The answer is violence, heavy metal music brainwashing and framing.
Chinese people hate pedantry and clichés the most, especially those old rules. Because we shouted "the princes and generals are kind to each other" more than 2,000 years ago, rank and rules have never been born! So, when Mori sei used the rules and etiquette of karate to establish his personal authority in the dojo, it made me heartily sympathize with him. Especially using a promotion system to control the students, it makes people feel that this kind of behavior is absurd-it's just a broken and colored rope, what's there to envy?
However, this just symbolizes the cancer of human society - the method of fascism to control the crowd, giving an unimportant thing a lofty setting artificially, so that people will sacrifice their lives to pursue it.
In the film, Mori sei's methods of controlling people are very interesting, such as the promotion system, violent coercion, heavy metal music brainwashing, photographing criminal evidence, the thrill of violent venting... It is used systematically to achieve the purpose of comprehensively controlling people's hearts. Thinking about it makes me shudder. What makes people sweat even more is that Mori sei actually installed an incinerator in the dojo, which normal person would install this thing at home, it is hard not to remind people of the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
Mori sei's method of turning people into fascists is effective. Casey, who was once weak, killed a plainclothes policeman with a gun in the street. One can't help but feel the horror of fascism - fascism turns people into ghosts.
Of course, dealing with fascists naturally cannot follow the rules of fascism, especially fighting with bare hands, only ghosts will fight you! A bullet from industrial civilization is the best way to destroy the violence of feudal samurai rule, and all the breaking of the rules will burst with Mori sei's brain.
Only by breaking the superstition and eliminating fascism, can karate truly restore its original appearance-strengthening the body, teaching the profession and dispelling doubts. Only by eradicating superstition and eliminating fascism can human society truly move towards civilization and health! It is our eternal task to be alert to the resurgence of fascism!
ps: Of course, this is another political movie that promotes gun sales. Maybe this is the original intention of the movie. Can you check the investors?
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