The great man is for the country and the people.
Jin Yong once used Qiu Qianren's mouth to raise a question, whether martial arts are strong or not, he has the right to end life and death. This is the question that everyone will ask when their martial arts complex reaches a bottleneck. Just like when we watch a movie today, we will use martial arts to beat foreigners, and we will wonder whether this is to promote our country's prestige or whether we are interested in damaging the prestige of the great powers.
Jin Yong himself used Hong Qigong to give an answer, a moral ruler that hates evil and kills good people. But I wonder what to do if Tianhong Qigong meets someone who is higher in martial arts and has a more serious moral and cleanliness than him. After all, Hong Qigong himself has the minor problems of stealing (stealing the royal meal) and neglecting his duty (as a gang leader but leaving the gang of beggars while fighting in the gang), so whether someone else can kill him for this reason.
Fortunately, one day I saw Tsui Hark’s Huang Feihong.
Huang Feihong is deeply immersed in Confucianism. He promotes the good but does not punish the evil. He helps the weak but does not hoe the strong. Whether it is the leader of the Shahe Gang or Zhao Tianba, he just wants me to catch you and then make love. Dispose to the yamen. He has an extraordinary mind and aura, whether it is facing the suspicion of the government, the provocation of the enemy, or the misfortune caused by the apprentice, he will always resolve and eliminate misunderstandings. But even so, he still encountered layers of resistance. He caught the bad guys, but the villagers refused to testify for him; he saved the innocent people who were injured, but the government put the offending Americans on him. ; He was under house arrest and surveillance by the government, but there was a martial artist who tried to become famous in World War I to kick the gym; after finally sending the martial artist away, his lover decided to withdraw because of his powerlessness. Looking all the way, my chest was so tight that I really wanted to help Master Huang spit blood out.
But even under this heavy pressure, Huang Feihong's personality charm has become more vivid. The battle with Yan Zhendong in the rain is the most exciting scene in the whole play. What is called courtesy first and then attacked, and what is called late attack, all in one move by Master Huang. Jet Li's fists were clean and tidy, and the style of a great master was shown during the pause.
Huang Feihong is not a knight in the traditional sense, because he is not among the arena, but among the people. In the martial arts works of the past, Jianghu is an existence far away from the temple. Master Huang has been unilaterally trying to maintain a friendly and cooperative relationship with the government. After he defeated the Americans and rescued the women who were captured by the traffickers, he also owed all the credit to the admiral. He knows when to fight for reasons and when to give the government face, he is a kind of warrior. On the other hand, when the government came to arrest people, he did not resist himself, but asked his apprentices to resist, delaying time, and giving the thirteenth aunt and the Chinese workers who escaped from the traffickers a chance to escape. He was also an informal Confucian scholar. He knows the importance and generality, and possesses the virtues of the Chinese tradition. Although he hates the invaders, he has the heart of tolerance and attempts to understand Western culture. In the troubled times, Yan Zhendong lost himself; under the collision of Chinese and Western cultures, Ya Chasu lost his way, but Huang Feihong was confused, but not lost, stuck to the old fashioned, but still flexible, what a Huang Feihong!
At the end of the film, Huang Feihong and the admiral who had been an enemy with him finally stood side by side on the gunboat and watched the afterglow of the setting sun. "Although we have good fists and feet, we are no match for foreign guns and cannons." Yes, throughout the ages, only the benevolent can be invincible!
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