Movie: Painted Skin

Though it's the story about ghost, the love between human and monster is so touching.

Painted Skin

Information

Website: http://skin.deegroup.com/

Director: 陳嘉上

Starring: 周迅、趙薇、甄子丹、陳坤、孫儷

Story

The film adopts the story from an ancient Chinese story about the ghost.

It said about a monster who want to experience the life of human being pretend a normal people and join one of the family member of the famous warrior. At first, the monster does everything she could to lure the warrior, but the warrior refuses because he already has a wife. In the past, his wife decide to chose the warrior and not the other guy. Thus, even though the warrior like the pretend monster, he've never done something that will make his wife sad. Meanwhile, the warrior's life knows her husband love this newcomer and also find out the true face of the monster. She decides to fullfill this love and sacrifice herself. The most important and touching part is about the the monster's attitude toward love and the attitude is differ according to the monster's understanding about love.

My Reflection

Orginally, I thought it's a ghost story from the poster , so I feard so terribly to watch a horror story alone. Thus, I asked my sister to accompany me and later found out that the moive is so lovely and touching.

It's not dare to say the most impressed part is the monster's attitude toward love in different process. At first, the monster thinks that to love is to possession. Therefore, she uses tricky methods in order to attract the warrior and produces accidents to let everyone admire herself more than the warrior's wife. However, she can't get the equal payment for a long time and thinks that she can owe everthing if the warrior's wife dead. To her surprise, the love between the warrior and his wife is so stable that moves the monster's attitude. In the end, the monster inspire that to love is to let the lover feel happy.

I really like the end of the story when the monster understand the nature of love, she decide to exchange her thousand years life for everyone. I was soooooo moved at that time and thought this behavior was so noble no matter what the monster had done before. You will know that the monster trully understands what's the simple rule of the universal which we even sometimes forget in our lifes.