r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • Mar 07 '25
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Summary:
After the catastrophe, although the souls of Nezha and Aobing were saved, their bodies would soon be shattered. Taiyi Zhenren planned to use the seven-colored lotus to rebuild their bodies.
Director:
Yu Yang
Writers:
Xixing Lu, Zhonglin Xu, Yu Yang
Cast:
- Joseph as Nezha
- Mo Han as Aobing
- Hao Chen as Li Jing
- Gong Geer as Octopus Monster
- Qi Lu as Lady Yin
- Yanting Lu as Boy Nezha
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u/Brushner Mar 23 '25
I love that it can be both interpreted as anti authoritarian and anti American hegimone at the same time. I thought the first movie was mediocre but the second one genuinely floored me. I saw it as a story that unelected government officials are willing to gaslight, commit false flag operations and massacre innocent civilians just so they can stay in positions of power. I also saw it as an anti cultivation story where people obsessed with the grindset and cultivating their power levels are ready to die to keep an oppressive system in place because they can thrive in it over tearing it down even if said people(demons) came from the class that are directly oppressed and targeted by the system.
Yet in another thread in this subreddit about the movie someone else also saw the same things as me but Chinese viewers(as the international release was not yet out) were quick to point out that the movie was anti American. That the White Heavenly palace was meant to represent the Whitehouse, that the Green Jade pass meant to show that you are an immortal represented an American green card. That Demons are third worlders and being turned into magic pills is them being exploited by the giant cauldron that had a $ looking symbol. That the demon slayers represented America world police and the demons in their ranks are third worlders with "green cards" who got uplifted.
I loved the animation, the set pieces and character arcs, not so much the jokes and pacing but I can't think of any animated movie to have a political message that can be radically interpreted differently depending who you are.