"Xuanzong is the biggest illusionist"-the line in the play
Someone explained that this sentence means that Xuanzong’s illusion is love, but in my opinion, his illusion is actually written by him at Chenxiang Pavilion and given to Abe Look at the four words "Banquet of Bliss". What is behind this banquet? It was the whole period of the Great Tang Dynasty, it was a fantasy that Xuanzong showed people. This is the outline of Xuanzong's talent. And this dream attracted not only the subjects and foreign nations at that time, but also the later Bai Juyi and Kong Hai, and even everyone who has the Tang Dynasty in his heart. The most beautiful and core person in this dream is Yang Yuhuan.
Kukai sees through Bai Juyi and said that thirty years have passed since he was the only one who cared about the imperial concubine. This is reasonable, because it is only dreams that make poets fascinated by it. The bigger the poet, the more beautiful dreams. Li Bai's "Yunwant Clothes and Flowers" is the most appropriate explanation of this dream. The beauty in that poem was not Yang Yuhuan. He told the truth in this fantasy dream, so he was "given the money back" by Xuanzong. Yang Yuhuan praised him "Datang is amazing because of him." Chen Kaige's expression is very ingenious. He doesn't talk about political darkness and officialdom. He knows that the truth is not so, what he said in the movie is an illusion.
Chasing this dream is Bai Juyi and Kukai. Bai Juyi couldn't see through at first, because he was a poet, and the world of fantasy dreams was his world. When the verse became a fantasy dream, it was confirmed and the fantasy dream ceased. But Kukai can see through. He is a rational person and a master. But Xuanzong didn't understand this big illusion, he was just aware. So two different people meet in this pursuit. Bai Juyi was obsessed with this dream, and the movie concentrated this obsession on Bai Long's obsession with Yang Yuhuan, and then finally Bai Juyi said that the poem was not written by himself but Bai Long wrote. . What kind of idiot is this kind of idiot? In the movie, Bai’s "creative dilemma" was shown. He finished writing "Eternal Regret" but he faintly felt that something was missing. He was "independent" in the small courtyard in his pajamas in the snow. This shot showed his suffering caused by idiots. In this process of chasing the demon cat, he was very jumpy. He asked Kong Hai again and again about the reason, and questioned the truth of the incident again and again, idiotic. He reads "Yunwant clothes and flowers" and talked about Chang'an, who dreamed back every time at midnight. When he talked about Li Bai praised himself, he was crazy and foolish. The walls of his residence are full of portraits painted by Yang Yuhuan, all of them are supposed to be back and crazy. He cried a few times, idiotic. Therefore, the film said that Bai Juyi was a poet crazy about love. It was also very interesting for him to resolve this issue, one was the death of the white dragon and the departure of the white dragon's soul. One is when he sleeps in a dream, Yang Yuhuan's painting falls off his hand and falls to the ground. It is this kind of idiot that landed and drifted away. And after this kind of infatuation drifts away, it is hate to fall into the verse. Compared with ignorance, hatred lies in obsession, and hatred lies in understanding. Finally Bai Juyi understood that the hate he wrote was Bailong's hate, a hatred that lasted for thirty years. Without changing a word, he went to sleep peacefully. The other chaser was Kukai, who came to Tang who crossed the sea for the sake of "Supreme Secret". And this "Supreme Secret" is the truth of this "Beast of Bliss". And his counterpart is Dan Long. Bai Long led Bai Juyi to complete "Song of Everlasting Regret", and Dan Long led Kukai to find the "Supreme Secret", which was very interesting. Kukai's setting is a monk, he can see through illusion. The "Supreme Secret" he pursued is the secret method of seeing through the "Banquet of Bliss". Throughout the movie, Dan Long taught him step by step. He and Danlong are not foolish. Danlong looks at the foolishness of wearing a white dragon. From the time he left him, he did not see through it. When he became a monk, he could see through it. Then to liberate the white dragon, he used "Supreme dense". Kukai saw through Bai Juyi's idiot, and led him to pursue the truth in a kind of "crossing" similar to Danlong's way. Crossing people can also cross oneself. This is the heart of the Buddhism. Therefore, these four characters have a parallel relationship of mirror images and a connection of "seeing and being seen". Therefore, in "Uncle Siwei Poison", Chen Kaige said that the characters in the movie are set up so that the characters can respond to each other and become seeds for each other.
This "banquet of bliss" is really beautiful, and it is very basic based on the movie. If it is only fascinated by the scene, Wumei and the beauty, you are caught by Chen Kaige's illusion, you are like this Xuanzong's psychedelic people in "Banquet of Bliss" are the same. Xuanzong’s "giving money back" Li Bai was not deceived because of his innocence. From this point of view, Li Bai’s threat to this fantasy dream is greater than Anlu Mountain. Li Bai’s freedom from deception is not because of seeing through but because of the poet’s childlike innocence. What he said is the truth. He is innately immune to this dreamXuanzong couldn't control him if he was infected. It's like the portrayal of "The emperor can't come on board, and he claims to be a minister in wine". For Yang Yuhuan, she knew that this was a dream, she was the core of this dream, and she just accepted it. To Xuanzong, she is more like a plaything. Once the arrangement is accepted, fate is also fate. Her only resistance was the bloody finger marks in the coffin, which caused monks like Kukai to be panicked. In this "cultivation", he finally truly felt the "Supreme Secret" in the dark part of the coffin, that is, death.
Chen Kaige is really telling stories about the "Eternal Regret" created by Bai Juyi and the "Supreme Secret" pursued by Kong Hai. But it is aesthetic in the end, what he said is a fantasy dream of the Tang Dynasty. And in this movie, taking care of my current self, part of it is Bai Juyi who wants to be Li Bai, obsessed with it; part of it is the pursuit of the "supreme secret" of the sky and the sea, the words he said when he went out to sea, my confidence in the ship entering the sea Pride is tested. But the two combined together, after all, is doing a search, for me that is beauty and love.
In fact, Datang had already begun to degenerate during the Xuanzong period, and Xuanzong was a turning point from prosperity to decline. The Banquet of Bliss was also his last big dream.
