Exploring Chinatown 2: Seeing Wisdom in Interesting Stories

During the Spring Festival holiday, people who have been busy for a year can relax briefly, enjoy eating something delicious and doing something interesting with their families. However, it is not easy to arouse the interest of the whole family and do something that everyone is interested in. After all, everyone has their own love, so it is really difficult to make everyone happy. Watching movies is a good choice, but what to watch becomes a problem. Try it in Detective Tang 2.

First of all, comedy is the keynote throughout the film. In the film, Wang plays the Tang Dynasty, and we can see that he is greedy for money, lustful and boastful. He can cheat his cousin Qin Feng to solve the case for 5 million yuan; He can kneel down and beg Qin Feng for his beloved A Xiang, but when he sees the beautiful woman Chen Ying, he reveals his lascivious nature, and at the same time, his words and deeds are different. These vulgar qualities were vividly displayed at the beginning, but they caused people to laugh and curse. Why is this? However, the words and deeds of the Tang people reveal the unprocessed components of personality, that is, innate attributes, primitive driving forces such as sex and irrationality, and the pursuit of self-satisfaction, that is, the ID in psychology. However, the Tang people are not the only ones with this vulgar attribute. His kindness and justice in the face of Sean's being framed is the psychological superego.

Funny is not only the beginning of the program, but also the actions of Qin Feng and Tang people streaking in the street in solving the case, being rescued at the expense of sex in a gay bar, disguised as men in a hospital and Wang taking off his underwear for Chen Ying, all of which reveal funny plots, which makes people laugh.

Secondly, look at the wisdom in jokes. I read many netizens' comments on Zhihu, especially many people who are more professional in mystery novels. We can see that the players selected by the director in the layout all have their own original miniatures, and they all have professional detective knowledge such as the law of material exchange, imperial edicts and spells, and the dragon ruler involved in solving crimes.

For a non-professional player like me, I certainly can't see such profound professional knowledge, but I feel that the layout and reasoning of the film are coherent. The opening is fascinating. When the audience is immersed in the suspense of reasoning, they are brought back to reality by the roar of the passport inspector, but when they look back, they feel that the opening is in tune.

The cases involved in the process of solving the case are: the grandson of the seventh uncle of Zaowang Temple in Chinatown (65438+February 5, 82) lost his heart and died (fire); White salesgirl in shipyard (May, 1986 12) lost kidney (water); The deceased (February 27th, 74) lost his liver in the park. The murderer chose the time, place and characters corresponding to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, took away the internal organs corresponding to the victims, and connected several seemingly unrelated cases in an orderly way with the wisdom of Taoism, making the film logically complete. At the end of the film, a classic line is given, "When you stare at the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you." It's like keeping in good health with five elements, and luck makes people live healthier, but in which direction does everything develop when it is running? Or does it depend on whether it is the beast in human nature or human nature that uses it?

We know that the wisdom of Taoism is a treasure that China people are proud of, especially the opening "The Tao gives birth to one, two, three and everything." In particular, Laozi lives in an era when technology is backward and people's lives stay in the farming era. Having this kind of philosophy is already a progressive force. It advocates respecting the objective law of the development of things and not subjectively violating or changing it, but why did it change in the hands of the murderer? He mistakenly believes that he is a god, and the root of his mistake is that he is divorced from objective reality. In the film, saving people during the day and killing people at night failed to achieve the combination of yin and yang and forgot how to be a man.

Finally, add a little personal opinion. During the whole raid in new york, the Tang people and his party gave people a feeling of being too entertaining, and they were too excited when facing Chen Ying's life and death. I don't quite agree with them.