Thinking of Xiuchundao 2 movie review

Reflections on Xiuchundao 2 Film Review Sample 1

In the last years of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the eunuch party came to power, faced with external and internal troubles, people were in dire straits, and the situation was in danger.

The Jin Yiwei is a frightening existence. Those who hear the word "Zhen Fu Si" will be frightened. The embroidered spring knife and flying fish suit will change the color of those who see it.

They all have a book of impermanence, and what they write down is irrefutable evidence that you are guilty and not innocent. You can be arrested, jailed, and tortured without having to give evidence in court.

A Jin Yiwei was on duty, and because of gossiping about Wei Zhongxian, he was punished by Wuchang Book with a stroke of his pen for being a clandestine treason.

Jin Yiwei went to the temple to investigate the case. The hands of the young monk who served the food were trembling. Monk Jinghai said that those who come to burn incense are all good people. Jin Yiwei wrote "Monk Jinghai said that those who buy Hokusai's calligraphy and paintings are good people", which frightened him into confessing immediately.

Under the pressure of terror, it was revealed that the Ming Dynasty Guangsha was crumbling, with only the remaining breath remaining.

That was an era when law and order were in vain. Zhenfu Si Qianhu said, "There are our people everywhere in this yamen and that government office, and we can turn black into white with just a few clicks of our fingers."

That was also an era when the superstructure was riddled with holes. Just one highly skilled Baihu can sneak into a secret place and burn it all down.

At that time, Shen Lian was not the free man in "Xiu Chun Dao" who completely broke with officialdom and fled to the vast world.

He spends his days wandering in a world where he is wary of temptations, speaks insincerely, restrains his emotions, and hides his sword behind his smile, trying his best to cope with the confusion of public and private calculations, the obscure and unpredictable human relationships, and the shackles that he cannot control.

But the dark years have not exhausted him yet.

Hokusai asked: Haven’t you lived enough in this world? He just changed the subject: No one can save this world.

Think about the story of "Xiu Chun Knife 2". This is a standard spy film prototype in which high-level officials are involved in intrigues and small people are involved in political intrigues and serve as victims.

Of course, it is not the heroism of 007, which distinguishes good from evil and turns the tide like "Mission: Impossible".

It is a realistic spy war in which everyone wanders in a morally gloomy zone, is burdened with many constraints, faces the test of responsibility and conscience, and is constantly forced to make choices and sacrifices.

Just imagine, you can move the background to the contemporary United States, replace the Imperial Guard with the CIA, replace the Police Department with field agents, replace the East Factory with the Pentagon, replace the Experience Department with the computer room, and replace the cruise ship with Air Force One. Ming Shenzong was replaced by the president, Wei Zhongxian was replaced by staff, and all cold weapons were replaced by firearms...

In this way, the entire structure does not even need to be adjusted much, and it is directly turned into a conspiracy theory thriller. . And intuitively, it will be more watchable than most similar Hollywood films.

If you are interested, you can make similar substitutions in the first part without damaging the backbone and ideological expression of the story at all.

This idea is of course mainly for fun, but it is also enough to show how modern the core of "Xiu Chun Dao 2" is.

You can say it is borrowing from the past to describe the present, or it can be understood as telling ancient costume stories with contemporary aesthetics. In short, it can be regarded as a successful example.

Therefore, we can also understand why "Xiu Chun Knife" became a phenomenon-level word-of-mouth film. In addition to its solid film skills, it is also because whether it is a political thriller or a real-life spy war, it is too exciting on the Chinese big screen. It's rare.

Even if it appears in the form of ancient costume, it is just filling up the scarcity.

The action scenes also show the actual combat level. The weapons emphasize the weight, the body movements lack agility, the height is only one foot, and the moves emphasize the power and strike feeling.

Among them, the allusion of Japanese swords should make you smile knowingly after watching Xu Haofeng's "Trace of the Japanese Bandits".

There are still traces of martial arts in the outdoor fighting, but there is no way to perform it inside the room. It is very similar to contemporary close combat. CQC free fighting can be placed in "Hurricane Rescue".

There are no taboos in the use of concealed weapons and firearms between the good and the bad, and they compete more with military skills and psychological calculations than with martial arts.

Shen Lian sneaked into a book theft in the middle of the night and was in the middle of a fight with Dongchang masters. He suddenly encountered a patrol and immediately switched to the stealth assassin mode with his heart racing. The contrast and change of movement in that moment was purely a spy battle. The charm of the play. "Spring Knife 2" movie review sample 2

Three years ago, the first "Spring Knife" shocked everyone with its skills. Lu Yang has inherited all the advantages through the sequel.

The lines are right up to the mark, showing the sophistication that an official should have, and it can be seen that he has been tempered for a long time. The transitions are neat, without any sloppiness, and the white space is just right. Except for a few lyrical scenes that fell apart occasionally, the two hours were almost full of drama.

He pays attention to character creation, and the small characters also try to flesh out the characters in one or two moments and guide us to pay attention to their fate.

The timing of several highlights is almost the same as in the first part: the late-night fight at the beginning, the siege in the courtyard in the middle, the climax of the game against the weak against the strong, another variation of the successful routine, and the third part. Department can continue to use it.

Lu Yang is good at making men's dramas. Both films are based on brotherhood, but it is not a blood-blood alliance, but a pragmatism and sharing of difficulties.

It is precisely the premise of pragmatism that evaporates the value of friendship between peers and avoids the middle-class tendency of many brother dramas.

In the climax of the two heroes' battle to clear the level, Shen Lian said "Brother Pei, please hold the suspension bridge", and Pei Lun replied "That's easy to say". Without saying a word, the two of them faced the enemy with swords and swords, and all kinds of pride were there. in.

When children confess their love, they cherish words like gold. Hokusai informed him by his true name, and Shen Lian said, "Shen has written it down." There were thousands of words that no longer needed to be said.

Therefore, the main line of this story is an official conspiracy, but Fang Jun is willing to classify it as a martial arts story. The human emotions in it are sophistication, and there is a special feeling for children in the world.

People who make a living in the world don’t talk to each other for a long time, saying things that are deep in their hearts over and over again.

You can talk nonsense and make jokes, but when it comes to the key points, you will always mention them in one or two sentences, and you will know each other's feelings with a glance.

Tacit understanding is the unique romance of the world.

In our imagination, far away from the rivers and lakes, and as high as the temples, there is a barrier no less than a dimensional wall.

Compared to a war in which thousands of people died, for Jianghu people, the officialdom was nothing more than a purgatory closer to Shura battlefield.

Among all the trapped beasts, the most tragic one is Lu Wenzhao. Surviving the killings, he devoted himself to "changing his life", trying to please everyone and climb his official career, and was preparing for the day of success while walking on thin ice.

He said to Shen Lian: At my age, friendship and integrity have almost been worn away.

The sad thing is that he is still a charlatan in nature. He has chosen a path that is completely unsuitable for him. He works hard and walks into darkness regardless of the cost. He foolishly thinks that the light is at the exit.

He reminds me of Pang Qingyun in "The Letter of Prosecution", who had great ambitions to get ahead, but died suddenly and violently.

Unlike Pang Qingyun, the lack of firearms in the late Ming Dynasty at least gave Lu Wenzhao a tragic and generous death.

In contrast, Shen Lian was determined to betray the system, but saved his life because of the compassion of the new emperor after he ascended the throne. This is more like wishful thinking to take care of the audience's emotions and world view. After all, this is a prequel and he can't die.

Besides, without Ding Xiu, we have to find another way for the female audience to rely on their fantasy of pure love.

"The Sword" is not a romantic and elegant martial arts myth. It belongs to the same color series as the realistic spy films "Berlin" and "Spy". Dark and cold, filled with suffocating despair.

This has never been a story about the battle between good and evil. It is difficult for us to say how righteous and kind Shen Lian and Pei Lun are, and how sinister and evil Lu Wenzhao and Zhu Youjian are.

However, some of them have more conscience and responsibility than others. The moral bottom line, the weight of friendship, and the human instinct of hoeing the strong and supporting the weak are still meaningful to them.

It is extremely difficult for people with clay feet to live like this in the Asura Hell, and it is worthy of admiration.

By witnessing the bloody fight between a group of black and white ants in the Shura field, we also learned some truth about power.

The most terrifying thing is not that the Game of Thrones is so cold-blooded, terrifying and dehumanizing, but that those who think they are playing the Game of Thrones do not realize that they are not players, but just pawns on the game board of the real players.

Everything they think is determined by the invisible dice, and every move is controlled by the invisible hanging wire.

Their ambitions are illusions, their desires are emptiness, and their supposedly firm free will is the cruelest and saddest joke in the eyes of the audience from God’s perspective. Review Example 3 of Xiuchundao 2

The film begins with a tragic historical war, with piles of corpses, smoke-filled battlefields, blood-soaked scrolls, and the chance to survive after the war. The soldiers, a group of arrogant, cruel and bloody Japanese pirates, and a row of helpless, tragic and numb soldiers who are about to be executed, create a desolate, desolate, depressing and death atmosphere that is extremely strong, creating a strong sense of substitution, making it easy for the audience to enter the plot. , and follow the protagonists of the story to experience a thrilling journey in dark ancient costumes with a narrow escape from death.

The tragic ancient battlefield plot carefully created at the beginning of the film is not the core of the story of the entire film, but a seemingly dispensable but actually extremely important introduction that can lead to the fate of all the little people in an era. . The soldier Shen Lian, played by Zhang Zhen, rescued the defeated soldier Lu Wentao, played by Zhang Yi, who was about to be executed by the Japanese pirates on the battlefield. He fought the Japanese pirates for several minutes in a life-and-death struggle, with realistic frames and dangerous moves. In the end, blood spattered when the Japanese pirates were killed. The slow motion is processed using film art techniques, which undoubtedly enhances the brutality of the battlefield and exaggerates the desolation of the fate of the little people. Here, Lu Wentao, played by Zhang Yi, said: "If you don't want life to be like cutting grass and dying, you have to change your way of living!" This is the most realistic psychological portrayal of a little person facing death, and it is also an indescribable expression of so-called heroism. Table of sarcasm and complaints. Not everyone can accept death and die heroically like Wen Tianxiang, and not everyone likes to go to the battlefield and enjoy the caress and harassment of death all the time. When Lu Wentao survived the battlefield, and when the bright dawn shone from the distant horizon, we suddenly realized that Lu Wentao was not a hero, he was just an ordinary soldier. A soldier who is calculated and does everything possible to survive.

Following this thread of thought, the real story of the movie begins, and the fighting duel on the Shura battlefield that truly shocks, sighs, sighs, silences, palpitates, and reflects on the audience is officially staged. Lu Wentao deliberately climbed to the high position of Jin Yiwei, and became Wei Zhongxian's favorite eight years later through the usual officialdom tactics of flattery and flattery, while Shen Lian, who had saved his life, became his subordinate. The fate of the two has undergone a fundamental change. Although they have long been far away from the battlefield, they are still facing huge survival crises every minute. The strict supervision of Jinyiwei and Dongchangxichang has caused countless people to die in vain, and the blood flow is still the same as before. A tragic battlefield littered with corpses. It turns out that wherever there are people, there is a Shura field.

The hatred for Wei Zhongxian did not unite all forces to work together in the same boat. King Xin secretly gathered forces to restrain Wei Zhongxian, but for his own interests and personal safety, he continued to cut off some loyalties. own people. Therefore, when we read this story, we will be particularly headache and puzzled. Why did Shen Lian and Lu Wentao, who were once brothers in life and death, turn against each other and fight against each other? Why did they even order Hokusai to be silenced even though they clearly believed that Wang deeply loved Hokusai? Why? Pei Lun, who is clearly an enemy, wanted to bring Shen Lian to justice and send him to prison one moment, and then became his friend and fought alongside him the next moment? So that in the end we could hardly tell what they were doing. Who is fighting? For whom are they fighting? For whom are the red blood shed? All the emotions are chaotic and complicated, confusing, bizarre, unpredictable, and invisible, like a tragic Shura field filled with gunpowder smoke.

In the film, Shen Lian uttered a monologue when he was surrounded by Jinyi guards and fought bloody battles: "I don't want to live just to live!" This sentence not only marks the awakening of Shen Lian's ideology, but also It also marks that something called faith is quietly sprouting. By the way, it can also explain the ultimate reason for the chaotic interpersonal relationships in the dark era when Wei Zhongxian was in power, and everyone was in danger comparable to Shura Field - in order to survive!

Yes, in order to survive, that's why Lu Wentao is willing to endure the humiliation and bear the burden. , try every means to survive. In order to survive, Pei Lun will work for Jin Yiwei meticulously to catch the "real murderer" Shen Lian. In order to survive, Shen Lian will do his duty and force his unfortunate subordinate to death. In order to survive, Lu Wentao, who has a life-and-death relationship with Shen Lian, will They would want to ruthlessly get rid of Shen Lian. In order to survive, King Xin would cry and order the death of his confidante Miao Xuan. In order to survive, King Xin would grovel and be willing to become Wei Zhongxian's puppet. In order to survive... they would Step by step, he is good at calculations, doing things secretly, making enemies while fighting side by side, being shameless while swearing, fighting while compromising, so that he is unstable and confused, and finally falls into a melee like a Shura field and dies.

But this movie is not completely dark and cruel. Although in the nearly two hours, suspense, tension, pathos, and depressive background music set off death and betrayal, hope and light still exist. Now, kindness and beauty have never left. Beizhai, played by Yang Mi, is dressed in blue. Her pure, aesthetic and ethereal beauty is as refreshing as the orchid in the empty valley or the lily after the rain. Her paintings are the revelation of reality and the foreshadowing of ideals; she is a symbol of hope. , the spokesperson of angels, because of her appearance, she can repel darkness and bring revival. Why did the final scene of the film set in Hangzhou? Because "there is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below." How can such a grand scene on earth tolerate darkness and hesitation?