After all, "A Chinese Ghost Story" is made in China and is aimed at domestic audiences. Therefore, its natural receptive ability is stronger than "The Legend of Ghost Story".
Moreover, folk legends such as scholars and female ghosts are actually familiar to everyone.
However, this time "A Chinese Ghost Story" really made everyone think of Ning Caichen when they think of scholars, and Nie Xiaoqian when they think of kind-hearted female ghosts.
Of course, different people will have different interpretations of this movie.
Some people like the apocalyptic plot, some people like the romance between humans and ghosts, some people like Yan Chixia's free and easy style of playing swords and singing, and similarly, some people like the county magistrate who is desperate for money:
"Such a worldview may seem absurd, but in fact, it's hard not to think that the background of the film reflects a certain era!"
"The relationship between humans and ghosts is not over. Although I guessed the ending at the beginning, a dog director is a dog director. So what if I tell you the ending?"
"Yan Chixia looks like she is not doing her job properly, but it is really the most special thing in the film. He hid in Lanruo Temple to avoid the troubles in the world. In his opinion, although ghosts and gods gather in this place, black and white are not as distinct as In the world, there is often no distinction between right and wrong, right and wrong. Here, Yan Chixia is a representative of the ultimate justice. The song of justice he sang while drunkenly practicing swordplay in the woods makes people feel soul-stirring."
"Doesn't anyone think that the county magistrate is interesting? Is it okay to withdraw from the court for free? Hahaha!"
"Xiahou is a real man. He explains with practical actions what it means to die under peonies. He is also romantic even if he is a ghost! Are there more men like Xiahou or Ning Caichen in the world? The answer is self-evident! Therefore, I feel that Xiahou is a real man. He is a representative of ordinary people!”
However, the most discussed topic is still the eternal theme, love!
"The love between Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian was doomed from the beginning. People and ghosts separated each other. The happy ending in the original version is more like a kind of irony, and the ending of the movie version of "A Chinese Ghost Story" seems more realistic. and ruthless.”
"This is definitely a love that is rare to find!"
"Whether it is human, god, ghost or monster, love is an eternal topic. Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian are the love between humans and ghosts, but it is also so touching. Even ghosts long for love, not to mention ordinary people in the world?"
"In real life, everyone hopes to have a love of their own, but everyone is complaining why they can't find love? There are only exchanges of conditions, and society is full of sex, money, and rights. In real society, when women are sad, men are also sad. Women are sad because they were abandoned by men, and men are sad because they were deceived by women. They have no true feelings."
"Just like the theme song sings: The road of life is like a long road with beautiful dreams. Who has never had a dream? Who has never had a dream lover? However, the wind seems to be sighing in the dream, and the road and people are vast.
In reality, love is something that can be encountered but cannot be sought after all! Don't be sad if you haven't met, and don't be proud of those you have met. In the world of mortals, there are many directions for beautiful dreams. To find love in your crazy dreams, the road is endless. "
"A resentment, an innocence, where you and I meet at the broken string is the most beautiful poem.
It was your helplessness that moved me. I am willing to use my clothes to support you. However, you are the flower on the other side, I have swam across the sea but cannot touch you; you are the moon in the water, I have broken the autumn water but still have empty hands.
It was your kindness that moved me, and I am willing to follow you to the ends of the earth. But humans and ghosts have boundaries, and love without results will only live up to your resentful heart. I don't want to see any sadness flowing in your innocent eyes.
However, love regardless of the consequences is the most beautiful first encounter. When I am at my best, I have you by my side. So what does it matter if humans and ghosts have boundaries?
Or a little bit sad.
"I will take you away as soon as daybreak."
wait for me. "
"In that life, in that life, he missed her, loved her, and waited for her. Yin and Yang were separated. Now he has repaid this love. Many years later, will she still remember that there was a man who lowered his eyebrows for her? I bowed my head and held a candle for her and talked at night: The sky is covered with frost on the ten-mile flat lake, and every inch of blue hair is worried about the old age. We are alone and look forward to protecting each other. We only envy the mandarin ducks but not the immortals."
"In fact, this seemingly impossible but so beautiful love between humans and ghosts represents a kind of human's persistent pursuit of beautiful love, no matter what form this feeling exists. From this , it can be seen that what the director is searching for and intending to express is what makes this film truly touching. No one will always remember the appearance of the thousand-year-old tree demon, and no one will always remember how justice defeated evil. There is that eternal true love and love that transcends the realm of humans and ghosts, travels through time and years, and remains in everyone’s heart.”
Some people also like the music in movies.
"The music of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is very appropriate. It is light, slightly melodious, and the sound shows linear characteristics, advancing into the distance at a uniform speed. This kind of lyrical method is not depressing when it is restrained, and it is not depressing when it is relaxed. It’s out of control, and it’s very closely integrated with the picture. It brings the audience a spiritual enjoyment that is both audio and visual, which is also a kind of charm.”
Some people began to analyze it from an aesthetic perspective, why is Nie Xiaoqian so popular?
"First of all, the title of the film is "A Chinese Ghost Story", so it is natural to highlight the screen image of Nie Xiaoqian.
I have to say that Director Li Yi's aesthetic attainments are truly superb.
Nie Xiaoqian's portrayal is also perfect. Why do you say that?
Because when we see Nie Xiaoqian, we will use words like a bit demonic and a bit innocent to describe it, but in fact, Nie Xiaoqian is actually a fusion of two images, both a "witch" and a "goddess":
As a ghost, on the one hand, she seduces Ning Caichen and makes him fall in love with her, even at the risk of her own life; on the other hand, she is as beautiful as a god, and she commits herself to rescue Ning Caichen many times;
Nie Xiaoqian, who is both a "temptress" and a "goddess", successfully made the audience fascinated and sighing. Dressed in white, Nie Xiaoqian is as pure and inviolable as a goddess, but the many fragrant shots shown from Ning Caichen's perspective make the audience seem to have crossed a certain taboo bottom line, such as the shots of bathing in the room and the tryst in the small house by the lake. In fact, he was able to satisfy his voyeuristic desire through Ning Caichen's eyes.
It is undeniable that this lively Nie Xiaoqian is still displayed and displayed on the screen for people to admire and admire. And this kind of Nie Xiaoqian is also full of distinct oriental sentiment. The attitude of refusing to welcome Ning Caichen, the elegant and charming movements of flirting with the water by the lake, the shrewdness when fighting secretly with the sisters, and the weak posture in front of grandma all show the unique social environment of Oriental women, and the relationship between their parents and their parents. A social system where power is paramount, an environment in which women are imprisoned and lack the ability to be independent, and family politics - women want to gain social status and power through marriage, but they cannot control the right to choose a marriage partner. This has cultivated complex and diverse character traits;
And although she has an elegant manner, she is different from ordinary women in her boldness and debauchery. She can freely commit herself to the man she loves. She is by no means the common image of a repressed and ascetic lady!
So this Nie Xiaoqian is a collection of millions of male fantasies, a combination of "lady" and "prostitute". The male audience was not only directly impacted by the visual beauty, but also felt greatly satisfied by assuming the role of Ning Caichen. It can be said that they received double satisfaction as a voyeur and an actor, and experienced a spiritual encounter through watching the movie.
The above is about satisfying the desires of male audiences, so where are the desires of women in this movie?
Are female audiences just taking on the male perspective to watch an objectified Nie Xiaoqian?
No. Although female viewers are also appreciating the movie through a masculine perspective to a certain extent, watching the Nie Xiaoqian who is created to satisfy male desires. However, Nie Xiaoqian is also an outlet for women to release their own desires.
The character of Oriental women is very complex. The main reason is that the tight family structure determines that women must play many roles at the same time. The roles of daughter, daughter-in-law, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, sister-in-law, wife, mother and mother-in-law are often integrated into one at the same time.
To deal with different roles, you need to adopt completely different strategies and attitudes. For example, as a daughter-in-law, you must be humble to your parents-in-law; as a wife, you must be dignified and gentle; as a sister-in-law or sister-in-law, you must be good at managing peer relationships and competing for favor in front of the elders. Therefore, One of the characteristics of Eastern women is that they have complex personalities, or they are versatile.
For the character Nie Xiaoqian, her willingness to do what her grandmother wants and pretend to be well-behaved can be seen as fawning over the elders who can control her destiny, while the struggle with Xiaoqing can be seen as an overt and covert struggle between peers. It can be said that although Nie Xiaoqian is a ghost, the situation she is in is no different from that of ordinary women - the control of her elders, the lack of freedom in marriage, and the intrigues of her peers - which will also resonate with female audiences.
Although Nie Xiaoqian was used by her grandma to kill people, the most important thing to her was not that. It was that her grandma arranged to marry an old demon from Montenegro whom she didn't like.
The reason why she rebelled was because she met Ning Caichen, whom she loved, and she did not want to get married according to her grandma's arrangement. It can be said that the most important thing for Nie Xiaoqian is not wealth and life but freedom of love. Such a romantic setting naturally moves women.
I remember someone once ridiculed the indisputability of some film and television works in the past, saying that all you lost was a leg, but what she lost was love!
At first glance, it seems that this statement is indeed very wrong, but such film and television works have gained countless fans. Why?
Because for many women, love above all else is the romance in their imagination, and the priority is naturally the highest.
For today's women, although their personal freedom and social status have greatly improved with the changes of the times, the problems that have troubled women for thousands of years still exist. Various restrictions from family society still suffocate them. Seeing Nie Xiaoqian bravely resist fate and gain freedom and love, female viewers have a more profound experience than male viewers.
Of course, the most essential part of the film is actually the tragedy.
The original "Nie Xiaoqian" chapter in Pu Songling's "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" has a happy ending, but what is the result?
If this story had not been put on the big screen or adapted, perhaps not many people would remember this chapter at all.
So tragedy is Eastern aesthetics! Looking at those that are remembered and never forgotten, there are always more tragedies than happy endings.
The essence of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is also here. Although Nie Xiaoqian and Ning Caichen were rescued by Yan Chixia, they escaped but could not have a lover and finally got married.
Although the two people of "humans and ghosts have different paths" fulfilled their love, they still had to separate sadly. Ning Caichen didn't even get to see Xiaoqian for the last time. After Nie Xiaoqian's reincarnation, Ning Caichen and Yan Chixia continued to drive their horses away to the end of the world. Such a tragic ending is the embodiment of oriental aesthetics.
Fatalism and the theory of reincarnation have been enduring in our country's culture for thousands of years. No matter how powerful human intervention is, it cannot resist the wheel of fate. As the saying goes, "There is a time in life that must be fulfilled, but there is no time in life, so don't force it." Eastern fatalism, which emphasizes optimism and understanding of fate, does not appreciate the Western saying that "fate is in one's own hands." Manpower may change the fate of Jincheng a little, but it cannot change the outcome. Just like in "Westward Journey", Sun Wukong traveled through five hundred years and defied nature several times, but in the end he still had to succumb to fate. Nie Xiaoqian also cannot resist her fate. Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian's love ended forever and their separation at dawn is the most profound scene in people's memory. Only the incomplete is beautiful.
The reason why Ning and Qian's love is so beautiful is that they are in such a dilapidated and troubled world, and they have no choice but to choose tragedy. Xiaoqian said to Ning Caichen that sometimes people are scarier than ghosts, and sometimes ghosts are kinder than people. Yan Chixia also said that the human world is too complicated, but demons and demons are black and white, and they can live freely. In the human world, there are swordsmen who are greedy for vanity, corrupt officials who are obsessed with money, and ants who are unjust for their own benefit. But there is no trace of human nature at all. In such an environment, the scholar with an upright nature is destined to Is excluded and marginalized. In his loneliness, he met Xiaoqian, who was in the same lonely state of mind as himself. They fell in love at first sight and got to know each other...
Nie Xiaoqian, an innocent soul in the mountains and fields, has no one to rely on. She is a "soft soul traveling thousands of miles away without a support." It is not her wish to help the tyrants do evil. She wanders in the world of mortals and the underworld, meeting countless people, but most of them only seek pleasure. Only Ning Cai Chen, treat her honestly with an innocent heart, and this sincere love from the heart is what she, a lonely and helpless ghost, dreams of, so she sacrifices her life many times to protect her lover, regardless of her own safety... ...but they could not withstand the reality after all, and could not reverse the tragic fate. Chinese people admire the beauty of tragedy. Only when they walk in the fate of tragedy can the beauty of things be fully displayed. The love between Xiaoqian and the scholar is even more precious. "
(End of chapter)
