When it comes to costume films, we can list a lot of excellent works, but when it comes to magic movies, there are not many films that we can get our hands on, and most audiences will be shocked by the strange brain holes and powerful special effects when watching foreign magic films, but in the end it is a little less familiar.
The emergence of "To Catch a Demon" has made up for the gap in the market for magical genre films, and it is a movie that is highly recommended to watch.
First of all, in the selection of the topic, the director changed the previous character setting of good and evil, and chose the contradiction and fusion of two opposing creatures, on the one hand, the goodness of human performance, and the evil of the demon's surface on the other hand.
First of all, all the goblin images in the play are from the Classic of Mountains and Seas, designed after certain changes, the ancient description of the demon is vividly expressed, in each story, the demon is evil, they will do a lot of bad things, which seems to be impossible to change.
So once he saw the demon, he needed to be destroyed, the male protagonist Tianyin was born in a family that collected the demon, his father left when he was very young, and he never came back, he left the small village where he had been living in order to find his father, and was accidentally used as a parasite by the queen inside the goblin, and put the little demon king into the belly of Tianyin.
And Tianyin also developed a deep affection for Huba, the little demon king, after the birth of the little demon king, and finally left Huba in the world of demons.
The whole drama takes the warm route, whether it is Tianyin in order to find his father or after he became Huba's relatives, in order to make Huba adapt to this human world, very patiently teach him not to eat meat, many pictures make people feel warm, some simple expressions and interaction between Huba can make people feel that they are a family, even if one is a person and one is a demon.
The biggest point of this drama is how to determine the good and evil between people and demons, many people will feel that demons are good and people are evil when they see goblins being eaten, but there is one thing that many people have not thought of, that is, where do the human skins worn by these demons come from?
First of all, there is no accurate statement in the movie, but all the demons that have appeared are wearing human skins, and Huba was ridiculed by other demons because he did not wear human skins when he was in the restaurant, and the villain demons played by Zhong Hanliang also have six or seven layers of human skins, these demons have bad things to do and have never done anything bad, but it cannot be denied that they have a natural bloodlust and disregard for life.
Just like Huba needs to drink blood when he is just born, this is their instinct, maybe there is no right or wrong, but for humans, this is a threat, so whether it is human cruelty to demons or demons that pose a threat to people, there is no absolute definition.
In addition to the debate between good and evil, there is also a very controversial point, that is, whether people and demons can live equally. In the film, it is very serious to emphasize the matter of equality, so can these two creatures really be equal?
Obviously impossible, first of all, if it is an equal position, then no one wants to be who, because their values are the same.
They very much hope to become human, even if most of the people are not as strong as them, they still want to become ordinary people, this can be seen from the demons in the village where Tianyin lives, if they want to survive, they can only hide their identity as demons, how can this be regarded as equality?
In the end, it is still in the pursuit of natural selection and survival of the fittest. Since there is competition, there is bound to be a win or a loss, and how can it be equal.
And the demon wants to integrate into the human world must change all their own nature, such as wearing human skin can not use the original appearance, and then also need to eat vegetarian, about the vegetarian this is actually a very obvious inequality, to know that most people do not eat vegetarian, they will eat chicken, duck and fish meat, how can the turn of the demon to eat people can not accept it?
The so-called equality is nothing more than an illusion created and cannot last long. Whether it is a human or a demon, if you want to imprison its nature, you can't go long.
The ending of the story is that Huba returned to the world of the demon, so the director also hopes to tell us a truth, there is no absolute good and evil, as long as you are within your comfort zone, what you do is allowed, just like Huba returns to the world of the demon to eat meat, and in the world of people, you can only eat vegetarian.
This is the real world, fairy tales are often modified, but even if there are many unkind places in reality, we can also see the good side from such a world, for example, Xiao Huba is willing to eat vegetarian for Tianyin, Tianyin is willing to help the demon queen take care of the little demon king, and Xiao Lan, who was originally a demon catcher, can also see Huba's kindness and take care of Huba with Tianyin.
Overall, this film has a place of inheritance, there are also places of innovation, and there are many places to shine, which is worth watching.