After 8 months of waiting, "Walking with God 2: Cause and Destiny" was finally released on August 1. There was no need to delay it, because "Crime and Punishment" and "Cause and Fate" were filmed together, but in February of this year, "Ten Thousand Fairies" Oh Dal-soo was revealed to have sexually assaulted an actress of the same theater 20 years ago and was caught by a Korean audience. To resist, the crew had to delete all his scenes, and then asked Zhao Xuezhe to make up the show, so the release date was delayed until August.
In addition to the substitution of judges, the film has added the role of "becoming a god", played by the fat uncle Ma Dongxi in "Travel to Busan". "Walk with God 2: Cause and Fate" tells the story of a trio of Yinchai who passed the trial with the 49th nobleman, Kim Soo-hong, who died unjustly. In the process of leading to the final judgment, the mystery of Jiang Lin, Jieyuanmai, and Li Dechun's previous life has also been slowly unveiled. Unlike the tears in "Crime and Punishment", this film is full of joy.
Tease, Leek and Tucao
[Tease] In the first part, the basic Kanekohiro will set off a small tear gas every time he reaches a level of hell, but in the second part, the rhythm is much brighter, such as the resolving veins of doubi and the drama spirit possessing. The poor resolving veins completely became comedians in the second part, or mistaken Xiandong's urinal for a god-making jar, and drank boy urine.
Either you can’t beat yourself as a creator, and you kneel on the ground and listen to what you say.
He wanted to be fierce to find the majesty of his previous life, but he was slapped twice by the old man.
Of course, in addition to bringing joy to the audience, the fun of resolving grievances actually has another function, which is in sharp contrast to the coldness of the white wolf. If the white wolf lived in a peaceful age and had not experienced war and life and death, it should be like relieving grievances. It would be a little bit funny, but he was happy and had a bit of anti-war meaning. [Leek] Mysterious and self-confident "Leek"-became a god, used the compensation of 100 million won (equivalent to about 610,000 yuan) to buy stock funds, and lost 70% [Leek Lesson 1: This It's just a technical adjustment! 】, and then borrowed 300 million won from the underworld to cover up the position with loan sharks [Lee Lesson Two: I Can Kill Back], and a few investment truths popped up from time to time. The problem is that I still believe in resolving grievances... [again Black my big A shares]
Cheng Zao Shen vividly staged a course for the audience: the stock market is risky and investment needs to be prudent in the leek financial management course.
[Tucao person] Kim Soo-hong changed from the grudge in the previous movie to a nobleman. At the same time, the Tucao function was turned on... It was obvious that he passed the judicial examination 8 times, but he was able to speak the law to Yan Luo seriously...Even Jiang Lin couldn't stand his complaints, so he just took it. Come fishing.
Ah, I misplaced the picture, here is this:
And he, who claims to be nothing terrible, is actually afraid of dinosaurs...
In the second part, basically because of the addition of these three people, it became extremely cheerful, and the audience did not have to worry about not having enough paper towels. At the same time, the second part is more like a prequel, focusing on the past life of the threesome.
The story of Kim Hong-soo, who is a thousand-year late confession , has been fully displayed in front of the audience in the first part, so the focus naturally falls on Jiang Lin, who has cleared the customs with Kim Hong-soo. In the first part, the director left a lot of foreshadowing, such as Jiang Lin’s flashback memories, tolerance for Kim Hong-soo, compassion for the mother of gold, etc. These performances are not like a ghost who has served for a thousand years and sees through the world. So in "Cause and Fate", taking advantage of the opportunity to defend Kim Hongsu, Jiang Lin began to tell his secret:
Jiang Lin is the son of Jiang Wenzhi, the great general of the Goryeo nationality. He often followed his father’s north and south wars and attacked the Khitan people. Later, his father adopted a child of the Khitan nationality who had lost his parents because of humanitarianism. I've come out, and I'll teach each other. Solving the grievances showed extraordinary talent, whether it was chess or swordsmanship, or even fighting, it surpassed Jiang Lin, causing Jiang Lin to be jealous and fearful. In the end, Jiang Lin killed his father and his brother, and died together with Li Dechun of the Jurchen tribe. Because the criminals were monstrous, they were punished by King Yama to retain their memory, and only 49 nobles could be saved in a thousand years.
Jiang Lin committed very serious crimes, except for laziness, all the six hell crimes of lies, unrighteousness, betrayal, violence, murder, and heaven were committed. However, he didn't need to be judged and became a ghost. As long as he overtakes the 49 dead, he can erase the memory and reincarnate according to his own wishes. It seems very cost-effective. In fact, the hell that King Yama made him suffer is the cruelest hell outside of the seven hells.
A person speaks nothing, the nose person speaks, there is no time, no space, and it is the world of boundless karma. Therefore, the hell of Abi is also called "the hell of no space". "-"Nirvana Sutra"
Although Jiang Lin is a ghost and seems to come and go freely, from the moment Yan Luo asked him to retain his memory, it was destined that his heart would suffer in this thousand years. His father's desperate call for help, his unfeeling turning around, and his mother's heartbreaking crying these images will torture his heart day and night. In the process of saving the dead, as long as it involves "lie", "betrayal" and "killing" "Tianlun" these hells, the pain of that snowy night will emerge. And what pained him most was that he couldn't ask for forgiveness. Unable to ask for forgiveness means unable to seek liberation. When the 49 dead will be counted, no one knows. Even the nobles are faced with numerous obstacles from judges and seven hells, let alone ordinary people.
So thousands of years later, when he saw Lieutenant Park also made a big mistake due to a difference in thought, he saw that Xueye decidedly himself. The difference is that this time he has the opportunity to prevent the tragedy from happening again. So on the surface, he was helping Kim Soo-hong, but he was actually helping Lieutenant Park, and he was also making a confession that was a thousand years late for himself. And that monologue also presents the dark line of the movie to the audience: Father's love is like a mountain.
Father as a mountain
The movie uses two stories to show the love of the father. The first is to become a god and Xiandong. Although he has no blood relationship with Xiandong, he plays the role of "father", and his starting point for doing things is actually for Xiandong. Investing, painting, and protecting the family. Just like the father in our impression, he may not be very rich, he may not wear very tastefully, or even a bit rough, but he will carry the whole family forward in silence, Leave it to the child, and use his tall body to shield him from wind and rain. What he looks like at home, he is just what he looks like. The God of Creation reflects the "shape" of the father.
The second one is King Yama and Jiang Lin. In his previous life, King Yama was actually Jiang Lin's father. After being killed by his son, he took the seat of Yama. In the final analysis, Jiang Wenzhi is for atonement. It's the father's fault to raise it or not. As an outstanding general, he knew that he had not fulfilled his responsibilities as a father, and failed to guide Jiang Lin correctly, so that jealousy, greed for power, and pursuit of fame and fortune flooded his son's heart, which eventually led to a human tragedy. So he took the position of Yama and turned his son into a ghost. Not only punishing Jiang Lin for his father-killing crime, but also fulfilling the last duty of a father, hoping that after his son becomes a ghost servant, he can see the dazzling world, investigate the greed, hatred, hatred, and anger, and sincerely repent. May I ask which father in the world does not love his children? If it were not for the criminals, who would have the power to make his son atonement for thousands of years with his memories, looking at the two people around him every day, and constantly recalling the painful past, as if he were living in a hell? Yan Luo embodies the "god" of his father
Therefore, from the perspective of the theme, the dark line in the second part is the father's love, which corresponds to the first part's maternal love, and it is interpreted from both the outside and the inside of the "shape" and the "god", and the expression is more successful and profound. But in spite of this, I still have to talk about the flaws in the movie.
Failure in the movie
In the first part, the nobleman is the core figure in advancing the development of the story. In the second part, the mystery of the past life of the threesome is the booster of the film's development. On the one hand, because the cause of Kim Soo Hong’s death has been clearly shown to the audience in the first movie, and the definition of "noble person" is given at the beginning of the movie, it also reduces the doubts about how to defend Kim Soo Hong. A lot. So the director chose a trio with a mystery of life experience to bring the rhythm of the whole play. There is nothing wrong with doing this, but the price for the director to do this is also huge.
1. Since the focus of the movie is on the past life of the bad difference, it is unavoidable that it will be weakened into the two lines of the gods and the Kim Soo-hong. The story of the gods and the Xian Dong family has become the story of resolving the grievances and Li Dechun The booster of service loses its original rhythm, and the fatherly love of becoming a god and Xiandong can't show the touch as it should be. The road of Jin Zhuhong's trial has become Jiang Lin's road of memory. Poor Mr. Jin can only show his presence through frequent complaints, and even summon dinosaurs to relieve his boredom.
2. The director himself is unwilling to give up these two lines. Therefore, the memory of the trio must be fragmented into these two lines. As soon as the audience sees a little emotional reaction, the director cuts the scene back to reality. With a little emotional reaction, the director cuts back to reality. The more terrifyingly realistic tone is "joy". On the one hand, it is teasing the grievances + leek into a god, and on the other is the spitter Kim Soo-hong, who has always been laughing. In this way, in the story of the past life, the emotions of the audience can't be brewed at all.
3. The most unbearable thing is that the director is suspenseful for the sake of suspense, and deliberately does not tell the audience that he is Jiang Lin's younger brother, but the audience with a little experience watching movies will silently look at the director's costume B. Because of Jin Yong's "Eight Dragons", many Chinese audiences know the Khitan tribe and wolf totem.
In addition, multi-line narratives will most often intersect to highlight the drama. There is no need to narrate like this for the sake of suspense. The fragmentation of the memory segment eventually directly led to the weakening of the characters of the trio's past lives, symbolizing the characters that should be as vivid as this life, and dismembering a good past life story. This has also become the biggest flaw in the film.
Written outside the movie-Oh Dal-soo and sexual assault
Wu Dal-soo, the golden supporting role of Korean movies, is known as the "Thousand Faces Fairy" and has appeared in high-scoring Korean movies such as "The Defender", "The Gift of Room No. 7", and "Assassination". It is such an old drama bone who was exposed to sexual assault of an actress from the same crew 20 years ago. After the sexual assault was confirmed, it triggered a total resistance from South Korean audiences: If you don't delete the part of Wu Dal-soo, you will not go to the cinema to watch "Walk with God 2". The crew finally chose to delete all the scenes related to Wu Dal-soo.
It's just such an old drama, a national-level green leaf actor who starred in a movie with a total number of viewers exceeding 167 million. There was a sexual assault scandal. Korean audiences are treated equally and have zero tolerance. As long as actors have taints, especially sex scandals, they will not only be abandoned by the sponsors, but also by their fans. Although Oh Dal-soo’s experience has made many movie fans regret, what I want to say is that in the face of sexual assault, we ordinary people must have such an attitude, that is, to say no with a firm attitude, instead of knocking on the keyboard to stab the victim. Humiliated women.
According to the "Survey on Sexual Harassment in Schools and Graduates in China", nearly 70% of the more than 6,500 people who participated in the survey were sexually harassed to varying degrees. 70%, which means that sexual assault is actually by your side. The concentrated outbreak of sexual assault cases before the break also reflects a problem from the side: the accumulation of power and money is likely to increase the probability of sexual assault. And those netizens who have no mercy, have the ability to shout out: This will never happen to my family? The inscription on the memorial to the death of the Jews in Boston is still there, and the blood is still cold. If today, we are not on the side of women with regard to sexual assault, the person you mocked today will be returned to you in the future. Don’t stand up and say that others eat steamed buns with human blood. After all, you personally released the blood.
At the same time, don’t play double standards: ordinary people’s sexual assaults are dicks, perverts and perverts, and rich people’s sexual assaults are all sorts of washing the ground. Did they say they were jumped by the fairy? How can a rich person sexually assault? But who told you that money and power are inherently equated with high morals? Canglin does not necessarily know the etiquette, and the food and clothing may not know the honor and disgrace. Take care of your genitals and be a person who understands etiquette and will avoid suspicion. Who can play fairy dance with you?
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