The plot of this film is fragmented, and it does not tell a complete story. Therefore, it is more like a life documentary than all the previous Ip Man. It is said that it is a life documentary, and another point is that this film restores the style of the streets and alleys of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s in terms of details (shop recruits, shouts from small merchants and hawkers, etc.), which makes people very nostalgic. What is gone is always beautiful.
Huang Qiusheng played very well. After reading it, the image of this old man who is far away from his hometown, lonely, stubborn, and stubborn has been lingering in my mind.
Maybe you don't have ambition to produce a good work. Donnie Yen and Tony Leung's Ip Man, the propaganda is full of hype, and the kung fu is full of airs. No one made it well, so he simply described the lonely Ye Wen in Fengchen Ukiyo-e like a prose. He will not stand out for the righteousness of the nation, he will not refute others plausibly, he is not good at expressing his emotions, he is helpless in the face of suffering, but he is not at a loss, and he does not dare to accept the arrival of happiness and let it flow like sand between his fingers.
I think this kind of Ip Man is much more moving than the Ip Man who beat the western combination boxing with his small arm in the ring, and the one who has been entangled with the only female descendant of the northern martial arts family for a lifetime .
This film reminds me of another life film full of pure Hong Kong flavor that I watched many years ago, called "Whenever Changes", starring Miriam Yeung and Eason Chan (it is said that Huang Bo was also in it, who was born in the past, but did not recognize it), It is so touching that the common people in the market in the big era are divided and combined.
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