I finished watching "Jing Wu Men" and "Big Brother Tangshan" in one afternoon. The two films are tight in time, with the same production crew, and the themes complement each other to form the two main issues of the Hong Kong Left: nation and class. At first glance, these two movies seem to be ordinary martial arts movies, and the plot is like a running account. On closer inspection, we can see that the film's narrative on the main theme is very complete.
"Big Brother Tangshan" tells the romanticized class struggle. The beginning of the film illustrates the class differentiation with a sharp contrast of wealth: Bruce Lee’s hometown has been plagued with years of disasters, and he has to come to Thailand to make a living. His employer lives in a deep house like a compound in a country like Thailand, which is not even a developed country. As a squire, he monopolized all social power. Many details in the film explain in detail the great social power of capitalists. They not only have their own underworld organizations as thugs to suppress workers in a third world country with weak political power like Thailand, and their power extends to the officialdom (film The detail that the manager said that the boss had a future because of his dinner with the sheriff during the dinner between China-Israel Bruce Lee and the factory manager hints at why the workers have repeatedly failed to report the crime, and predicted the end of the police arrest of Bruce Lee) and went to the brothel. Correspondingly, when workers conflict with such forces, they will inevitably conflict with the power of the ruling class in the entire society. The description of class issues in the film is not limited to the direct conflict between the two parties, but also shows the diverse and specific manifestations of the oppression of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie, which makes the narrative on the issue of the film quite dialectical. The underworld that endangers the safety of the community in the film is a quasi-armed force of capital and livestock. The conflict between capital and advanced workers is shown as a conflict between locals and Chinese workers in foreign countries (this is why many people interpret this film as a nationalist narrative film). The political background of the capitalists is manifested in the delicate relationship between the police and the capital. The secret of drug trafficking in the ice rink is the focal point of the outbreak of class contradictions. It also shows the barbaric and primitive accumulation of capitalists in the third world countries. What is particularly impressive is that this film uses the heroine and the prostitute who entertains Bruce Lee to show a complete industrial chain of sexual exploitation: the heroine was looted at home by the management to become a maid. The prostitute was originally a prostitute in the capitalist’s house and was then abandoned to a brothel. Continue to sell his life to the benefactor in various forms. In the film, the jade given by Bruce Lee's mother is a manifestation of the workers' honesty and law-abiding. Jade being broken by the underworld is a sign that Bruce Lee, as an individual, is determined to resist after being oppressed by the management. It is also a sign that the group of workers in the factory has decided to strike. Bruce Lee was personally championed as a leader because of his outstanding performance in the labor movement. After being bought and confused by the management, he was ridiculed by advanced workers in the same house. After seeing them being wiped out by the underworld, he used force to directly attack the capitalists. In this process, the image of a worker who was forced to go to Liangshan by the management is ready to emerge.
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