It is not difficult to see that the screenwriter puts the human conflict point of the whole play on two people.
One is Yan Baoyue;
One is Xing Tian;
One of them is an iron-blooded soldier who aspires to become the king of soldiers, while the other is a big drug lord who has carved his fierceness into his bones.
Both men are extremely capable and very ambitious.
In general, such people either become confidants, just like Yan Baoyue and Xiao Yunjie, Yan Baoyue and Guo Xiaoxiao, or become rivals to each other.
And Yan Baoyue and Xing Tian, obviously the latter.
The most intriguing thing is that behind the contest between Yan Baoyue and Xing Tianshan and evil, there is also a "past event".
When the two were young, they were also caught by the trafficker Kun Sheng and thrown into the cellar.
Also deeply imprisoned, Yan Baoyue climbed out desperately, and before leaving, he did not forget to reach out to the children in the cellar.
But what about Xing Tian?
Not only did he not grab Yan Baoyue's hand, but he also tried to prevent Yan Baoyue from fleeing. Since then, Yan Baoyue has fallen into a claustrophobic fear.
For a long time, I completely "forgot" how to reach out to others again.
When Yan Baoyue first joined the army, he chose to turn a blind eye in the face of Lü Xiaotian's fall for help.
Is Yan Baoyue cold-blooded?
Not.
It's just that because of this past in the cellar, Yan Baoyue has a shadow, and thus loses the courage to reach out.
The so-called one thought of heaven, one thought of hell.
One escaped from "hell" and the other chose to stay in "hell", and since then Yan Baoyue and Xing Tian have gone to two extremes.
Both are strong and ambitious.
But two people who insist on good thoughts and one who insist on evil thoughts, and who are similar to each other, have become "two sides of the same coin."
This is the human nature that the screenwriter highlights.
01: Xing Tian's "remorse"?
In the cellar "a farewell", Yan Baoyue was determined to become the strongest soldier, and Xing Tian, following Kun sheng, not only lost his name, but also lost his conscience.
Step by step, the gap and antagonism between the two people became more and more obvious and sharp.
The first outpost contest, whether it was Yan Baoyue or Xing Tian, did not recognize each other's identities, and in the darkness, there was already a life and death sniper.
In the second battlefield battle, Xing Tian let Yan Baoyue lose several comrades. Even with himself, he became his captive.
At this time, Xing Tian recognized Yan Baoyue as the "Column Soldier Yan Broken Yue" of the outpost.
The first reaction was excitement, followed by an indescribable sense of familiarity.
Especially in the scene where the water prison delivers milk, Xing Tian's sense of familiarity is even more obvious. Yan Baoyue looked at Xing Tian, it was hatred, it was cruel, and it was also disregard.
But when Xing Tian saw Yan Breaking Yue, it was like an old friend reuniting.
I'm afraid that at this time, Xing Tian had already recognized yan baoyue in front of him, that is, the child who escaped from the cellar that year, right?
Therefore, he would come alone in the middle of the night to feed Yan Baoyue to drink milk. The actual feeding of milk is false, and the "reminiscence" is true.
Therefore, he would suddenly ask Yan Baoyue what his parents were doing. When Xing Tian asked this, he was afraid that his heart was also full of mixed feelings.
Locked up in the cellar together, Yan Baoyue has now become a soldier, a soldier with iron bones under the sun.
And he became a big drug lord from the inside to the outside, a big villain, like a rat in the gutter.
Their fates overlapped for a moment, but now, why can they be so different that fate is joking?
At this moment, Xing Tian's heart was full of doubts and unwillingness. However, this complicated emotion was immediately "released" by Yan Baoyue's family lineage.
Yan's parents are soldiers.
And his parents were drug dealers.
"Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes", they were born on two extremes, how can their lives coincide?
In the later trailer, Xing Tian, who was captured alive by Yan Baoyue, lay on the boat and looked at Yan Baoyue, who was also exhausted on the other side, and said:
"If I had held your hand, life would have been a different story."
Such a sentence, coming out of the mouth of Xing Tian, who is a big drug lord, is more or less permeated with a trace of "sadness".
But in Xing Tian's words, there is sadness and sorrow, but if you say that there is "remorse", there is no.
If life were to happen again, Xing Tian would still choose to stay in the cellar.
02: Ghosts, you should stay where the ghosts stay
That small cellar was the place where Xing Tian "changed" his destiny. But it was in this cellar that he had three chances of redemption.
The first time, it was when Yan Baoyue held out his hand to him, but Xing Tian refused.
The second time, when their group of children were rescued by the police, Xing Tian, who could regain his freedom, took the initiative to find the trafficker Kun Sheng.
The third time, it was the police who asked Xing Tian, when he and Kunsheng had a relationship, Xingtian could have repented and could have saved himself, but he still chose to "sink" around Kunsheng.
Taking the initiative to miss three redemptions, such a Xing Tian, even if he chooses again, will he choose to take Yan Shaoyue's hand?
Why is Xing Tian just unwilling to be "redeemed"?
Xing Tian said a word, just one sentence in all his choices.
"If you stay here for a long time, you will become a ghost."
"And ghosts should stay where ghosts stay."
Yan Baoyue was locked up in the cellar, and he would desperately try to escape, that is, he did not like here, afraid of here. I know even more that I don't belong here.
A small cellar mouth, for Yan Baoyue, is hope, freedom, and the only way home.
But what does it mean for Xing Tian?
His parents were drug dealers or drug dealers who died prematurely. Xing Tian, who was outside, not only did not have enough to eat, but also suffered from bullying by others.
Growing up in the drug dealer's nest, the survival rules of "bullying" were completely carved into his bones.
Outside, he couldn't grab it.
In the cellar, he relied on violence, by cruelty, and "killed" a bloody road. Not only is it full of food, you don't have to starve and freeze, but you can also make everyone afraid.
This kind of fear made Xing Tian extremely steadfast.
It is precisely because of this steadfastness that he resists escaping from the cellar.
Later, after being rescued, Xing Tian faced the choice of either being sent to a welfare home or being adopted.
How could Xing Tian, who grew up in a drug dealer's den, accept such an arrangement? All that is unknown is not safe.
For a fatherless, motherless, and bullying child, relying on others is far less reliable than relying on his own rules of survival.
Just as Yan Baoyue knew very well that he did not belong to the cellar and did not belong to the darkness, he desperately wanted to escape.
And Xing Tian, however, did not know that he did not belong to the place where the police placed him, did not belong to the life directly under the sun, so he had been desperately trying to escape.
For Xing Tian, the police were not something he could rely on.
Only a vicious bad guy like Kun Sheng is something he can cling to.
Because staying by Kun Sheng's side, Xing Tian knew that as long as he was fierce enough and strong enough, he could not only survive, but also live well, so that everyone could look sideways.
Ghosts should stay where ghosts stay.
Kun Sheng is a ghost, and he is also a ghost.
03: Xing Tian's "evil", Xing Tian's ending, was doomed from the beginning
The role of Xing Tian has a strong tragic color.
And this kind of tragedy is fate.
In the water prison, when Xing Tian heard that Yan Baoyue himself came from a military family, his face showed intriguing envy.
"I really envy you, from a military family."
"I'm different, my parents are drug dealers, so I'm also drug dealers."
In a word, it is the lamentation and helplessness of fate.
Because he was born into a military family, Yan Baoyue heard and saw the iron bones of the soldiers; the feelings of home and country who threw away their heads and spilled their blood.
Along the way, I met countless "nobles" and countless respectable and lovely comrades-in-arms.
Yan Baoyue's life, at first glance, is also ups and downs. But compared to Xing Tian, how fortunate.
And Xing Tian, who grew up in the wolf pack, if it is a sheep, can it live?
Only by turning yourself into a wolf can you survive in the wolf pack. The weak eat the strong, the bully is bullied. This is the survival law that every wolf has carved into its bones.
"No drug lord was given up by Zen."
This was a sentence that Xing Tian killed Kun Sheng.
Xing Tian killed Kun Sheng to seize the position of the boss, and the original Kun Sheng, why was he not so on the throne? A drug gang is a pack of wolves.
Every "abdication" of the Wolf King is bloody.
Because of this, when Kun Sheng was gone, not only did he not have any resistance, but he also gave Xing Tian a word of advice.
Xing Tian's "evil" is like nature. This evil doomed him to an end.
In this life, evil is his nature.
In the face of Mia, who is also struggling in the mud, the kindness and tenderness that Xing Tian shows are his human nature.
No matter what Xing Tian and Mia do, the tragic ending that is difficult to get rid of aggravates the character's lingering sense of fatalism.