After war with demons The Great Shennong, Divine Farmer and Father of the Gods, used hell furnace to create mysterious jade sword. With help of this blade he sealed the demon king in Purgatory Well and passed the three artifacts to the Moyue tribe, the Xuanwu tribe, and the Xiuxianyuan respectively. Thousands of years later, the god king fell, and the Xuanwu clan launched a war to seize the artifacts for greater strength, regardless of the ancestral training.
I hope that more people will see Joyland, understand the situation, and eventually change themselves and society so we can have a more accommodating world where everyday tragedies like the one depicted in the film do not occur.
Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow era, the film offers layered representation.
The differences in these films could not be more blatant, and yet Gus Van Sant has found a way to portray the same messages and use the same techniques in each.
It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
Can a piece of bad representation truly be reclaimed? We Are Pat (2025) attempts to answer this question.
