Chapter 1,295 The meeting between you and me is the most beautiful poem.
After all, "A Chinese Ghost Story" is made in China and is aimed at domestic audiences. Therefore, its natural receptive ability is stronger than "A Ghost Story".
Moreover, folklore such as scholars and female ghosts are actually familiar to everyone.
However, this time "A Chinese Ghost Story" really made everyone think of Ning Caichen when they think of scholars, and Nie Xiaoqian when they think of kind-hearted female ghosts.
Of course, different people must have different interpretations of this movie.
Some people like the apocalyptic plot, some people like the romance between humans and ghosts, some people like Yan Chixia's free and easy style of playing sword and singing, and some people also like the county magistrate who is desperate for money:
"Such a worldview may seem absurd, but in fact, it's hard not to think that the background of the film reflects a certain era!"
"The romance between man and ghost is over. Although I guessed the ending at the beginning, a dog director is a dog director. So what if I tell you the ending?"
"Yan Chixia looks like she's not doing her job properly, but it's really what makes people feel the most special in the film. He hid in Lanruo Temple to avoid the troubles in the world. In his opinion, although ghosts and gods gather in this place, there is no clear distinction between black and white;
In the world, there is often no distinction between right and wrong, and black and white are unclear. Here, Yan Chixia is a representative of the ultimate justice. The song of justice he sang while drunkenly practicing swordplay in the woods makes people feel soul-stirring."
"Doesn't anyone think that the county magistrate is interesting? Is it okay to withdraw from the court for free? Hahaha!"
"Xiahou is a real man. He uses practical actions to explain what it means to die under peonies. He is also romantic even if he is a ghost! Are there more men like Xiahou or Ning Caichen in the world? The answer is self-evident! Therefore, I feel that Xiahou is a real man.
He is a representative of ordinary people!"
However, the most discussed topic is still the eternal theme, love!
"The love between Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian was doomed from the beginning. The happy ending in the original version is more like a kind of irony, and the ending of the movie version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" seems more realistic.
and ruthless.”
"This is definitely a love that is rare to find!"
"Whether it is human, god, ghost or monster, love is an eternal topic. Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian are the love between humans and ghosts, but it is also so touching. Even ghosts long for love, let alone ordinary people in the world."
"In real life, everyone hopes to have a love of their own, but everyone is complaining why they can't find love? There are only exchanges of conditions, and society is full of sex, money, and rights.
Transaction. In real society, when women are sad, men are also sad. Women are sad because they were abandoned by men, and men are sad because they were deceived by women. They have no true feelings."
"Just like the theme song sings: The road of life is like a long road with beautiful dreams. Who has never had a dream? Who has never had a dream lover? However, the wind seems to be sighing in the dream, and the road and people are vast.
In reality, love is something that can be encountered but cannot be sought after all! Don’t be sad if you haven’t met it, and don’t be proud of what you have met. In the world of mortals, there are many directions for beautiful dreams. To find love in your crazy dreams, the road is endless.”
"A grievance, an innocence, where the string breaks, you and I meet, is the most beautiful poem.
It was your helplessness that moved me. I am willing to use my clothes to hold up a piece of sky for you. However, you are the flower on the other shore. I have swam across the sea but cannot touch you. You are the moon in the water, which I broke into pieces.
He drank the autumn water but his hands were still empty.
It was your kindness that moved me, and I am willing to follow you to the end of the world. But there are boundaries between humans and ghosts, and fruitless love will only live up to your resentful heart. I don’t want to see your innocent eyes, flowing with anything.
of sadness.
However, love regardless of consequences is the most beautiful first encounter. When I am at my best, I have you by my side. So what does it matter if humans and ghosts have boundaries?
Or a little bit sad.
"I will take you away as soon as daybreak."
wait for me."
"In that life, in that life, he missed her, loved her, and waited for her. Yin and Yang were separated. Now he has repaid this love. Many years later, will she still remember that there was a man who lowered his eyebrows for her?
I bowed my head and held a candle for her and talked at night: The sky is covered with frost on the ten-mile flat lake, every inch of blue hair is worried about the old age, we are alone and look forward to protecting each other, we only envy the mandarin ducks but not the immortals."
"In fact, this seemingly impossible but beautiful love between human and ghost represents a kind of human's persistent pursuit of beautiful love, no matter what form this feeling exists. Therefore
, it can be seen that what the director is searching for and intending to express is what makes this film truly touching. No one will always remember the appearance of the thousand-year-old tree demon, and no one will always remember how justice defeated evil.
There is that eternal true love and love that transcends the realm of humans and ghosts, travels through years and time, and remains in everyone's heart."
Some people also like the music in movies.
"The music of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is very appropriate. It is light, slightly melodious, and the sound shows linear characteristics, advancing into the distance at a uniform speed. This kind of lyrical method is not depressing when it is restrained, and it is not depressing when it is relaxed.
It’s out of control, and it’s very closely integrated with the picture. It brings the audience a spiritual enjoyment that is both audio and visual, which is also a kind of charm.”
Some people began to analyze from the aesthetic aspect, why is Nie Xiaoqian so popular?
"First of all, the title of the film is "A Chinese Ghost Story", so it is natural to highlight the screen image of Nie Xiaoqian.
I have to say that Director Li Yi's aesthetic attainments are truly superb.
Nie Xiaoqian's portrayal is also perfect. Why do you say that?
Because when we see Nie Xiaoqian, we will use words like a bit demonic and a bit innocent to describe it, but in fact, Nie Xiaoqian is actually a fusion of two images, both a "witch" and a "goddess":
As a ghost, on the one hand, she seduces Ning Caichen and makes him fall in love with her, even at the risk of her own life; on the other hand, as beautiful as a god, she commits herself to rescue Ning Caichen many times;
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Nie Xiaoqian, who is both a "witch" and a "goddess", successfully made the audience fascinated and sighing. Nie Xiaoqian was dressed in white like a goddess, pure and inviolable, but Ning Caichen
The many erotic shots shown in the perspective make the audience seem to have crossed a certain taboo bottom line. For example, the shots of bathing in the room and the tryst in the small house by the lake are actually gaining voyeuristic desire through Ning Caichen's eyes.
satisfy.
It is undeniable that this lively Nie Xiaoqian is still displayed and displayed on the screen for people to admire and watch. And this kind of Nie Xiaoqian is also full of distinct oriental sentiments. Ning Caichen wants to refuse but welcomes her.
The attitude, the elegant and charming movements of flirting by the lake, the shrewdness when fighting secretly with the sisters, and the weak posture in front of grandma all show the unique social environment of Oriental women, in the social system where patriarchal supremacy, women are
An environment of confinement and lack of independence, as well as family politics - women want to gain social status and power through marriage, but they cannot control the choice of marriage partners. Complex and diverse character traits are cultivated in this;
And although she has an elegant manner, she is different from ordinary women in her boldness and debauchery. She can freely commit herself to the man she loves. She is by no means the common image of a repressed and ascetic lady!
Therefore, this Nie Xiaoqian is a collection of millions of male fantasies, a combination of "lady" and "prostitute". The male audience is not only directly impacted by the visual beauty, but also feels greatly satisfied by assuming the role of Ning Caichen. It can be said that
As a voyeur and a doer, I gained double satisfaction, and experienced a spiritual encounter through watching the movie.
The above is about satisfying the desires of male audiences, so where are the desires for women in this movie?
Are female viewers just taking on the male perspective to watch an objectified Nie Xiaoqian?
No. Although female viewers are also appreciating movies through a masculine perspective to a certain extent, watching Nie Xiaoqian who is created to satisfy male desires. However, Nie Xiaoqian is also an outlet for women to release their own desires.
The character of Oriental women is very complex. The main reason is that the close family structure determines that women must play many roles at the same time. The roles of daughter, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, wife, mother and mother-in-law often play at the same time.
All in one.
To deal with different roles, you need to adopt completely different strategies and attitudes. For example, as a daughter-in-law, you must be humble to your parents-in-law; as a wife, you must be dignified and gentle; as a sister-in-law or sister-in-law, you must be good at managing peer relationships and competing for favor in front of the elders. Therefore,
One of the characteristics of Eastern women is that they have complex personalities, or they are versatile.
In the role of Nie Xiaoqian, her willingness to do what her grandmother wants and pretend to be well-behaved can be seen as fawning over the elders who can control her destiny, while the struggle with Xiaoqing can be seen as an overt and covert struggle between peers. It can be said that
Although Nie Xiaoqian is a ghost, the situation she lives in is no different from that of ordinary women—dominance from elders, lack of freedom in marriage, and intrigues among peers—which will also resonate with female audiences.
Although Nie Xiaoqian was used by her grandma to kill people, the most important thing to her was not that. It was that her grandma arranged to marry an old demon from Montenegro whom she didn't like.
The reason why she became rebellious was because she met Ning Caichen, whom she loved, and did not want to get married according to her grandma's arrangement. It can be said that the most important thing for Nie Xiaoqian is not her wealth and life but her freedom of love. Such a romantic setting naturally makes her
Female facial expressions.
I remember someone once ridiculed the indisputability of some film and television works in the past, saying, "What you lose is just a leg, but what she lost was love!"
At first glance, it seems that this statement is indeed unfair, but such film and television works have gained countless fans. Why?
Because for many women, love above all else is the romance in their imagination, and the priority is naturally the highest.
For today's women, although the times have changed, their personal freedom and social status have greatly improved, but the problems that have troubled women for thousands of years still exist. Various restrictions from family society still suffocate them. Seeing Nie Xiaoqian bravely rise up to resist fate and gain freedom.
And love, female viewers have a more profound experience than male viewers.
Of course, the most essential part of the film is actually the tragedy.
The original "Nie Xiaoqian" chapter in Pu Songling's "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" has a happy ending, but what is the result?
If this story had not been put on the big screen or adapted, perhaps not many people would remember this chapter at all.
That’s why tragedy is Eastern aesthetics! Looking at those that are remembered and never forgotten, there are always more tragedies than happy endings.
The essence of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is also here. Although Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen were rescued by Yan Chixia, they escaped but could not find a lover and finally got married.
Although the two people in "Different Paths between Man and Ghost" achieved love, they still had to separate sadly. Ning Caichen did not even get to see Xiaoqian for the last time. After Nie Xiaoqian was reincarnated, Ning Caichen and Yan Chixia continued to drive their horses away to the end of the world.
, such a tragic ending is the embodiment of Eastern aesthetics.
Fatalism and the theory of reincarnation have endured in our country's culture for thousands of years. No matter how powerful human intervention is, it can't resist the wheel of fate. As the saying goes, "There is a time in destiny, and there is no time in destiny, don't force it." Oriental fatalism emphasizes optimism and understanding of fate.
I don't appreciate the Western saying that "fate is in one's own hands". Manpower may change the fate of Jincheng a little, but it cannot change the ending. Just like in "Westward Journey", Sun Wukong traveled through five hundred years and went against the sky several times, but finally failed.
They still have to surrender to fate. Nie Xiaoqian can't resist her fate either. Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian's unrequited love ends forever. The parting at dawn is the most profound picture remembered by people. Only the incomplete is beautiful.
The reason why Ning and Qian's love is so beautiful is that they are in such a dilapidated and troubled world. They can't help themselves and have no choice but to choose tragedy. Xiaoqian said to Ning Caichen that sometimes people are more terrifying than ghosts, and sometimes ghosts are more terrifying than ghosts.
People are still kind. Yan Chixia also said that the human world is too complicated, but demons and devils are black and white, and they can live freely. In the human world, there are swordsmen who are greedy for vanity, corrupt officials who are obsessed with money, and
The ant people are greedy for profit. But there is no trace of human nature. In such an environment, the scholar with an upright nature is destined to be rejected and marginalized. In loneliness, he encounters a man who has the same mentality as himself.
The lonely Xiaoqian fell in love at first sight and stayed together...
Nie Xiaoqian, an innocent soul in the mountains and fields, has no one to rely on. She is a "soft soul traveling thousands of miles away without a support." It is not her wish to help the tyrants to do evil. She wanders in the world of mortals and the underworld, meeting countless people, but most of them only seek pleasure. Only Ning Cai
I am honest with her with an innocent heart, and this sincere love from the heart is what she, a lonely and helpless ghost, dreams of, so she sacrifices her life many times to protect her lover, regardless of her own safety...
...But after all, they can't resist reality and can't reverse the fate of tragedy. Chinese people admire the beauty of tragedy. Only when they walk in the fate of tragedy can the beauty of things be fully displayed. The love between Xiaoqian and the scholar is even more profound.
