Love under the begonia tree

Xzavier 2022-01-22 08:03:18

Qingcheng and Wuhuan actually belong to the same kind of people in essence. An event they inadvertently experienced when they were young has drastically changed their lives. When I was a child, Qingcheng deceived Wuhuan and took away the buns, which led to Wuhuan no longer trusting anyone, even himself. Later, Wuhuan himself said, "It's all you, let me lose a chance to be a good person"; Qingcheng threw the grabbed steamed buns into the water and squatted down by the water to cry for his dead mother. When he met a man who fell from the sky, Qingcheng used his love to exchange the best things in other worlds. In fact, the sentence Man Shen said: Unless time reverses, water flows back, and people come back to life, Qingcheng can regain love. Kunlun has already put on black robes for the ending in advance, letting time flow back and letting Qingcheng regain love.
The Allure in the film is very easy to be sympathized with, and makes people feel the sorrow of this character. Her love is almost always a tragedy. She treats the king sincerely, but Wang wants to give her to Wuhuan because he wants to save her life: Wuhuan keeps saying Said that she loved her, but never acted; she was moved by the owner of the flower armor but did not dare to love, and finally opened her heart but learned that she loved the wrong person: the last three people who loved her Killing each other is seriously wounded and will die. Facts have proved that under normal circumstances, Qingcheng really cannot achieve any love, or it is not obtained, or it is lost as soon as it is obtained.
The beginning and the end of the story are under the crabapple tree, and the crabapple tree appears constantly throughout the movie. Begonia flowers are also constantly appearing in the lines, such as "Only when the Begonia flowers are gone, you will both die, you will be like the falling flowers, turning into soil" and "Before sunset, before the sunset when the Begonia flowers are gone, you Will definitely come back to me" Wait.
One of the features of this film is the clever use of colors. Each actor will have a specific representative color, and the feeling that each color brings to people is different, and it is closely related to the development of the plot. Wuhuan is mainly silvery white, showing his indifference, selfishness, humbleness, and wretchedness, while Qingcheng is gorgeous, showing her coquettishness, indifference, suspicion, paleness, etc.
"The Promise" is actually a sci-fi genre. The completeness of the story may not be good enough, and a lot of magical colors are not easy for people to understand, but it is indeed a good movie by Chen Kaige, and I can watch it again after so many years. It will not give the audience a sense of oldness.

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  • Goddess Manshen: Once you have accepted your destiny, nothing can alter it unless time flows backwards, snow falls in the spring, and the dead come back to life.