"Qiannu Ghost: Human Love" (hereinafter referred to as "Human Love") was released on May 1, and once it was released, it became the focus of attention of all parties, because it was an online movie premiered on video websites, and remade the classic "Qiannu Ghost" by Zhang Guorong and Wang Zuxian in the minds of many people. The crew also invited Ruan Jizhi, the original screenwriter of the 87-year classic version, to join in, so that everyone was full of expectations for this drama, and the premiere video website played 140 million times in the 6 days of release.
Throughout the ages, love is an eternal topic, whether it is a chaotic world of war, or a peaceful and prosperous world, no one can stop people's pursuit and yearning for love. As a result, love stories such as "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", "The Legend of the White Snake", and "The Tale of the West Chamber" and other beautiful fantasies of love have emerged in an endless stream. Pu Songling's "Liaozhai Zhiyi" has a variety of love stories of demons and ghosts, and the "Ghost of a Woman" series of movies is adapted from one of the stories "Nie Xiaoqian".
"Qiannu Ghost: Human Love" is a typical story of human ghost love, and for thousands of years, people always like to build some poignant and innocent love stories on people and ghosts, people and demons, people and immortals, and become a classic in love stories, enduring. Not only in China, but also abroad, there are classic otherworldly love stories like "The Love of Man and Ghost". This seemingly illusory and unrealistic love story actually contains people's pursuit and yearning for transcending reality, which is a spiritual utopia.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >01 The driving force behind the creation of human ghost love theme: the setting of another world through the yin and yang realms, giving people the space to fantasize and satisfy the creator's fantasy</h1>
Ghosts, in ancient China, are believed to be the soul of people after death. The ancient people believed that people lived in the yang, and after death, they became ghosts and went to the underworld to wait for the next reincarnation. This kind of thinking actually pins people's fantasies and yearning for rebirth in the afterlife, in order to resist the fear of death.
Based on this, people have a variety of descriptions and fantasies about Hades, and ghosts are an important factor in fantasies, and without ghosts, there will naturally be no Hades. Therefore, there are all kinds of minotaurs, hungry ghosts, and powerful ghosts, of course, there is ugliness and beauty, and beauty is also an important factor in ghost culture. Ghosts want to confuse people, and it is easy to achieve the effect of first illusioning a beautiful appearance.
Therefore, Nie Xiaoqian in the play is set as a beautiful and incomprehensible female ghost, so that Ning Caichen can have the possibility of falling in love with her. Just imagine, a female ghost with an ugly appearance and even a terrible appearance appeared in front of Ning Caichen, and It would be good for Ning Caichen not to be scared to death.
The world of human ghosts is set, one in the human world that we are familiar with, and the other in the underworld full of illusory colors. No one in Hades has ever seen it, and no one has confirmed it, it exists only in the illusions of word of mouth. Since it is a fantasy, it can be played at will, in "Human Love", Nie Xiaoqian, a female ghost, can exist in the dreamy picture scroll, or on the painting board of the grandmother's illusion, always shuttling in the world we imagine.
People are always curious, always think about seeing what a different world is like, especially the legendary "world after death". The setting of the tone of the story of human ghosts is bound to let everyone see the imaginary thing of "ghost" in the movie, and what kind of environment it lives in, which satisfies the audience's curiosity mentality. Since we have no way to truly know how the ghost world is, we can get a glimpse of it from movies and stories, even if we know that it is fake, we can satisfy our own fantasy space.
The setting of the storyline of the human ghost love, on the one hand, allows the creator to use his imagination and create everything he wants to create in the ghost world, mana, beauty, monsters and so on. Because of its illusion, it does not need to be constrained by various conditions in the real world, it is free to play, unrestrained, as long as you dare to think, you can do it, so that the creator enjoys the pleasure of a creator.
On the other hand, as a viewer, you can follow the thoughts of the traumates to explore a completely different world, feel the fantasy, let the mind temporarily escape from reality, enter the strange world like utopia, and let go of the shackles of thought.
"Human Love" is precisely from this that nie Xiaoqian's ghost has constructed a series of suspenseful and ups and downs of the plot, so that the audience is immersed in illusion and reality, sometimes happy, sometimes sad, and experiences a feeling different from other theme movies.
Chinese culture of human love (human ghost love) has a long history, from the Yin Shang oracle bones to the "Book of Poetry", "Search for God", "Liaozhai Zhiyi", and even today's folk stories and legends, there are different forms, different forms of human love (human ghost love).
In my opinion, the story of the type of human god love (human ghost love) reflects more of the ancient middle and lower-class intellectuals under the suppression of the imperial examination system, full of ambitions can not be expressed, depression and helpless subconscious embodiment, can only through fantasy stories to achieve the wishes that can not be achieved in real life.
In ancient times, most of the general writing literati were men, so in the love of people and ghosts, most of them encountered female ghosts or demons who were kind, single-minded and had magic power, and used them to achieve their desire to obtain good love, and even help themselves to obtain fame. It also indirectly shows the mentality of not being ambitious and finding solace in the story. Create a utopian world that belongs to people's ghostly love, in order to pin or vent the dissatisfaction of the real society.
And this dissatisfaction can always resonate with many people who have the same experience, which is one of the reasons why the story of ghost love has been continuous for thousands of years.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >02 Human ghost love pure emotional resonance: Under the compensatory psychological effect of real materialized emotions, it triggers people's expectations of emotional satisfaction in illusion</h1>
The way of people and ghosts is a phrase we often hear. It is impossible to intersect between the hades of the ghost life that people fantasize about and the yang of human life, otherwise people will be harmed by ghosts. Naturally, man and ghost cannot be together, after all, one represents life and the other represents death, and it is like water and fire that cannot be integrated.
It is precisely because of the particularity of this type of love that its purity can be highlighted, regardless of money, status, and other worldly conditions, but only because of love. And this kind of love in today's society, marriage, love must first ask each other how the economic income, whether there is a car or house, love mixed with a lot of material state, it seems particularly pure, desirable.
In "Human Love", Nie Xiaoqian first saw Ning Caichen, originally killed him and took his essence, but because of his simple and upright personality, he fell in love with him. After Ning Caichen learned that Nie Xiaoqian was a ghost, after a brief fright, he chose to let her go. In the later together, he learned about Xiao Qian's miserable life and her kind nature, and also fell in love with her.
After falling in love with each other, Xiao Qian, in order to save Ning Caichen, would rather go against her grandmother's wishes and be forced to marry the old demon of Montenegro. And Ning Caichen, in order to save Xiao Qian, he was a weak scholar himself, risking his life to break into the Black Mountain Realm alone and save Xiao Qian.
Ning Caichen in the play is a poor scholar who is poor and white, and Xiao Qian is a wisp of a ghost who has no one to rely on, not to mention any material value, but he is willing to pay for the other party regardless of his own life, which is where everyone is moved. Often listen to a sentence "husband and wife are originally the same forest bird, the great difficulty comes to fly separately", in reality, many lovers can not withstand the material test, and even close to marriage because the bride price did not talk about the flying geese.
Compared with the materialistic love in the real world, "Human Love" and other similar films show the human ghost love, after crossing the worldly concepts that cannot be accepted by the world, it is completely unadulterated with a trace of materialism, so pure, this is what the real love in people's hearts looks like. Although each of us may not be able to encounter such love, but through "Human Love" to pin the yearning and expectation of pure love, the audience's personal feelings deeply into the play, sometimes hope that they are Ning Caichen or Nie Xiaoqian, a life to meet a true love, enough.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >03 The underlying logic of the ghost love story: the courage to break the secular tradition, the illusion of heroism and the encouragement of fighting against the injustice of the world</h1>
The incompatibility of yin and yang is a law that must be observed in human ghost love genre movies. Since it is an alien love, it is not tolerated by the universal concept of the world, and it is opposed to encounter various obstacles, which is the underlying logical construction of the plot advancement of the human ghost love type film.
In such a logical structure of the story, there will certainly be villains such as the tree demon grandma and the black mountain old demon in "Human Love", who on the one hand do many evils and represent the essence of evil; on the other hand, they are also destroying and dismantling the beautiful and pure love in everyone's mind, representing the disapproval of this love by the secular universal view.
Such a setting will make the audience who have been suppressed by various worlds in their daily lives have a rebellious mood, hoping to eliminate such evil people, so that lovers will eventually become dependents, there is a sense of pleasure that dares to violate the world, and it is also a manifestation of repressed life.
To get rid of evil, there must be chivalrous people, and Ning Caichen, a weak scholar who has no power to bind the chicken, is obviously not good, then there is Yan Chixia, who represents the color of heroism, a remarkable ability to eliminate demons, and a tree demon grandmother who solves the thousand-year-old Daoist behavior alone.
Whether it is Yan Chixia, who is highly skilled, or Ning Caichen, who bravely runs through dangerous situations for love, the director has planted a heroic foreshadowing in them. Let the audience put the suppression of Grandma and the old demon of Montenegro on Xiao Qian, and cut off the evil people by substituting them for Yan Chixia and Ning Caichen, so that justice has been done, and a hero addiction has been enough.
"Qiannu Ghost: Human Love" is adapted from the "Nie Xiaoqian" chapter in Pu Songling's "Liaozhai Zhiyi". Mr. Pu Songling was in the feudal period of the Qing Dynasty, and the society was full of all kinds of oppression and injustice against the common people. Therefore, through a series of ghost love stories, he exposed the darkness of the government of that era, flogged the upper class of the rich and unkind, fish and flesh people, satirized the cold world, and expressed the yearning spirit for life, love, and marriage freedom. The final victory of Yan Chixia and Ning Caichen over evil also represents an encouragement from the author to call for people to fight bravely against the injustice of the world, and it is also a protest against the oppression of the upper society by the people at the bottom of the society at that time.
The final open-ended ending of "Human Love", about whether the woman is Nie Xiaoqian or not, everyone has their own different interpretations, and the director expresses people's imagination and pursuit of beautiful love in this way. Sometimes it is not the clear that it is the best, but the one that exists in the imagination is the most beautiful.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >04 "Human Love" continues the classic thinking: love not only has the belief to break through obstacles, but also has the courage to let go</h1>
The 2018 Oscar Best Movie "The Shape of Water" tells the pure and aesthetic love story between people and fish people, although it is not a human ghost love, but it is also similar to "Human Love" in the construction of the main line of love. It shows an alternative love that is not accepted by the world, so it can be seen that whether from the international point of view or the long river of Chinese history, the perfect love shown by human god love (human ghost love) that breaks through obstacles at all costs is an eternal and enduring topic.
Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen's ghost love is warm and romantic, this feeling is pure as snow, not mixed with a trace of distractions, can fight against racial differences, and narrow the distance between life and death. In just a few days of knowing and loving each other, you can protect each other at the expense of your own life, this feeling is undoubtedly the embodiment of the most genuine and pure feelings that make people fascinated, and it is also what each of us wants in our hearts.
How many people in the world have ups and downs on the road of feelings, but they still can't help but pursue love in their hearts, there are Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai butterfly-like persistence in ancient times, Meng Jiangnu crying on the Great Wall of affection, and now Qian Zhongshu and Yang Dai's looks are inseparable. Love is an eternal topic, and it is also a desire of the human inner world.
"Qiannu Ghost: Human Love" shows the true feelings of the world with the classic love of people and ghosts, giving the audience a comfort and yearning, I hope that you in the world can meet Ning Caichen, who is not afraid of suffering and danger, and protects you thoroughly; I also hope that you can meet Nie Xiaoqian, even if you are crushed to pieces, fall into reincarnation, and never see each other, but only want you to live a good life.
Love is the courage to break through obstacles and stay with you; it is also a better heart to leave and still silently bless and look forward to life. Getting it is perfect, although it is perfect; letting go is also a kind of great love, just like Ning Caichen's final letting go, letting Xiao Qian go to her own path of reincarnation.
summary:
"Ghost of a Woman: Human Love" continues the main tone of the familiar 87 version, using the main line of human ghost love that the world likes to construct a perfect love story, pinning on the pursuit of love and rebellion against evil. As an online entertainment movie, the main line structure narrative is quite complete, and the special effects effects are also good. Personally, I don't think I have to compare it with the 87 version, some movies are for nostalgia, and some movies are for entertainment, it's as simple as that.