On July 18, 1987, "Ghost of a Woman: Demon Road" was released in Hong Kong. After its release, it has won the Special Jury Award of the 16th French Science Fiction Film Festival, the Best Film Award of the Portuguese Science Fiction Film Festival, and the Best Adapted Screenplay of the 24th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards.
In this version, Ning Caichen, played by Zhang Guorong as a scholar, perfectly interpreted the image of "Shusheng", and he played the Shusheng Mei Qingmu Xiu, who had no strength in his hands, was timid and timid, but brave because of love. Wang Zuxian's Nie Xiaoqian, cold and gloomy, otherworldly is a goddess in the minds of many people, unforgettable.
After 33 years, this classic Hong Kong film has been remade again, and the new version of Ning Caichen has changed his previous image, with perseverance in his eyes, and Nie Xiaoqian is even more fresh and lovely.
Different Qianchen interprets the same classic story, whether it is a demon road or a human love, love is not the focus, behind the plot is.
In the eyes of 100 people, there are 100 Hamlets. Same plot, different feelings. A brief analysis of the representative characters in "Ghost of a Woman: Human Love", let's take a look at the story behind their behavior.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 There is no shackle that cannot be untied, and it is always yourself who can trap yourself</h1>
Nie Xiaoqian was a human before she was born and a demon after her death. Being a demon is not a rebirth, but another purgatory. Her good looks became her original sin. Because of this face, she became a tool of the Dryad, seducing others and snatching the spirits of others for the Dryad to eat.
Before meeting Ning Caichen, she didn't feel that there was anything wrong with such a day. After meeting Ning Caichen, she began to reflect on whether such a life was what she wanted.
Nie Xiaoqian's encounter with Ning Caichen was her misfortune and her luck. Unfortunately, she lost her favor with the Dryad and trust with her friends, and fortunately, she began to know how to resist and break free.
The first assassination ended in failure, because Nie Xiaoqian saw that she was different from the others in Ning Caichen, so she couldn't bear to kill him. Afterwards, although Nie Xiaoqian was reprimanded by the tree demon, she herself did not care, but was reflecting and self-pitying.
She said to her companions that the three thousand weak water rivers, the gods and Buddhas are determined to float and sink, they are like the goose feathers on this weak water that only sink and do not float.
On the surface, this passage seems to be her self-pity, but in fact it is a silent protest in her heart, she is tired of this life, and she longs for a life of freedom. However, she knew that she could not break free from the control of the dryad, so all the grief and indignation in her heart were hidden in this sentence.
Approaching Ning Caichen again and again made Nie Xiaoqian more and more unable to suppress herself, and she wanted to change her way of life. After another failure, Shuangshuang warned her not to rebel against the Dryad for the sake of Ning Caichen. She said: As long as the soul bell is worn on her body for a day, it will not be able to escape.
Bondage is a condition, and breaking it is freedom. The existence of the Soul Ring was a constraint for Nie Xiaoqian, but also a reminder and hint. Nie Xiaoqian did not know how to resist before, because of the strength of the tree demon, so that she did not dare to break free, just like the shackles that locked the baby elephant, and when she grew up, she forgot that she could break free of the shackles.
Nie Xiaoqian's resistance won the first step, and she broke free of the control of the dryad. Just out of the tiger's den, into the wolf's den. Montenegro had forcibly made her a bride. Montenegro was so strong that she couldn't fight it, and she decided to appoint it. However, Ning Caichen once again told her that her life was dominated by herself.
Eager for a new life, she disregarded her own dangers and assisted Yan Chixia in killing Montenegro, and finally won the opportunity for reincarnation for herself. At this point, Nie Xiaoqian finally broke all her shackles and lived a free life as she wished.
There is no shackle in this world that cannot be untied, and there is no difficulty that cannot be overcome. It is never the external object that can trap you, but yourself. As long as you want, you can see a different world.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >02 Whether demons or humans, the pursuit of good things is instinctive</h1>
There must be shadows under the sun, and even shadows like to walk by light. "Light" represents light and means beauty. Whether it's a natural love of light or a shadow that represents darkness, chasing good things is an instinct. Just like the evil Dryad represented in the film.
The tree demon grandma is a hermaphrodite thousand-year-old demon, sometimes male, sometimes female, the change of voice line, making him more evil three points, but also more jealous. As an old demon with deep mana power in Lan Ruo Temple, everything he needed was offered to him by the little demon at the bottom.
At the beginning of the film, it is the scene of his little demon killing people for him. The picture then turned to the scholar Ning Caichen passing through Guobei County and meeting Nie Xiaoqian at night. It was also from this moment that Ning Caichen entered the line of sight of the Tree Demon Grandmother.
No rules, no squares. As a demon, you must also keep the order of the Heavenly Dao, and you cannot do evil, and once you do evil, you must accept heavenly punishment. Therefore, the Dryad has been seizing the soul of the evil person, or the soul of the alchemist who is inferior to the human. When a person is in the dark and eats "spoiled" food for a long time, he always craves fresh, delicious food.
The tree demon grandma sensed that Ning Caichen's soul was pure and untainted, with its own aroma, such a soul could make his skill rise greatly after sucking, at this moment, he was greedy, let Nie Xiaoqian kill the student and get the soul essence. Ning Caichen is the fresh delicacy for the tree demon.
In the "Four Years of Zuo Chuan, ChengGong, chenggong", it is said that if it is not my race, its heart will be different.
For human beings, as indigenous people, most people are still good and righteous, representing nature that is bright and beautiful. Demons, on the other hand, represent nature as evil and darkness. Ning Caichen, as an upright and good person, is a symbol of beauty, and the dryad naturally belongs to the representative of evil.
He who touches pitch will be defiled. The environment determines a person's growth. The Dryad grew up in an environment where the weak preyed upon the predatory, predatory, and in his character label, was destined to be unrelated to good qualities such as kindness. If one does not have it, one will want to pursue it. Ning Caichen's purity and justice and goodness were something he didn't have for the Dryad, so he wanted to take it.
People instinctively pursue the most beautiful and good things, but in the process of chasing, they should grasp the measure. To pursue and obtain by any means, this is, to some extent, to stand on the opposite side of the beauty of human nature. Therefore, chasing the good is instinctive, but it must also be controlled.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 Life does not stop moving forward, reconcile with yourself, reconcile with life, in order to taste the joy of life</h1>
As a practitioner of exorcism and defense, Yan Chixia should have been a person full of positive energy and self-discipline. However, Yan Chixia in the film subverted the traditional image, no longer taking the exorcism and defending the way as her own responsibility, but instead chose to be meticulous.
In Lan Ruo Temple, Yan Chixia told Ning Caichen that Lan Ruo Temple was now a righteous village, and he instructed Ning CaiChen not to come out when he heard any sound at night. From this point of view, he is still the righteous cultivator who will protect the weak. However, when he settled in Ning Caichen, he pulled the golden teeth out of the dead man's mouth. Find the basis of survival from the deceased.
This small detail complicates Yan Chixia's image, and it also hints at his inner struggle. When Nie Xiaoqian was captured by Montenegro, Ning Caichen asked him for help. He refused, saying:
There are many things in this world, not how we want to be. The Heavenly Dao was ruthless, and it was only after I understood this matter that I chose to live in seclusion in Lan Ruo Temple.
It is not difficult to see here that Yan Chixia had doubts about his own beliefs, and his spiritual beliefs had collapsed. He couldn't find the pace of progress, so he no longer insisted on exorcising demons and defending the way, and no longer regarded it as his duty to eliminate all the demons in the world. Choose to live in seclusion and not hear about the world. Here is also the complexity of his heart. While he is the messenger of justice, he doubts all this.
Ning Caichen's insistence on saving Nie Xiaoqian made Yan Chixia seem to have some understanding. In the dispute between the two people, Ning Caichen told him that if he hid for a while, he could not hide for a lifetime, and what was the difference between escaping all day and dying?
This remark was deafening, and completely woke Yan Chixia up from the fog. At this moment, he no longer competed with himself, chose to reconcile with himself, and he decided to help Ning Caichen.
I have read a sentence on the Internet: if you want to open it, you will be a pure land, if you don't want to open it, it is hell, and if you are depressed, you will be human.
Many things are like this, the more you can't think about it, the more you will be embarrassed by yourself, the more you will be embarrassed by yourself, the more you can't think about it, which forms a closed loop and locks yourself inside.
Life is already difficult, some things have passed, just let go, don't let it become your own trouble. When things come, they face them, they run away, and things eventually need to be solved by themselves.
Some things can't be put down for a while, so it's up to time. Reconcile with ourselves, reconcile with life, and let our hearts go, so that we can leave room to taste the variety of life and appreciate the arbitrariness of Yun Cirrus.
Times are constantly changing, and so are ideas. 33 years later, "Ghost of a Woman" will also be iterated, the same plot characters, different spiritual cores. In life, love is important, but the things behind love are worth thinking about and exploring.