Painted Skin II has surpassed the entanglement of love between men and women, and the love between men and women is just one layer of the background of layers of conflict. The dramatic conflict of the whole film is the performance of allegorical and profound themes: skin and heart in Chinese concepts; free desire and exchange; unwillingness and willingness; separation of self and external self; connection between human and demon.
The intersection and collision of several profound themes, coupled with the appearance of Chen Kun-Zhou Xun-Zhao Wei's iron triangle, beautiful pictures (except for mentally handicapped animation stunts) and soundtracks, are enough to give Chinese films some new hope after a decade of slump.
Zhou Xun and Chen Kun did not surpass their previous performances in this film, but Zhao Wei's performance has improved significantly. Regardless of military uniforms, fancy dresses, and underwater shadows, they can all show distinct differences. The screenwriter and director have a special thought in character modeling. In the transformation between Xiaowei and the princess, there is an external feature of each other that can identify who is who or who is, and that is their hair. It is a demon whose hair is ironed straight, and a human being naturally. The use of this symbol is very appropriate and full of drama. The best performance in Zhao Wei's play is the one where he was reincarnated with Xiaowei for the first time six hours after spending one night with the general, and the second day he was questioned who he was with the night before. The kind of anger that turns into anger is not only to the general, to Xiaowei, but also to himself. I feel that it is a performance that fully expresses a woman's "greed" and "unwillingness" towards love. The hardest and easiest thing in the world is to be willing, and the most crazy thing is to be unwilling. The princess was not reconciled when she got cheap. She is the request of thousands of women for love, which is never satisfied or reconciled.
They had been together the night before, and she had never felt so close to the man she had always wanted to be close to. What about getting it? She didn't use her own skin appearance, she just proved that Xiaowei said that all men saw skin appearance. Although she knew that she was a princess in the joy at that moment, and the general recognized that she behaved like a princess in some ways, but she was annoyed , Annoyed that he was close to other women even though he was thinking of the princess, annoyed that she won that night with a bewitching appearance, annoyed that her own self-deception and self-deception were deceiving. Is she herself? Or someone else's image? Does he just love skin? She was reluctant to admit these facts that she knew all too well. So it all stems from "unwillingness".
This is a vivid play that depicts the sufferings of women and the sufferings that they find for themselves; but it doesn't stop there. However, through the mouth of a woman, the body of a woman talks about the skin and heart, unwillingness and willingness, and identity of those eternal human beings.
Both men and women value skin appearance, which is the outer packaging of self and soul. It is shaped by natural parents or acquired by themselves. There are too many elements of luck. The heart, as a blood-pumping tissue, is a simple flesh-and-blood tissue, but without the heart, the spirit has no attachment. Thousands of people with hearts and skins do not all have their own spirits. The arrogance of a princess of a country lingers in the princess' spirit. Demons are in the world, and they must eat people's hearts to keep them going. In the end, the princess was entangled in whether to eat or not, and the general was worried that eating was the critical gate of the distinction between human and monster. People are people because of entanglement. The heart to be drawn in the sequel, in addition to that organization, is the "self". who I am? Princess? Xiao Wei? people? Demon? The ta under the skin that you love? How to get people's hearts? Forced taking is only for one day, only willingness can last forever. Is there a difference between humans and monsters?
One day being a demon and one day being a human being (especially the twitch of Xiao Wei's nose when she smelled the fragrance of flowers for the first time, played by Zhao Wei) is just an exchange of life, in exchange for a face and sense that we have never thought of as women with feelings. People have five senses because they have five states, and they feel distressed because they have a heart. What the senses and the heart feel are our innate gifts, the desires of the demon. Why not enjoy the five senses, body and mind, and why should there be a difference?
possibility of exchange. The possibility of any exchange depends only on whether your offer appeals to the other party. The exchange between Xiaowei and the princess is a woman's heart, willingness, a deal with the devil, and a yearning for each other. They are proud, vain, restless. Like Gibran's Violet, Goethe's Faust.
Because of desire, so human.
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