As far as Donnie Yen's portrayal of the character of Ip Man himself, I can give five stars. But Ye Weixin doesn't know if it's because of the finale, there are a few times when the national sentiment is raised a little abruptly in the handling of literary dramas, and it is faster than the previous ones.
National prejudice is impossible to eliminate directly, communication is an eternal process. In May of this year, when I visited the ancestral temple in Foshan and saw the Ye Wen exhibition hall, I saw precious photos of Ye Wen and his later disciples preaching and teaching around the world, and then I realized that he was not just a bloody fight. People who think that foreign moons are rounder, never forget their roots, and don't sell their books easily. His disciples are all over the world, and those apprentices who have devoted themselves to practicing martial arts overseas are also a feat of Ye Wen's real strengthening of communication and understanding.
The essence of Chinese martial arts has always been Tao rather than magic, and that is the reason why Ang Lee used practical actions to show off his martial arts for the Chinese people at the Oscars. Art above reality is based on conformity to reality, not deviating from reality. It is also a business. Among the great masters of the generation, Wong Kar-wai would choose to intersperse Zhang Ziyi with his opponents in the fight scenes. He used artistic shooting techniques to focus more on the details of the action. It is smooth and decent, showing the true charm of boxing with both rigidity and softness, and Ye Wen's lines to mobilize national emotions are densely arranged, in order to highlight Ye Wen's boss-like treatment of Colin's victory over all Chinese before, as well as to the Americans in the 1960s. The explicit and exaggerated treatment of implicit racial discrimination inevitably reveals a deliberately pleasing color, which is stronger than the previous ones.
To become a hero, you must first make your character more full. Many times, the more we deliberately use labels to rudely create a single-character national image, the more the public will misunderstand and prejudice this image, and the binary opposition in this world will become more and more serious. Maybe in the twilight years of kung fu films, out of feelings, you are willing to pay for all such types of films on the market, and you don't care whether the director really has feelings or just sees it as a business. The themes actually come from those pioneering ingenuity decades ago. If the film industry will eventually move towards the assembly line and the era of homogenization, it may be better to be brave, let the memory stop here, and keep the original intention. The heroism in our hearts should be fuller, so that we can have a stiffer neck
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