In Tsui Hark's "Smiling Proud Jianghu: The East is Undefeated", Ren Wuxing once said, "Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and people are rivers and lakes."

The fact that an arrogant man who runs rampant in the world of rivers and lakes and who is not convinced by anyone can say such a thing proves that this megalomaniac who only admires "three and a half people" in his life still has to obey the order of the world of rivers and lakes.

Order exists everywhere, even if the rivers and lakes are respected for strength, they are still a world of order, and the rivers and lakes in martial arts novels are like today's society.

In the gray area between morality and law, the villain murderer Jiang Ya regards himself as the "light of the city", eager to become a hero who punishes evil and promotes good, while the protagonist of justice, Fang Mu, has a scruffy face, unkempt clothes, and a middle-aged uncle, which is quite pyrotechnic.

In the troubled times, the Heavenly Sect is heavy on heroic tours, and the old barren hills are endured and withered.

If the murderer Jiang Yaruo is really in the rivers and lakes, just like most martial arts novels, he and Fang Mu, Mi Nan, Liao Yafan and other people who revolve around firewood, rice, oil and salt would not have had much intersection.

It's a pity that the rivers and lakes have the rules of the rivers and lakes, and the temples have the rules of the temples, and modern society is not the rivers and lakes in the novel after all.

The rules are right, the rules are not wrong, the mistake itself lies in the confusion of identity definition, we can't talk about the king law in martial arts films, curb killing people in the rivers and lakes of swords and swords, and of course, we can't claim to be heroes in real life, happy revenge, and replace the law with violence.

"City Lights of Psychological Crime", the city where such a story takes place, it is not as good as we imagined, nor as bad as we imagined, stepping on the soil of the real earth, while trying to erase all the evidence left at the scene of the crime, but trying to live in the illusion of the rivers and lakes, this is the biggest tragedy of the murderer Jiang Ya.

Countering violence with violence and extrajudicial sanctions are the main reasons for Jiang Ya's murder, and his actions are above the law, which will turn criminals into judges who judge crimes.

He used violence to ignite the anger in the city.

Jiang Ya is a very contradictory person in Mu Qing's opinion, or when he just finished reading the script, Mu Qing felt that there were certain contradictions before and after this role, and even he once thought that there was a problem with the behavior pattern set by this character, but when he later understood the connotation of this script, he also understood the intention of this character.

The characters in the play are actually more in the service of the theme to be presented, including the protagonist.

There is nothing wrong with this, after all, a script must always express a bit of thought-provoking meaning while telling a good story.

But Mu Qing felt that the setting in the script was a bit too much, because a wonderful story is not only expressed by its deep meaning, but also the charm of the characters is also essential.

Therefore, when too much attention is paid to the display of the deep meaning of the story, the charm of the character will inevitably be reduced, Mu Qing believes that the story told in this way may be able to fully express what is to be told, but it must not be so impressive.

Raising his hand, Mu Qing outlined this point, maybe he could talk about this when he was studying the script.

Of course, as an actor, even the fact that the character serves the script does not prevent him from thinking that the character of Jiang Ya itself is still extremely complex.

If you analyze the character of Jiang Ya, you can know that this is a poor person, or rather, a poor child.

Jiangya is the product of a series of misfortunes.

Childhood unfortunate experiences, mother suicide, abuse by father, and finally murder father, then adulthood, come to the city to leave the past, start a new life, and even meet love.

As he said, he loved the city that gave him a new lease of life, and he could not accept that someone had been wronged in the city.

His experience and what he did deserve to be understood and sympathized.

However, the moment he killed Liao Yafan, it seemed that the plot had made a comprehensive criticism of such a character who was particularly devastated and blackened by reality, and the emotional balance was overturned, as Fang Mu said in the movie, "I want to extinguish this repeated light", maybe the audience also had doubts about this character when they saw this plot.

Perhaps, this so-called "hero" in their hearts is not the real hero they imagined.

The transformation of Jiang Ya's character has caused the audience to abuse and think, which is the purpose of the screenwriter and director.

The unhurried superhero-like hero lifts his mask and becomes less like a hero, and he completely shows his human desires and ugliness.

The huge gap may make the audience scold the plot for not being logical, but it also makes people get rid of that personal emotion, see all the realities, and see clearly what kind of "vulgar person" the "hero" they once admired very much.

Returning to reality and throwing away all emotional things, Jiang Ya is just a person who is violent for selfish desires.

Because he doesn't spare even the little ones.

The audience from God's point of view, with Jiang Ya's two actions to the child, in the second half of the movie, also stands on the side of the disadvantaged group, and the disadvantaged group here is the police.

In the whole process of the development of the plot of the movie, Jiang Ya, a serial murderer with the name of "a chivalrous man for Tianxingdao", didn't he always suppress the police in the early stage?

In the first part of the movie, the police who symbolize justice in the play simply have no effect, which makes people look like they are simply without a bag, and it always seems to have a little hindsight.

In addition, whether it is "doing the right thing for heaven" or "extrajudicial sanctions", such a-for-tat sanction will always remind people of a series of superheroes in Western movies.

For example, the dark knight Batman, the punisher with a skull face painted on his chest, and Daredevil who has lost his eyesight but can see everything, they believe in the justice of darkness, they are like a ray of sunshine in the darkness, illuminating the evil city.

The reason why superheroes are popular is because after the "911 terrorist attacks", movies, which carried the people's entertainment and even spiritual food for a period of time, made superheroes incarnate as messengers of justice and saviors who fight crime, eliminate evil and promote good.

Of course, all this is fiction and surreal utopia, superheroes represent the spiritual sustenance of the people in this criminal world, the representative of the symbolization of justice, and in the real world, and it is precisely because of the existence of this emotion of the people that criminals can take advantage of it.

Crime, with a kind of "good name" began to be rationalized.

And in superhero movies, the police are always the most useless, and the only sense of existence is to tell the audience that we are here on the eve of the end of the case.

But "City Lights of Psychological Crime" is not a superhero movie, and our protagonists are not such "superheroes", they are policemen, silently guarding the city's police.

So, when Gotham City is without Batman, how will Sheriff Gordon deal with the Joker, Penguin, Black Mask, and Two-Face?

Therefore, as the protagonist of the policeman, Fang Mu, the only thing he can do is to use the police method to extinguish the bright light, maintain the dignity of the law, and curb the hidden riots in society.

From the perspective of the overall situation of the director and screenwriter, there is nothing wrong with such a setting.

But from an actor's point of view, when you interpret this character in depth, re-focus the topic on Jiang Ya as a person, and walk into this story again from Jiang Ya's perspective and way of thinking, you will find that some of these things are very wrong, and the development of the plot seems to have logical problems, or it is to forcibly set off the theme, which excessively weakens the role of the character itself.

According to the performance in the early stage of the story, Jiang Ya will not do such irrational things, at least, he will not insult himself and subvert his beliefs, so how could he kill Liao Yafan, a little girl, for no reason in the later stage? This is incomprehensible.

After all, Jiang Ya at this time had not yet accepted an emotional upheaval in the Wei Wei incident.

At this time, he should still be calm, he is not "crazy" yet.

Thinking of this, in fact, Mu Qing was also a little incomprehensible to Jiang Ya's previous casual injury to Erbao in order to cover up the evidence.

Erbao is a child that his lover Wei Wei advocated adopting, what kind of status Wei Wei is in Jiang Ya's heart is that it doesn't need to be expressed in any language, so when it comes to a child that his lover wants to protect, Jiang Ya will really hurt so freely?

You must know that at this time, Jiang Ya still thinks that he is a hero who walks for the sky.

They often wander among the rivers and lakes, practicing chivalry and righteousness, punishing evil and eliminating evil, and doing righteous deeds that the people praise and admire, but ordinary people dare not do or cannot do, that is to say, what they do will not be bad.

Therefore, at this time, Jiang Ya, he should not do things that hurt Erbao's child so easily, at the very least, there should be some struggles, and there is a transition of emotions, but this is not reflected in the script at all, which makes Jiang Ya's stereotype of a "tool man" more solid.

Jiang Ya is not a simple-minded and vulgar person, he has an outstanding IQ, a careful mind, and his own beliefs and persistence, if it weren't for the painful experience of childhood, maybe he would be a very respectable person.

Erudite, elegant, neat and generously dressed, looks polite, and soft-spoken, it will make people subconsciously relax their vigilance and feel like a spring breeze, at least, in the eyes of outsiders, Jiang Ya will be such a "good person".

But there are not so many assumptions in reality, and the script setting does not allow you to have such assumptions, so the image of Jiang Ya, a "good person", has become a disguise.

Jiang Ya is stubborn, just like he thinks that Fang Mu can't be the light of this city, and he is determined to become the light of this city, leaving aside the fact that he committed a crime, in a sense, this person still has a little bit of ideological realm, but his thoughts are wrong and paranoid.

It is also because of this that in Jiang Ya's cognition, or in his erroneous worldview, he believes that what he is doing is correct, and the existence of "City Light" is also just, such a code name has an undesecrated sacredness in his heart.

Therefore, even if it is psychologically distorted, he will never destroy what he considers sacred, so actions other than acting justice in "City Light" will never appear to him in the early stage.

And in this way, one of the settings of this plot made Mu Qing feel very weird at the beginning - Jiang Ya, it shouldn't be like this, and the development of things shouldn't be like this.

Anyway, Mu Qing had such an idea at that time, and even now he still has such a question.

So, he insisted that there was something wrong with the logic of the person's behavior.

The emergence and inability to solve this problem directly hindered Mu Qing's next thinking.

He had the intention to put this question aside for a while, but he found that this problem could not be overcome, and he really couldn't further understand this character.

This is like in the early stage, Mu Qing set up the character for the role of Jiang Ya, carried out cognitive and behavioral logical reasoning, and brought his thinking to such a designated path.

But the road is impassable, and the only way to continue is to remove all the paved roads and start again halfway.

It's cut off in the middle!

So Mu Qing didn't understand this point, and what's worse was that he had no way to persuade himself to accept this setting.

Mu Qing is not a professional actor, so if you want him to enter a role, then you must first let him understand what the character does, otherwise, Mu Qing feels that he has no way to show a role so confusingly against his will.

It's also hypocritical to say.

But for Mu Qing, this is indeed an indisputable fact.