执着的保卫本身认同的诠释，当然是一种乐趣，但笔者看来，又何须非要有个成果，对世界的认知保存一份昏黄，也恰是很多积极乐不雅者采纳的人生立场，或许这是李安拍摄双故事片的初志吧。

The nightmare was about a demonic possession. A long time ago, there was an evil in a small town and it was jealous of the girl and would never let her go, since the devil loved the girl. One night, the evil raped the girl and she became pregnant. After months the girl could not hide her baby, her father figured her secret out and clapped the girl in irons and locked her room door. But the evil put the gun to her father temple and saved the girl. The father had a stroke and had been sleeping on the bed for three months and died. Time went on and the girl brought a child into the world. Naturally, people who were living in the village heard the story and they did not want to see neither the girl nor the baby since when the baby was born, plants dried in the field, fishes lost in the lake and people had prayed to the god for rain, but nothing changed in the village. People got so angry, dug a hole in front of the fountain, put her into the hole and threw stones at her face. The girl died soon after. The evil went off the deep end, took a revenge of the village and killed everyone except two sisters because the evil wanted them to take care of its baby...

作为首部揭秘三百年京剧起源的国产电影，《进京城》以京剧发展史上的著名事件;徽班进京为故事蓝本，讲述清代乾隆年间，扬州春台班进京为皇帝祝寿的前后，发生在宫廷皇城与曲艺梨园间的恩怨纠葛，并由此揭开了国粹京剧300年前的源起史诗