Tell people the truth in the relative flatness of the plot

Nat 2022-04-21 09:01:38

I don't know if it's the director's style or Ip Man's story itself is very plain. This is a kung fu film that doesn't look so kung fu, even like a documentary?
However, one can roughly understand the life of Ye Wen, a martial arts master who is very restrained and attaches great importance to the cultivation of martial arts.
This is a kind of martial arts movie that is rare in recent years. I wonder what Jet Li, who said it was his last martial arts movie "Huo Yuanjia", would think after watching it?

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Extended Reading

Ip Man quotes

  • Miura: [after witnessing Ip Man single-handedly defeat ten Japanese fighters at once] What's your name?

    Ip Man: I'm just a Chinese man.

  • Ip Man: [hits Lei] Traitor!

    Captain Lei Chiu: Why am I a traitor? Their deaths have got nothing to do with me. I'm just an interpreter. I need to scrape a living too!

    Ip Man: Scrape a living? You watch your countrymen get beaten to death. Where's your dignity?

    [walks away]

    Captain Lei Chiu: I don't have any. You do. You have lots of it. If you have the guts, go beat them! Beat as many as you can! I'm an interpreter, not a traitor...

    [throws book to the ground and shouts in Japanese]

    Captain Lei Chiu: I'm a Chinese man!