On April 13, a movie called " Doll Bride " was launched on a number of legitimate video platforms. This film stars beautiful actresses such as Eun Kyung, Sang Na, and Shi Xuan Ru. If you only look at the trailer and poster of this movie, netizens will definitely have an intuitive feeling: it is another online movie that only sells meat and touches the edges.
After watching the full movie of "The Doll Bride", I feel that the misunderstanding about this movie should be eliminated. It is not a movie about selling meat. On the contrary, it has a more profound theme. This theme is good at using online movies. It is expressed in a suspenseful and thrilling way.
The film begins with the wedding of a young master in a small town. Bizarre incidents occur frequently, and the young master even dies tragically. Friends come to uncover the truth. In the small town, haunted incidents occur frequently, and many people die tragically one after another. At the end of this suspenseful thriller story, when the answer is revealed, a theme with great philosophical thinking value is presented: what is beauty, and what is the relationship between beauty and being broken.
In "The Doll Bride", there is a singing troupe. The heroine is beautiful and talented, and is sought after by a large number of male audiences. Of course, among these theater fans, there must be a large number of rich and powerful people. It can be said that this heroine is the embodiment of beauty in the film. In front of beauty, almost everyone is fascinated. This part of the film has quite a bit of the meaning of Chen Kaige "The Promise".
Later, the heroine was in trouble and was bullied by too many people on the street. From powerful masters to pawns from the Lower Third Road, etc., these people are all targeting the beauty of the heroine. In this kind of insult to beauty, this group of people gained unprecedented pleasure. Of course, in small towns, there are also people who protect beauty but do not harm it. However, they are weak and in a chaotic era, they are often unable to defeat these people who have a cruel attitude towards beauty.
The final outcome of the heroine is to be burned alive by the brutal crowd in the town. This kind of beauty that was astonishing to the world, finally, after being ravaged by the world in every possible way, could not tolerate the world and was finally shattered. Those who destroy beauty are certainly guilty. Therefore, in most of the film "The Doll Bride", people who protect beauty carry out acts of revenge for this beauty. Those who destroy beauty are eventually physically eliminated.
Why is beauty so stunning to the world, sought after by the world, ravaged by the world, and ultimately broken by the world? This is actually a philosophical topic with great value for discussion. In the film, this beauty is concentrated on the beauty of women. This is also the easiest kind of beauty for everyone to understand. It is estimated that many people have similar feelings. When they meet a stunning beauty, they always have a mentality of being fascinated and kneeling down. And this kind of psychology may eventually become distorted and form another kind of hostility.
This kind of hostility, first of all, is to find ways to obtain this kind of beauty, especially physical possession. However, if one does not have a more advanced aesthetic appreciation ability, this kind of beauty cannot be finally obtained. Therefore, physical possession will eventually evolve into spiritual ravage, and through this ravaged beauty, you can obtain your own perverted pleasure. Among the related examples, the marriage of eunuchs can be used as an example.
The final outcome is that the world rejects beauty and destroys it. The most beautiful content realizes its destiny at the moment it is shattered by the world. For those who cannot appreciate beauty, destroying beauty is the only way to regain their respect. Of course, this also includes their self-venting. The more they break, the more frightened they become. Beauty, for them, is aloof and can make ghosts appear in their hearts.
Of course, the film "The Doll Bride" only tells a story about the world possessing beauty and destroying it, and does not enter into a deeper philosophical analysis of this theme. After all, movies are a form of artistic entertainment that tells stories. Storytelling is still the most important thing and comes first. For movie fans who have a certain foundation in aesthetic construction, in this film, you will not see the content of selling meat, but only the dialectical relationship between beauty and secularity.(Text/Ma Qingyun)
(Text/Ma Qingyun)