Commentary on the Finnish film "The Fencer" and the spirit of the times

Always loved the beautiful European fencing. I watch more of the heroic fencing movies of "Zorro". The Finnish film "The Fencer", a plain film with an extraordinary mind! A true master will push aside that oppressive barrier and let all beings see a ray of sunshine. The teachers in the movies are such masters. The film made me understand that a movement can take on something deeper. The plot of the movie is very bland, but another line looming is terrifying. Because Estonia, as a small country, was helplessly torn between Germany and Russia. After World War II, the Soviet secret police arrested millions. Most of the children's fathers in the town are not around. The hopeless wait for mothers and families is suffocating. As a fugitive, the hero is on the brink of death at any time. However, in order to keep the children's hearts hopeful, he took the risk and taught them to practice fencing. When the little boy's grandfather was taken away by the secret police, the grandfather told his grandson that he was trying to become a fencer. This is life is hope. Fencing is the hope of children. Or through fencing, children know there is still hope. A fencing sport can actually bear such a profound meaning. It's not just fencing anymore.
The Thai film "The Last Xylophone" is also such a film. In the confrontation between repression and spiritual freedom, a simple musical instrument actually bears the spirit of a nation. That's what a real movie is about.

Think accordingly. The great thing about Bruce Lee is that his Jeet Kune Do is not a simple martial art, but an art of spiritual freedom. In the 1960s and 1970s, the whole world was depressed. Mainland Cultural Revolution. Taiwan's White Terror. Korean military dictatorship. Hong Kong is miserable (just watch the movie "Lei Luo Biography" and "The Thief of the Years"). Berlin Wall, Germany. Politically, the United States is anti-red terrorism, and socially, it is racial discrimination, social class solidification, and the hippie movement of young people. The first half of the twentieth century was marked by two horrific wars, and after the end of World War II, there was a reconstruction in chaos and disputes. Why Bruce Lee's influence is so great, because he found a way to release the spirit of that era. Bruce Lee's most popular movie is "Raptor Crossing the River", in which the spirit is the national spirit, bringing down foreign masters. The deepest is the fearless heart of the brave, which is the positive energy generally needed in that era.

Most of Hong Kong's film and television dramas in the 1970s and 1980s were reflections on the Manchu and Qing's entry into customs, especially since the Opium War. One of the main lines was national awakening and national resistance. In Hong Kong, the free literati of the Republic of China continued to reflect on the decline of the Han nationality since the Qing Dynasty, and at the same time there was resistance to colonial repression, so nationalism was very obvious in Hong Kong's film and television dramas. This is the spiritual condition of Bruce Lee's era, and it is also the historical spiritual soil from which Bruce Lee's spirit was born.

Bruce Lee has dual identities in China and the United States. He was born in Los Angeles, buried in Los Angeles, and studied at the Department of Philosophy at Washington University in Seattle, USA. He grew up in Hong Kong before the age of 17, and took Ye Wen as his teacher. It is Bruce Lee's dual identity that decides that he has a world mind. If Bruce Lee didn't die and continued to make movies, it would be a movie about human nature, not pure nationalism. "Game of Death" has initially seen his thoughts.

The spirit of Bruce Lee will not be seen in the post-95s and post-00s. They can't possibly worship Bruce Lee. The zeitgeist has changed. They are not depressed, they are spiritually empty. Their hero is in an unreal world.



Since the 1980s, the mainland's reform and opening up, Hong Kong's take-off, Taiwan's political democratization and reform, South Korea's political opening into a modern country, and the rise of the Four Asian Tigers. Political stability in Europe and the United States, economic take-off. Thirty years later, in 2008, a global economic crisis broke out. Not only the economy shrinks, but the human spirit also shrinks. This is the era of spiritual exhaustion. The soul is void. The other side of nihilism is extreme materialism. In such an era of prostration, even struggling is powerless. Exhaustion is often seen as explosive. Meaningless words release presence. All struggle, fight to the void, there is no reason to do anything.

What kind of salvation is needed in this era? ! Who can solve this mystery, who is the master of this era.

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