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Discussing "Why is Li Qi like that": Deren is in love with Mu Qi, does he really not understand Deren's heart? Even on the verge of dying, he was still confirming repeatedly.
It has been analyzed that He has a complex obsession with "family", mixed with resentment, heavy burdens, and a desire for love, but because of the lack of security, he needs to be repeatedly "confirmed". What exactly caused Gyi to become like this?
If you want to deeply understand the emotions of the character of Li Qi in "Sleeves", the movie "Si Mourning" is the best extension path.
Regarding the classic work of "Si Mourning", there have been many interpretations, and the story of Yingzu's son Si Mourning Shizi Guan Mi Cabinet starving to death, whether from the perspective of history, human ethics and art, has long been analyzed by people over and over again.
However, I found that most of the reviews focused on the father and son of Yingzu and Shizi, but few people analyzed the grandson Li Qi in the movie. I think that the grandson in "Si Mourning" is very important, and it is not only a pity to be ignored, but also affects the understanding of the deeper tragedy that the film wants to express, the fateful reincarnation of the king under the feudal system.
First of all, the structure of the movie "Si Mourning" is very clever and very complex, director Li Maoyi uses a non-linear structure narrative, tearing the life story with Si Mourning Shizi as the core into pieces, and then stitching it together with various montages.
The structure of the film is like "braiding", ostensibly according to time, one is the childhood of Shizi, the other is the present of the closed rice cabinet.
The deep structure subtly expresses the intertwining of the fates of Yingzu, Shizi and Shisun, Yingzu-Shizi, Shizi-Shisun, and Yingzu-Shisun.
The relationship between the three is roughly like this, Yingzu wangzi Jackie Chan, dissatisfied with Shizi's sluggish learning first, let Shizi act as an agent to listen to the government is equivalent to testing the waters, a try to find that Shizi is not compatible with himself, may threaten the throne.
At this time, Yingzu found that Shisun was very different, he loved learning and was articulate since he was a child, and he was young and young, so he did not pose a threat to Yingzu for the time being, so Yingzu wanted to abandon his son and protect his grandson.
Yingzu transplanted his expectations, love, regrets, and hatred for shizi into Shisun, and instilled in him the concept of "you are different from your useless father".
The young age, along with the father's share, was too heavy.
In the film, Shizi asks Shisun why he loves to read, and Shisun solemnly replies because Grandfather Wang will be happy, and adds a sentence "I also hate such a me."
From the perspective of the young grandson, he personally saw the process of Shizi being abandoned, so that he had to go to the opposite side of his father, while he wanted to "read" for Shizi, he was afraid that if he slackened a little, he would be abandoned like his father, which was the internal motivation for him to study hard and to conform to etiquette in every word and deed.
Hearing this answer, Shizi did not respond directly to Shisun's words, but aimed his arrow at the sky. He knew clearly that he couldn't be like Shisun.
Setsuko hopes that he is the arrow that flies into the sky, and he chooses the life he wants with a straight face.
Here he only told Shisun that the couple was to make up for each other's lack, not to be bound by etiquette, and to love each other all their lives.
This is the motto that the son of the world left to his grandson, and it is also the motto that he has never received in his own heart.
On the rainy night when Shizi attempted to murder Yingzu, he came to The Gate of Yingzu and found that Shisun was also inside. In this shot, he blocks the shadow of Shisun, and opposite Yingzu, the knife stabs at Yingzu's shadow.
Shisun is the shadow of Shizi, and instead of Shizi, he bears the high hopes of Yingzu. At the same time, Shizi got the answer he really wanted in Shisun's words. In the end, that night, Setsuko only killed his father's shadow.
Shisun's words are also the essence of the film, saying the core relationship between man and etiquette, and people should not be bound by ritual law.
This is also the core of the expression of "Si Mourning", criticizing the feudal ritual law for the bondage and oppression of people.
Shizi's madness is a fierce but nihilistic rebellion against this oppression, and under the feudal system, it is impossible to obtain personal will and freedom as he wishes.
The director of this scene gives him an elevation shot, and the hot light above his head is an affirmation of Shizi's pursuit of freedom.
Shizi wanted to be an arrow that flew into the sky, but in the end it just flew into the void and fell into the desert somewhere. That arrow off the string, this is the metaphor of the fate of the mourning world.
Although Shisun expressed the essence, he could not resist like his father, but still had to abide by the etiquette, study well, please Yingzu, and prepare to become the next king, which was the fate of Shisun.
This lens illustrates this point. Yingzu and Shisun sat inside the door, and the scenery outside the door was "framed" by the door frame into a boxy look, and the scenery they could see was only one piece.
Perhaps this door frame can be regarded as a boxy "ritual law", and the two people who are framed are in a state bound by the ritual law, with limited vision and no freedom.
And they don't go out of the threshold to look outside, jump out of the frame of the idea, only inside to talk about what the previous king was like? What are "kings" and "courtiers"?
Combined with what Yingzu said to Shizi earlier, it can be felt that Yingzu has a very thorough view of the "human design" of the king, and it is no wonder that he was able to reign for so many years.
The scene where the door frame shows Yingzu sitting side by side with Shisun can also be seen as a kind of person (Shisun is forced to become the same as Yingzu, only in this way will they not be abandoned).
The "king" is not the kind of person who has the final say at will, cannot make decisions, can only make "trade-offs", and has been living like a thin ice.
It is conceivable that Shisun was around Yingzu and how much pressure he had received from childhood!
Also, every time Shisun expresses his emotions to his family, he will be ignored or refuted by the other party, and when he cries, no one comforts his emotions, and in the eyes of a child, this may be a manifestation that the family does not love him.
When Shisun said to his father, "I hate myself like this", Shizi gu said to him; Shisun begged his grandfather to let him give his father, who was locked up in a rice cabinet, a bowl of water, and Yingzu told him to go back and wait for punishment; Shisun did not want to take off his mourning clothes at his father's funeral, and his mother directly gave him two slaps...
The audience from God's perspective certainly knows that Shizi has love for Shisun, but Shisun does not know.
Shizi saw the fan realize that only when he died, The grandson could live, and the fan represented his love for the grandson; similarly, that night, after listening to the words of the grandson, the camera close-up the rain on the tip of the knife symbolized the tears of the son.
At the end of the movie, the grown-up grandson becomes the king, he imitates his father's archery movements, and the open folding fan still has the blood stains of the time, and the final scene is frozen and darkened. The last time Li Qi opened the blood-stained folding fan, he also opened the unknowable heart of Si Mourning Shizi.
The film ends with Li Qi, so he is the last link in this tragic structure. Se-sun is a victim of the tragedy between Hidezu and Seko's father and son, and When Seko dies, Se-sun continues to live with resentment and pain.
And because Shizi's pursuit of self did not work at all at that time, Shisun inherited the throne of Yingzu, and was still bound by etiquette like Yingzu, unable to follow the will of the self to make choices... The fate of tragedy is reincarnated from generation to generation.
After watching "Si Mourning" and then returning to "Red Trim on the Sleeve", I will definitely have a deeper understanding of the character of Qi and better understand the fateful tragedy of Qi as a king. Just looking at the cover, the direction of the bow and arrow he and Si Mourning Shizi held would be emotional, one facing the sky, one facing forward...
"Mourning" and "Sleeve" are really interesting to watch together, can complement each other to understand, deepen the perception of the characters, "Sleeve" although the focus is on romance, but the root of the ultimate tragedy is from the same place, are the violent oppression of the feudal system. Man is bound by the law of etiquette, and even with the will of the individual can not achieve the tragedy \ can not be equal love.
Just like this scene in "Sleeves", the angle of the camera looking down directly above gives people a strong sense of oppression, and it is firmly trapped in it.
Then the 360° rotating shot begins, which is dizzying, as if it is not the camera rotating around Gigo, but the green dragon in the painting revolving around him!
Yingzu scolded Qi here, hugged him again, and said that if he lost Qi, he would not be able to survive or anything like that, at this time, the green dragon stared at Qi with a tiger's eye, which made people shudder...
The director's use of this set of shots is really too artistic!
Then I thought of the "Si Mourning" in which Shizi drew a picture of the green dragon when Shisun was born, and excitedly said: "It is Shisun!" "I just feel a chill on my back and a lingering sound...
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"Sleeve Red Trim" lens language analysis, Be ending with a long afterglow of the 2-point key
"Sleeve Red Trim" metaphorical analysis: the fate of all people, hidden in the details of the first 2 episodes