This is the Onmyoji, it is clearly the large-scale spring dream scene of Xiao Si

Chet 2022-03-02 08:01:38

Yesterday, I rushed to watch the evening show "Qing Ya Ji" on Christmas Eve. First of all, I declare that I have never played Onmyoji and have not read the original Dream Pillow Tapir. It is completely from the perspective of ordinary movie viewers who are facing this IP for the first time. Write down your real feelings.

The biggest feeling after watching it is: Director Guo, don't you need a big gay porn on the rating label of this movie?

It may be an exaggeration to say gay porn, but the essence of calcium tablets is clear at a glance. From Seimei Boya's first encounter with Daoguang (it seems to be the beginning of the most cheesy emotional line of molesting and being molested), to Seimei being framed by Boya and stepping forward to clarify for him, to Boya drinking flower wine for Seimei and the male god. Feeling jealous, and then at Seimei, who fell to the ground for the princess's healing, Boya was so panicked that her face turned pale, and the final climax scene - "Let me be your shikigami"! !

Tsk tsk, what an earth-shattering brotherly love. At this time, some fans may jump out to explain: it was originally a dual male lead role, and it is understandable that it is a bit borderline romantic. It is completely predictable from the trailer. Why don't you want to watch bromance choose this movie!

Okay, first of all, I have great respect for the LGBTQ community, and I have no opinion on brotherhood, but it seems inappropriate to force the whole two-hour movie to be based, right?

Judging from the main line of the movie's spirit, Zhao Youting, our Lord Seimei, has high mana, but there is still a long way to go from a truly powerful Onmyoji - he can't use guardian spells. OK, this is related to one of the important values ​​of the movie: in this world, there must be someone who wants to protect to make a guardian spell, and protection is more powerful than attack, because there is love and so on.

So whether or not he can cast the guardian spell is the key to the growth line of Zhao Youting.

According to the plot of the movie, we know that neither his mother nor the master who took care of him grew up to ask Tingting to use the guardian spell. Who made him grow up in the end? ——It turned out to be Lun Lun who I just met! At that moment, when the attack magic of the snake demon was about to hit the dying Lun Lun, Tingting suddenly realized who he really wanted to protect in his heart. Dun Lun.

You say, this is not what true love is.

However, this is nothing, and what is even more astounding is Guo Jingming's masculine aesthetics for decades. Male casting must have European eyes, high nose, petals and cherry lips, and all white; male appearance, no matter how strong the masculinity, should also have a hint of femininity. Necessary to go shirtless and topless(?)

When Wang Duo emerged from the snake body without a strand on his upper body, my heart began to tremble, oh the looming lines, the round and... round buttocks, the excessively thick eye shadow; and when Deng Lun possessed Suzaku, suddenly When I exploded my shirt and grew black feathers, my eyes were completely stabbed by the light, and I couldn't look directly at the entanglement of two men with strong white abdominal muscles. This picture is too beautiful, I don't deserve it.

Looking at the two pale men with bare chests and a big snake twisting and turning, I seem to understand something at this moment, I can even imagine that Xiao Si is sitting behind the screen monitor and sees his fantasy being photographed. And the hormonal surge.

I'm sorry for the actor who played the role of Crane Shouyue, after this film I really had physical discomfort with his face (desire to survive: it's all because of the script!! Don't blame him!!)


After the intensive ranting, let's analyze the movie carefully.

If anyone asks omg what else is there to redeem about this movie? I would say of course there is! In the spirit of objectivity, I still want to praise the picture, special effects and soundtrack of the film.

The soundtrack invited Japanese master Kenji Kawai, the one who composed the music for "Ghost in the Shell", "Seven Swords" and "Ip Man". The oriental rhythm is superb, especially when Seimei invites Boya to chat with a pot of wine. In that part, the music came out in a daze, which was really pleasing to the eye.

The special effects also invited top Hollywood teams, although Seimei's Onmyoji spell seems to have stolen from "Doctor Strange", with the same golden aperture, similar magic cursor and shapeshifting functions.

How should I put it, these exquisite visual effects and soundtracks are like layers of bewildering gift shells.

Look at the rhythm first. Forgive me for my incompetence, I can't appreciate the "four-style" rhythm. Of course, you can say that this is a personal characteristic of the director, although in my opinion, it is a pile of characters, soulless narration and slow motion that is abused everywhere.

At the beginning of the film, Seimei and his master Zhongxing practiced the exercises, laying out the background of the monster snake Huo Huo world, and the four masters went to kill him; at the same time, it explained Seimei's character (weakness), and the master died to protect him. But the opening chapter has almost no bright spots except to promote the plot, inexplicable Seimei can't use the guardian spell, inexplicable demon snake phantom and then fight, inexplicable master hangs up and extremely pale pre-death preaching.

It is not reasonable enough and not deep enough. It is forced into the master's big and empty chicken soup remarks, trying to create a little philosophical illusion, but the initial impression of the characters and the construction of the plot contradiction are not successful enough.

Then this flaw was brought to the next movie. There are a few points in the plot logic that I have always struggled to figure out:

1. Seimei is recognized as the mother of the fox demon. What role does this role have other than making Seimei unable to get close to people since he was a child and to get closer to the demon? Even this role has not been explained clearly, why is it considered a fox demon? What happened to Seimei?

2. The obsession to form a demon was taken carelessly, and then was controlled by someone to assassinate others, and then broke free and killed the princess, but the princess was immortal, and the obsession was dispelled by restraining her?

3. Why did the princess become a container for the evil snake in the first place, and why did she release the evil snake after being imprisoned for hundreds of years, just to give He Shouyue eternal life? (If her lover was killed by the evil snake, she should imprison the evil snake, right?)

(The above welcomes book fans and friends who understand the points of the movie to explain my doubts, thank you~

Then there's the rhythm of the lines. It can be seen that many comic-oriented lines have been directly filmed by the director, and the audiences who are directly exposed to the various acclimatizations here will laugh collectively at the lines that are not the point of laughter.

And I can't figure it out very much, why fantasy movies have to read lines like a gossamer, it seems that only Deng Lun is speaking normally, and everyone else is all breathing out and lengthening the rhythm. Chun Xia's voice is so playful, it's really hard to think of her role as a actress just by watching this movie, I just want to fast-forward anxiously.

Speaking of this, I can't help but mention the cast of this movie. They all seem to be powerful, like Zhao Youting in the spring and summer, Wang Ziwen, etc., but in the movie most of them are not bad at the level of the actors in the small era (except for Wang Ziwen's crying scene, which still has a hold It's more natural to live in Deng Lun), I'm afraid the reason can't just let the actors take the blame.

Let's talk about the core value of the show. We mentioned one of them above, that is, the protection is stronger than the attack. OK, this is barely reasonable. Only with protection can you become a powerful shield. But the value on the back is "both human beings and demons have good and evil, and demons also have feelings"... In 2020, they are still talking about such clichéd values. Then the title of "A person's name is the shortest spell", what does this mean? ? It looks very beautiful, but it is actually a literary costume x.

There is one thing to say, this movie and even the original story of Onmyoji are actually not so conventional. Let's pull out this story to see. In order to avoid the evil snake from harming the world, the girl chose to use the flesh as a tool to seal the evil snake. For hundreds of years, she has not been able to step out of the city of Tiandu, with short-term love and hatred and eternal loneliness. Until a young man appeared, fell in love with her and condensed this love into a shikigami and stayed by her side. Obsession gradually gave the soul of the shikigami, and in order to protect the girl shikigami forever, he did not hesitate to release the evil snake, and the love died after the extreme.

Is it quite oriental beauty? The so-called sacrifice and the so-called egoism are all transformed into love tragedy and become a page in the fantastic journey of Onmyoji Seimei.

But none of these little fours were filmed. He only filmed what he wanted to film, and put the director's will above everything else, so that we, the audience, only experienced a visit here in his spring dream.

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  • Anthony 2022-03-26 09:01:13

    ...wasted me 40 bucks

  • Madilyn 2022-03-23 09:03:22

    Director Guo has made progress relative to himself, but there are still many problems. In addition to the pictures that are acceptable, as a fantasy film, the structure of the world view loses first, and there is no imagination. It also exposed the fact that Guo Jingming can't make movies at all. He is not making scripts, but novels. He can't make those paragraphs into a movie, and he doesn't understand editing and transitions. Spring and summer are bad, but the flirting between Seimei and Boya is quite touching. But letting straight men sell rot and make gay men straight, is it the same special hobby that Director Guo has entrained as having to be topless in fights?