I have seen it since I was a child, and I have watched it nearly ten times for more than 20 years.
In terms of martial arts alone, each action scene is fully integrated into the storyline and characters. The "duel" between Chen Zhen and Fumio Funakoshi can be said to be the pinnacle of the pinnacles. The charm of martial arts and the greatness of Chinese culture are vividly displayed.
And what really makes this film its pinnacle is everything else it presents. The sincerity and helplessness of the love between Chen Zhen and Photon under the background of the times, the sublimated friendship between Chen Zhen and Huo Tingen in the conflict of ideas and the righteous identity, the complex encounter between Chinese tradition and the modern world, narrow nationalism and true patriotism, the difference between China and Japan The strengths and weaknesses of all beings and elites with identities and orientations are comprehensively and organically expressed in the overall story.
Chen Zhen almost represents the "correct route" for all complex issues, and represents the expectations of the main creator. Interestingly, the two Japanese with the highest "realm" in the film, Fumio Funakoshi and the Japanese minister; and the most striking arc is Huo Tingen, the representative of the main body of the Chinese at that time, who is also the one that our nation has gone through for more than 100 years. process.
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