"My biggest fantasy at the time was that China and the Soviet Union went to war. Because I firmly believe that in a new world war, I The iron fist of the army will surely smash the war machines of the United States and the Soviet Union. A war hero that has attracted worldwide attention will be born from this, and that is me."
姜文在 "Sunny Day" 流露He realized his heroic dream, and reached "Let the Bullets Fly" , he finally became a real hero in the movie.
Because the movie has caused a phenomenon-level hot discussion, it was originally a clear story, which was confusing and confusing by the audience's various brain analysis.
The biggest controversy is the ending. Did Zhang Mazi really win Huang Shilang?
To fully analyze this problem, we need to start talking about the day Zhang Mazi entered Goose City.
Why does a robber want to be an official improvised?
Jiang Wen's setting is very clear.
The most direct reason is to make money.
One is to earn money for Xiao Liuzi to study abroad, and the other is to feed a bunch of brothers.
However, according to Huang Shilang's description, Zhang Mazi looted opium near Goose City, and he should have made a lot of money. It is enough to send a group of brothers to study abroad, so he doesn't need to bother to be an official and make money. This is something that Ma Bangde and the audience did not want to understand for a while.
But when Zhang Mazi revealed his identity, his lack of money was excusable.
Zhang Mazi, formerly known as Zhang Muzhi, made his debut with General Songpo. The prototype of General Songpa is Cai E, the main organizer and leader of the Yunnan National Protection Uprising in 1915. He responded to the Revolution of 1911 and opposed Yuan Shikai's Hongxian monarchy. He was an outstanding military leader in the early years of the Republic of China.
Unfortunately, Cai E was seriously ill with throat cancer and died after traveling to Japan. Zhang Mazi, who lost his master, fell into the grass and became a bandit from a righteous man.
Zhang Mazi still has justice in him. He is a hero who serves the country and the people. He was incompatible with those warlords who exploited the masses. His personal strength could not be confronted head-on, so he had to hide in the mountains to "fight guerrillas."
In this way, even if he did steal the opium, he would only burn it like Lin Zexu, instead of selling it to make money and letting the opium harm the people.
So Zhang Mazi is a poor man and an idealist.
After entering Goose City as the county magistrate, he still maintains his beliefs.
"I never wanted to scrape the money from the poor."
A line exposed his "nature" of robbing the rich and helping the poor.
In the conversation with Ma Bangde, he actually explained why he fell into the trap.
"Let the bullets fly" The background of the story is a warlord melee, an age of injustice. In such an environment, if you want to survive and climb up, you must follow various unspoken rules.
Ma Bangde knows the world well and buys officials to make money, but people like him can live freely.
Zhang Mazi is different, he disdains colluding with people like Huang Shilang, and many things can only go upstream.
"I just have trouble with my legs and feet, so I can't kneel down."
The subtext is that Zhang Mazi does not succumb to the unspoken rules. He can't play with Huang Silang's group, so he can only hide in the mountains.Up.
But later, Zhang Mazi's mentality changed.
The first turning point, the jelly incident.
Zhang Mazi lost an important confidant, so in the original goal of "making money", he added a new goal, revenge.
Ma Bangde is still trying to make money. At the "Hongmen Banquet", Huang Silang said that he is a person who is very "pretending to be confused."
means that he is aware of current affairs and knows how to seek perfection from wrongs. On the contrary, Zhang Mazi said that he was not born to be confused. Some things were wrong in his eyes, and he would not pretend not to know right or wrong and do things that go against his conscience.
The three protagonists are actually the representatives of the three kinds of people in the troubled times. Huang Silang is the hero, Zhang Mazi is the hero, and Ma Bangde is the traitor.
Before leaving, Ma Bangde said that he lied to Zhang Mazi two things, but did not say anything. This has led to many speculations from netizens.
There is no controversy about the first one, and Mabond betrayed his second child. Ma Bangde happened to be there when Zhang Mazi sent his second child out of the city, which was an obvious foreshadowing.
There are more possibilities for the second thing. Some people say that his illegitimate son is a fake, and they just want to swindle Zhang Mazi's money, but after learning that the illegitimate son was killed, he lost control of his emotions. Later, the third child still helped a lot at the critical moment, and it was just something that was not said, so how could he be called a lie?
A bigger possibility is related to the magistrate's wife played by Carina Lau. The line after the "Assassination" actually hides mystery.
"I said I can't be the county magistrate, you have to spend money to buy this official."
Ma Bangde has always claimed that he is a veteran who spends money to buy an official, and now how can he say that he cannot be a county Is it long?
Because he has never been a county magistrate, this is actually his first appointment.
Zhang Mazi knows that more than 90% of Ma Bond’s words are lies. This master is a standard lie, but they But still established a special friendship.
Ma Bangde's old and cunning is not born, but the world forced him to be like this. He can survive only by cheating.
This is the tragedy of Mabond, but also the tragedy of the old society.
A series of tragedies constantly inspires the belief in Zhang Mazi's heart. With the escalation of the struggle with Huang Shilang, his purpose of becoming the county magistrate has also changed.
In the beginning, it was to make money, then to revenge, and finally to achieve real justice in Goose City.
is the ultimate goal of the whole movie, to bring down Huang Shilang.
If it succeeds, then Zhang Mazi won, and the curve of the story is complete.
If you lose, the movie is a black tragedy.
The key is that Jiang Wen wants to make a relatively pure confrontation between good and evil, or wants to play "yin", and write Zhang Mazi as a complete tragedy.
fans know very well that "Let the bullets fly" was taken by 姜文在 "The sun also rises" after the box office failed. He just wanted most people to understand .
Since most people should be able to understand, then he doesn't need to make any secrets. When he talked about "Let the bullets fly" in the interview, he said thatIn fact, many people have over-interpreted it.
Since he designed a detailed role curve for Zhang Mazi, he has become the county head purely for making money, and then gradually To dig out the true desire in his heart, in the end it is to let him realize this desire.
If it is a tragedy, he wants to achieve justice from the beginning, not make money. He was full of confidence, and finally realized that the reality is cruel, that is the story curve that tragedy should have.
Huang Shilang realized that he had become a stand-in at the end, which fully shows that his stand-in card is gone. Maybe he did find the youngest and sister Hua and wanted to buy them, so the two of them came back late. They didn't look down on the substitute, but after a psychological struggle, they chose to stand on Zhang Mazi's side.
Probably out of guilt, the youngest finally decided to leave Zhang Mazi.
Don’t think about it too complicated, Zhang Mazi defeated Huang Shilang with a real hammer.
It’s just that his victory was bought at a painful price.
Zhang Mazi said to Huang Silang: "It is very important to me without you."
This is actually a manifestation of his beliefs.
Huang Shilang represents evil forces and represents the injustice of the world. Zhang Mazi hopes that there will be no more people like Huang Shilang in the world.
"Let the bullets fly" used Zhang Mazi's victory to tell the audience that justice can be achieved, and evil cannot be suppressed after all.
What's the matter with Huang Silang's figure on the train in the deleted fragment? If it weren't for Jiang Wen's "ulterior motives", how could there be this fragment?
What we should consider first is not "fragments", but why Jiang Wen wants to "delete".
As mentioned above, "Let the bullets fly" is what Jiang Wen wants the audience to understand. If the ending suddenly comes out like "Huang Silang Resurrection", many people will not understand it again. In order to make the ending clearer, I simply deleted it.
Then why arrange such a scene?
Many interpretations have already explained, that is just an insinuation.
The youngest and they got the letter of appointment and went to Shanghai Pudong as county magistrate. They are not like Zhang Mazi, they have a heart of justice, and money is the most important to them. Dao is not conspiring, so the separation of Zhang Mazi and everyone is inevitable.
Huang Silang was defeated, but the youngest and them became the next Huang Silang.
Zhang Mazi, who saw Huang Silang's "shadow", followed the train to Pudong. He can win once and win the second time. The last scene is a vision of justice following evil.
Evil can never be arrogant, because justice draws his gun at any time behind him.
The struggle with Huang Shilang was victorious, but Zhang Mazi's mission continues.
If you live, you will die sooner or later, if you die, you will live forever. ——"Let the Bullets Fly"
