Liu Yaren won the Best Actor Award at the South Korea Blue Dragon Film Awards for "Si Mourning", which can be described as the expectation of the public. I have to say that the film's deep oriental cultural heritage really brightened my eyes. Court dramas are no longer new in China, with the grandeur of "Yongzheng Dynasty" before and the tearing drama of "The Biography of Zhen Huan" after that, but they are more stuck in the small pattern of power plots. The director continues to expand the entire story with a perspective that is constantly stretching out, and the interpolation technique runs through the eight days that the prince of Si Mourning was starved to death in the rice cabinet. The constant transformation of the identity of father and son, from the beginning of the father and son, to the representative of the interest group, to the king and the subject, makes the weeping of humanity under the eastern feudal culture seem mournful and desolate. This is something that no viewer living under this cultural circle can deeply appreciate. Therefore, it is also regrettable to limit the international evaluation of the film. It can be said that success is also Xiao He, and defeat is also Xiao He.
The story takes place during the Lee dynasty of Korea. During the reign of Yingzu (Song Kanghao), after the early death of his eldest son, he pinned all his hopes on his second son Li Yu (Liu Yaren). Not only was he canonized as a son of the world at the time of his birth, but he also arranged for famous courtiers to supervise his homework. However, the sky was not satisfactory, Shizi was hesitant to have fun, had no intention of studying, and Yingzu once promoted Shizi to act as the state, but it made the father and son who stood at the peak of power gradually drift apart. Until one rainy night, Shizi's staff knife broke into the palace. The next day, he was reprimanded by Yingzu for his intentions and locked in a rice cabinet. For the next eight days, the father and son, who were like enemies, each reminisced about the past.
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The concubine died early and had a son in his later years, which was the situation of Emperor Yingzong, the longest reigning emperor in Korea, who gave him all his love and expectations------- the prince of Si mourning. At the beginning of the film, when Yingzong nailed the rice cabinet with one hammer and one hammer, it was the rice cabinet that knocked, but it was not his heart. Countless pictures of the past flashed back in his mind, compiling books for his son late at night, the prince who was well-informed and responsive, everything was as simple and pure as the father and son of an ordinary family, but why did he come to this step? It seems to me that there is probably no relationship in the world that naturally binds two different individuals together like parents and children. Parental rights in this relationship are a purely divine right that no one will deny. And when the children grow up, this right will naturally disappear, and then one day, the children will be given the same rights, and the cycle will be repeated. But unfortunately, they are not simple father and son in the film. When human nature is faced with the crowd of beasts surrounded by the flood in front of it, all that remains is pale and helpless, and sorrow is naturally inevitable.
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Everyone in the world envies the royal rich, but they don't know how much helplessness and bloodshed are hidden under this wealth. From the day Emperor Yingzong sat on the throne, at the peak of his power he cut off any retreat. Just like when he took the prince to tell a story of the family's human tragedy at the ancestral hall, he exclaimed that "the children of the imperial family are raised as enemies". Imperial power is an honor and a curse for the entire family, and if you are not careful, the entire family will die without a place to bury. He hoped that the prince would understand this, know how to weigh the art of advance and retreat, and know how to preserve the wealth and life of the entire family in front of the courtiers who were watching the tiger. But with the growth of the prince, his romantic and free nature made Yingzong feel a huge gap between expectations and reality. The constant emergence of courtier faces between father and son makes the relationship between father and son more complicated. The mutual tilt between the interest parties of the government and the opposition continues to erode the relationship between father and son. But the young prince could not weigh the parties, and he was more and more confused like a flat boat in a storm. Gradually, he began to immerse himself in the world of frustration and self, and gradually moved towards distortion. Yingzong's disappointment and anger towards him also deepened.
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The right of kings has long been advocated by the feudal ruling class. This is because patriarchy is also a divine right. Through this trick, the ruling class skillfully links monarchy and patriarchy. The king is both the king of the country and the father of the people, and at home the children cannot disobey the authority of the father, nor can the people disobey the authority of the king in the country. Prince Kesi mourning did not understand this, he longed for humanity, longed for love, he was constantly struggling between "never a moment did not regard his father as a king" and "never stopped a moment to hope that his father would love him as a son", just like his arrow into the void, after all, it is an emptiness. In this way, the father and son constantly stimulate the nerves of both sides. Finally, it evolved into the king's unscrupulous "madness" of his son, and the son finally became extremely self-righteous and "made" the king angry. The two have very different dispositions, but they both have the same "self" and "persistence", even if they are so deeply in love, they can only be expressed with full of hatred.
In the rainy night, prince Si Mourning stood in front of the king's door with a knife, and heard his son say, "People should precede the etiquette, not be limited by the etiquette, whether it is in accordance with the etiquette, but look at the heart of the ceremonial person, and I saw a piece of filial piety from my father." He understood that even when his father, wife, and even mother had abandoned him, there were still people who understood him. On the seventh day, at the time of the parting of life and death, father and son finally spoke frankly to each other, but it was too late. The king became the king who killed his son, and the prince became the prince who was killed for rebellion because of madness. Yingzong's emotions also erupted when he touched his son's breathless cheeks, ostensibly hating each other, and underneath this hatred, perhaps because the corresponding love was also as deep as hatred! Affection is diluted by interests, social orders, and etiquette, and all that remains is the lonely family who sits on the throne, and the triumphant song that haunts the empty court can only belong to the only king. 、
Yingzong's role as a successful king and a failed father is vividly presented in the film. In that feudal society of three principles and five constants, it is also a sin to mourn the excessive desire for humanity, love, and happiness. He could not understand the importance of "learning" and "etiquette" as a maintenance system. Gradually, his existence itself became a kind of rebellion, and he rebelled not only against the king, but also against the entire feudal system, and the shackles of the entire humane system.
It is not until 14 years later that Shisun can use the fan dance of the vicissitudes of the dance to mourn a lament for his father.
Now I want to go
Leave alone and sad in the world
Even if there are a thousand words, they have not been able to appeal to the king
Entrusted to floating clouds
Don't go there
It is difficult but the king wishes
Tears like rain
Suddenly
Leave aside sorry
Alone
Like a flower blossoming thanks
The void floats and floats
Commit yourself to the breeze goodbye
Once empty in the early hours of the morning with the stars
Now I have not been
Don't forget each other
Longitudinal opposite
It's also hard to reach
Why can't we see each other?
Maybe the king is in a deep corner of his heart
My body temperature remains
Before the breeze dissipates
Just for once
Caress my face