"Justice is just a kind of sympathy. Right and wrong are not divided in this way. If you see something wrong today, you have to be strong, and you will know tomorrow. It may be yourself that is wrong."
I seem to feel the inner monologue of Wang Jiawei's "Evil East and West Poison", Xidu Ouyang Feng standing in the wilderness. But this is not Wong Kar-wai, this is "Knife" by Tsui Hark , also known as "The Knife Breaker". Director Tsui Hark used fast shaking and sharp editing to express a disorderly world.
Short and fast editing is like a sharp knife. Every character has no morals at all. For the sake of selfishness and selfish desire, people can be called pigs. The value of chaos, the world out of order. Broken knife, broken arm, Ding'an, this character uses a broken knife with a broken arm, but he has a name called Ding'an. His life experience determines how he will inevitably seek revenge for his father and how to be safe. It may be that you have to go through hardships to be stable, just like Yang Guo’s misery, 17 years of waiting, to understand that God is speechless, it seems to make you understand that waiting is the greatest essence of life.
Just like Xiang Ling in the film, she has her own emotional rivers and lakes, this heroine who is a little hysterical from the beginning to the end, her monologue runs through the film, but I don’t have the slightest impression of this character. I can’t figure out Director Tsui Hark’s intentions, but I feel that the existence of this character, apart from the fierce shouting, actually she doesn’t understand what likes are, nor what feelings are. Just like the chaotic rivers and lakes, love and hate are in her heart. It's just the rivers and lakes she imagined. And the one who understands love and hate and is liberated is the woman from the dust who died under the knife of Ding'an.
Men are the same, they are unreliable guys.
Except for a few main characters in the film, the other "monsters and ghosts" are blurred. They are a group of weak and powerful moths who eat the world, buzzing around the rivers and lakes, waiting for opportunities to eat. Fierce, in fact vulnerable, what about the flying dragon with a sharp knife, and how about a knife to be safe, the final outcome, there is no other way except death.
In the film directed by Tsui Hark,Some people say that this is a seriously underestimated movie. I don’t know if it is underestimated. But I think this is one of his more experimental movies. The rivers and lakes he thinks will undoubtedly make people fall into desperation and see in desperation. The nature of the world.
What impressed me was the messy, extremely unstable, and extreme rejection of outsiders. Everyone was so rightly deprived of them. Ding'an and Tietou are just the trivial champions.
How they ended, the movie did not give an explanation, but we saw Xiang Ling waiting until the gray hair was gray, still showing the same smile as before. So why didn't Ding'an and Tietou choose Xiang Ling, insisting on leaving, and even saying goodbye. Is it because they saw the charm of the Fengchen woman?
In fact, none of them, maybe they all realize that nothing is true in this disordered arena, and the remaining sense of justice has long been understood in their hearts, and the world before them cannot stop. Yu Xiangling. Because everyone may be a lamb to be slaughtered.
And Xiang Ling told the world with waiting that the new world that is coming may still be the case, but at least, she can still believe that Ding'an and Tietou can return, even if it is hallucinations.
Why did Ding'an and Tietou leave? There is no meaning in Xiang Ling's waiting. This may be the biggest meaning of the movie.
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