Ordinary people are miserable
Hello everyone, I am a disappointed little fairy.
In April, when the family was dominant, Avengers 4 could proudly say that all but me were cannon fodder.
However, Xiao XianEr has a special love for the "cannon fodder" of "Realm And Boundary" that was launched yesterday.
After all, it is a live-action comic adaptation of one of the three major migrant workers (the most popular) comics, and this name can still scare people.
But after watching the movie, Xiao Xian Er found that this movie is the opposite of the law of true incense.
The failure of the popular character Shiraya Uzumaki is the main reason why the film is scolded as a sieve.
However, the problem with the movie is not only the casting and styling failure of live-action cosplay.
The unclear details, the vagueness of the establishment of the world view, and the lack of emotional laying out of the characters are all problems with this movie.
But it is really difficult to show the complex and huge world of death through a 100-minute movie.
Shortcomings aside, the setting of the whole movie is actually very interesting.
Why did Death start to flock?
Why aren't their weapons sickles?
If the god of death transmits his power to ordinary human beings, then it is a felony to die, why is there such a strange rule?
01
When Death meets Nichiman
It all starts with the source of death.
In Japanese folklore, there was no concept of the god of death at first.
The concept of death was introduced to Japan from the Western world in the 18th and 19th centuries.
In the Edo period, the god of death represented the evil spirits of the dead, dark creatures, and fallen angels.
Later, due to the fusion of Chinese and Western cultures, the god of death was gradually transformed into a skeleton wearing a black cloak and holding a scythe.
As the times progressed, the concept of Death was widely used in anime, such as Death Note, Bleach, Naruto, and Soul Eater.
In Japanese anime where tennis can kill people, Burning and Secondary Two are essential elements of manga.
So, when Death meets anime, everything becomes different.
In the setting of the film, the world is divided into three parts, the present world, which is where human beings are located. The corpse soul realm, the place where the grim reaper and the soul are located, as well as the void circle, the void and the place where the broken face survives.
After death, people become soul states, good ghosts are called whole, from the god of death to the corpse soul world, and the bad ghosts are called void, destroyed by the god of death, and then sent to the corpse soul world.
In fact, this setting is somewhat similar to the Chinese hell system.
However, in the movie, the character image is influenced by the Japanese samurai, and both men and women wear uniforms with swords. The entire system of operation is also based on squads.
But in China, hell is set up more like a court," the way the official yamen operate.
This is because Japan was once an agrarian country, which led to the need for unity and cooperation within the group to be rewarded. This led to the formation of familialism in Japan, which slowly evolved into team spirit.
That is, the squad system in the world of the Grim Reaper.
In the film, the Grim Reaper's responsibility is to keep the world in balance.
That is to say, the amount of souls in the corpse soul world and the current world must be balanced, otherwise it will lead to the collapse of the world.
This rule led to the tragedy of the family extinction of the male third of the movie, but the division was exterminated.
Because the elimination of the void by the Extinction Master is to make the void disappear completely, it will cause the non-conservation of the world's soul.
In order not to collapse the world, death can only destroy the Destroyer.
Knowing this, it is not difficult to understand why death stipulates that power cannot be transmitted to mankind.
Because this is likely to upset the balance between the two worlds.
This kind of rule, which sounds very unreasonable, is actually for the normal operation of the whole world.
This balanced tone comes from Japan's ancient psychology of balance.
Whether it is the balance between gratitude and lack of gratitude in the three major cultures of Japan, or the theory of "yin and yang" balance in Japanese food culture, it is revealed that Japan believes that "balance" is the first meaning of everything.
In fact, there are many more such storytelling rules that reveal local culture and traditions.
02
Immortals can only be single dogs
The poem "Only envy the mandarin duck and not envy the immortal" actually means that the immortal can only be a single dog.
In the Chinese mythological system, man and god cannot fall in love.
The love story of Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies in "Heavenly Immortals" is a typical example.
Dong Yong and the love of the Seven Fairies violated the Heavenly Rules, and finally the Heavenly Beings were eternally separated.
This is actually revealed behind the chinese culture of the theory of descent.
In ancient China, the theory of descent was very important.
The wide variety of positions from the succession to the throne to the common man's concubine and concubine shows China's emphasis on the theory of descent.
This theory of descent is different from the so-called theory of descent in the West, which emphasizes purity, for example, in Game of Thrones, the Targaryen family practices incest for the sake of blood purity.
In China, the theory of descent pays attention to integration, that is, the combination of blood between the two major families.
The love between Dong Yong and the Seven Fairies is a love that transcends class, and will naturally be hindered by the family.
Can the immortals digest it internally?
In the Chinese mythological system, gods and gods cannot fall in love.
This is also reflected in "Journey to the West".
Kui Timber Wolf and the maid of the Phi Xiang Temple fell in love, but because the gods could not fall in love, the two agreed to go to the next place to fall in love.
Thus a tragedy was triggered.
Why can't fairies and immortals fall in love?
Immortals fall in love, and the children born must also be gods. Immortals are immortal, if the immortals are in love, then the heavenly court will gradually not be able to let go of these immortals who have been breeding for generations.
Due to the history of China's origins and relatively advanced farming methods, the population density has always been relatively large.
So, naturally, there are considerations in this regard.
At the same time, the gods in the mythological story are like colleagues working together, somewhat similar to domestic civil servants.
In reality, national laws also stipulate a system of recusal of civil servants, and civil servants are not allowed to fall in love.
03
Whether man is good or evil is a question
But on the contrary, in the Western mythological system, the gods and immortals can fall in love, not only can they fall in love, but even incest is not shy about it.
In Greek Mythology, Zeus has countless companions and pursues them when he sees them.
The story of his jealousy with another god, Poseidon, for Thesis, is also the precursor to the famous Golden Apple Incident.
Both Zeus and Poseidon had a crush on the beautiful Thetis, but Prometheus prophesied that Thetis's son would be a hundred times more powerful than his father.
Fearing to shake his rule, zeus and Poseidon both abandoned Thetis and arranged for her to marry a mortal.
Thetris's wedding forgot to invite the goddess Eris, who, in retaliation, threw the Golden Apple to the wedding site, which led to the subsequent Trojan War.
The supreme leader of the gods can not only fall in love freely, but also compete with other gods and goddesses, and even promote the marriage between humans and gods.
This is a world of difference from the mythological system of the East.
Why?
First of all, the problem that the Immortals cannot put down in the Heavenly Garden from generation to generation is something that Westerners rarely worry about.
Because compared with China's population density, the West has always been sparsely populated.
As it is now, many Western countries have a reward mechanism for fertility.
Secondly, this is also related to the marriage relationship in the West at that time.
In the famous book "Three Musketeers", the first story is that three musketeers have to go through all kinds of difficulties to retrieve the necklace belonging to the Queen from the hands of the Earl of Buckingham.
As for why the necklace was in the hands of the Duke of Buckingham, it was due to his affair with the Queen.
But in the story, the queen who cheated on Buckingham is portrayed as a kind, beautiful and simple woman.
This reflects the chaotic relationship between men and women in the Aristocratic World of the West at the time.
The secret affair between men and women in marriage is not a condemnation, but a trend.
Like the invincible Napoleon, he dared to let the Pope come to Paris to crown himself, rather than go to Rome himself to meet the Pope.
But when he knew that his beloved Queen Josephine had countless lovers, he was helpless.
Therefore, the taboos and rules in the West are very different from those in the East.
In the West, there is such a universal rule, that is, do not do anything.
In the Bible, God says to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Ely, do not eat the apples of the tree.
In Bluebeard, Bluebeard tells his wife, Don't open the last door.
But the ending of these stories is often that the protagonist finally eats the forbidden fruit and opens the door.
This system actually reflects the biggest difference between Chinese and Western cultures.
China believes in the beginning of man, the nature of goodness. It is believed that through indoctrination, the wicked can be turned into good. However, in the concept of Western countries, it is the beginning of man, and nature is inherently evil. Human beings are selfish by nature and have a tendency to profit, which is the law of survival.
This is the fundamental reason why the protagonists they set will always be unable to resist the temptation in the end.
When a rule is considered strange, it is often ignored for its intrinsic reasons.
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