The title of "Martial Arts" is composed of two-dimensional animations of human blood vessels, nerves, bones, and organs. It can't help but remind me of the title of the American drama "Doctor House", and the catcher Xu Baijiu played by Takeshi Kaneshiro was involved in the investigation process. The animated illustrations of medical and physical reasoning, as well as his immersive restoration of the crime scene, are all commonly used expressions in American crime drama "CSI" and other works. This kind of use seems to be a little simple and crude. , But appearing on the big screen in the mainland is still refreshing in terms of perception. The other is the psychedelic rock style soundtrack, which makes the overall martial arts style of the film deconstruct and drift.
The central theme of martial arts movies is to portray the "chivalrous man." Traditional martial arts movies mainly interpret the chivalrous spirit through what the protagonist does, while "Martial Arts" achieves its goal through the hero's inaction and abandonment. The significance of the character of Takeshi Kaneshiro is actually to prove the existence of a hermit, and use skepticism to restore the character's identity. Tang Wei has become an important weight to promote the protagonist to abandon the rivers and lakes to hide in the countryside at a huge price. Tang Long, played by Donnie Yen, is using a way of keeping away from the chivalrous man to become a chivalrous man. Some people say that "Martial Arts" has only martial arts but no chivalry. I think the understanding of chivalry is too limited. Of course, the great chivalry can serve the country and the people, but the way of chivalry can also be as small as protecting neighbors and neighbors. The key to the ordinary sense of justice and responsibility of the family is to have responsibility. This is what Chen Kexin understands and wants to express in the martial arts that is different from your expectations, but it cannot be said that this is not a martial arts. If the controversy caused by this is within Chen Kexin's expectations, I think he is still a courageous creator. Nevertheless, the film's name "Wu Xia" is a bit too big, which will make many viewers feel that their expectations in the first half of the film have failed, and the title of the title and the coverage of the film content are not very useful.
Although Chen Kexin likes to cross boundaries, he still instinctively retains the blood connection with traditional Hong Kong movies in his works, and he prefers the kind of penetration or subversion that is close to the origin, which is especially manifested in the relationship between him and Zhang Che's film—— "Certificate of Devotion" to "Sting Horse", "October Siege" to "Shanghai Thirteen Taibao", and "Martial Arts" to "One Armed Sword". There are two surprises in the regular paragraphs of "Martial Arts". One is the action scene between Donnie Yen and Hui Yinghong that combines sparring and parkour. This should be the coolest action scene in the film by Donnie Yen. The tiger and the tiger are angry, and I haven't seen it on the big screen for a long time; the second is to see the original "One Armed Sword" starring Wang Yu, a generation of Kung Fu superstar, come back out of the arena. Wang Yu appeared late and didn't have many scenes, but the weight was heavy and he was full of domineering. Once he appeared, he felt that Wang Yu was irreplaceable here. If it is said that the reversal that the audience has been silently expecting in the previous paragraph bursts with sparkling sparkle, then the second paragraph pushes the overall gloomy atmosphere of the film to the end of darkness. In this ultimate showdown, the intensity of psychological and physical confrontation is very high, and the degree of excitement is not as good as the previous action scene, but it is very tragic.
In fact, in comparison, I prefer the part before Wang Yu's appearance in "Martial Arts". The biggest problem with this final climax is that, first of all, the explanation about the historical relationship of the characters is not clear enough, so Wang Yu The long lines made it difficult for me to enter the drama, and the final complete reversal was bad in terms of drama power. Wang Yu's aura and performance are excellent, and practicing hard qigong horizontally also increases the character's demonized temperament. Of course, the end of the strange force is different.
Although "Martial Arts" is a genre film, the traces of the author's film by Chen Kexin are still very obvious. I am very pleased with his style innovation and genre extension in it. In fact, if you compare "Jin Yiwei" and "Di Renjie", you may be able to understand the significance of "Martial Arts" in the creative attempt. Even if Chen Kexin cannot "change martial arts" as he said, he has at least proved himself, he is not. A figure of the martial arts master class, because there is nothing to lose, he can get more from it. 【Southern Metropolis Daily】
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