I don't care what anyone says. This drama is giving hitchcockian vibes.
Definitely and not limitedly hitchcockian, depends what sensation the scene wants to convey, what is in the camera focus, there's a constant connection between the kind of a story narrated in a particular moment and the style-technique used by the director. This director is a top master of her art, very versatile in using different tools of different classical master, good both in close shots (eg. Bai Lu's face behind the candle is almost a painting, a portrait), evoking scenes of beauty or arts (Bai Lu's dress when she was painting a murales), large shots (the landscape in which young Ye Li searched for ML, carefully chosen to correspond her narration reminded me of Pollock's My Africa or David Lean's classics), martial arts capturing, tension and distension creation... It's a feast for the eyes
That was truly a fun moment. She wants so hard to get rid of him, yet he sticks to her so hard. 😂😂😂Btw.,…
that wa my impression of lil' bro: that he just wanted to impress him and wasn't evil deep down He also never spent a lot of time with his father, he was living with his mom in another region. I wonder why... Between an unknown father and unknown brother, just for the question of age, I'd prefer to bond with the latter
Highlights of eps today. If you are not updated and do not want to be spoiled do not read what follows. 1. the wheelchair crashed bravely fighting with ML against unreasonably high number of assassins sent (by Muyang) to kill a "cripple". The assassins even formed a guarding encirclement form, totally unrealistic. But necessary for dramatic purposes. To let us (=the audience) go of that wheelchair, to make that wheelchair die as a hero, as a martyr and ofc. to make everybody knows ML is BACK ON HIS FEET (although we knew that already) and to make ML brag at every corner his wife cured his legs. 2. Duke Hua finally personally appeared saying more than 2 sentences. Now we know he wasn't only ML's former superior but was a friend of FL's grandpa and knew her when she was a little... 3. the irritating element in the plotline also successfully trown herself in front of the ML's sis-in-low's carriage. Nobody (=the audience) is happy about her but I don't think she'll get a lot of screentime or affect... 4. ... A'Yao's-A'Li's relationship. Beyond any reasonable doubt, these two love each other. 5. A personal thing which doesn't interest anybody: The cicadas bursting my eardrums and the damn hot summer landscape around me totally correspond to the account Ye Li's is giving in the drama, she even sounds like a heroine from the worlds' narrative and dramaturgical classics. I totally feel for and with her, although I am counting number of days (now it's 3) when I'll jump into the sea. She wanted a glance on her man that time, but I am not the less in my desire to throw myself into the sea, surviving the heat and the noise of cicadas reminding me: it's time to go to the sea! 6. the villain trio finally starts to make some sense. ED used Muyang as a tool to survive and get the power. Muyang used the ED to justify his wrongdoings. But she doesn't want him to be himself (ie. the criminal), she wants him to arise (her words: to grow) from that condition to smth more conciliating and noble. Good luck with that, lol 7. Muyang sent his son to eliminate his subordinate from talking and sent an assassin to kill the son. Although I think the Qin boy survived, he stupidly obeyed this villain's orders. No problem with him killing that corrupted man in prison, but he killed a prison guard along the way...
LOL, "you're an assassin, where's your ambition??" That's precisely the kind of pep-talk she'd give hahaha~100…
That was truly a fun moment. She wants so hard to get rid of him, yet he sticks to her so hard. 😂😂😂 Btw., I also think QC isn't dead. The problem is that now he has done smth truly bad (I don't refer to the corrupted minister), he killed a prison guard.
I just hate these white lotus bitches that bother the main couple, I'm still ot over the one in Prisoner of Beauty,…
To calm your irritation, I can only say this one can hardly compare to the bi*** in POB, bc that one was so intense in her manipulations, that I've actually found her more interesting to watch than the FL when that storyline started to show certain flows. They are both certainly (unreasonably) convinced they are able to turn the tides in the loving relationship between the leads and determined to do so, having their own personal agendas, but this Su girl seems not to possess hard and soft power the noseless lady had. Besides, the noseless lady had wider range of utility in that plotline than this one can possibly have in TFJ plotline. Nevertheless, the Su girl can still irritate to a certain degree. If we can pardon her for being a trigger the Ye Li's jealousy, she will complicate the story (trying to kill the foreign princess framing our dear Ye Li) in a way we don't desire, bc the pending issues are many and heavy and what we (=the audience) want to see are not some new troubles, but those old issues cleared and resolved.
Is Mo Jing Li hiding in Lishan Mountain, since it is abandoned, and no one enters there? What happened to Whatshisname…
No, MJL is in some hideout of the Red Fox. As for the ruins, it was an intentional cut and camera shift deception. The moment cpt. Li stepped into the academy, what we saw wasn't the interior of the academy but the (burnt) courtyard and then the messy study at MJL's mansion in the capital where FL's stepsister was sorting books...
Does the story focus mostly on the FL? Does the Ml have a lot less scenes? Cus I’m reading all posts , nearly…
FL suffers from a particular psychological condition, that's why we all talk a lot about her. She is very cool and strong, but at the same time, extremely vulnerable, and the latter trait make us fear for her more than we fear for the ML, also bc she has already healed his condition (invalidity due to past injuries). But in terms of screentime, they are equal and the ML is just great. People in this section call him "our husband" and FL "our wife" as they (we) are participants in their husband-wife relationship and loving them both, that's how great are the script, direction, performance, visuals, bgm... I would recommend this drama to every person craving for a veeery original story in a fictional period drama genre. It has all the elements of a classic to be remembered for a long time
Let me tell you. Screaming!! Episode 22 yes! He beat that ass! Picked up that lance and said...BAM! I was hollering.…
It's a spear, not a lance. Don't worry, neither did I knew the difference a short while ago 😂 A to your Q: she can't face the reality at her will. She developed a severe PTSD on Li mountain and her brain suppressed and rescripted the events connected with the trauma in her memory, bc just remembering would cause an unbearable pain. The deep brain (amygdala), prioritising the survival, erases the part of the memory connected with the painful event without "informing" the pre-frontex, thus the person isn't even conscious of it.
People who wanted to believe on FL's feelings for ML, did not need to see episode 23 for that. It was crystal…
Her feelings were crystal clear when she told him the reason why she wanted his legs healed, how she depicted him when he was young, that image of his strength, vigour and intensiveness in her mind was an indirect confession of how she felt about him. What she described was... enrapture. Before that, when he was all down, she solemnly told him she intends to spend a life with him and to take care of his well being. Immediately after, she eliminated Lv vilain. She is a determined, protective and caring person who has things to do on her agenda and is still not completely open with him, but the reason why she is not bc she doesn't love him. In part it is due to her high state of alertness connected to her condition and in part is due to a habit: she is used to make decisions alone, brainstorming problems only with her imaginery friend.
People who wanted to believe on FL's feelings for ML, did not need to see episode 23 for that. It was crystal…
imho, having read some of those comments, they have prejudices towards Ye Li because she is "mentally unhealthy" - convinced "mentally unhealthy" are unable to have perfectly normal feelings. I've tried to prove them it's completely untrue and that people (at least people with FL's type of disturb, caused by a trauma) actually could have deeper feelings and show extraordinary care for others, but it's like you've said: people believe what they want to believe.
yes. but she thinks its her master that is helping not her. so she him as a split personality.
we don't know when captain Li left Lishan. 3 years ago he got a job of chief guard at Ye mansion. I don't think he could have left the sealed mountain, he left earlier, probably at the time she entered. As for the rest, even the most serious drama applies certain exaggerations for dramatic purposes. Besides, they don't sell her to us as a successful businesswoman, you are overstating. She even says the business doesn't flourish. She employed her senior from Lishan and he takes care of subordinates and business.
The Burdens She carry are too heavy honestly! I was so caught up in their little moments to even notice that she's…
Well, this is not completely correct. She was diagnosed by the doctor ML consulted. His verdict was "heartbreak" due to "heavy shock". You can find this "diagnose" in many ancient textbooks, classical narrative and folktales all around the world. It's always that same term: heartbreak.
Actually, dissociative fugue and identity alteration are among those PTSD and DID symptoms largely treated in Classical literature: in King Lear, Edgar (who suffers from trauma caused by his murderous father) sees himself as another person, "poor Tom", a beggar possessed by demons, thing often quoted in manuals, while Ajax (in homonimous Sophocles tragedy, based on the story told in Odissey but without specific preceeding PTSD details) storms sheep and cows imagining they are Greeks who took Achilles's weapons, torturing them for many days without ever realising they were not even humans but animals. These and other examples from ancient literature, like Aeschylus's trilogy Oresteia, each one of the three dramas treating a different PTSD disorder, are very often quoted in scientific texts on PTSD.
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He also never spent a lot of time with his father, he was living with his mom in another region. I wonder why...
Between an unknown father and unknown brother, just for the question of age, I'd prefer to bond with the latter
1. the wheelchair crashed bravely fighting with ML against unreasonably high number of assassins sent (by Muyang) to kill a "cripple". The assassins even formed a guarding encirclement form, totally unrealistic. But necessary for dramatic purposes. To let us (=the audience) go of that wheelchair, to make that wheelchair die as a hero, as a martyr and ofc. to make everybody knows ML is BACK ON HIS FEET (although we knew that already) and to make ML brag at every corner his wife cured his legs.
2. Duke Hua finally personally appeared saying more than 2 sentences. Now we know he wasn't only ML's former superior but was a friend of FL's grandpa and knew her when she was a little...
3. the irritating element in the plotline also successfully trown herself in front of the ML's sis-in-low's carriage. Nobody (=the audience) is happy about her but I don't think she'll get a lot of screentime or affect...
4. ... A'Yao's-A'Li's relationship. Beyond any reasonable doubt, these two love each other.
5. A personal thing which doesn't interest anybody: The cicadas bursting my eardrums and the damn hot summer landscape around me totally correspond to the account Ye Li's is giving in the drama, she even sounds like a heroine from the worlds' narrative and dramaturgical classics. I totally feel for and with her, although I am counting number of days (now it's 3) when I'll jump into the sea. She wanted a glance on her man that time, but I am not the less in my desire to throw myself into the sea, surviving the heat and the noise of cicadas reminding me: it's time to go to the sea!
6. the villain trio finally starts to make some sense. ED used Muyang as a tool to survive and get the power. Muyang used the ED to justify his wrongdoings. But she doesn't want him to be himself (ie. the criminal), she wants him to arise (her words: to grow) from that condition to smth more conciliating and noble. Good luck with that, lol
7. Muyang sent his son to eliminate his subordinate from talking and sent an assassin to kill the son. Although I think the Qin boy survived, he stupidly obeyed this villain's orders. No problem with him killing that corrupted man in prison, but he killed a prison guard along the way...
Btw., I also think QC isn't dead. The problem is that now he has done smth truly bad (I don't refer to the corrupted minister), he killed a prison guard.
Besides, the noseless lady had wider range of utility in that plotline than this one can possibly have in TFJ plotline.
Nevertheless, the Su girl can still irritate to a certain degree. If we can pardon her for being a trigger the Ye Li's jealousy, she will complicate the story (trying to kill the foreign princess framing our dear Ye Li) in a way we don't desire, bc the pending issues are many and heavy and what we (=the audience) want to see are not some new troubles, but those old issues cleared and resolved.
As for the ruins, it was an intentional cut and camera shift deception. The moment cpt. Li stepped into the academy, what we saw wasn't the interior of the academy but the (burnt) courtyard and then the messy study at MJL's mansion in the capital where FL's stepsister was sorting books...
A to your Q: she can't face the reality at her will. She developed a severe PTSD on Li mountain and her brain suppressed and rescripted the events connected with the trauma in her memory, bc just remembering would cause an unbearable pain. The deep brain (amygdala), prioritising the survival, erases the part of the memory connected with the painful event without "informing" the pre-frontex, thus the person isn't even conscious of it.
As for the rest, even the most serious drama applies certain exaggerations for dramatic purposes. Besides, they don't sell her to us as a successful businesswoman, you are overstating. She even says the business doesn't flourish. She employed her senior from Lishan and he takes care of subordinates and business.
Actually, dissociative fugue and identity alteration are among those PTSD and DID symptoms largely treated in Classical literature: in King Lear, Edgar (who suffers from trauma caused by his murderous father) sees himself as another person, "poor Tom", a beggar possessed by demons, thing often quoted in manuals, while Ajax (in homonimous Sophocles tragedy, based on the story told in Odissey but without specific preceeding PTSD details) storms sheep and cows imagining they are Greeks who took Achilles's weapons, torturing them for many days without ever realising they were not even humans but animals. These and other examples from ancient literature, like Aeschylus's trilogy Oresteia, each one of the three dramas treating a different PTSD disorder, are very often quoted in scientific texts on PTSD.