＂Rain of Swords＂ takes into account both martial arts and love, and interprets the emotional apocalypse of men and women
Michelle Yeoh, Li Zonghan, Zheng Yusheng
The martial arts masterpiece released on September 28 takes into account the dual elements of martial arts and love, including both the martial arts scenes of hard bridges and hard horses, as well as the entangled classical romance. It interprets the rivers and lakes from a female perspective, and penetrates the involuntary destiny of the rivers and lakes into it. There is also the self-growth of women. "Sword Rain" can be described as a "female emotional apocalypse". Zeng Jing (Michelle Yeoh) and Jiang Ah Sheng (Zheng Yusheng) are the truth in the bland, and Zeng Jing and Lu Zhu (Li Zonghan) are the vigorous love of life and death. This unhesitant triangular wrong love has become a major attraction in the film.
"Men watch martial arts dramas, women watch love dramas", "Sword Rain" kills two birds with one stone, and the success lies not only in "martial arts", but also in "love". The love drama in it exudes a strong legendary temperament and imagination of Oriental martial arts, and the love of chivalrous bones and tender intestines is evocative. Some small details in the love drama are even more empathetic to the female audience. For example, when she learned that her husband was too cash-strapped to eat bean skins, the heroine did not forget to buy a copy from the stall and put it in her arms before going to kill. These small details made "Sword Rain" a little more warm. Some female viewers said that "I haven’t seen such a flesh-and-blood martial arts movie for a long time."
Michelle Yeoh, who has always shown herself as a "beating woman", also made an impressive performance in the literary drama in "Sword Rain" this time. In addition to the classic martial arts scenes, she and Li Zonghan’s wonderful monk "Lu Zhu" and Zheng Yusheng’s messenger "Jiang Asheng" can also be regarded as female love models. The love of the ancients still has many implications for modern women across time and space. The person who loves you the most is the man who will fulfill you even if he is broken into pieces.
The encounter between "Drizzle" and "Jiang Ah Sheng" had a very high similarity rate, but the ending was very different, because "Jiang Ah Sheng" was not a simple Xu Xian, he was here to take revenge, knowing that "Drizzle"’s identity still made her go into danger and eventually return with serious injuries. "Drizzle" ‘desire to live an ordinary life away from the rivers and lakes can only become wishful thinking. And the man who can save your life at a critical moment is the man who loves you the most. "Lu Zhu" is such a man, who sacrificed himself only to influence Drizzle and teach skills. May the beloved save you from danger.
Li Zonghan, a popular mainland student known as "Mistress Killer" and "Girl’s Dream Lover", continued to play the emotional drama he has always been good at in "Sword Rain", and was very good at handling the deep and true emotions of Yeoh. The line "I would like to be transformed into a Qingshi Bridge and be beaten by the sun and rain for 500 years, just asking the girl to walk across the bridge…" The Shiqiao Zen dialogue has also become a current Internet buzzword. The Zen love between the two has attracted the attention of many audiences after the film was released. Some fans said that "the best thing about" Sword Rain "is the fairy tale full of Zen love."
Although the core of the story is still the traditional feud between the rivers and lakes, the combination of Su Zhaobin’s ingenious creativity and Woo’s violent aesthetics made "Sword Rain" highly praised when it was first released. A senior film critic called it "a high level of homework in the field of Chinese film in all aspects of directing, acting, photography, art, sound effects and so on."