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Chapter 242: The Brilliance +1
There is probably only one explanation that makes sense, and that is that it was intentional. There is no other explanation.

The fact that Fairy Zixia was able to escape is similar to the story of Sun Wukong causing havoc in Heaven, where all the gods and Buddhas in the sky were fooled around by a little fairy.

In "Journey to the West", the one who was sent to fight Sun Wukong was Erlang Xiansheng Zhenjun. Then in "A Chinese Odyssey", the one who captured Fairy Zixia was still Erlang Xiansheng Zhenjun. They are the same person.

Both sides ended up with nothing good.

Then, Sun Wukong in Journey to the West was pressed under the Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years because he caused chaos in Heaven.

In "A Chinese Odyssey", Zixia was reincarnated five hundred years later because she wanted to eat Tang Sanzang. Due to the turmoil, she was tempted to be a mortal and fled to the lower world, also fleeing for five hundred years.

Isn't this a bit too much of a coincidence?
Then, until the catastrophe he experienced, Sun Wukong changed from being disobedient and refusing to follow arrangements at the beginning.

In the end, due to some reasons, I had to embark on the journey to the west.

In Journey to the West, he was suppressed under the Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years, and was subdued by the golden hoop.

In “A Chinese Odyssey”, in order to save Zixia, even though Sun Wukong was extremely reluctant, he still put on the golden hoop, and from then on he was not allowed to be involved in any worldly desires.

He then embarked on the journey to the West and became the Fighting Buddha, whose fame will last forever.

500 years. VS. 500 years, is that a coincidence?
The one who beat Zixia was Erlang Shen, and the one who beat Sun Wukong was also Erlang Shen. Isn’t that a coincidence?
He was reincarnated as Zhizunbao, the second in command beside him was Zhu Bajie, the Marshal of the Heavenly Peng, and the blind man was Sha Wujing, the General Curtain-Pulling General. Isn't that a coincidence?

Sun Wukong ate his master to be reincarnated, do they also eat their master to be reincarnated?
This is the detail that Ami noticed.

Although "A Chinese Odyssey" seems particularly outrageous at first glance, and none of the plots have anything to do with "Journey to the West", they are completely unrelated.

But in reality?

If you look closely, you will be surprised to find that the opening and progress of "A Chinese Odyssey" and "Journey to the West" are exactly the same, and both have a phased change.

That is the change of entanglement and compromise between Sun Wukong and the West Heaven, and then he had to embark on the journey to the West.

The whole process fits perfectly and completely, and all events can be found to correspond accordingly.

Therefore, Zixia is just a chess piece specially released by the Buddhas in the Western Paradise.

It foreshadows Sun Wukong's emotional tribulation, the plot of overcoming the emotional barrier, Zixia died, and finally Sun Wukong put on the golden hoop, but still failed to save Zixia. Sun Wukong's last kiss also foreshadowed the official death of the once arrogant and domineering Monkey King, and from then on he was left with only a pawn who traveled west for Buddhism, fighting and defeating the Buddha.

The last detail is that Tang Seng became silent and no longer nagging, which seems to hint at a very scary detail.

When Sun Wukong was convinced, got rid of his emotional calamity, and embarked on the journey to the West, Tang Seng stopped talking.

He became taciturn.

This point is not explained in the script and is an open-ended plot.

Is it possible that after experiencing so many things, Tang Seng has become a different person? Is it not good to think too much?

But is there another possibility that he acted that way on purpose, and after Sun Wukong willingly went to the West to obtain the scriptures, there was no need for him to continue pretending?
Just like what Tang Seng said: "I have never been a talkative person."

Note the word 'always'.

Although this scene seems to be in line with the tone of the movie itself, it is absurd yet funny.

But the core beneath the funnyness, some of the details revealed are enough to make people sweat.

Then the movie ends with the sloppy figure of Sun Wukong carrying the golden cudgel across his shoulder, foreshadowing that the last bit of rebelliousness left in this once-invincible Great Sage will soon disappear.

From the beginning to the appearance of Zixia, Patriarch Bodhi was severely weakened and became so weak that Erlang Shen could not beat a wick. There were hints everywhere.

Until one misses out again and again, and finally comes to one's senses, it is already too late.

"What a Buddhist sect! What a hypocritical one!" Ami exclaimed.

This is the core of what Xia Yuan wants to express. Then comes the second layer. Even if you don’t understand the metaphor of the third layer, just looking at the second layer, the love story between Zixia and Zhizunbao is enough to support the whole movie.

It is not a story that is completely soulless and is simply sensational for the sake of tragedy.

It is flesh and blood. They are obviously a pair of people who understand each other very well, but because of various hardships in reality, they end up taking completely different paths.

As the saying goes, there is always something that is hard to resolve in this world. Some people and some feelings, when they are gone, are really gone.

In the end, Sun Wukong used his great magical powers to transfer his mind to the reincarnated Supreme Treasure, and the kiss he gave was equivalent to a farewell.

At that time he was no longer Zhizunbao, and Zhizunbao was already dead.

From beginning to end, Zhizunbao is just Zhizunbao, and Sun Wukong is Sun Wukong.

The two actually represent different meanings. The love story told in the whole story is just the love-hate entanglement between a mortal named Zhizunbao and the fairy Zixia.

He is not the Monkey King who is so arrogant that even the gods and Buddhas dare not speak nonsense to him. Instead, he is just a chivalrous hero who is powerless and can only cry out "wife" when in danger, and can be cross-eyed by the Seven Wound Fist of a martial arts master.

He didn't have the keen eyes to see who he truly loved, and he missed it until the last moment.

Just as the Monkey King's golden eyes cannot see through the insidiousness and cunningness of Buddhism.

Then there is a line in the ending song: the past, the present, and the past will never come back.

What was taken away was Zhizunbao’s resentment, and what was taken away was also Sun Wukong’s resentment.

There is no doubt that the moment Ami understood it, he had already determined that this was a rare classic. Xia Yuan was still the same Xia Yuan. He had never changed and would still bring them surprises in a way that ordinary people could not imagine.

You will never know how amazing Ami was about this movie when he understood it at that time.

It really was a feeling of being given goosebumps.

The whole movie is natural and no detail is wasted.

From the actors' performances to the pictures.

Even the performance of Fairy Zixia was beyond belief.

That loving look, that final unwilling look, and the tear left in Zhizunbao's heart.

That's not something that can be acted out. The biggest problem for actors is that although they act with great dedication and a strong sense of imagery, the traces of acting are too obvious.

Only those who practice experience can transcend this common sense.

Xia Yuan is one of them, one of the few.

Then there are some things that even those who are experienced cannot perform.

In the end, after he saw the cast and crew, he finally understood!
Because the Fairy Zixia was actually played by President Tang himself!

The boss of Heye Film and Television, Xia Yuan’s wife!

Now Ami understood.

The feelings are truly real, they are not acted out, they are real love!

Just like Fairy Zixia, no matter which actor you change, you won’t be able to get the same feel!

+1 for the casting!

Next is the soundtrack, which is so brilliant that it deserves another +1!

(End of this chapter)