Chapter 66: "Drifting Away"
In the movie, it was at this time that those people from the White Lotus Sect were killed, and the first to bear the brunt was the four-eyed doctor, who was shot in the chest with an arrow.
For the history of the late Qing Dynasty, any Chinese person would be extremely resentful, especially those foreigners who invaded China, and wished that they would all die. But it is clear to everyone that not all foreigners deserve to die, and there are many foreigners who are ordinary people, many of whom are good people, especially these doctors, who are not guilty of death.
If it were those foreign soldiers, they would not bother to care about them on Wednesday, and one less would have died, but these foreign doctors played a very important role in the development of medicine at that time, maybe this four-eyed was just an ordinary surgeon, but it didn't matter if he was saved, save one more doctor, maybe more people would be saved by this doctor in the future.
Of course, Wednesday also knew that this was just a virtual mission scenario, and it had no connection to the real world at all. But whether it was for the sake of the mission or to take care of his own personal feelings, Wednesday decided to save the doctor.
So he quietly moved towards the field, and suddenly he heard a dinging sound, but it was an arrow that flew in after it broke through the glass window. Wednesday shouted "climb down", then jumped up and pushed down the four-eyed one, and then pulled down Sun Wen played by Zhang Tielin, "Mr. Sun, danger," and then shouted at Huang Feihong, "Master Huang, what should I do?"
Huang Feihong looked at the dense rockets and said, "Go up to the second floor." ”
Wednesday nodded, "Okay, I'll take Mr. Sun up first," said the umbrella and pulled away a rocket, grabbed Sun Wen's arm and ran to the second floor. At this time, the clinic was in chaos, and several foreign doctors were hit by arrows, but there were no fatal injuries. Seeing this, Wednesday didn't care about them, and while using an umbrella to dial the flying arrow, he pulled Sun Wen and ran up.
The second floor was much safer, and on Wednesday he put down his umbrella and said to Sun Wenheshi: "Mr. Sun, the little monk is polite." ”
"Thank you for the master's life-saving grace, dare to ask the master's name?" Sun Wen played by Zhang Tielin has a very hearty temperament, which is completely different from Mr. Sun in history. However, in this movie, Sun Wen is just a supporting role, barely an introduction. Of course, just like Huang Feihong, no matter what others say, Mr. Sun is a person who has made great contributions to the country and the nation.
Wednesday has only respect for such people, and in that era and social environment, they can take the lead in making such a big change, which requires not only advanced vision and excellent insight, but also great courage.
Therefore, Wednesday is particularly modest, "The title of master is never daring, Mr. Sun can call the little monk Wu Neng, or the common name Wednesday." ”
"Huh, why do you call a layman by a name, doesn't that break the rules?" Sun Wen said with a smile.
Wednesday sighed, "Mr. Sun said with a smile, in such an environment, what is the difference between monks and laymen, as long as people's hearts are good, it doesn't matter if the rules are unruly, look at those White Lotus disciples, they pay attention to the rules, but the same is not distinguished, good and evil are not distinguished, the heart is not clear, the rules are a cage, only the people are enlightened, the rules are the rules." ”
"Okay, Master Wu Neng said it well," Sun Wen applauded, "I didn't expect the master to have such insight." ”
On Wednesday, I met people and talked about people, and when I met a pioneer like Mr. Sun, how could you not be open-minded? But there was a modest look on his face: "Mr. Sun has praised it falsely, this place is dangerous, let's get out of here quickly." ”
At this time, Huang Feihong ran up from downstairs with Liang Kuan with a medicine box, the four of them said hello, and then jumped down from the back window, avoiding those White Lotus disciples and leaving the clinic.
Sun Wen is a person with a task, and after leaving the clinic, he didn't say much, just shook hands with Wednesday and Huang Feihong and said, "If there is a chance, we can have a good exchange of medical skills, and it would be nice if there were more people like you in China." ”
Wednesday didn't say anything, just said Amitabha.
Huang Feihong said with a smile: "Mr. Sun is serious, and there will be a period later." ”
Waiting for Sun Wen to leave, Huang Feihong looked at the messy clinic and snorted, "These White Lotus Sectists are simply doing nonsense. ”
Wednesday sighed: "What can be done about this? Those disciples are just ordinary people who have been blinded, naturally they don't know what right and wrong are, they only know how to act according to their own needs and preferences, and there are many categories of the White Lotus Sect, and the various schools are good and bad, but they all act under the banner of the White Lotus Sect, and it is inevitable that there will be people with ill intentions." ”
Huang Feihong nodded, "That's the same, alas." ”
"Ah, Aunt Thirteen is alone in the inn, nothing will happen, right?"
When Huang Feihong heard the thirteenth aunt, he immediately became anxious, and hurriedly ran to the inn with the medicine box.
Laughing secretly on Wednesday, Tsui Hark didn't say anything about the control of the rhythm of the movie, and the handling of the details was also very good, interspersed with some small ambiguities in the overall plot, and it was the kind of restrained ambiguity that was implicit but not revealed, so that the audience's emotions were relaxed and relaxed, not too tight, but also not distracted.
Then there is the next plot, all kinds of ambiguities between Huang Feihong and Aunt Thirteen. Especially the part where Huang Feihong taught the thirteenth aunt to practice boxing, with the help of dislocation projection, the originally boring plot became vivid, especially the kind of careful thinking unique to a little woman shown by the thirteenth aunt, which was portrayed more vividly.
In addition, there is a more brilliant scene, that is, Huang Feihong stands on the balcony of the inn and ponders, with the background music of "Drifting Away". The original song sung by Su Su is the southern song "Shocking Dreams and Memories of Qiujuan", and "Drifting Away" is only one-third of it.
But it is this third of the southern song that has become the finishing touch of the whole movie, in the short time when Huang Feihong looked at and sang the song, there were several pictures describing the scene at that time, which made the theme of the whole movie suddenly highlighted.
This short piece of music, these short movie pictures, portrays the tragic scenes of broken mountains and rivers in China at the end of the Qing Dynasty and bullying by others very profoundly.
Of course, no matter how good director Tsui Hark is, it is just a fictional storyline, the rights and wrongs in it have become a thing of the past, the merits and faults of those characters have already been decided, and no matter how much controversy there is, it is just a difference in starting point and position, and there is no point in arguing too much.
All Wednesday has to do now is complete the task, and if you can, take the opportunity to make up for the regrets of watching the movie, and that will be enough.
Sure enough, after breakfast the next day, Huang Feihong Liang packed his luggage with Aunt Thirteen and prepared to leave and return to Foshan. Wednesday deliberately walked down to say hello, "Master Huang, are you going back to Foshan?"
Huang Feihong nodded, "Yes, what about you?"
Wednesday said with a smile: "The little monk may have to stay for two or three days, so I wish Master Huang a smooth journey." ”
Huang Feihong carried the thirteenth aunt behind his back and said, "Thank you, thank you," Before the words fell, there was a commotion from the other side of the street, and a group of people ran towards it.
Then, the development of the plot is exactly the same as in the movie, as soon as I heard that the White Lotus Sect burned down the Tongwen Pavilion, the thirteenth aunt was more anxious than Huang Feihong, so she jumped down and ran to the Tongwen Pavilion in the rain.
At this time, Huang Feihong and Liang Kuan couldn't bear it, and they also ran over there.
Wednesday had already been prepared, and I followed with an umbrella.
The situation in the Tongwen Museum is even worse than in the movie, after all, some restricted footage cannot be played, but Wednesday can see it clearly. With Wednesday's temperament, I couldn't help but be a little angry when I looked at those tragic scenes.
To say that the White Lotus Sect is a sect, although it has not been a big deal, its teachings are quite formal, and there is nothing harmful about it. But because it was too long, and because the teachings were specifically aimed at the desperate commoners, there were many congregations.
And after so many years of development, from the beginning of the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, more than a thousand years of ups and downs, after many integrations and changes, the White Lotus Sect has more than ten or twenty schools under its jurisdiction, not counting those wandering bandits and robbers who act in the name of the White Lotus Sect.
Therefore, the White Lotus Sect is uneven, although it shouts the slogan of helping the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign, but in fact it is biased, and even more directly uses the White Lotus Sect as a means to make a fortune, and it is not enough to extort and kidnap protection money.
Not to mention the ordinary people hundreds of years ago, even in the 21st century, some indignant youths can do some things to burn, kill and loot under the banner of patriotism. Therefore, it is not uncommon for the members of the White Lotus Sect to do something that people and gods are angry about, after all, most of those sects are ignorant ordinary people, and the binding force of the White Lotus Sect is almost zero.
In later generations, many people said that the White Lotus Sect was a cult, and some people said that the White Lotus Sect was a righteous movement to help clear the Qing Dynasty and destroy the foreigners. But in fact, such a complex social group can never be defined by justice or evil.
The White Lotus Sect has survived for so many years, and naturally there is a positive side, at least there is nothing wrong with the doctrine except for being a little narrow. But in the same way, don't imagine the White Lotus Sect too beautifully, that is, there are many Buddhists and Taoists with better reputations who are scum, and the binding force of the White Lotus Sect is so poor, and it is not uncommon for there to be more scum.
Obviously, the group of Jiugong real people in the movie is the kind of small group that uses the banner of the White Lotus Sect to seek personal interests for themselves, although it is also aimed at foreigners, but they also do not distinguish between right and wrong, and act cruelly and viciously.
Therefore, although Wednesday does not think that the White Lotus Sect is a cult, he also can't see people like Jiugong Zhenren swaggering and pretending to be gods and fooling the people, especially when watching movies, I really wish that Jiugong Zhenren died immediately.
At this time, seeing the tragic scene in the Tongwen Pavilion, Wednesday's hatred in his heart was even stronger, especially after seeing the corpse that had been stripped of human skin. How cruel does it have to be for someone to do that?