Today we talk about Zhang Yimou's new work "Shadow"
I know that director Zhang Yimou is his famous work "Overlord Farewell", and now he still occupies the second place of Douban, and who is the first place, that is, "The Shawshank Redemption" that lost the Little Golden Man Award. Well, don't talk about these and some of them, or discuss the main topic.
The whole drama of "Shadow" adopts black and white tones, just like a Chinese ink painting. The film uses flashbacks, starting with a tearing cry from Xiao Ai, and the audience watching it is in the clouds. Jingzhou, as a stand-in for Zi Yu, disregarded Peiliang's will and single-handedly shouted at Yang Cang of the Yan Kingdom. In fact, monarchs have their own ambitions. Due to the injury of Yang Cang last time, Ziyu was old and weak, and gradually lost the ability to recover The State of Jingzhou, and could only strategize behind the scenes. And Jingzhou, as a subordinate who was adopted from a young age and suffered a lot, also had to be born and died for the master of the child, and the fate was tragic. This is also the reason why Zi Yu was killed at the end of the film. And the motivation to support Jingzhou's survival: the long-lost mother, and the love of the hostess. Completing the reunion of relatives is a prerequisite for the first reconquest of the state. Therefore, Jingzhou is willing to act as a pawn.
Peiliang: Seemingly faint monarch, in fact, with mantis catching cicadas, yellow birds in the back of the plot, but unfortunately people are not as good as heavenly calculations, in the end everything was unexpected, sister Qingping died on the battlefield, he was too proud of himself by Zi Yu calculations, and finally died at the hands of a civilian - Jingzhou.
Tian Zhan: When I first watched the movie, I thought that this person was Zi Yu's confidant, and I thought that he was a wall head grass. At the end of the film, Xiao Ai's tearing cry I guess is that Jingzhou was killed by Tian Zhan. In fact, Tian Zhan is the final victor.
Xiao Ai: Just like the unfortunate women of ancient times. The kindness of women, the pity of Jingzhou, the long-term affection.
As a pawn, Jingzhou completed the counterattack of life, but he was also the victim of the whole chess game and lost his mother. On the surface, Jingzhou is the shadow of Ziyu, and Ziyu is not the shadow of Jingzhou. Zi Yu never appeared in front of everyone until his death, and his dream of a monarch was also in vain.
The shadow of man will always follow him, when a man will no longer have a shadow, when he dies.
In life, we must always be careful of those who obey our orders, because people's hearts are unpredictable, and their obedience now may be a falling stone after you enter the predicament.