That night characters are revealed to be Devils, the woman changes into a giant spider. Immortals and supernatural beings show up through both films. The "hero" is a scoundrel who gets beaten all the time and set on fire, in that marvelous way Hong Kong has of mocking cool. There's time travel and a story about being incarnated as the "Monkey King" of legend, meanwhile the famed Buddhist monk is shown to nag everyone with legalistic obtuseness. Illusory magic puts characters in each other's bodies.
Half of it makes no sense at all but strangely it somehow does. A Bull King with his army comes stomping into the scene. Now and then it erupts in flying wuxia, remarkable gliding and leaping through colored smoke. A battle takes place inside someone's body, slashing through arteries! It's drawing from its own Chinese folk tradition of course about ghosts, immortals and magical belief.
It begins with Guanyin, this is the boddhisatva of compassion in Buddhism, facing off with Monkey because Monkey can't stand the monk's nagging and wants out from the mission. How revealing to watch it with a Marvel comparison in mind who have many of the same stuff, mythic beings, gods and demigods where everything has to be laboriously explained. Everything here just springs from air, shapeshifts in and out of illusion. Characters come and go with no obligation to some overarching purpose, or feels like it.
Self is malleable, a matter of illusory disguise, a foolish invention the story gives rise to; so proper in a Buddhist context. Another context sees the women in control, the men as dufuses. Men and women change bodies, changing the social dynamics. Self being illusory, anyone can be anything, a devil of vast powers turn into just a girl in love. Yet the central tenet in the story is the pining for deep love. I could barely make sense of it but what I could hold onto is sweet and layered.
The hero travels through time to save his loved one, until he loses himself. But it seems that was someone he started to love out of duty to a story he made up, because he said he was who she was waiting for, Monkey. Being lost, he meets another girl who is his true love and "turns him" into that person.
There's body swapping at this point and she becomes possibly a Pigheaded henchman. His being torn between dutiful and true love is surreally transmuted in a scene with dual marriages supposed to take place. By the end we have veered off into a cosmic showdown where the sun is tethered close and burns everything up. And then we return to normative reality.
The "Monkey King" has to resume his place dutifully in the journey of fantastic mythadventure while his mortal self stays behind with the love of his life.
Parting illusory from real. This is taking whimsical nonsense as your dharma teacher. Details Edit. Release date February 4, Hong Kong. Hong Kong. Xi'an Film Studio. Box office Edit. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 38 minutes. Mono original mix. Related news. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Member login. Login to watch trendy content Login.
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