"Legend of the Demon Cat": It's a joke to be a winged bird in heaven

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Yesterday was my birthday. I had a little free time and gave myself a day off. I went to the cinema to watch the new film "The Legend of the Demon Cat" by director Chen Kaige. The plot is It has shortcomings and logical bugs, but that doesn't stop it from being a good movie. Chen Kaige is passionate and obsessed with Eastern aesthetics, and he has a dream of the prosperous Tang Dynasty in his heart. For this movie, he did not hesitate to build the city of the prosperous Tang Dynasty in his mind, and his sincerity was enough to overwhelm the actors and crew who used cutouts, studio backgrounds, and stunt doubles.

The Li Tang Dynasty is a shining dream that all Chinese people cannot avoid. At that time, all nations came to the dynasty, the country was rich and the people were strong, and the culture was prosperous. The Tang Dynasty tolerated everything with a look on the world. The dream of the prosperous Tang Dynasty is so colorful and illusory. Those who have experienced it are so lucky, while future generations who have not experienced it can only imagine it out of thin air. Director Chen spent six years sharpening his sword. He said, "The culture of the Tang Dynasty was all-encompassing. There were more than 10,000 poets living in Chang'an City alone. It was the aspiration of many literati, so I didn't want to use a green screen in my movie. I spent 6 years planting trees, and when these trees grow lush and green, I will give everyone a real Tang Dynasty." So, we saw the prosperous Tang Dynasty in "The Legend of Demon Cat", thank you, Director Chen.

Director Chen weaved a dream of the prosperous Tang Dynasty for us through a banquet of bliss, but he also used a cat demon to tear apart our other dream alive and bloody step by step: "Song of Everlasting Regret" "", the true love between Yang Guifei and Tang Minghuang.

When we were in school, the teacher asked us to memorize Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", from when Yang Yuhuan entered the palace, gathered the favor of three thousand people, and finally died in Maweipo, the fragrance disappeared. After her death, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty missed her every day, but he "went up to the blue sky and descended into the underworld? He was nowhere to be seen." How could there be any shadow of the Jade Slave in the world? The ending of their love can only be:

In the Palace of Eternal Life on July 7th, in the middle of the night when no one was whispering.

In the sky, I wish to be a winged bird, and on the earth, I wish to be a twig.

As time goes by, this hatred will last forever.

At that time, the love between men and women was unclear, but reading this poem filled my heart with sadness. So two people who love each other can only be separated by yin and yang. We all believe that Li Longji loved Yang Yuhuan deeply. It was Gao Lishi who killed Yang Guifei behind his back, and Li Longji was helpless. Who says emperors don’t have true love, Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan do.

Director Chen tore this love fairy tale to pieces in "The Legend of the Demon Cat". He told us that since ancient times, the most ruthless family has belonged to the emperor's family. The romantic and suave Bai Juyi played by Huang Xuan, and those of us who have been deceived by "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" for thousands of years, all found the truth in Director Chen's movie. The love of an emperor is just a gorgeous false dream. When you wake up from the dream, everything is empty. .

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What kind of existence is Yang Guifei in Chen Kaige's "The Legend of the Demon Cat"?

At the Bliss Banquet before the Anshi Rebellion, the imperial concubine was a symbol of the Tang Dynasty. If the imperial concubine was pampered, the Tang Dynasty would flourish. She was dressed in red neon clothes, overlooking all living beings, and all nations came to admire her beauty; Li Bai praised her, the clouds thought of her clothes, the flowers thought of her face, and the spring breeze blew the threshold of the dew. If we hadn't met at the top of Qunyu Mountain, we would have met under the moon at Yaotai. She said to Li Bai who was drinking like crazy, "Li Bai, the Tang Dynasty is proud of you; the Japanese envoy Abe, regardless of the power of the emperor, was attracted by her charm and wanted to ask her for help." Confession; the boy Baihe picked up her Cuiqiao, and the boy Bailong among them had a rough life. Like the imperial concubine, he was dependent on others. The imperial concubine comforted him: I am dependent on others just like you, so I will double the kindness others do to me; already An Lushan, who plotted a rebellion, was determined to win Concubine Yang.

Everyone is fascinated by her and crazy about her. But how many people really love her?

Li Longji loves her, but he is more proud of having Concubine Yang. She is a symbol of prosperity, just like a packaged stunning star. Only by having her can he prove his status and glory;

Abe loved her, her charm and beauty, but he was not brave enough in love;

The boy Baihe fell in love with her at first sight, and his love was the purest and craziest.

Extreme happiness leads to sadness, and the banquet of extreme happiness is followed by extreme sadness. The Tang Dynasty and even Chinese civilization encountered the Anshi Rebellion.

Subsequently, Concubine Yang ushered in a great disaster in her life: the Maweipo Mutiny.

Gao Lishi once said: What is the crime of the imperial concubine? Yes, Xuanzong was slacking on government affairs, Prime Minister Yang blocked the sky with one hand, the vassal towns were divided, and all directions were unstable. What does Concubine Yang have to do with it? She was nothing more than a stunning beauty, good at singing and dancing, and a beloved concubine who accompanied Xuanzong.

But since ancient times, men like to say that beauty brings disaster to the country and the people. There were Daji, Bao Si, Xi Shi, Diao Chan, Zhao Feiyan, and now Yang Yuhuan. Men are so ridiculous.

Therefore, Maweipo and Yang Yuhuan must die. The soldiers wanted to kill her to vent their hatred. They thought that if they killed her, the prosperous Tang Dynasty would come back. Her brothers and sisters died tragically, leaving her alone. Xuanzong also said, what is the crime of a noble concubine? But in the eyes of the soldiers who went to and from the battlefield, Yang Guifei was a beauty and a disaster, and they wanted to kill her quickly. They forced Xuanzong to kill Yang Guifei on the grounds of not protecting Xuanzong and causing rebellion.

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Abe in the movie said that Xuanzong is the biggest illusion maker. Xuanzong had already chosen his own country in Maweipo, and he would not leave his family to Yang Guifei.

If Concubine Yang does not die, the soldiers will no longer protect Xuanzong, and Concubine Yang may be taken away by An Lushan. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty will be unstable and the royal family will lose face; if Concubine Yang dies, then How you die is what matters most. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty did not want to be a weak lover, at least he pretended to be deeply in love, and Gao Lishi and others were also unwilling to kill the imperial concubine. At this point, Concubine Yang's door to life and death were blocked. Then there is only one option left: Concubine Yang chooses to die by herself. This is also the strategy that Xuanzong had discussed with Huang He, the master of illusion. Poor Concubine Yang did not choose to go to Japan with Abe to escape this disaster in order to vow to grow old together with Xuanzong; poor Concubine Yang was still thinking about Li Longji at this moment.

Huang He used a trick: corpse dismemberment, first let Concubine Yang fake her death, put her in a sarcophagus and bury her, and then rescue her after the mutiny was over. In fact, the so-called corpse exhumation method is to bury alive, which can only last for one or two days. After one or two days, when the person wakes up and no one comes to save him, he will definitely die of suffocation in the sarcophagus. They also tricked Concubine Yang into drinking poisonous wine, so that she could turn into blood and water, then into soil, and become one with heaven and earth.

Everyone wants Concubine Yang to die, except the young man Bailong. He shouted at the top of his lungs that he was not allowed to bury the imperial concubine alive, but his legs were broken by his master. Concubine Yang probably knew that this was a scam, but she still nodded and agreed. Before leaving, she had tears in her eyes, with despair and a trace of hope in her eyes. When she gave her strand of hair to Xuanzong, did she want Xuanzong to always remember their love?

Everyone present knows that this is a scam. The method of corpse dissection can only last for one or two days. After one or two days, this dilemma will not be solved. They will not be able to save the imperial concubine. The imperial concubine must die. But no one had the courage to rescue Yang Guifei and watch her jump into this beautiful scam.

Does Xuanzong love Concubine Yang? Love, but not pure, he loves the Li Tang Dynasty and the dignity of the royal family more, so he can only deceive the woman who loves him deeply and let her choose to die voluntarily;

Abe also loves, but, like Just like the confession that he didn't have the courage to say, he chose silence again, not having the courage to save the imperial concubine from the son of the universe;

The young boy was also beaten because he was too weak to save the imperial concubine. A broken leg.

In this way, the innocent imperial concubine fell asleep and pretended to be strangled to death by Gao Lishi with white silk. Xuanzong also beat Gao Lishi and continued to pretend to the world that he was affectionate.

Due to the interaction between the poison and the corpse decomposition method, Concubine Yang did not wake up two days later, but woke up early. In the sealed sarcophagus, Concubine Yang screamed desperately, pushing the lid of the sarcophagus with her hands, her hands full of blood, just for a way out. But she couldn't open the lid of the sarcophagus, and no one came to save her. Only the black royal cat who had been accompanying her screamed as desperately as she did.

In the end, Concubine Yang could only die tragically in the sarcophagus. The two teenagers who came to rescue her two days later arrived too late. Concubine Yang has long since passed away. The young man Bailong was heartbroken. He hated those hypocritical people and broke off all ties with the young man Danlong. He guarded the body of the imperial concubine alone for 30 years, hoping that she would wake up.

In order to understand the concubine's poison, he introduced all the poison into his body. Finally, he abandoned his human body and entered the body of a cat. He merged with the royal cat and became the cat demon in the movie. Crazy revenge on everyone who caused the tragic death of the imperial concubine. He blinded Li Longji and killed the old palace maid Zhi Bailing, all because of his obsession with the imperial concubine. Perhaps, only the white dragon boy truly loves the imperial concubine, his love is pure and crazy, just for the beauty of the first sight.

After investigating the truth, Bai Juyi knew that the imperial love in "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" was false, but he still had no intention of writing poetry again. Because the true feelings he expressed in the poem are true, and the Bailong boy has that kind of true feelings, that's enough.

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Later, I thought that even if the imperial love in Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" was true, it was not complete.

On July 7th, in the Palace of Eternal Life, no one was whispering in the middle of the night. The old Li Longji misses not Yang Yuhuan, but himself as the son of the universe in the prosperous Tang Dynasty when he was with Yang Yuhuan. And Li Tang, Li Longji, and the jade slaves dancing in neon clothes will never come back.