Author: Chuanjiang Rat
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When I was in the first year of junior high school, a man who claimed to have opened his own Tianmu fooled our principal and chased the stars with a chartered wife. After he recited (edited?) the 100-digit number after 3.14 of the pi in front of the whole school students, he sold his mysterious memory method. At that time, I didn't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick and black and white are opposed to right and wrong. I only knew that I didn't want to be a farmer, so I dreamed that I would wake up and become a great mathematician. Later, when I was in the second year of junior high school, I became obsessed with Jin Yong's novels after encountering the violent extortion by the gangsters. At that time, you can not only protect yourself from the harm of others, but you can also hurt the people you hate at will, and eliminate evil and punish evildoers for heaven (although never before). thought about maintaining world peace).
Using martial arts to carry the dreams of little people and even all men seems to have become the audience's interpretation of "Kung Fu". The film actually goes far beyond our kung fu dreams. It raises many questions for us: We encounter stars every day, and we can’t be white-collar workers or join the underworld, and we still live in a world where gangs run rampant every day. Do we still believe in our dreams? ? How do you and I, ordinary soldiers like grains of sand, deal with powerful violent organizations and inescapable repression of power? When we really become the number one in the world one day, what will we pursue?
At the beginning of "Kung Fu", the climax of the game of urban power structure is presented. The police station representing public power has been "greyed" or "gangsterized", and the Crocodile Gang and the Axe Gang are competing for territory and power. The boss of the Crocodile Gang underestimated the power of the police, because his woman was caught and beaten up, but he suffered the disaster brought about by the Axe Gang. The director of the disaster was the National Violence Agency Police Department.
In such a power structure, public power institutions give way and the underworld takes their place. The axe gang not only holds political power, but also controls the economic lifeline (dance venues, restaurants, casinos and other entertainment and consumption places), and its strict organization and complete structure exceed public power: when the gang members encounter difficulties, they send "axes". Signal for help; its hall is enshrined with a statue of Guan Gong holding a big sword; after the death of the big brother Chen, the master can still organize revenge; in every battle, its members know that they will die in front of the martial arts masters, but they all go forward. This highly organized and violent organization was arrogant and arrogant when it entered the pig cage walled city. Compared with the school, the poor community of Zhulongchengzhai is like a mess of sand. Although there are managers who rent public houses and rent wives, they do not have the organizational skills and are not willing to be brave. The charter wife said: "Every family has a hard-to-read scripture." Although there are also mass organizations such as neighborhood welfare associations, fire pickets, and security teams in the city wall, their functions are basically similar to our labor unions, and they cannot play an organizational role. effect.
Contradictions in an abnormal society adopt abnormal solutions. People have lost trust in public power and have to return to their dreams of violence: the hope of violence more powerful than the underworld. As a result, the three masters of the city appeared one after the other, the Twelve-Road Bounce Legs, the Hongjia Iron Wire Fist, and the Golang Bagua Cudgel, all of which beat the mighty Axe Gang to a screeching halt. The real power structure collapsed in that fight. However, if the three masters are considered knights, then they are disorganized, and their personal violence cannot compete with organized violence. Personal violence cannot be reproduced, but organizational violence can be reproduced. Organizing resources so that the Axe Gang can invite more powerful violence is just invincible. The combination of the natural and the enemy and the Zhuzhu defeated the Hongjia Iron Wire Fist and the Golang Bagua Stick, which vividly illustrates that organizational violence can defeat individual violence individually. If the three great masters join forces to fight against the enemy, how much chance of victory would Heaven and Earth be able to have? Heaven and earth can defeat the three masters, and Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu, the condor heroes who retired from the rivers and lakes, had no choice but to help, and finally Huoyun Evil God participated in the dispute. This is a typical example of "the Tao is one foot high, the devil is one foot high".
Xingxing's childhood dream was to be a knight, see injustice on the road, and be a hero to save the beauty, but the personal violence of the knight cannot compete with organized violence. The death of the three masters is the most powerful illustration. Before the three masters, more masters must have been defeated, and more pig cages have been swept away. Therefore, the star's dream of a knight turned into a dream of the underworld. Since Xingxing has no money to go to school to become a "four-eyed boy" white-collar worker, and since the doctors and lawyers he once admired are all riding on his head, he has to always be prepared to degenerate and do whatever he can to get ahead. Only by joining the underworld and entering the violent organization can you ensure your own safety and have women who are full of money and money.
After joining the underworld, when Xingxing watched the duel between the Huoyun Evil God and the Condor Heroes, the power structure had completely lost its effectiveness. The Huoyun Evil God was just a tool for the Axe Gang to take revenge, and he killed Brother Chen to show that he was not The patron saint of underworld interests. At this point, the film turns into an abstract fight between good and evil. Commercial movies must bring the protagonist back to the path of justice. When Xingxing slammed the axe with a big stick to help the boss and the evil god of fire cloud, he seemed to find a little bit of his own dignity. This abstract dispute between good and evil ended with the appearance of the Buddha in the cloud of the Tathagata. Thus, the decision of victory or defeat is no longer determined by violence, but by transcendent forces—gods or Buddhas. The devil is one zhang taller, and the Buddha is one taller.
What is the ultimate dream that "Kung Fu" gives us? Not violence, not Buddhahood. The goal of the stars is not the first in the world. He solved the life problems after our knight's dream came true. Wu Si questioned in the article "What Dreams Did Jin Yong Make Up for Us?" that Jin Yong's martial arts novels did not raise deeper questions: that is, what happens to the hero's life after escaping the pursuit, winning the heart of beauty, and eliminating all kinds of threats? pass? It can be said that "Kung Fu" provides the imagination space to solve this problem. After the dream of martial arts comes true, it can not only protect oneself from the harm of others, but also eliminate evil and punish wickedness and maintain world peace, but these are not the ultimate goals. The protagonist of the film finally chose to return to the ordinary. Xingxing opened a candy store, lived a small boss life, and had sweet love like a normal person. On the street outside his shop, a couple of Condor Heroes were shopping, Shaved Boy was in love with his butt exposed, Bucktooth Zhen and Siyan Boy hugged and walked by, and dentist Xu Wen was directing traffic: No underworld, no power Oppression and strife, everything is so harmonious and peaceful.
"The Analects of Confucius • Advanced" contains Confucius and his disciples talking about their ideals in life. Zi Lu and Ran You both said that they wanted to govern a small country, Gong Xihua would like to be the emcee of a country, and Zeng Xi played leisurely. He said: I just want to play in the water with a group of big and small children, recite poetry and dance in the late spring. Confucius sighed: I agree with Zeng Mazi! A saint who has been actively using the world all his life turned out to be just wanting to live an ordinary life. The same is true after Xingxing's dream of knighthood, which is the ultimate dream of "Kung Fu".
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