"Let the bullet fly" is a work released in 2010, more than ten years have passed, Jiang Wen in this work will play his talent to the fullest, the original Jiang Wen can be said to be "high and widowed", whether it is "the sun also rises" or "sunny days", are mixed with too much Jiang Wen's personal will, some obscure, until the emergence of this "Let the bullets fly", he really for the first time will be popular and profound two seemingly contradictory areas combined, The so-called common appreciation of elegance and customs is also the case.
Every time I watch "Let the Bullets Fly", I always bring people a different understanding, which is also the most evocative part of this work.
The story line of "Let the Bullets Fly" is actually very simple, and Zhang Mazi, the leader of the ma bandits played by Jiang Wen, summed it up himself in the film: bandits meet bullies, so simple is that things are so complicated by you!
The bandit is Zhang Mazi, played by Jiang Wen, and the bully is Huang Silang, played by Zhou Runfa.
But from the perspective of the film, Zhang Mazi is not just a bandit leader. In the film, Zhang Mazi personally talked with Tang Shiye, played by Ge You, saying that his real name was Zhang Muzhi, who followed General Songpa as a pistol captain at the age of 17, and then went to Japan to study, returned to Japan after the death of the general, unfortunately encountered warlords in a scuffle, only because he did not want to join forces with warlords to oppress the people, which was the end of the grass.
General Songpo here does have his own person in history, it is the famous general of the Republic of China, Cai Yi. So we can see that Zhang Mazi became famous at a young age and should have had a great future, but he is an idealist who sticks to his heart, although he has the ability to add officials to the knighthood without worry, he is willing to go up to the mountain to become a bandit, and the difference in identity can be described as a world of difference. But Zhang Mazi still chose this way, which is exactly the two words he insisted on in his heart:
fair!
When he first entered Goose City, Zhang Mazi asked Liuzi to put out the drum of injustice outside the county court, so as to teach Huang Silang's subordinate Wu Zhichong, and promised to all the people: "I came to Goose City for three things, fairness!" fair! Or his meow fairness! ”
And Zhang Mazi has always carried out this concept in the end, cheating the money of the two major families, sending it to the poor, receiving 1.8 million taels of silver from Huang Silang's bandits, still distributing it to the poor, and finally overthrowing Huang Silang, still letting the poor people copy Huang Silang's home, and he did not take anything.
Does this look like something a hemp bandit does?
And Huang Silang, as Zhang Mazi's opponent, is not just a bully.
He was full of foreign languages, at the "Hongmen Banquet", talked to Master Tang and Zhang Mazi about dollars, and he was well aware of Japanese culture, and knew that suicide by caesarean section required the mechanism of introducing the wrong person, so Huang Shilang was not only a businessman, he also studied in the West and also studied in the East. When the sixth son was still alive, Zhang Mazi told the sixth son that in the future, he would send the sixth son to study abroad, three years in the West, three years in the South Sea, and three years in the East, and when the sixth son returned from his studies, he would understand everything in this world. And Huang Silang is such a person who understands everything.
Moreover, Huang Silang still has the only two rare edition mines in his hand, in addition to the one in his hand, the other one is the explosion of the Xinhai Revolution, and such a precious thing in his hands can only prove that Huang Silang is a witness to the Xinhai Revolution and plays an extremely important role in it.
The original intention of the Xinhai Revolution was to overthrow the feudal system and establish a democratic state. Therefore, it is certainly not right to say that Huang Silang was an out-and-out bully from beginning to end, as an important participant in the Xinhai Revolution, he must have been full of enthusiasm in the early days of the revolution, and he wanted to change China to a new day and give the people of the whole country a new look.
However, after the revolution, what followed was not the liberation of the whole country and the people living and working in peace and contentment, but warlords and warlords, countless people were displaced, and the lives of ordinary people were even worse than before the revolution. He chose to surrender to desire and joined the ranks of the people who snatched the people's cream.
You see, Zhang Mazi and Huang Silang, in the face of the same era, the choice is completely different, one abides by the heart, rather let the people of the world bear me, a committed magnate, rather teach me to bear the world's people.
Zhang Mazi and Huang Silang are essentially the same kind of people, but the difference between their inner perseverance and final choice makes them stand opposite each other, so the two of them are fateful enemies, and only one of them can leave alive.
For us viewers, it is more important not only to see how different endings will be obtained by people with different choices in the film, but also to always remind us to always stand in the right perspective of history, and anyone who stands against the people will not have a good end.
After all, the fortunes of this world are mighty, and those who go along with it prosper, and those who oppose it perish!