If you want to define this role

Renee 2022-03-27 09:01:13

After watching the movie "The Crying", and then reading the comments written by the director's interview, I felt that it was a good movie after watching it, but the details of the characters and stories seem to be wrong and complicated. Reasonable relationship factors cause it, or use nihilistic relationships to confuse the supernatural, and the unstable religious understanding leads to a distorted understanding of the story. I have to say that if this movie is made, I really don’t know what kind of movie it is. , but to analyze and understand from multiple levels, I still want to more or less capture the director's setting and intention of the story.

1. About "Character"
character 1: Qian Yuxi (woman in white)
has the ability of a 'god' in the film, and Huang Zhengmin, the wizard who exorcises ghosts, is not her opponent. , but about Qian Yuxi's ability to do this, she did not come forward to face Guomura Hayabusa, but this question seems to be the result of other comments, that is the director's version of "The Cry" (I haven't seen it, it is said that I am watching it now. Deleted) There is a section in the plot where Qian Yuxi dealt with Guocun Falcon and knocked Guocun Falcon down the mountain. Then Guocun Falcon was hit by a car of Guo Duyuan and his group, and finally Guo Duyuan and his group pushed Guocun Falcon down the cliff. Qian Yuxi, who was standing on the hillside, watched this scene meaningfully. As a result, Kunimura Hayabusa did not die, but hid in a cave.

Qian Yuxi didn't appear in many scenes, and they all appeared as a 'god'. The film did not show that she was a harmful scene. Instead, she knew where the 'devil' or the 'ghost' was. For example, at the end, she told Guo Do Yuan said the safety rule of 'the rooster crows three times', that is, after the 'chicken crows three times', he will be safe after dawn, because the dawn will disappear or leave for the 'demons' or 'ghosts' in the dark .

The character of Qian Yuxi is like the guardian of 'angel' and 'God'. If you want to define this character, there is a dark 'devil' (explained below the word devil) to oppose it, then there must be the existence of 'God' , Qian Yuxi is the 'God', the 'patron saint' of the village, etc. From the perspective of human beings, she has supernatural abilities, and from the perspective of the soul, her spiritual consciousness is good. From a religious point of view, she has the ability to be well-informed and to exorcise demons. The film does not explain what the final setting is.

Character 2: Kunimura Hayabusa (Japanese)
For the arrival of the Japanese, there were murders in the village. These murders were all done in the same way. The victims were brutally murdered by others, and the murderer was portrayed as the incarnation of the 'devil'.

Why is Hayabusa Kunimura a human and a 'devil'?
Kunimura Hayabusa is like a normal person in the daytime. In the film, Kunimura Hayabusa is a monk who can fight against the wizard Huang Zhengmin. He is a Japanese who can use magic, but monks and wizards are the same as humans and demons. How are the characters connected?

According to the rumors heard by the Christian teacher in the film, Kunimura Hayabusa is a monk character. Kunimura Hayabusa said he was traveling alone, but was he lying? Maybe he didn't lie during the day, but was really a traveler, but he didn't know that he was the incarnation of the 'devil' in the night, and there were Western cult worshippers of black goats in the isolated small house. Satan Items (I'm not sure that the house has existed for these worship items a long time ago, but if there was one in the past, it must have been a long, long time ago. Otherwise, there must have been a similar incident in the village, but obviously No, the reasoning must have come after Kunimura Hayabusa arrived). Therefore, Kunimura Hayabusa is a human during the day and worships the 'devil' at night, and the 'devil' will leave after the 'cock crows three times', which clearly refers to the Kunimura Hayabusa.

As for Guocun Hayabusa's red-eyed devil-like biting animals in the daytime, he was discovered by hunters, but none of them hurt the hunters.

Kunimura Hayabusa shows that it is not like a demon!
In the video, the Chinese Village Falcon buys a black chicken. After dawn, when the Guocun Falcon resurrected the man who died in the car and wanted to hurt Guo Duyuan and his group, the Guocun Falcon in the jungle looked scared. Here It reflects Kunimura Hayabusa peeping at the true face of the 'devil' from a human perspective during the day. If the director really showed Kunimura Hayabusa as a demon, why did he make him appear afraid again?

The selection of materials for this film incorporates Western religions and witchcraft shamans. There are different perceptions of religion or 'ghosts', and the audience may have different understandings of the appearance of 'demons' or 'ghosts' in the film. However, we can also understand that 'devil' or 'ghost' are actually the same, more inclined to the confrontation between 'god' and 'devil'. Because at the end of the story, Kunimura Hayabusa revealed the true form of the 'devil' in the dark cave, and the director also said that it was to make the scene related to the whole play.

Role 3: Huang Zhengmin
This role is caused by Guo Duyuan's daughter who has a disease and has to ask for help. He finds the wizard Huang Zhengmin. What kind of role Huang Zhengmin is, after all, he is a person who collects money and does things. When he uses it to deal with Guo Duyuan's daughter At that time, if he could bleed the last white goat, he might not be able to rescue Guo Duyuan's daughter, but Guo Duyuan's love for his daughter decided to destroy the exorcism, and finally chose to send his beloved daughter into the house. hospital.

The Guocun Falcon, who was far away from killing the black chicken, was hit by a wooden peg from the wizard Huang Zhengmin. He was scarred and almost died, but because Guo Duyuan stopped him, he finally escaped. I took a picture of the man who died in the car and used it for the method. I can't figure it out here. Did the 'devil' know that he was going to die and abandoned Kunimura Hayabusa's body and prepared to transfer it to the man who died in the car, or did he want to It is unknown if he resurrected the dead man in the car to stop Huang Zhengmin who was doing this, or if he wanted to escape him. But judging from the movie "The Exorcist" and other related exorcism records, the existence of the devil is on the body of the individual. After the exorcism, the demon will leave the body of the individual and set it as a 'virtual'. In the setting of "Sound", the demons are two 'virtual', Suzhen and Kunimura Hayabusa, so the understanding is different from seeing the existence of exorcism in the past. Of course, this is also the director's understanding, and there are multiple settings for this. Virtual 'multiple 'magic'.

For Satan in religion, especially Christianity, the image of the black goat with sharp horns and teeth full of blood, the film expression method is generally that the demon pays the human body to perform self-mutilation. The wizards in ” use shamanistic witchcraft ingredients to exorcise demons. I want to say here, do you want to exorcise or exorcise ghosts? Of course, this seems to have different knowledge about the 'nothingness' we know, but it is certain that there are some in the play. Unclean things exist.

But regarding Huang Zhengmin's final departure from the village, moths suddenly ushered in the car window. This seems to be the scene of Huang Zhengmin's 'rebirth', that is, the 'devil' has been reborn, and Huang Zhengmin finally came back to do the same job as Guocun Falcon, taking pictures of dead people. , save the photo, this curtain obviously wants to express that he is the same kind of person as Kunimura Hayabusa, or the spokesperson who inherits the 'devil', the former is a monk, the latter is a wizard, and he also has an understanding beyond ordinary people's mind, body and spirit The spiritual person who eventually becomes the devil, who is the devil? It was Satan who appeared at the end of Kunimura Hayabusa.

Final summary: The director is attentive, it’s rare to see a good film. Unfortunately, after watching the film, there are different kinds of discussions and suspicions about the characters in the plot. What a movie! !

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