At the beginning, it was 1935. Although China was already full of blemishes and crumbling by then, in Foshan, Guangzhou, it was still rich and well-off.
At this time, Ye Wen was a young master of a large family. He had a beautiful wife, a well-behaved son, and the number one Wing Chun in Foshan. In the martial city of Foshan, he was like a popular idol and a civilian hero. After he defeated Jinshan, the northern martial artist, his reputation in the local area reached its peak. Everyone knew him and liked him to admire him. When walking on the street, everyone would take the initiative to greet him and be proud of talking to him.
He is gentle and approachable. He will give face to martial artists who come to challenge him. He lives in a mansion without worrying about food and clothing, so he does not need to open a restaurant and accept apprentices. He has a beautiful wife, and he is a little frightened, although he himself said that it is respect.
Then, the situation suddenly changed, and the torrent of the times rushed to Foshan unstoppably.
In 1938, Foshan fell.
Ye Man lost his mansion and a prosperous life. He couldn't even feed his wife and children. What must be said here is that his wife is really an ideal wife. She may occasionally play petty sex in peacetime. Son, but when the disaster has arrived, she will become a good woman who silently accompanies you to support you.
Ye Man was standing on the street, surrounded by compatriots who had starved to death and were killed by the Japanese. No one could have enough to eat. On the other side, the Japanese flaunted their majesty.
He is not an anti-Japanese warrior with lofty ambitions. He is just a wife whose husband is a son's father. He just wants to protect his family.
So he took off his Chinese clothes to dig for coal, just to save a sweet potato for his wife and children.
This episode reminds me of Russell Crowe’s "Iron Fist Man", but Crowe is only facing a sluggish economy, while Ip Man is facing war, a Japanese.
Some people say that the Miura people in the movie are not bad, at least not as hateful as those glasses, but as Ye Wen said, put away your hypocrisy.
A person, he occupied your house, killed your relatives and burned your house, and he did not think he did anything wrong, on the contrary, he was proud of it. He looks at you, just like watching pigs, dogs, cows and sheep. He didn’t kill you only because he felt that you were small enough. He felt that he was not worthy of being angry for the pigs and dogs. He watched you yield and was satisfied. .
Such a person, he thought he was a warrior, but he had already lost the dignity of a warrior.
So, in the end, when he faced Ye Wen in the ring, he had no strength to fight back and was beaten like a wooden stake.
As we Chinese emphasize, training martial arts means training the mind, so Ye Wen seemed extremely powerful and invincible, but when he won the ring and defeated the Japanese, his heart became extremely confused.
He looked at the compatriots cheering wildly in the audience, he was a little dizzy, why these people could be indifferent to the death of their compatriots, but now they are so happy; why they can contemptuously say that others are traitors, but do not think that their insensitivity and humility are one thing. Kind of sin.
Just like those two warriors who watched the excitement, they lost their dignity for a bag of rice, but they could indifferently scold the translator who had protected them as a traitor; they watched the rebellious warriors be killed like dogs, but they faced Japan. The man fell to the ground.
Ye Wen understood that he could not win. Although he was invincible in the world, he could not win because his enemy was not a martial artist, not even a gun, not a hunger, not a Japanese, and his enemy was the monster named Times.
He can beat one, three, ten Japanese, but he can't beat one hundred, ten, ten, because he is alone. He looked around and seemed to be full of compatriots who supported him. They cheered for him and celebrated and cursed the Japanese for him, but they would not fight.
So at the end of the film, he was invincible and fled to Hong Kong. He once stood in the ring with the determination to die. He defeated his opponent but couldn't match the times, so in the end he just wanted to protect his wife and children.
You used to live a happy life,
you stand on the ring you hit,
you know you are invincible,
you look at your opponent, you know he is vulnerable,
When you look at your audience, you know that this is your sunset.
They tell you, you can choose to die, or live in humiliation,
but you know that you have no choice,
because you are invincible in the world,
because You are alone.
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