With a tremendous bang!
Sun Wukong returned to the Water Curtain Cave.
His junior brothers and master were all there.
He found his junior brothers and master had changed, they had returned to normal.
Everything felt like a dream.
As he walked out of the Water Curtain Cave, he discovered the cave entrance had become the Bodhi Cave.
Bai Jingjing and Chun Thirty Niang had transformed into the "Tofu Beauty," and their husbands were the second-in-command who had become the top scholar.
“Working hard, wife, grinding tofu…” the second-in-command made an unexpected suggestive remark.
This lessened the audience’s sadness significantly.
“If you weren’t a mountain bandit, you wanted to be the top scholar?” Film critic Liu Hao suddenly remembered the foreshadowing from the first installment!
Sun Wukong and Tang Sanzang and his disciples didn’t linger, arriving at a town.
A man and a woman stood on the city walls.
It was said they had been standing there for a day and a night.
The woman gambled that the man actually liked her, but the man insisted on leaving.
The woman demanded a kiss before she would let him go.
Yet the man refused her again.
At this moment, the theme song "A Love for Eternity" suddenly played!
The onlookers below were all cheering.
Sun Wukong blew a puff of breath, possessed the man, and walked over to kiss the woman.
He finally kissed this woman!
Alas.
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“That person looks so strange.”
“I saw it too, he looks like a dog.”
The camera followed Sun Wukong as he gradually moved away.
Almost all the audience couldn't help themselves at this moment, their eyes suddenly turning red!
The figures of Tang Sanzang and his disciples walking away into the sunset.
The film concluded!
The credits rolled, but the cinema audience didn't get up, the man's final words still echoing in their minds.
“He looks like a dog!”
He was insulting Sun Wukong, and perhaps, by extension, the audience watching the film.
This was the final blow from editor Jiang Nan, striking the already wounded audience!
“I understand!!” Liu Hao’s eyes suddenly gleamed, and he quickly wrote in his notebook!
He finally understood the profound meaning of this drama!
Who said it lacked depth!
Who said the logic was flawed!!
He was overjoyed and wanted to rush home to make a video to share with everyone!
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Kyoto Cinema.
Zhao Yan leaned into Mo Yan’s embrace, sobbing uncontrollably.
The people in the cinema had already started to leave.
The song "A Love for Eternity" was still playing on the big screen.
When the film ended, everyone realized how perfectly "listening to the rain" fit the song!
“Why didn’t you let them be together!” she complained, sniffing.
It could have been a perfect ending, but at the last moment, they deliberately injected tear-jerking moments!
Wasn't this intentional manipulation for tears from the audience!
This Jiang Nan is truly detestable!!
“The ending was revealed earlier,” Mo Yan said helplessly.
As a music producer who also wrote stories, he naturally knew that this arrangement was the best.
Moreover, after understanding the core of the film, he felt a sudden wave of melancholy.
“What do you mean?” Zhao Yan tilted her head up.
She didn’t quite understand Mo Yan’s words.
“Destiny,” Mo Yan said, then got up and pulled Zhao Yan towards the cinema exit.
Zhao Yan’s face was full of confusion as she pondered Mo Yan’s four words.
If it was destiny, then shouldn’t Supreme Treasure and Zixia be together?
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A high-end club in Kyoto.
Li Hongyi and Qi Shenghua were awaiting good news.
The phone rang.
Li Hongyi answered, and his expression instantly changed!
He couldn’t even hold his teacup steady.
With a crash, it fell to the ground and shattered.
“What’s wrong?” Qi Shenghua asked, completely bewildered.
“It’s over…” Li Hongyi hung up the phone, muttering.
“What do you mean, explain yourself clearly,” Qi Shenghua quickly asked.
“The premiere of ‘A Chinese Odyssey Part Two’ received rave reviews and has now topped the trending list…” Li Hongyi slumped onto the sofa, completely drained of energy.
Qi Shenghua ignored him and quickly took out his phone to open Weibo.
Then, he froze in a state of shock.
The phone slipped from his fingers.
It bounced twice on the floor, and finally, the screen shattered.
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#“A Chinese Odyssey Part Two” Premieres, Ratings Soar!#
#Jiang Nan uses Supreme Treasure’s love to tell us about responsibility!#
#How can I save you without the golden fillet, and how can I love you with it?#
After the second part was released.
All the previous negative comments about it being difficult to write disappeared!
Simple plot, no depth, insufficient logic.
These were all explained in the second installment.
The relationship between Supreme Treasure and Zixia was analyzed by many film critics.
Especially Supreme Treasure watching Zixia die helplessly, unable to even reach out and hold her, his despair moved countless people.
“Whether it was Bai Jingjing or Zixia, they were all passersby in Supreme Treasure’s life. Only after dying once did he finally understand that when true responsibility arrived, he had no choice.”
“I laughed until I cried at the beginning, and then I cried like a dog at the end!”
“The lines in this movie are too classic. Supreme Treasure’s confession, and Fairy Zixia waiting for her destined one to save her. I predict many people on Douyin will recreate these scenes!”
“Zixia’s destined person was Supreme Treasure, but Supreme Treasure was destined to go to the West to retrieve Buddhist scriptures!”
“Tang Sanzang’s nagging can be interpreted as the annoyance one feels towards parents during rebellious phases. As he grew, he finally understood that his parents were always looking out for his best interest.”
“Supreme Treasure’s helplessness, isn’t it a reflection of many people in reality? Meeting the right person at the wrong time, how powerless and desperate that is!”
“Supreme Treasure ultimately failed to save Fairy Zixia. When Sun Wukong finally left the man’s body, everything in the world was irrelevant to him.”
Responsibility.
This was the core of the entire film.
In our impetuous youth, we only knew how to indulge and not cherish. By the time responsibility arrives, we realize we no longer have choices.
This was the meaning the audience was looking for.
Sun Wukong carrying the golden fillet and embarking on the journey to the West was his responsibility.
Similarly, shouldering a backpack and going to a strange city to earn money to support the family is also the responsibility of many people in reality.
Within bodies worn down by the daily grind of reality, those beautiful moments we missed, those regrets that cannot be spoken, are indeed unforgettable.
It is precisely because of this relatable quality that “A Chinese Odyssey” has resonated with so many people.
It turns out that the reason the first part was criticized by so many was that it depicted the rebellious youth that many had forgotten.
And when the second part returned to the theme of responsibility, facing reality, that sense of resonance plunged countless audiences into it, unable to extricate themselves!
But, life is just like this.
What can we do?
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