When I was young, I liked watching Hong Kong-made kung fu movies. Seeing good people suffer, and Chinese people being bullied, there are always heroes who come forward to speak up for justice and attack the villains. In my impression, it seems that every little boy has such an ideal in his heart. With a secret book, he can practice peerless magic, help justice, and eliminate evil and evil.
As Ye Wen said, I am a martial arts practitioner, and I will definitely stand up when I encounter injustice. And look around, how has injustice ever been rare?
But even so, people will grow up slowly. Step by step into the society, and then willingly, become a member of the chain that was once regarded as injustice. Then I slowly discovered that the story in the movie is just a fiction, and the child takes it seriously. People who make films are just trying to make money and do what children like.
Shattered, reborn, and de-enchanted. Every day I grow up, I can hear the sound of broken dreams. That's just the echo of the old self, broken apart, smashed, and piece by piece.
Later, I came to read more, and the attitude towards the kung fu, especially those who gave a lot of nationalism, the fairy people, and gradually became disdainful. I also watched Ye Wen's screening, but the more I watched it, the more empty I felt. Although the fight was lively, it was actually ridiculous. I often think to myself, apart from Ah Q's spirit, what else can I get from it——
After leaving the cinema, the Chinese still can't beat the foreigners. With such a physique, there is nothing to do. The performance of traditional martial arts is also messed up, and most of the realistic battles are swept away. Lu Xun's words were still in his ears, and he warned young people not to read or read less Chinese books. And traditional culture seems to be equally ineffective. That is like a flower boxing embroidered legs, video kung fu, but Bo Jun smiles, why take it seriously?
However, over the years, I have experienced a little more, and I have also experienced a life of being a weak person without dignity. When I watched "Ip Man 1" back then, I still had a surging heart, but I have long since passed the age of 2 and lost my interest in seeking solace from fictional stories. But I never thought that more than ten years later, I would still watch kung fu movies, and I would watch the last part of this series.
Or by chance. Who knows. But who would have thought that this time I saw it, but I had a different feeling.
That's right, movies are still routines, after all, business dictates, and it has never been an exception. But the road is not fair, and punching the wicked, even if it is fiction, it is not meaningless. People say that kung fu movies are all about winning by force, not convincing people by virtue. Does it make sense? Violence instead of civilization, what good?
I just think that displays of power, even if false, are meaningful and necessary.
Looking at today, the situation has changed suddenly, and it is no less difficult for Chinese people to survive overseas. The word "China", not to mention the powers of Europe and the United States, even if Hong Kong and Taiwan are close at hand, the color becomes more and more dark and unclear. When Bruce Lee "Zhen Fan" went overseas, he naturally had his charisma and the help of his martial arts philosophy, but in the final analysis, it was the foundation of his strength. If you don't shy away from your strength and don't shy away from being a hero, you can make Chinese Kungfu famous all over the world on that day.
But now, who can dignifiedly justify the name of the word "China"?
That is to say, in recent years, the global confrontation has become more and more fierce, and they are attacking each other. And as soon as the epidemic broke out, there were those with ulterior motives who were humiliated as "sick men". Political wrestling, civilization pays the bill. It is still the people of the country who are to be vilified. Although the people inside the wall are excited, but the traffic is not smooth and the self is paralyzed, what is the profit and loss for outsiders? As everyone knows, on the other side of the ocean, there are also a group of paranoid people who often regard outsiders like guinea pigs, and shout "dirty chink" when they see yellow skin.
My generation of Chinese people, do they want to learn from such people?
Of course, the older you get, the more you know your weight. I thought to myself that I couldn't learn magic, and I couldn't be a hero in a kung fu movie, but at least, I didn't want to be a villain who would only be racist.
If there is anything that ordinary people can do, perhaps, the Chinese sergeant played by Wu Jianhao in the film can be an example - just try to practice, and never swallow your voice. Therefore, whether it is text or images, it is promoting everyone's understanding of the word "China", so that more people can understand the civilization and power of the word "China".
Yes, power. Ye Wen is elegant, but if he can't beat unreasonable provocateurs, his demeanor is also a joke. Win, stand firm, and only then can you talk about it, and then it is worthy of further scrutiny. Winning respect certainly requires civilization, but behind civilization also requires strength. The former is the barrel of the long board and the hoop, and the latter is the foundation of the high platform. The former is a sufficient condition and the latter is a necessary condition.
That's why, I am willing to write another review for "Ip Man 4". Even if the legend of this master is just a myth after all, it is worth thinking carefully about what we can do and what we can expect from the word "China" that we "brand" on our bodies.
Saying too much, it's just a digression from the movie. The decline of Hong Kong films, Zidan sealed his fists, and the Ip Man series is almost the finale of kung fu films. To rate this film according to the previous reviews, I was a little unbearable, so let's keep the decency.
It is also the way of life that Chinese kung fu films taught me to keep my words true to my senses.
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