[Taiping Ji] Lamentations in troubled times
It took me four or five years to read it, so I don't remember the mentality and seriousness before the crusade against Hojo. Occasionally, when I saw the volt line closing, I remembered that the young Zun saw an ugly piece of wood in a cave and was enshrined as a god and Buddha, and developed the obsession that "things that I thought were beautiful finally disappeared".
The 1990s was really an amazing historical "nihilism", each character was so cute and kept his own position. It is important that none of the characters present a state of excess self-awareness and a state of mind-blowingly driving historical events. It must have reached that point, but instead, he has been very measured in his own and the world. After all, with Nagahara Keiji as a historical consultant, you can feel the distinction between public and military, as well as the narrative framework that connects land, manor, and Japan's national system. Although Emperor Godaigo was like a god when he first appeared on the stage (the camera was too beautiful), even if he stumbled or called himself a person later, he was not too mythical emperor. The actors are well-chosen, with dignified faces and broad eyebrows, and when they laugh, they are majestic. It is no wonder that Zun has always remembered this person who was once "beautiful like a god and Buddha".
However, these people later died. Yoshisada Nitta, who first opened the eyes of Zun's family, was also a Genji, and after taking Kamakura and destroying the Hojo clan like a gust of wind, he became a loyal dog who muttered with a gloomy face all day, "If you want to go (to fight), go by yourself". I don't know if it is because of being a poor country samurai since childhood, it is impossible to catch up with Ashikaga to become the commander of the samurai family. Probably it is really fate, people who have no power have no luck in martial arts. Although Zun always talked about "last resort", under the promotion and expectation of everyone, he just walked on the path that he should take. Da Pagoda sees this very clearly, "If the Wu family wants this, you will fight with the public family." So Zun had to recite two lines of poems: "Gou Li's life and death of the country, don't avoid it with misfortune and good fortune." (Quickly don't make trouble →_→)
In fact, I really like Prince Huliang of the Great Tower Palace. When I went to Kamakura in the summer, I had planned to go to the "Taiping Ji" route, but I gave up because I almost died of heat. Kamakura is really small, and you can quickly attack Toji Temple along the Wakamiya Road, which is the place where Hojo fell. Across the road is the tomb of Prince Huliang, and after a short walk to the north, you can see the tomb of Prince Yuanlaichao. The Ashikaga family's Gokoku Temple is not far south of the Toji Temple. It doesn't take long as a walk-away strategy. Just like the monasteries under the Five Mountains system still exist in Kamakura, politics is displayed on a small stage, and everyone must fulfill the tasks assigned by their own destiny as the stipulated roles.
Therefore, "Taiping Ji" is not a film about history, but a film about politics. From the destruction of Hojo to the end of the Muromachi shogunate, which seemed to be less solid when he killed his younger brother, every battle, justification and confrontation was so reasonable. Nanmu Zhengcheng, as a local tyrant, was highly regarded by the emperor, and he was promoted to the cloud from then on. His "loyalty" was out of repayment. Nitta is in order to share the anger of Genji, why you can and I can't. There are also warriors of various countries, whoever joins and follows whom is entirely for the sake of his own destiny as a samurai. No one pretends to sacrifice their lives for the unreachable things, just as Hojo Takato said, "Why do you believe in the Buddha who no one has ever seen?" On the contrary, Zun and Hou Daigo have a detached attitude. Zun's pursuit of "a better world" and Hou Daigo's obsession with "unification of the public". It can also be regarded as the ideal that such a person should have.
And Sasaki, who is not as he said, is to defect to the winning side forever. His intelligence function and the role of information exchange were manifested in the final 50,000-strong siege of the Imperial Pavilion. If it weren't for the meaningful threat he brought, both Zun Shi and Gao Shizhi would have broken into a cold sweat afterwards. The existence of such a person who communicates with each other can often prevent some unmanageable wars caused by mutual misunderstandings and temporary illusions. In terms of strategy, many battles that are not lost to this make the film seem real and reserved.
Finally, let's talk about Fujiyasha and another one. There is a feeling of wanting to cry but not being able to cry. The actors of Fujiyasha and Toko Chihashi are very beautiful, the kind of classical beauty with narrow forehead, small mouth and plump face. The meeting with Ashikaga wasn't so sudden either. Although it is necessary to cut off the fate and raise the child alone, for Zunshi, Fujiyasha is not only a concrete embodiment of his abstract ideal of "beautiful world", but also retains the poetic imagination of distant love and beautiful things. Sitting in the audience watching her dance, she came to the beach with a white beat, and said she was going to the "capital city". Since then, Zun has regarded the "capital city" as the only way to create a better world. It was only a matter of time before Shangluo took over the world, but he himself didn't realize it at the time.
There are so many people who disappear like dew. I didn't even notice in which episode Chikusa Tadhin died. As for the father and son of Kitabatake's relatives and Xian's family, they were both a generation of scholars and military commanders, and they indeed smelled the possibility of unification in the public family. After all, Yaxing alone cannot win the war, and the public family also relies on the warrior family who is loyal to themselves to destroy the enemy. Once the foundation of force is lost, power and political affairs will fall by the wayside. On any level, the Ashikaga family faces its own inferiority, and it is the same reason.
It really wants to convey a kind of force majeure, whether it is fate or strength determines history. All people can't help but have an expectation, looking forward to a character who can open up and build a beautiful world in this troubled world. And Posara, who was endowed with this power, had almost no time to take into account the excessively heavy burden he carried as a person, so he had to use his blood-stained hands that saw the gods kill the gods, in order to bring peace to the world.
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