buildings are luxurious, the tall buildings stand, surrounded by a lot of smog, and more importantly, the Tiangong is also the seat of the ruling institutions. Isn't this what the emperor is? Moreover, the Jade Emperor was also changed into a dragon by the main creator who created (does not) out (have) the heart (use) and cut (heart), do you still not understand what the dragon symbolizes in the celestial dynasty?
Secondly, when it comes to old Beijingers, many people will think of the image of a Beijing movie, walking around with dogs and playing with birds. Let's look at the gods in "Havoc in Heaven". The Jade Emperor turns into a dragon when he shows his power. Erlang Shen carries a whip with him. When he is upset, he beats the animals in the Heavenly Palace. Sister Chang'e also took her pet jade rabbit out for a walk (actually, it was Erlang's transformation, he also had transvestites). And Patriarch Bodhi tricked Sun Wukong into becoming his pet with a butterfly, ah, it's not his apprentice. There are various indications that Tiangong is the imperial capital, and the gods are the aborigines of the imperial capital.
The Demon Race, headed by the Bull Demon King, invaded the Heavenly Palace as an outsider from the very beginning, and was suppressed by the people of the Imperial Capital headed by the Jade Emperor. Then why did the Bull Demon King and the others have to enter the Heavenly Palace and become immortals? This involves the definition of gods and demons. What exactly is a god and what is a demon? It's definitely not about looks, otherwise the Bull Demon King won't have to go to the Heavenly Palace. That's about character? No, you can see Erlang Shen, who has both SM and transvestites, can become a god, so personality and everything are floating clouds. If you have watched the TV series or the original "Journey to the West", you will find that many immortals' mounts are gods when they are in the Tiangong, and they become demons when they go down to earth without permission. To put it bluntly, you are a god if you are certified by Tiangong, but you are not recognized by the authority of Tiangong, no matter how talented you are. So the reason why the Bull Demon King couldn't go to the Tiangong was that he was a foreign dog without a household registration in the imperial capital (Tiangong). And the reason why he attacked Tiangong for the first time was also very simple, because his living environment was worse and the smog was bigger (somewhat alluding to some cities in Hebei), so he wanted to drive away the aborigines of the imperial capital and replace them by himself. .
Then why did the Bull Demon King be demoted to the Flaming Mountain and still want a household registration in the Imperial Capital? You must know that Princess Tie Fan, the sister of the imperial capital, has eloped with you, and you are also a great man under one immortal and above ten thousand demons. You are simply a winner in life. What else are you dissatisfied with? I think the root cause is still dissatisfaction. The Bull Demon King will definitely think: My old bull is ranked second in the zodiac anyway, why should you, the fifth-ranked dragon, bully even the fourth-ranked rabbit (Jade Rabbit) and the ninth-ranked monkey (Monkey King) and the eleventh dog (Roaring Heavenly Dog) can live in the Heavenly Palace, but I can't? And I'm handsome and mana powerful, so I can't live in the Heavenly Palace just because I'm a foreigner? I am not convinced.
But after the first failure to attack the Tiangong, Nuwa made a very perverted decree by sacrificing herself: Once the non-local dog entered the imperial capital's territory, it instantly vanished into ashes. It's just kidding, right? So Lao Niu thought of Sun Wukong, the idiot. In "Havoc in Heaven", Sun Wukong was born of the spiritual stone that Nuwa turned into. Although he was born in Tongzhou (Huaguo Mountain), a suburb of the imperial capital, he was also an authentic imperial capital. Lao Niu can't go to the imperial capital, Sun Wukong is OK. So Lao Niu sent a foreign girl vixen to seduce Wukong, and then told Wukong that the imperial capital was very xenophobic, and also killed her because the vixen had a bad background. This caused Wukong's rampage, which led to the second havoc in the Heavenly Palace.
Although Wukong has committed a crime, he is still rooted in red. So the Tathagata punished him symbolically, first serving 500 years in prison, and then looking for an opportunity to set up a new hukou in the imperial capital. (If it looks familiar, many officials in the Chinese Dynasty were first dismissed after being exposed for corruption, and then re-entered the political circles.)
Probably because the Jade Emperor found himself too harsh on foreigners, so he relaxed the policy of settling in the imperial capital. So at the end of the story, a young man named Tang Sanzang started a new journey with Sun Wukong, a former resident of the imperial capital, and had a spring dream of becoming a new generation of residents of the imperial capital.
PS: If you look at "Havoc in Heaven" as an ordinary movie, I will give it 2 points, and if you look at it as a magic realism film, I will give it 8 points.
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