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Whose innocence did Qingcheng give her in The Promise?

In "The Promise", Qingcheng gave the general innocence.

Although the film "The Promise" has many fighting scenes, it is not a martial arts film, let alone a historical film. The historical background and age of the film are blurred, leaving only historical figures. Commitment is about love and hate in the infinite world of the East, about infatuation, betrayal, freedom, love, desire, commitment and fate. It's a fairy tale, but it's not a China myth, it's an ancient Greek myth.

The eternal theme of ancient Greek mythology is the struggle between man and fate. The Promise is the future three thousand years ago, and it is Chen Kaige's most personal epic. The art and photography in the film are one of the most successful masterpieces of domestic films. The composition is breathtaking and the picture is gorgeous. The success of image lies in the bold speculation and exploration of mythical artistic conception.

The so-called infinity is Tao. It is a more primitive and ultimate state than Tai Chi. This is the ultimate realm that Laozi used to refer to praise. Chapter 28 of Laozi: "Knowing its white, keeping its black, for the world wind, for the world wind, Changde is not special, and it is endless." It means: "who knows that white but content with darkness can be a model for the world?" It can be a model of the world, eternal virtue remains unchanged, and sex is attributed to infinite truth. "

In the film, Kunlun has reached an infinite realm. "Know its white and protect its black", and the feeling of forbearance is unspeakable. Although he is a slave, no one treats him like a human being. But Dou Jie is more like a human being than anyone else, representing the goodness of human beings. Power is infinite, infinite, beyond infinite, or infinite. As Zhuangzi said in "Happy Travel": "Beyond the infinite, there is no infinite."

Kunlun is the purest, loveliest and most beautiful person in The Promise, with a clear distinction between love and hate. Compared with others, only he knows that love is giving, not taking, not imprisoning. His love for Qingcheng is to make her happy. No matter whether he gave this happiness himself or not, he tried to win back the beauty for his master and rival General Guangming.

Finally, at the instigation of the ghost wolf, Kunlun became a soulless walking corpse, loyal only to its master and without any desire except to eat meat. He found himself and realized that the whole city was his desire, and his family and country made him yearn for freedom. In the end, Kunlun created a free new life with the whole city in chaos, and got rid of the fate of being enslaved by human beings and gods ... to realize the infinite way that fate can be changed and time can be turned back ... and look at others, just an invincible god of war who is not afraid of death.

But he is actually a coward. Cheating, insincere, unable to firmly pay for love, General Guangming does not shrink from enjoying the wrong love behind the flower. The plot of the film's final trial of Guangming's crime of regicide takes this to the extreme. Even when I was dying, I said something that Kunlun said when he saved the whole city: "Don't die, live well." Used to deceive the whole city and make her finally believe that he is the one who is desperate for her. At the end of the film, he still stepped forward and saved the whole city.

But this is just his selfishness, in order to prove that he is the one who loves her the most. But it can't change fate. In the balance between life and love, General Guangming chose the flower armor and the love and death brought by deception. How pathetic and cowardly. Therefore, Chen Kaige makes the general played by Hiroyuki Sanada in the film bright, and his speech, tone and eyes are somewhat frivolous, which is in line with the character and image of this role.