I watched the movie "East Evil West Poison"

The first time I saw this movie was many years after its release, when I had just bought my first computer, the dormitory did not have access to the Internet, went to the CY brothers to find discs to watch, borrowed two copies, one is Akira Kurosawa's "Chaos", and the other is this "East Evil West Poison".

　　What attracted me the most was its lines, followed by the desolate meaning of the film as a whole. I'm surprised by a lot of people saying that the movie doesn't work, because I don't think there's anything that's hard to understand, and some people say it needs to be brushed many times to see something, which I basically agree with. I do read it many times, but most of the things, if there is really a so-called "transmission", then it is already deeply experienced in the first time.

　　My online ID "KnifeMan Without Shoes" is based on this.

　　Ouyang Feng: Do you know why I invited you to dinner?

　　Hong Qi: I don't know

　　Ouyang Feng: Because I know you are hungry. In fact, I have been paying attention to you for a long time, and I have seen you crouching under that broken wall, and you have not moved for half a day, and it does not look like you are sick. I have seen many young people like you, and if you know a little martial arts, you think you can run amok in the world, but in fact, walking in the rivers and lakes is a very painful thing. Know martial arts, there are many things that can't be done. You don't want to cultivate the land, you are not ashamed to rob, and you don't want to show your face to sell art on the street, how do you live? If you are high in martial arts, you also have to eat. There is a profession that is very suitable for you, which can help you earn some silver and two, and you can also do heroic deeds, are you interested? You think about it, but hurry up, you know, your stomach will soon be hungry.

　　Not long after Hong Qi's arrival, the last group of horse thieves returned. Before I took him to meet the villagers, I bought him a pair of shoes, because the price difference between the knifemen who wore shoes and those who did not wear shoes was very different.

　　Ouyang Feng: What, do you think that the price of ten silver is very expensive? Then you can find a few cheap ones, and there are a few who don't wear shoes over there, and they're already happy if you give him a couple of silver. Knifemen who don't even have shoes, do you have confidence in them? If they lose their hands and let the horse thieves know that you directed them, what do you think will happen to the horse thieves? I dare not say that my friend's martial arts skills are better than all of them, and what I am telling you now is the safety of the lives of more than twenty people in your family, at least in this regard, you should believe in a person who wears shoes.

The first time I saw this, I couldn't help but sigh for a long time, at that time I had traveled to many places, tasted a lot of warmth and coldness, young people like me (at that time, maybe it can be said that) although I had read a lot of books and thought about the purpose and meaning of life, in the eyes of others I experienced, such people had already seen a lot, maybe this is a universal principle in the world - any college student who first set foot in society (or a secondary school student, a high school student, a junior high school student in the early years of liberation, or a late child in the early years of liberation) when he entered the social circle You don't know how thick the sky is, you feel like you've learned something, or you've realized something, and you're proud or proud of it, but in the eyes of those around you who are already in the social circle, you're not a fart. One day I suddenly felt that I was old, because I also had Ouyang Feng's eyes when I looked at the latecomers.

　　I'm a knife maker without shoes, but I've repeatedly told my students that no matter what, you have to wear shoes —not only because of the inspiration of the movie, but also because of the Sun Zhigang case, the specific details of which I don't know very well, but one thing I know: he was considered to be just an ordinary migrant worker and was taken to a shelter and beaten to death by the group (the latest echo of the line is the line in "The Great Sage of Love": "A little demon like this will die thirty or fifty thousand a year!"). Suppose, of course, that it may have been just his own opinion—that if he had worn a decent suit—just as Kong had worn a long shirt no matter how he scribbled—then he might not have been so unlucky, and there is a point here. Wong Kar-wai couldn't have said it more clearly: the price difference between the knifeman who wears shoes and the knifeman who does not wear shoes is very different. Shoes or suits are symbols and symbols of identity. No matter how high the martial arts, your face will not write, people rely on clothes and horses to saddle, and it is the custom of this world to judge people by their appearance. One of the secrets to getting into everything in China is to wear a good dress, and of course remember to fit – a suit that doesn't fit is the easiest to show. When you enter the door, hold your head high and do not squint - even if the gatekeeper tells you to ignore him, so much he does not dare to stop you, because he will not be sure of your identity when he sees this style, and you can get rid of the repeated interrogation and registration of the difficult janitor - do not forget that people with a little power will use this power to the extreme, and they will delay you in doing the right thing.

　　Therefore, if you are indeed strong in martial arts, then it is very necessary to spend ten silver to buy a pair of shoes to wear, not only to solve the problem of eating, but also to survive the threshold of life and death. This is one of the most simple truths that predecessors told us at the cost of their lives. Sad or absurd?

Ouyang Feng: Hong Qi? He's gone, I don't think he'll come back, you go somewhere else to find him.

　　Ouyang Feng: Do you understand what I'm saying?

　　Hong Qi's wife still did not leave, still sitting there waiting.

　　Ouyang Feng (monologue): Don't think that it is easy to deceive a woman, the more simple a woman is, the more direct she is, she knows that her husband has not left at all, because Hong Qiqi will not leave his donkey alone.

　　The mystery here is not profound, I suddenly realized it when I watched it a third time: Hong Qi's can leave his wife alone to break into the world, but he will never leave his donkey alone. His wife knew this well—she knew he was a miser. But she still loved him and still wanted to be with him, even if it was away from home. In Ouyang Feng's words, "I finally understood why that woman liked Hong Qi, probably because he was simple enough. "Simple, but here it's a complicated word." "Simple" is not simple, but more than "simple", "generous" and so on, if my understanding is over-interpreted, I believe there will still be many people who agree. Whether it is attachment or arbitrariness, in short, there is this state of mind that expects the world to be at ease, in today's words: it represents a higher quality of life. There are many things here that are beyond the reach of those who live in the shackles of social relations today.