Ne Zha： The Sun Rising in the Sea ｜ Film Review

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Zhao Hanqing is a 2015 undergraduate of China Language and Literature Department.

Nezha is my first childhood idol after I have a memory. He has three heads, six arms and thousands of faces-it can be a handsome boy who bit his long hair in the animation nearly half a century ago and performed the martyrdom of the enlightener in the rainstorm, the brainwashing melody and the sincere friendship in the children’s channel; Or he was born at the turn of the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, but he was deeply immersed in the family ethics of Hong Kong dramas. In "The Lotus Lantern Prequel", he was as beautiful and aura-like as a shadow … He climbed the myth altar side by side with Yang Jian and the Monkey King with his overwhelming rebellion and strength, soaring into the clouds and being arrogant.

And Nezha is different from-even far more than the two, is that he committed suicide. Nezha’s suicide is the neat end of "one’s death" after many contradictions have been saved as a fast knot, and it is the extreme of rebellion and the preview of discipline. This image, which is a mixture of fragments of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, was born out of countless dirty and immortal works, and was born into such a noble and heroic tragic hero in the tradition of word of mouth-what is the chaotic and moving unconscious behind this? The ethics of "the parents can’t harm the body" was directly turned into the logic of "giving and returning" by Nezha with the determination of truth and sophistry, and threw it at the family behind it like water and clan power.

The brave words of "cutting bones to return to the father, cutting meat to return to the mother" are delicate and cruel, romantic and sad. And the peeling and giving up has become Nezha’s new bone and flesh, beating on the tendons of lotus root. Suicide is the soul of all Nezha’s stories. For example, Harry Potter can’t get rid of the lightning scar on his forehead, and Qiao Feng can’t get rid of the wolf tattoo on his chest. If Nezha doesn’t die, all innovations will destroy this motif.

And Nezha in Ne Zha (hereinafter referred to as "The Magic Boy Came to the World") neither killed his father nor hanged himself, and even the tragic setting of "Armageddon", which was powerless by the gods, was finally resolved by him peacefully. It not only changed Nezha’s body, but also shattered his lotus root. Originally, it was just a simulated reconstruction project in the classic forest of steles. The author insisted on stepping everything into ruins and then pursuing a new one himself.

But this movie is so surprisingly good.

"Good-looking" is the most vulgar evaluation, and it can also be the highest evaluation, and it is also the first evaluation that "The Devil Boy" must be given first. The ugly movie is successful, which needs to be demonstrated; And "good-looking" means a kind of success that transcends concepts or lyricism and does not need argumentation.

The theme of "The Magic Boy" is not so original and unprecedented, and there are many dense burdens and rare jokes to follow. In recent years, the theme of "changing fate against nature" has appeared almost as many times as the total number of male actors, and the roar of "My fate depends on my fate" is also very familiar, as if it was not used in the composition of the examination room, or in which play the monkey seized the copyright in advance. However, folklore-the birthplace of Nezha-is a snowball that has been continuously merged, borrowed and collaged, and gradually rolled out all winter and covered with vegetation. The film creator is the chef before the feast, not Nu Wa. His duty is not to create things, but to bring out the taste and customs of the existing vulgar things.

The value of "The Fairy Boy" finally lies in the simple love of relatives and friends and the disobedience of life, but it ends up vigorous and fascinating. The plot of flooding Chentangguan was changed to Aobing arousing the seawater in all directions, and an iceberg that could bury ten thousand people alive was frozen in the city. Nezha, who turned into an adult, lifted the ice sheet, and his face struggled and twisted to roar "Fuck you! My life is up to me! " -At the moment, the picture and soundtrack have completely surged out of the original meaning of this setting of "cool and blood" and burned into a fire that can make countless philosophies and literary meanings burn in it. The imagination of the massacre with the sea as ice makes the confrontation between good and evil, spirit beads and magic pills tit for tat in the most intuitive form, which is incompatible with water and fire. Nezha shouldered not only the disaster of the people in the whole city, but also the coercion of destiny. He was catching the butcher’s knife of fate and shouldering the dark gate. Nezha, who shouted "whether it is magic or fairy, can only be counted if I say it myself", directly transformed into the most classic six-arm model in Buddhist murals, and all the accusations of "evil spirits" were magnificent nirvana under the sudden divine glory of generate.

Not every story of "My destiny is my master" is qualified to echo the existential belief, but "The Magic Boy" is undoubtedly worthy of such association. As an animation, its subtle and subtle "philosophical height" is all achieved by the artistic level of striving for Xian Yi, young and old, rather than mystifying, and by arbitrarily fanning tears and writing contradictions. Camus said, "If you want to die without reconciliation, you can’t die willingly." The stubborn magic boy tore up his father’s life-changing symbol, and with tears in his eyes, he disdained, "I’ll take my own life, and I won’t involve others." A good movie is nothing more than sound and painting, characters and emotions, and "The Fairy Boy Came to the World" has just accomplished these points brilliantly. This is not only reflected in the narrative of the spiritual core, but also the flowing, elegant and magnificent style is everywhere in the film. The water lotus roller coaster shaped with things and the cool and beautiful action scenes from beginning to end in "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"; As well as when Ao Bing appeared, "the mountain that was shot by Gu is inhabited by gods." If the skin is ice and snow, it is graceful as a virgin "-riding clouds, not flying dragons, he is a flying dragon himself, as if he can instantly freeze the audience’s heart with the East China Sea, and then fade like petals."

Exquisite aesthetics has propped up all aspects of "The Fairy Boy"-it subverts the popular legend of "hurting the bones" and introduces contemporary popular values without avoiding vulgarity. Because of its vividness, ingenuity and brilliance, it has become a new thought-provoking. Among them, the most typical one is from the resistance to patriarchy to the return to fatherly love. It is not only the deep and powerful "He is my son" that Li Jing knelt in front of the Buddha at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, but Nezha’s parents have always been his most solid backing and cordial partner (after all, Nezha repeatedly stressed that Ao Bing is his only "friend"). They not only have the spirit of sacrifice that has been praised since ancient times, but also have the qualities that are often ignored from classical to modern times-equality and freedom.

Although Nezha was grounded from birth, his mind was still unruly. As the embodiment of the most evil thing, he has never been fatally bound. And Li Jing and his wife are daily pampering and exhorting their sons, and they respect them rationally before the overall situation. Their expectation and cultivation of Nezha is not intended to make their son an ideal personality, but to open up more possibilities for him. "Who you are is only what you say!" Nezha led the training with Aobing clothes. "This is what Dad taught me!" But obviously, there is only "I" in the truth of "dad" teaching, and there is no "father". The father’s authority in "The Magic Boy" was not destroyed by Nezha with his life and blood, but was deconstructed by Li Jing himself. After all, since the May 4th literature, the writing of patricide complex is not novel, but the image of a deeply loved and free father is really rare. Here, The Fairy Boy also has another meaning of enlightenment and awakening-towards the place where we once ran away.

As Nezha’s mirror, I and Erhuahua, and Ao Bing’s parents are diametrically opposed to him. Excavate is don’t care about the identity of the son magic pill, only care that he is Nezha; The Dragon King never cared about "Ao Bing", only remembered that he was a "spirit bead". The three princes, who have been dissolute and stubborn for thousands of years, have been subverted into Hua Wuque-type people in Descent, and at the same time, they have both the handsome mind of the little dragon girl and the life experience and destiny of Mu Rongfu. The pair of fetters, Aobing and Nezha, are like the spherical people in Plato’s mythology, and they are two halves that have been split and spent their whole lives searching for each other. They are chaos, the perfection and integrity of the love between man and nature; It’s a fish of yin and yang, and it’s a taiji diagram. You have me and I have you. Nezha has never met anyone who can catch his shuttlecock since he was born, and Ao Bing is the only one. The scene of two people kicking shuttlecock before the sea falls is the most romantic and poetic picture in the whole film-in the gentle and melodious music, the dragon’s every move and style is explaining what is really "graceful as Youlong". The heavy golden wheel hooks out the black silhouette of the spirit bead, the magic pill and the little girl saved by the two, as if it could be silent until the end of time.

In the movie, Nezha’s ending has completely got rid of the shadow of tragedy-he was born with the most poisonous blood curse and the worst card, but after the catastrophe, he removed the evil karma and gained the kindness of his father and mother and the love of all the people. Compared with the winner who really goes against the sky, Aobing was born with the most superior chips, but he was "wasted" with nothing. Appreciate each other, a lonely man, let him turn his back on his master, family and talent step by step, and even in the end, in order to protect Nezha, he easily destroyed "Wanlongjia"-this attack "the earnest expectation of Quanlong Village". This is a kind of spirit that "it is enough to get a confidant in life, and the world should die as a confidant". Lingzhu’s self-destruction is also self-redemption, all for Nezha’s sake, for the sake of looking back and seeing the ideal self suddenly.

Nezha’s story has become a complete perfection. Although it is a wonderful and beautiful perfection, it is undeniable that the tragedy is still more meaningful and profound for gods and heroes. And in the movie, Ao Bing just took over the sadness that was abandoned by Nezha from the bone and blood. As the first work of a large series, Ao Bing’s fate is like snowflakes in early winter, reflecting infinite coolness and possibility. He is burdened with the burden of tradition and the aura of shackles, and he has become the rebellious son of heaven and earth with a childlike heart. Nezha evokes the high-spirited theme of the story, while Ao Bing, as the shadow of the protagonist and the moonlight on the other side of the sun, seems to be able to write another fascinating chorus-about the pure hesitation of "people", how life was beautifully ruined by the "independent will", and how all this can be realized in death as a real and ultimate perfection.

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Editor | Shen Boyan