"My biggest fantasy at the time was that China and the Soviet Union would go to war. Because I firmly believe that in a new world war, the iron fist of our army will smash the war machines of the United States and the Soviet Union. A world-renowned war hero will be This was born, that’s me.”
Jiang Wen revealed his heroic dream in "Sunny Days" and . By "Let the Bullets Fly" , he finally became a real hero in the movie.
is a phenomenon-level hot discussion caused by the movie. It was originally a clear story that was confusing and confusing by the audience's various brain analysis. The biggest controversy of
is the ending. Did Zhang Mazi really win Huang Shilang?
To fully analyze this problem, we need to start talking about the day Zhang Mazi entered Goose City.
Why does a robber want to be an official improvised? The setting of
Jiang Wen is very clear. The most direct reason for
is to make money.
is to earn money to study abroad for the little six, and to feed a bunch of brothers.
However, according to Huang Silang's description, Zhang Mazi had made a lot of money by looting opium near Goose City. It would be fine to send a group of brothers to study abroad. Then he didn't need to bother to make money as an official. This is something that Ma Bangde and the audience did not want to understand for a while.
And when Zhang Mazi revealed his identity, his lack of money is excusable.
Zhang Mazi, formerly known as Zhang Muzhi, made his debut with General Songpo. The prototype of General Songpa is Cai E, the main organizer and leader of the Yunnan National Protection Uprising in 1915. He responded to the Revolution of 1911 and opposed Yuan Shikai's Hongxian monarchy. He was an outstanding military leader in the early years of the Republic of China.
Unfortunately, Cai E was seriously ill with throat cancer and died after traveling to Japan. Zhang Mazi, who lost his master, fell into the grass and became a bandit from a righteous man.
Zhang Mazi still has justice in him, and he is a hero for the country and the people. He was incompatible with those warlords who exploited the masses. His personal strength could not be confronted head-on, so he had to hide in the mountains to "fight guerrillas."
In this way, even if he did steal the opium, he would only burn it like Lin Zexu, instead of selling it to make money and letting the opium harm the people.
So Zhang Mazi is a poor man and an idealist.
After entering Goose City as the county magistrate, he still maintained his belief.
"I never wanted to scrape the money from the poor." A line of
exposed his "nature" of robbing the rich and helping the poor.
In the conversation with Mabond, he actually explained why he fell into the trap.
"Let the Bullets Fly" story background is a warlord melee, the age of injustice, in such an environment to survive, want to climb up, you must follow various unspoken rules.
Ma Bangde is well versed in the world and buys officials to make money, but people like him can live freely.
Zhang Mazi is different, he disdains colluding with people like Huang Shilang, and many things can only go upstream.
"I just have trouble with my legs and feet, so I can't kneel down." The subtext of
is that Zhang Mazi does not succumb to the unspoken rules. He can't play with Huang Shilang's group, so he can only hide in the mountains.
But later, Zhang Mazi's mentality changed.
The first turning point was the jelly incident.
Zhang Mazi lost an important confidant, so he added a new goal to the original goal of "making money", revenge.
Mabangde is still in order to make money. At the "Hongmen Banquet", Huang Shilang said that he is a person who is very "pretending to be confused."
means that he knows the current affairs and knows how to seek perfection. On the contrary, Zhang Mazi said that he was not born to pretend to be confused, and that something was wrong in his eyes. He would not pretend not to know right or wrong and do things that go against his conscience. The three protagonists of
are actually each of the three types of people in troubled timesFor self-representation, Huang Shilang is a hero, Zhang Mazi is a hero, and Ma Bangde is a traitor.
Before leaving, Ma Bangde said that he lied to Zhang Mazi two things, but did not say anything. This has led to many speculations from netizens. There is no controversy about the first piece of
, and Mabond betrayed his second child. Ma Bangde happened to be there when Zhang Mazi sent his second child out of the city, which was an obvious foreshadowing.
There are more possibilities for the second thing. Some people say that his illegitimate son is a fake, and they just want to swindle Zhang Mazi's money, but after learning that the illegitimate son was killed, he lost control of his emotions. If he was a fake, it wouldn’t be the case; some said he knew that the third child had turned against him, but Later, the third child still helped a lot at the critical moment, and it was just something that was not said, so how could he be called a lie? A greater possibility of
is related to the magistrate's wife played by Carina Lau. The line after the "Assassination" actually hides mystery.
"I said I can't be the county magistrate, you have to spend money to buy this official."
Mabangde has always claimed that he is a veteran who spends money to buy officials, how can he say that he can't be the county magistrate anymore?
Because he has never been a county magistrate, this is actually his first appointment.
Zhang Mazi knows that more than 90% of Mabond's words are lies. This master is a standard wall horror, but they still have a special friendship.
Mabond’s old cunning is not born, but the world has forced him to be like this. He can survive only by cheating.
This is the tragedy of Mabond, but also the tragedy of the old society.
A series of tragedies continue to inspire the belief in Zhang Mazi's heart. With the escalation of the struggle with Huang Shilang, his purpose of becoming the county magistrate has also changed.
started to make money, then revenge, and finally wanted to achieve true justice in Goose City.
is the ultimate goal of the whole movie, to bring down Huang Shilang. If
succeeds, then Zhang Mazi won, and the curve of the story is complete. If
loses, the movie is a black tragedy. The key point of
is that Jiang Wen wants to make a relatively pure confrontation between good and evil, or wants to play "yin", and write Zhang Mazi as a complete tragedy. Fans of
know very well that "Let the Bullets Fly" was shot by Jiang Wen after the box office failure of "The Sun Also Rises" , he just wanted most people to understand it. Since
should be understood by most people, there is no need for him to engage in any mystery. When he talked about "Let the Bullets Fly" in an interview, he said that in fact, many people have over-interpreted it.
Since he designed a detailed character curve for Zhang Mazi, from being a county magistrate purely for making money, and then gradually being dug out of his true desires, in the end it is to let him realize this desire. If
is a tragedy, he wants to achieve justice from the beginning, not make money. He was full of confidence, and finally realized that the reality is cruel, that is the story curve that tragedy should have.
Huang Shiro realized that he had become a stand-in at the end, which fully shows that his stand-in card is gone. Maybe he did find the youngest and sister Hua and wanted to buy them, so the two of them came back late. They didn't look down on the substitute, but after a psychological struggle, they chose to stand on Zhang Mazi's side.
was probably out of guilt, the youngest finally decided to leave Zhang Mazi.
don't need to think about it too complicated, Zhang Mazi defeated Huang Shilang with a real hammer.
It’s just that his victory was paid with a painful price.
Zhang Mazi said to Huang Shilang: "Without you, it is very important to me."
This is actually a manifestation of his beliefs.
Huang Shilang represents evil forces and represents the injustice of the world. Zhang Mazi hopes that there will be no more people like Huang Shilang in the world, so that the people will not be oppressed and the world can be peaceful.
"Let the Bullets Fly" uses Zhang Mazi's victory to tell the audience that justice is achievable, and evil cannot be suppressed after all.
What's the matter with Huang Shilang's figure on the train in that cut clip? If it weren't for Jiang Wen's "ulterior motives", how could there be this fragment?
What we should first consider is not "fragments", but why Jiang Wen wants to "delete". As mentioned above, "Let the Bullets Fly" is what Jiang Wen wants the audience to understand. If the ending suddenly comes out like "Huang Shilang Resurrection", many people will not understand it again. In order to make the ending clearer, I simply deleted it.
Then why arrange such a scene? Many interpretations of
have already been explained, it is only an insinuation.
The youngest of them got the letter of commission and went to Shanghai Pudong as county magistrate. They are not like Zhang Mazi, they have a heart of justice, and money is the most important to them. Dao is different and not conspiring, so the separation of Zhang Mazi and the others is inevitable.
Huang Shilang was defeated, but the youngest and they became the next Huang Shilang.
Zhang Mazi, who saw Huang Silang's "shadow", followed the train to Pudong. If he can win once, he can win the second time. The last scene is a vision of justice following evil.
Evil can never be arrogant, because justice draws his gun at any time behind him. The struggle between
and Huang Shilang was victorious, but Zhang Mazi's mission continues.
If you live, you will die sooner or later, if you die, you will live forever. —— "Let the Bullets Fly"
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