If you are innocent, how can I trust you? Want to be brothers

Alec 2022-01-28 08:25:15

In Chen Kexin's film, the paragraph of "voting a name" seems to have been cut out: the murder oath in the trailer has been changed to burning incense to sacrifice to the sky. The original vote is not as simple and elegant as burning incense: Lin Chongxue went to Liangshan at night, and happened to meet Wang Lun. The scholar is the king of the mountain, and the intestines are more crooked than the heroes. He kept saying, "I don't know my confidant." I have no choice but to ask you to take a head at will, and submit a name-calling certificate. Only then will you come to worship your brother, talk about friendship, be intimate, and go through fire and water.
In fact, it cannot be said that this idea is not comprehensive. When Qu Yuan lingered by the Xiangshui River, he knew why he was not liked by others. When the world is turbid, I am alone; when everyone is drunk, I am alone. Hot blood falls into cold wine, no matter how bright and dazzling it is, it has to be melted: this is the only way to be safe. Heroes are not stupid. Two grasshoppers are tied to a rope to ensure closeness and friendship. When it comes to the vast ocean, Hong Qigong and Ouyang Feng will work together. Therefore, to be brothers, seek equality first. In order to be equal, first accept a nomination certificate: A rambunctious hero is straightforward, but in many cases, being straightforward does not mean that he has little heart or no dignity, but is straightforward. Everyone has blood and sins on their hands. If they are not good people, they cannot sell their secrets and cannot wash away their secrets, so they have to be brothers. In Notre Dame de Paris, the head of the beggar gang said to Gringoire: "You can either be a rascal or be hanged, and you must be one of them!"

Co-criminal is just a way to cast a name, and co-sinking is this The true spirit of creativity. Taoyuan Liu Guan and Zhang San made a righteous union, "not seeking the same life, but seeking the same death". This oath is actually a kind of equality. It seems that as long as the oath is taken, it can really share weal and woe in the deadline of death. But in "The Lu Ding Ji", every time Lord Wei Xiaobao swore a brother with someone, he always spoke to him when he swore, which is not true. First, it can be said that Lord Wei is more superstitious and thinks that gods and Buddhas have spirits, so it is inconvenient to deceive; second, although Lord Wei is quite loyal, he obviously knows very well: being a brother, you may not have to curse yourself to bad luck.


Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro followed ancient conventions when it came to being brothers. They don't necessarily know the essence of the name vote, and they don't seem to be as good at calculating as Wang Lun. Murder and bloodshed, gods and Buddhas listen to oaths in heaven, a ceremony, and brothers will be born from now on. What Andy Lau insists is Guan Yu's benevolence, faith and righteousness, and Jin Chengwu's brother is concentric with Zhang Fei. They don't have the desperation that Jet Li has climbed out of the dead, and the depression of listening to the bureaucrats' bullshit before the raindrops: so their understanding of friendship is pure and bloodless, without any scheming. Li Lianjie understands the people of the world, he is not worse than the world, but, as he said before, he does not believe in voting. There was nothing in the world that would convince him, except the experience and memory of turning over from the corpse. The story ends like this: Takeshi Kaneshiro and Andy Lau each believed in an idea, and they fulfilled their promise to death; Jet Li did not believe in this vain oath, but believed in the most basic relationship between supply and demand; in the end, each of the three held some beliefs The people who have come to the same destination in different ways, using death to prove two things: one, the binding force of the nomination certificate is not reliable, although it can make you pay the price; two, the basic interest and supply and demand relationship is more unreliable than the nomination certificate. The most interesting thing is that what Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro believe in, which means a relationship of nobility, divinity, simplicity, and flesh-and-blood connection, is just the most cunning intrigue on Mount Liangshan.


Maybe because of his indifference, Jet Li didn't think about the true value of his name -- if he really thought about it, maybe he wouldn't make the mistake that killed him. The application scope of the name-voting certificate is so large that it is far more than just small bandits to gain trust from each other. Many years ago, Ban Chao returned to Yumen Pass and said to his successor, "The water is clear and there are no fish." In the same way, innocents do not become brothers. When the First Emperor gave the old man Wang Jian an army of 600,000 troops to attack Chu, Wang Jian wisely asked the First Emperor for land again and again. Because the old soldier knows, "The king gave me the army of the whole country. If I promise myself, I will only be suspicious." The same story will come again after a few decades: Liu Bang went on an expedition and repeatedly sent people to reward the chief guard. Xiao He, the prime minister of the capital. As smart as Zhaoping, he will go to Xiao He and say: "The prime minister is too noble, and it has already made His Majesty doubt. You should find some shameful deeds for yourself and smear your reputation." The old foxes want to live a long life, and they all know how to accept it. A "name submission" to show that "we are also guilty, so there is no need to doubt it." However, Jet Li will also shout to the Queen Mother in the movie, exempting Jiangsu from money for three years. This shrewd and strong attitude of begging for the people's orders is obviously similar to Lin Chong's aloof attitude when he climbed Liangshan - so he was assassinated by several shots in the end. The true love of brothers, the certification of friendship, the exchange of interests, the true and false of feelings: these cannot escape the fear caused by inequality in the end. In one of Babel's novels, there were white and clean former Soviet journalists who were sent to the army and were despised by the soldiers. However, after the reporter brother smeared mud on his face, made a rough voice, and made a rough voice to the peasant woman selling eggs, everyone felt that "it's very possible to be a family". Therefore, in the end, the best and safest choice can only be: if you want to be a brother, first wipe a piece of mud on your face.

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  • Antonette 2022-03-20 09:02:59

    Chen Kexin's brave attempt.

  • Kaelyn 2022-03-27 09:01:21

    It turned out to be pretty good..

The Warlords quotes

  • General Pang Qingyun: Remember my face, so you can seek vengeance in the next life.

  • General Pang Qingyun: to Zhang Wen-Xiang: Let them eat. It's their last meal

    Zhao Er-Hu: But I promised to spare their lives!

    General Pang Qingyun: Winning is all that matters in war!

    Zhao Er-Hu: A man who breaks his word is a beast!