It is said that you can't help yourself in the rivers and lakes, but in the film and television rivers and lakes, there is only love talking, flying away and three lives and three lives, hehe.
It can't help but make the audience sigh, the chivalrous spirit that was talked about in the early years has disappeared, and the martial arts world has not had a pure quack atmosphere for too long.
Fortunately, there are still devout followers in ancient style and blood, and this time the breakthrough is a big network - "No One in Sight".
There are spoilers for this article.
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Ten years after the Anshi Rebellion, the turbulent society has returned to calm, but the destroyed world has not yet fully recovered, and deception and bullying always do whatever they want under the cover of night.
In this gamble, the dealer brazenly made a big deal, and others did not dare to make a sound.
Because the one who played against the dealer was a blind man who could not see anything, and he had already made a lot of money with his extraordinary hearing.
He was called blind in the rivers and lakes, a registered knife catcher in Dali Temple - a "bounty hunter" who took money to do things for the government.
The dealer thought that Cheng Blind won and wanted to teach him a lesson, but Cheng Blind still won this round, and the dealer "had a large number of adults" to let him go.
However, when the blind man came to the outside of the casino alone, the crisis came in an instant, and the game that had already been laid out was only for "killing people on a rainy night".
When the ground snake meets the knife catcher, it is bound to come to a fist-to-flesh confrontation, but the blind man is not a vegetarian, and when he finishes cleaning up the thugs, he turns his head and asks: What about Ni Yan?
In fact, he is willing to enter the game.
The cause of the matter also starts with the wedding many days ago.
The blind man who finished a transaction was on the way back, and he rested in a liquor store when he was thirsty, but Ni Yan, the daughter of the restaurant, refused to sell the wine.
It's not a black shop, but Ni Yan got married today, just ask you to drink a few glasses if you say goodbye, and the blind Rao, who is already addicted to alcohol, can't stop Xiao Nizi's enthusiasm and stays.
However, when Ni Yan's brother arrived, the originally lively wedding banquet scene suddenly became deserted, as if everyone was full of disgust for this brother.
He was not from the village, and he didn't want to wade through this muddy water, so he simply held a pot of wine and hid in the stable on the side to drink himself.
However, when the drunken blind man sobered up the next day, he was shocked by the sight in front of him.
Outside the door, two corpses were already cold, one was Ni Yan's husband, the other was Ni Yan's brother, and the dying Ni Yan had already been humiliated.
Dali Temple came to investigate, but Ni Yan became the biggest suspect, and the official master's sentence "early admission and less guilt" seems majestic, but it is always strange.
As the only "witness" in the audience, whether the blind man knows the truth has become a strange puzzle at this moment, and it also knocks on the heart of the knife catcher.
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"No one in sight" was originally a metaphor for arrogance and contempt for others, but in the movie "No One in Sight" it became the real meaning - a blind protagonist.
Behind this character setting, the deeper connotation refers to the two choices of seeing and not seeing.
In terms of physical condition, the drunken and blind blind man does not have the conditions to "see", and the life of a knife catcher who has been blind for many years has also allowed him to hide all his anger and ruthlessness.
From the perspective of life experience and personality, he is blind and not blind, and when he becomes a witness to the wrongful case, "blind" becomes "chivalrous", and what he can see is a justice that should be sought.
When Ni Yan cried and begged Cheng Blind to take him to seek justice, Cheng Blind was alive again.
Different from the blind "Tibet", Ni Yan, as the weakest person in the whole film, represents "Lu", of course, this definitely does not refer to any fringe provocation, but her frankness and naivety as a simple people.
From the costumes at the wedding banquet, it can be seen that Ni Yan and her brother are foreigners, living in Han villages for many years to rely on themselves, which is why they have to manage the marriage by themselves, but she has always been hospitable, sincere and simple, representing the purest color outside the dark rivers and lakes.
It wasn't until the devastating tragedy struck that Ni Yan realized that the evil in the temple would not spare anyone.
It is also the strong contrast between Ni Yan and the world that pushes the blind man to lend a hand, because Ni Yan's every struggle is asking the blind man's heart: How can you not be angry?
In addition to these two protagonists, "No One in Sight" also created a confidant in the traditional sense - Qinniang.
Becoming blind and nosy has nothing to do with Qinniang, but as the most compatible teammate, Qinniang chooses to exchange herself for Ni Yan for the opportunity to escape, whether it is interpreted as love or friendship, it is not enough to summarize the chivalrous spirit behind this sacrifice.
It is this kind of story that can carry the most ancient and pure atmosphere of rivers and lakes.
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"No One in Sight" is not a costume film and television full of colors and complicated elements, but it definitely pays tribute to the rivers and lakes created by Jin Yong, Gu Long, Liang Yusheng and others.
In particular, the sharp and simple fight scenes in the film not only conform to the protagonist's silent personality, but also awaken the audience's common memories of martial arts classics through strong sensory stimulation and neat fighting body techniques.
Throughout the history of Chinese martial arts films in the past hundred years, from the early action spectacle supported by actor technology, the realistic heroes of Huang Feihong, the era chapter left by Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan's action comedy, Tsui Hark's martial arts aesthetics and the current re-innovation of various kung fu, the creators have constantly expanded the edge of the action universe with an inclusive mentality, but the space of pure martial arts has been compressed to a certain extent.
And "No One in Sight", a new work framed by the stereotype of the net, with the rainy night at the beginning, the snow at the end, and the fights that run through it, let martial arts find their original intention.
Of course, in the eyes of audiences accustomed to watching various Jedi reversals, the only 74-minute "No One in Sight" is just a simple story of a knife catcher helping a poor woman rebel against the wicked, and the dramatic tension itself is far from enough.
But the simple structure does not necessarily represent low quality, and the scene, composition, and lighting of each shot can see the careful carving of the main creative team, and it is this pursuit of details that pushes the atmosphere of the work to the extreme, and also makes "rivers and lakes" and "chivalry" self-evident.
The old partners Yang Bingjia and Qin Pengfei who achieved the above scheduling were the two who collaborated on "Northeast Police Story", and Qin Pengfei not only participated in many classics such as "Red Cliff", "Painted Skin", "Ink Attack", "Mulan" and "October Siege", but also served as a martial arts instructor for many costume dramas.
"No One in Sight" starring Xie Miao, once the darling of Hong Kong action films, played Jet Li's son in "New Shaolin Five Ancestors" and "Letter to Dad" when he was young, and is a child star of the era that the audience loves.
Although everyone regretted that his decision to retire from school blocked the bright star road at that time, Semyon, who returned from studying, started from scratch and continued the traditional martial arts star's style of hard bridge hard horse filming, which led to the blind man who is now active in the kung fu world.
Therefore, when people outside the play still sigh of "hurt Zhongyong" to Semyon, in fact, he has already stood in the late rivers and lakes, here, the youthful spirit of "burning" and "fierce" gradually withdraws, but the cold world will not bury the hot chivalry, even if the whole world is bowing its head and being a person, as long as there are still people polishing their eyes, it is the rivers and lakes of "people in the eyes".