1. In the eyes of literati, this film's teaching about some truths is too simple and blunt. But this is a movie made for the emperor of kung fu. People who practice martial arts are bold and straightforward. Naturally, Jet Li will not teach the audience the truth in a subtle and esoteric way like a scholar of Wenxuanxuan. The literati felt that they were being taught by Li Yong's great principles, because we all know these great principles in our proud hearts, but do we really understand them?
Although Huo Yuanjia tried his best to learn Huo Jiaquan at a young age, he was severely injured in the arena and was ridiculed and insulted by his opponents, which planted the seeds of unconfidence in his heart. The weak self in the depths is afraid to face the shadow of failure, and is angry because of it, invincible in the local area, and powerful on the surface.
Successful people are often excellent because of inferiority. They desperately compete for the first place, because they are not sure of themselves in their hearts. If a person really thinks he is good enough, will he have to fight for "No. 1 in Tianjin"? In the movie, the young Huo Yuanjia clearly showed his restlessness and complacency towards No. 1. I noticed that when he met Huo Yuanjia, that beggar would say, "Huo Yuanjia, when did you become the number one in Tianjin? Just today, just today!" In fact, this beggar is the visualization of Huo Yuanjia's heart description, we don't have to think he really exists at all. The beggar expressed Huo's thoughts, but beggars are untidy and despicable. This kind of eagerness for quick success and inferiority has laid the groundwork for Huo's failure.
Everyone is weak in childhood, unable to protect himself, and may lose his life at any time. Because of this experience, we all have an inferiority complex. In social life, external standards such as power, wealth, and reputation have become accepted standards for judging a person's worth. We are all involuntarily pursuing external success to affirm our own value, completely disregarding our inner evaluation of ourselves and not affirming ourselves. A person with low self-esteem works hard to fight in the arena of life, because he believes that only by defeating all opponents and becoming the number one in the world can everyone affirm themselves and become confident and proud. He will not be happy, because there is no eternal number one, and his pursuit will only be his efforts to become a foreign object, driving himself to a dead end and eventually losing himself. I found a few lines. It was Huo Yuanjia's conversation with his old friend Nong Jinsun in the ring after he defeated Zhao Jian who bullied him back then.
Nong: No. 1 in Tianjin is really that important?
Yuan Jia: Oh, come on, come on~~ Jinsun, you've always been watching from the bottom of the ring, but now you're standing on top, what's the difference for you?
Farmer: What's the difference?
Yuan Jia: Under the ring, life or death on the stage has nothing to do with you. You are just having fun! But standing here, you can only win, not lose!
Nong: Then you don't have to be in the ring?
Yuanjia: Jinsun, listen!
Farmer: Listen to what? I didn't hear anything.
Yuan Jia: I heard~!
Voice-over (Master Huo, you are our hero! Good~~ Good fight~!~ Good~~ Good~ Good! Huo Yuanjia is the best in the world! Good~~)
2. Huo is the first in his pursuit of the world Once he lost his most important relatives, he couldn't bear the blow. It turned out that what was really important to him was not those false names, but the close relationship with his important relatives.
Huo Toushui committed suicide, killing his former self. In a remote and beautiful mountain village, he got a new life after meeting the beautiful blind girl Yueci. The peaceful and beautiful mountain village is a metaphor for a state of mind that conforms to nature, no longer forcing oneself to compete for the first place, and a peaceful and peaceful state of mind, which is relieved from the contrast formed by the domineering people in the past.
The blind woman is not the vase that adorns the film. She is blind but can see everything clearly, because she is not driven by foreign objects. Facing the fact that she is blind, she is truly herself. Yueci is Huo's life mentor. She made Huo from a blind man to become a master of himself, and has the courage to face himself, just like the words in Jay Chou's lyrics, "The years in a small town have passed by, and the clear courage has washed my memories. Remember that you live proudly", this time he really became proud, and this experience also gave birth to his martial arts, and only then did he have the wonderful conversation when he was drinking tea with the Japanese samurai.
Tanaka: Does Mr. Huo really understand tea when you say that?
Huo Yuanjia: It's not that I don't understand it, it's that I don't want to understand it. I don't want to differentiate the tea, it's just tea.
Tanaka: But this tea has high and low grades and different qualities.
Huo Yuanjia: What is high? What is low? They are all grown in nature, and there is no distinction between high and low.
Tanaka: It seems that your Excellency really doesn't understand, otherwise, it will naturally be high and low.
Huo Yuanjia: Mr. is right. Therefore, in my opinion, the quality of tea is not told to us by tea, but is determined by people. Different people have different choices, and I am reluctant to make this choice.
There is a tendency in society to use people as tools, to emphasize competition with each other, and to derive some criteria for judging how well these tools perform. Everyone is unique and there is no superior or inferior. We can't just cater to the standards of society, disregard our inner and interpersonal emotions, be used like a tool, knock down our opponents in competition, and become ruthless.
After seeing Huo Yuanjia planting the seedlings indiscriminately, Yueci said a few very abrupt words to him:
Yueci: The seedlings also have life, and they can't get too close. Everyone can live peacefully and happily.
Yuanjia: I will remember.
I think these are the ultimate meanings of the film: the real strong person is not the one who subdues others, the person who holds the title of "No. 1 in the world", not the blind person, but the truly self-improving and kind person. Father Huo is such a strong man.
3. Li has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and won the all-around champion of martial arts boys at the age of 11. After 1977, he was the all-around champion of national martial arts competitions for three consecutive years. The young Huo Yuanjia here is as young and promising, always "the first in the world". Later, entering the American film and television industry was like the final arena in the film. Although he did not succeed in the end, he brought the Chinese martial arts spirit overseas, so that foreigners can roughly understand that Kongfu is not for winning. Weak, full of loving-kindness is the most important.
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