Chinese assassins are different from foreign assassins. Chinese assassins adhere to a chivalrous sentiment based on humanistic emotions. They can die to repay kindness, live in vain for promises, and even torture themselves to pieces for revenge without regrets. They rarely have a noble sense of family and country in their hearts. Most of them are contractual relationships between masters and servants. Once they receive the favor of their masters, they can go through fire and water without hesitation. However, they are very different from pure slaves. They have their own style of conduct and independent personality. They have agreed to form a special relationship that is not masters and servants, non-friends, and non-confidants with their masters. A drop of water should be repaid with a spring of water. Rather than saying that the assassin's loyalty is a principle of doing things that is not owed to the master who receives favor to his own. When the favor has been paid, there will be no entanglement between the assassin and his master, and he will never meet again and will never interact with each other since he was old and death. This feature can probably be seen as the creed that Chinese assassins adhere to. But often the way assassins repay their master's favor is to repay their lives. The masters are well aware of the assassins' procedures, so they will never easily send the assassin to take action unless they have to. However, the culture of Chinese assassin is not unchanged. With the advancement of time and the change of dynasties, the assassin's independent self is gradually declining, being replaced by "professional killers" and "deadpool", becoming a violent tool for those with powerful people to consolidate their rule and eliminate dissidents. Assassin culture is still flourishing in the power circles of various countries.
This movie, called Assassin's Creed, presents a historical scroll about Western assassin culture to the public in a scientific and religious way. Although the author did not agree with the creed that the assassins have adhered to for generations of people who are called "free will" by human beings, it has to be said that the whole movie has a strong sense of substitution for the narrative of the "Knights Templar" and "Assassin Organization" representing the top Western political leaders. Whether it is the "Knights Templar" or the "Assassin Organization", the mysterious religious rendering power makes people curious and stare at it when they take oaths and secret meetings, judgments and deaths. Death, blood, peace, faith are killed and killed between religion and paganism. It is hard to say who is the absolute dawn of justice. It is not that the "assassin organization" represents justice for the sake of human "free will" and the "Knights Templar" represents the darkness of dictatorship. In fact, what the "Knights Templar" does seem to be to control the power and autocracy of the people, and it is somewhat unreasonable to deprive individuals of their freedom, but this approach is precisely the most rational way to protect individual rights and freedoms. What a terrible thing it would be if the leadership of a country did not concentrate its power and allowed the people of this country to be free! When law and morality are bewitched by the so-called "free will", the country will be divided, fall apart, riots and disasters. This is the seemingly beautiful but extremely tragic ending brewed by "free will".
What is most unacceptable about this movie is the director's attempt to make a non-noble, old, and outdated one., paranoid, and even childish thoughts were instilled into the audience, thinking that wrapping the cloak of fighting against religion could demonstrate the greatness and sacredness of this thought. It smells a bit of forceful brainwashing. But the director seems to have forgotten that it is the Internet era in the 21st century. As long as ordinary people who are not closed to the country can have uncontrollable independent thinking, the current trend of thought is gradually gathering in the respect and awe of individual life that "man is born with good nature". There is nothing more noble and greater than the creed of respecting life and fearing life. The basis for eliminating violence and terror must first respect life and fear life, rather than giving up life, killing people in order to talk about the so-called "free will", which is like a disguised fight against violence, and the result must be violence rather than peace.
In the film, the father of the male protagonist killed the male protagonist's mother in order to protect Assassin's Creed from being destroyed. This made me both indignant and confused. I wondered what this Assassin's Creed is? Can it actually make people so crazy and claim to be great and glorious? When the male protagonist led a group of descendants of the assassin organization to fight out like gangs from passionate universities, I suddenly realized: the so-called assassin is not a hero who protects the light, but a group of organized and educated thugs. It's just that some people want to embellish it.