Since 1840, due to the suppression of ideas and the contempt for technology by the Manchu government, the country has been impoverished and weak, and has been in a state of collapse. Since the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, the central and high-level intellectuals have abandoned their ideas and stuck to technology. Zhang Xiangshuai's Chinese style and Western use eventually evolved into Marxist-Leninist Western style. As long as the instrumental power that is helpful to the country can be borrowed Supporting the backbone of the nation, technical indicators gradually replaced the cultural lifeline. We have not yet obtained a strong fist, but we have already lost Wen Dunren's generous mind.
What will happen to Nora after she leaves? I believe that intellectuals with conscience are asking questions alone, and it is not only Lu Xun or Gu Zhun who are struggling in the dark. I am speculating about Jet Li's intentions, whether he wants to tell us through the lens, stories and martial arts, where the meaning of self-improvement should be based. At the beginning of the film, Huo Yuanjia, a young man in Jinmen, is already the number one master. He can dominate one side, winning 38 consecutive games in the arena, or he can run rampant and face innocent martial arts colleagues. He is a successful self-improvement. The definition of power at this time is willful suppression of others, and the advantage of technology is used to show worldly honor.
The middle-aged Huo Yuanjia in Shanghai is so different. After a deep understanding, he understands that benevolence, righteousness and morality should be used to determine the scope of self-improvement. The theater competition in the French Concession is not a skill contest between individuals, and it seems that it is not just a demonstration of the strength between nations, but the director of the film wants to show the world that even a nation in a technologically disadvantaged state can still prove it at the level of civilization The power of oneself, the charm of tools and technology is not to conquer and attack others, but to prove the rendering and influence of the culture behind them.
In 1910, China was debilitated and poverty-stricken, and only a small martial artist could face and contain the powerful technical pressure from the outside world and the surging moral impulses of the people. No matter the Manchu Qing autocracy or the five-ethnic republic, the constitutional monarchy or the secret-room revolution, none of them can subdue the metaphysical passion brought by the dream of national self-improvement in the hearts of the people. Our great country has lost its balance and has since derailed, from a national revolution to a cultural revolution, from a national revolution to a communist revolution. After a series of violent contests, the party-state centralized system has been exchanged for the long-awaited territorial integrity and national dignity. It has been almost 100 years, and the "self-improvement" without "benevolence and righteousness" as the norm is still moving forward, and we can look back and reflect, and consider whether the layers of bloodstains of our ancestors in the historical stories can be used for us to continue in the dark night. A map of directions for travel.
Huo Yuanjia in the film died unexpectedly, and at that time, our nation's tragic and magnificent road to self-improvement had just begun.
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