Last year, a domestic dark horse came out of the reins.
No IP blessing, no fan accumulation.
Original martial arts story, Douban open score 9.3, tap water to see one more than one enjoyable.
No wonder martial arts fans are excited:
Look at this line of clouds and flowing water, a variety of tricks and styles.
Today, when the Chinese martial arts drama is collectively reduced in dimensions, who can't see it?
Even the literary drama is full of Chinese flavor, and the casual section is all ink painting level:
After a year of absence, the second season is still on the way, but the theatrical version is back domineering.
Cold and don't want to go out?
It just so happens that this family fun line can be chased.
"Pillow Knife Song of the Dusty World"
The title of the film, which hides the worldview of the entire series.
The pillow knife, from the idiom pillow waiting for Dan, describes people to be vigilant at all times, and they also have to sleep with weapons.
It's the tension of revenge.
The title is "song".
This means that even in the moment of life and death, it is still necessary to sing loudly and deal with it with ease.
The first season of "Pillow Knife Song" tells the story of the protagonist He Fangzhi who was tragically wiped out in his childhood, Taoguang raised obscurity for thirteen years, and embarked on the road of revenge alone to find out the truth about the murder of his father He Shilang.
Earthly Travel follows the main line, still centering on revenge and combat.
The protagonists are the young Luo Tong and the Red Lady, the two characters with the highest appearance.
Two people green plum bamboo horse, one punching majestic, the only descendant of Shuluo fist, one move dexterous, pear blossom gun play heroic.
This time, the two of them continued the frontier...
But instead of talking about love, it is a case of revenge.
On this day, Luo Yongqu, the old gang leader of the Cao Gang, died at home.
Eyewitnesses said:
It was no one else who killed the old gang leader, it was his own son, Luo Tong.
But wait – the son kills his father, poisons him in a cup, strangles him in the middle of the night... There are many ways, why bother to fight?
Moreover, when the old gang leader was killed, Luo Tong was running the ship with dozens of people.
Where did you commit the crime?
But the witnesses insisted that they had not lied — direct evidence, leaving Luo Tong's personal jade pendant at the scene; indirect evidence, was that the old gang leader's ribs were broken, as if it were the pot of ShuLuo's fist.
Who planted the booty? What's the conspiracy behind it?
This is the core suspense of the movie.
On the other side, Luo Tong and his party ran the boat, and they were also ambushed by mysterious people.
Only to see the white-headed strong man take off and descend in the air, shooting sharply and making a fatal move.
Roton had to dodge the arrows and face the machete with his empty fist.
There is no advantage in strength, and can only rely on wisdom:
First find out the history of the other party, endure the pain of the knife.
Then use the body shape advantage to grasp the opponent's pain points, close the distance and then attack with fast fists.
Unlike many animations, the protagonist is hung as soon as the battle is reached, and the play of "Pillow Knife Song" is a hard bridge and a hard horse.
The first is reflected in the high degree of restoration of reality.
Long Shun, a heavyweight player who appeared in the first season.
He smashed the mountain with a heavy punch, almost causing the protagonist's brain to collapse...
This time too.
Luo Tong's power was at a disadvantage, and when Long Shun confronted him, it was nine deaths.
The theatrical version did not deify Luo Tong, and even let him defeat Long Shun, and the gray slipped off the cliff to escape.
This is the reason why the "Pillow Knife Song" play can be highly acclaimed - both aesthetic and real.
The details of the action can fully withstand the test of double speed, giving you fist to flesh, spilling the psychological pain of the screen.
At the same time, pay attention to the change of moves, all weapons and martial arts, are designed according to the personality of the characters.
For example, the characteristics of Shuluo Fist are that Kong Wu is powerful and comes and goes freely - Luo Lao's helper recites the practice of words, from the "Twenty-four Verses of Poetry " Xionghun ":
Return to the void, accumulate health as a hero; hold on to the strong, come to infinity.
The Pear Blossom Gun made by the Red Lady of the Ximen family came from the Southern Song Dynasty, and was often used as a weapon of war because of its portable lightness.
According to records, Hu Zongxian, a famous minister of the Ming Dynasty, relied on the exquisite design of gunpowder tied to the tip of the gun to successfully quell the Wokou.
Not only the protagonist, but even the weapons that appear less than a minute have specific provenance and interpretation - the background is set in the Ming Dynasty, so throughout the film, you will not find a blade that appears later than the Ming Dynasty.
The jianghu constructed by "Pillow Knife Song" is a jianghu built on real culture, not out of the blue, but hidden in the details of the history of the must be compared, arriving at the audience's imagination of the martial arts world "reasonable".
The unexpected layer is more in the laying of suspense.
Just like the process of he Fangzhi avenged his father in the first season, it is the process of the collapse of values, and his father He Shilang occupies the height of the temple and embezzles the disaster relief materials of the common people.
So the jianghu has become a moral supply.
An unforgettable detail.
On the tall building, it is in the arms of the father of the high-ranking official, admiring the "Jiang Haikuo" of the young Ho Fang Zhi;
Downstairs, it is the bottom girl Ah Ya who fled with her parents and cried "I am so hungry".
Once he went up and down, he divided the world into two halves, and whoever knew that if he practiced martial arts, he would be able to avenge his father's revenge; but Ah Ya could only sell his flesh in order to eat.
The high-ranking man does not hold power, but a humble but living life.
But if you think that the pillow knife song wants to criticize class division and power corruption, then you are wrong.
In the special episode of the first season, Uncle Jian, who could not stop the massacre of the gate, asked a sentence:
"Thirteen years later, has this world gotten better?"
It's better to kill one person to save the world.
Holding a three-foot sword and having nowhere to save lives is the norm of history.
Murderers and avengers all have their own love, hatred and paranoia, but who can truly live alone and live freely?
This is the sustenance of "Pillow Knife Song".
What returns is the world we really are in; what we go to is the winding path of human nature.
In Earthly Travel, the problems Faced by Rothon are similar to those faced by Ho Fangzhi:
At first, he was a rich second generation who could do business but had a simple mind.
After the competitors come to the door to seek revenge, he realizes that the one who killed his father may be the opponent of the Red Eye Gang.
But later, he met the knife maker Jiang Yuan:
Under the guidance of this worldly master, he gradually approached the truth.
Surely it's up to you who gets the most benefits when your dad dies
The ambitions of the enemy Simon's family are not all for the benefit of the fishermen.
As a founding hero, Ximen Ren is the descendant of the pear blossom gun, but his current thoughts are confusing: I want the whole of Shandong, from now on, only pear blossoms, no more knives and guns.
Investigating further, Luo Tong found that what Ximen Ren had to do was not to dominate the martial arts, but...
Destroy the martial arts?
Ximen Ren is playing a big game of chess - does he want to remain rich and noble forever and become a vassal of power, or does he really want the people to live and work in peace and contentment?
The movie doesn't give an answer.
But one detail can be seen.
In that year, the Red Lady was sent to the eunuch's house by Ximen Ren in exchange for three years of salt introduction in Shandong.
In an era when people were demanding money for their lives, the government did nothing, bullies became popular, and the Ximen family and the Luo family were the only straws for the low-level people.
The original idea for the pillow knife song came from "Kill Bill".
But the screenwriter wanted to add more Chinese elements, so he thought of martial arts, and the story's thinking about right and wrong, social class and macro description of the late Ming Dynasty era highlighted the helplessness of individuals in the big era.
Martial arts is a fairy tale for adults.
It's not just about the bumps in history, it's also about how we become ourselves.
For example, Luo Ying, one of Ximen Ren's pawns.
He desperately wants to become LuoTong, practicing in the dark room all day long, becoming a superior other, and unwilling to face his true self.
In the end, because of his desire to win, he could not understand the meaning of ShuluoQuan - not in the move to kill, but in the relaxation of the degree, so that the opponent died without pain.
"The real Shura punches people
It must be liver and intestines
But the ribs are intact
Die extremely quickly and without pain."
Another example is Long Shun, who hangs "life and death are indifferent, and hot blood is difficult to cool" on his mouth.
On the surface, he only competed with Luo Tong in order to fight injustice, but like thousands of outsiders, he accepted the rumors of the design without thinking, and ignored the facts and the truth in the name of The Way of Heaven.
As for Ximen Ren.
Does he really have the right to make decisions for everyone?
A place that loses order and justice, and then confiscates the swords and guns of the common people, can it be exchanged for a peaceful and prosperous world?
On the grounds of the majority of happiness, can a very small number, even a very small number of chivalrous lives, be used as bargaining chips?
In the film, the red lady said a sentence:
Everyone loves, fears, depends on, and no life belongs to you.
In "Pillow Knife Song", everyone inevitably lives under the giant wheel of history and destiny.
Luo Tong embarked on the road of revenge, but he could not let go of the father-son relationship;
The Red Lady took up the blade and killed her adoptive father in order to regain her lost dignity.
The knife maker Jiang Yuan knows the current affairs, but in order to survive, he can only make a blade for Ximen Ren, and Ximen Ren raises the three-foot sword in his hand in the name of saving Cangsheng, you can say that it is his own selfish interests, and it is also a certain overcorrection under the chaotic world.
They can't really change history.
Because justice from a single perspective cannot be exchanged for the peace and happiness of all people.
But then again – although choices are pale, the choices themselves still make sense.
Because five thousand years of change always begin with meaningless attempts.
Therefore, there is no absolute protagonist in "Pillow Knife Song", only when everyone's story and ideals are surfaced, is the most real and complete appearance of the jianghu.
As director Xue Jinsheng said:
"What we're trying to tell is not a story of black and white, good and evil. I hope that through this story, you can have your own thinking about good and evil versus right and wrong and cause and effect, or pay more attention to those macroscopic great emotions, pay attention to the multi-faceted nature of human nature and the beauty of human nature. ”
At the end of the first season, after He Fangzhi learned that his father was a corrupt official, he realized the limitations of revenge and the incomprehension of justice.
Sir would also like to mention a detail of Earthly Travel that deserves much thought.
Rothon finally took revenge, as if to wash away all the hatred in his heart.
The crowd began to turn against each other, and they all fell to their knees and shouted that the Cao Gang would be thousands of generations.
At this time, Luo Tong, looking at the blood-stained blade, looked frightened and overwhelmed.
Remembering his own torture of Ximen Ren:
"If you hate the knife in the hands of others
Who is that again?
Give the knife in your hand
The right to kill."
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