The Chinese Bible once said, "The son does not speak, strange powers, and disturbs the gods." It also says, "Sacrificing to gods is like gods." There is a god or there is no god, this is the question. However, Chinese court rhetoric is very good at the art of persuasion and playing with words, so it follows a set of analogous conclusions, which is called "it is better to believe what is good than what is not", also called "sincere and spiritual". The "sincerity" of philosophy can be said to be rational, but the "sincerity" of folklore is somewhat crammed witty. When it comes to wit, anyone who sees the scene will raise the corners of their mouths, revealing a smile of long live understanding. Ang Lee said: "This is 5,000 years of sexual repression in Chinese culture!" In fact, it's good to say repression, because the environment of repression most creates a sense of nothingness (worthlessness) and fear, and most people have the need for violence and pornography. Although this kind of demand will be projected relatively oppositely to the object of his desire. Just like Pu Songlin, the ghost king, who was persecuted by the imperial examination and the Ten Great Tortures of the Qing Dynasty all his life, he likened himself to a flower floating in a cesspool. As a result, in the opening chapter of "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai", he answered the exam in a dream, dreaming that he said "I have a heart to do it." Good, although good is not rewarded; if one does not intend to do evil, even if evil is not punished" won the praise of the gods. The "God" here is the chief examiner, the ruling class. Why should I laugh at Pu Songlin as a pedantic scholar who has passed the numbness test? You just have to think about Wu Chengen's "Journey to the West". Wu Chengen is "not gracious", he doesn't need praise from the gods, so Sun Wukong went all the way to hell and heaven, and all the way out of heaven, hell, earth, come In an atheistic extermination of France, living in a noble community, and joking about the rules of the game of "a fierce tongue, a sea of right and wrong", and to send a watch to his "fetal prime" leader and colleagues. . . As a novelist full of knowledge and poetic writing style, Pu Songlin should not have been confused, but he could not get rid of the imperial examination value standard of promotion and fortune in his life. Thinking about Zen Buddhism said that all karma (desire projection relationship network) is entanglement (no freedom), which is really daunting!
Horror movies are meant to be terrifying, the so-called "Hell is designed to be human". But the horror films of the golden age of Hong Kong didn't take the golden rule of "horror of life and death" into consideration at all. There was only a scene where a group of grotesque living babies set up a stage to sing and play jokes, but the scene was over. Viewers who have seen it all say "classic" and "decompression", why? I think it may be that the Chinese people's attitude towards death can be directly described by the words "chicken flying and dog jumping". Even when Pu Songlin, who had been reciting Buddha and numbness, was describing the ghosts and souls, although the words were filled with destined horror tensions, the so-called Hades let people die in the third watch and never left them in the fifth watch, but the protagonist never sat still. Habits: The timid or hide-and-seek around the big trees and ghosts, or hold their breath and hide among the corpses; the daring either jump up and stab them, or jump over the wall and bite the ghost. Although this kind of "fear of life and death" (fear of death) does not have a fatal high-level sense, it is worthy of wit and bravery when used in the moment of survival.
"Mr. Zombie" is a ghost movie full of wit and bravery. "Ghosts" in works of art often symbolize death and irrationality. Death is certainly not a pleasant thing, but it is a natural law after all, and it belongs to the category that human beings can understand. What is more terrible than death is irrationality, because irrationality that is divorced from causal logic will make people die in vain. People who die in vain will fall into the six realms of reincarnation and grow close to the poor and hungry ghosts under the Yin Mountain. For the Chinese people who are afraid of poverty , what an annoyance! Zombies are such a monster that can make people die in vain. It wears the official uniform of the Manchu Tartars, and it walks and jumps, which shows a lack of intelligence at first glance. In addition, for Chinese people who are addicted to face control, it still looks dark and dirty, and it is really difficult to control, which is really daunting!
There are two daunting manifestations, one is greed for life, and the other is indulgence. The greedy person is like Wencai, the eldest apprentice of Mr. Zombie's ninth uncle. In the fight against zombies, he felt that Zombie Boxing was invincible in the world, so he wanted to become a zombie (join the devil), and he comforted himself by saying, "Even if you are a zombie, you have to do it. A long-lived zombie." People really can "don't live" in order to "greed for life". In the movie, corpse transformation is used to express the change of mind of the apprentice, and being scratched by zombies is used as an opportunity to draw out the demons in the face of the devil. As a result, Master Ninth Uncle was slammed into the head: "You just don't move, so the corpse poison can't be cured!" Not moving means thinking stagnation, and stagnation means falling into the vortex of false consciousness. False consciousness is the conceptual system (value standard) formed by body and speech karma. Gradually formed by filtering out self-perception. Zombies are the dregs of history that came from no beginning. Master said, "A corpse becomes a zombie because he has one more breath." Just like the sea, there are strong winds blowing the huge ravines, setting off a big wave that will drag all beings into the seabed. People who are stagnant in the vortex of false consciousness seem to hide themselves in a safe fortress without thinking and care, but in fact they jump into the big steamer of the fire house of the Three Realms, and they are full of resentment. The so-called "people are not tired and the heart is tired" and "boiled frogs in warm water" are all manifestations of this phenomenon. The only way to fight against it is to keep thinking about yourself, which is said in "The Grandmaster of a Generation", "It's better to think ahead than to stop."
An indulgence is like Qiu Sheng, the second apprentice of Mr. Zombie. Qiu Sheng looked bold compared to Wen Cai, but he couldn't hold himself in the face of Yan Gui's gentle offensive. In the interval between fighting ghosts, he indulged in the gentle town of pink and pink skeletons, and he couldn't tell that the ghosts were actually zombies in disguise. Although seven times in one night made him look like a wooden heart and ashes, after being rescued by the master, he was still glad that he "died" under the peony flower and became a ghost, and he almost forgot that the ghost is a cannibal that drinks human blood and marrow. This is the so-called human discrimination/intellect in Zen Buddhism, which balances interests among mainstream values and interferes with the performance of self-awareness. The key words in Chinese classical novels that break down the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism include the column of “Merry Characters”. Merry is clothes, masks, indulging in the eyes of others and unable to extricate themselves. You only have to look at some white-faced, fat, and stable heroes in "Water Margin". I heard that going up to Liangshan can be "on the scale of gold and silver, changing clothes and only waiting for the security." , Leaning on the door, chanting poetry under the moon, the whole body is a demon, and the wind is fluttering into the sky, and for a time, the mind is immeasurably dirty and habitually going in and out, and every square inch is a place for a group of demons to compete. No wonder Mr. Zombie wanted to scold him as "fascinated by sex!" Complaining that he was unlucky to accept these two apprentices.
As for Ninth Uncle himself, dressed as a Taoist priest, he should have been called "Taoist Master", but the reason why he was called "Mr." was that he assumed the responsibility of preaching, karma, and puzzlement in a zombie world. Chinese people teach students according to their aptitude, teach them to be aggressive (enterprising) for those who are greedy for literary talents, teach them to be wary of those who are eager to advance Qiusheng, and teach them to "burn books" for those with vested interests who are wealthy and businessmen. The "book" that Master Ren wants to keep is his ancestor's "survival secret", because this survival secret made him a promotion and a fortune, so he is reluctant to burn it. Some people say that the reason for the reluctance to burn is because of Chinese-style "family affection", so the resurrected zombie grandfather must first come back to find his son Master Ren and granddaughter Ren Tingting. The necrosis usually expands outward in a family unit. Of course, in the novels of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the "Book of Filial Piety" could have been read as an atrocity exhibition. Even the harmless international scholar Tang Xuanzang, when he avenged his father, tied his enemy to the river and showed his filial piety by cutting his heart and digging out his liver. Not to mention the faceless cannibals hidden in the poor mountains and bad waters. But the other side of the "Book of Filial Piety" is that if Mr. Ren is not a rich businessman or a successful person, the zombie grandfather is afraid that he will sue his son for a crime of disobedience in the underworld, how can he clamber up from the ground and try to kill the whole family What about becoming a zombie? Aw, this accident is unspeakable! The movie describes the gathering of corpses and poisons as a looted Feng Shui treasure, a tomb in which ghost zombies live. Taoist priests with deep knowledge can temporarily quell zombies with talisman paper and rush them to various places to sell them to buyers in need for profit. There are many such zombies, and it is because they are profitable that they are reluctant to burn them so that they can be reincarnated and resurrected to harm others. But in the end, the film was burned to ashes by Mr. Zombie. This is the director's attitude towards the reincarnation of history. Dressing the zombies in the official uniform of the Qing Dynasty implies that the corpse poison comes from the mainstream social values shaped by the feudal court culture. Court culture is both a zombie and a ghost. It is full of the noble sense of ritualized life on the surface, but it is actually violent and erotic, just like the officials in "Jin Ping Mei" worship the emperor. A few miles away, the officials of the imperial court all opened their eyes with strange round eyes. They could see the emperor's high rolling bead curtains, twinkling dragon eyes and phoenix eyes, and Jinkou Yuyan. This is not a zombie's upper body, what is it? At this time, when the fire in the Three Realms is not ignited!
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