Carol Smith

Ne Zha is a second generation from a rich and high rank Chinese army family( a family of the army leader parents in Chentang in the movie. His parents are very busy with their career( have no time to play with Ne Zha in the movie) have no time to be with their child, and take all their child's mistakes to be their responsibilities( hardly punish Ne Zha in a traditional Chinese way but isolate him in the movie, the father even plans to die for saving his son's life in the movie. Ao Bing is a nice young man from a far more traditional Chinese village( dragons in the bottom of the sea in the movie. The village and villagers have been mistreated in the fast Chinese economic growth and left behind wounded( dragons have all been cursed at the bottom of the sea and have no power to escape in the movie. Ao Bing has a huge expectations from his father and master and tries to take their expects to climb up to the top of the social pyramid. The villagers' fear, hatred and prejudice to Ne Zha symbolised the public's fear to the new generation of Chinese new elites especially from an army background family. The Chinese thought those new elites had sin before their born. The sin has not been discussed clearly in the movie but is well known to the public. The sin is power, wealth and privilege in the Chinese society. Ne Zha and Ao Bing could also have been seen as two sides of China. They are like Yin and Yang in the Bagua. Both Ne Zha and Ao Bing have evilness and goodness inside them. The collaboration of Ne Zha and Ao Bing indicated a harmony to society. The discourse in the movie is not political correctness like a lot of audiences outside China would think. "No one but yourself could decide who you are" is a common rebellion idea to Chinese in its social revolutions and political movements. What is new in the movie is actually: people from rich and privileged, as well as people from poor and wounded have distructional power in the society, but if they work together, the destruction could turn into a harmony in the future.

鬼才?演??的作品，台?太?情. I feel like I just watched the whole movie. I just watched this movie. It is really a great movie. very interesting and inspiring. if (your) fate isn't fair, fight it till the end.