Needless to say, no matter what angle people who don't like "Martial Arts" want to scold from, the character Xu Baijiu is unlikely to be the target of mainstream attacks. Donnie Yen is in the first place on the promotional poster, and I fully expect him to break through from the small person again after "Ip Man" and "October Siege". Who would have thought that this time, it was Takeshi Kaneshiro who was playing a non-standard Trump, or that the paranoid Xu Baijiu with split personality, hated and respected. I also want to start chatting with him.
Many people think that this is a tragedy, because Xu Baijiu "died" in the end. In Director Chen's own words, after spitting up such a big mouthful of blood, can he still live? However, if a producer insists on spending huge sums of money to create a sequel, anything can still be made up. For me, I never thought that Xu Baijiu would be "resurrected". He was dead. At that moment, the other Xu Baijiu burst into tears. I sighed helplessly in my heart, but I was not very sad, because I saw Xu Baijiu looking at the other me, and as he was dying, a smile seemed to leak out. His death like this may be the most perfect ending for the film. Let's look back.
All things have no nature.
The movie is full of a sense of destiny. Everyone is walking on thin ice to protect the existing beauty, as if the unpleasant past indicates that the beauty in front of us is always so short-lived, and Zhen, Wei, and Wu are all unable to escape. Xu Baijiu, because of his innate sympathy, betrayed his belief in the inherent goodness of human nature, and he regarded it as a flaw in his character. He suppresses his sensibility with reason, and admits that a clear view and principle of right and wrong—law and principle—seems to be the antidote to get him out of confusion, confusion and contradiction. He thought it was good. This is his first challenge to his own destiny. However, because of his dedication to justice and truth, he is destined to be a person with compassion for the world. The source of his fear of repeating the same mistakes is also from this, otherwise, who would be so troubled by such an accident. His paranoia made him pessimistic about the world, but he couldn't let go of the compassion in his heart. He was doomed to be contradictory, and from that moment on, he began to compete with himself, or, compete with his own life. If he hadn't met Liu Jinxi, maybe he would have fought so hard to become an unfathomable famous detective and scientist. When he died, seeing all the ugliness of the world, he would say to his subordinates that human nature is evil, and then bring With a sigh of pessimism about the world, he sighed and went into the earth, his eyes were full of darkness.
However, since Liu Jinxi let him die in the woods, he was doomed to pay him back. At this time, let us temporarily insert Tang Long or Liu Jinxi. Does he really trust Xu Baijiu completely? He is gambling, he is also following his fate, competing. He is definitely not a villain. I remember that when he suspended animation, the memory flickered, and a scene was a child sitting alone on the edge of a cliff with his head lowered. That was Tang Long when he was a child. The environment in which he grew up and the values he was instilled in the eyes of the world are regarded as "extremely sinful", but for a person who has not been exposed to other values, any judgment on his nature is biased, just like he was once Seeing that child in an instant, his worldview collapsed, people and animals are different, a destroyed world, let him start to escape, he is breaking away from "destiny". That's how the two of them came together.
A well-known "evil" person blocked his own destiny and taught Xu Baijiu a lesson in the inherent goodness of human nature. This time, he chose his reason and chose the law. He was wrong again. He attracted tigers and wolves. How does he pay?
Please don't forget his paranoia. The "right" thing he believed betrayed him again. And he betrayed the trust of "goodness". At this moment, when all the principles have been defeated in reality, only the human heart is left to guide him to make the final choice. This time, he could only truly face his original intention, the "law" of this era that he believed in, waiting outside the village to collect the corpse. Liu Jinxi's trust made him believe in the goodness of human nature again at this moment, and there is no contradiction. At the moment of life and death, relieved.
If he died at this moment, he could still keep his trust in the "goodness" of the world, with bright eyes and hope in his heart. To die like this is perhaps the most near perfect. Later, Chen Kexin also answered. Satisfied.
In fact, human beings are born without self-nature. This is a complex philosophical proposition, and the discussion is endless. But Xu Baijiu's boss in the movie gave an answer, "You think you can make your own decisions about what kind of person you are in the world." Liu Jinxi said that if one person makes a mistake, everyone in the world should be blamed. This is the cause of everything. In other words, I remember a saying I read in a book recently, an era of assholes makes assholes, and a person cannot live without being an asshole. Everyone wants a hero to appear in the vicious circle to save this bastard, but they don't want to be cannon fodder. Movies are all romantic, so when Xu Baijiu and the bastard competed with fate and his death, in the eyes of the audience, it was romantic and aesthetic. Tang Long survived and became Liu Jinxi, which is also romantic, hopeful and positive. For us who live in reality, what choice do we make?
In fact, the movie itself is not that serious. After watching it twice, I want to see it as a comedy full of dark humor. It's like a person telling a joke, but he doesn't laugh, and the people who listen to it lean forward and back together, still unfinished. I don't believe that a director such as Chen Kexin can't see many of the jokes in it. Some people say it's Lei, or it's nondescript. Maybe we took it seriously at first.
To be honest, I don't think I've written so much since I started, but I can't bear to finish it. I don't know why, in my opinion, there are so many things worth playing in this movie, and the inspiration pulls this inexhaustible thought, such as its original soundtrack, beautiful framing, and the name "Martial Arts". The two words were taken apart and put back together to ponder, the performance of the three leading actors, the powerful "dragon suit", and one or two lines. Even the bright "Xiaotian" little brother, and Donnie Yen lying in the arms of Jin Chengwu after breaking his arm, I can't help but think about it, haha. Maybe it doesn't have so many obscure "original intentions", but I like to talk about it. Maybe a good movie is just because it has something to say, and those places contain something called "sincerity". When you do this, you will be satisfied. I think everyone feels this way in their lifetime. At that time, any praise or criticism was a cloud.
Chen Kexin himself said that he wanted to be addicted. I said, for this addiction, take care of him. Director Chen said that when he was in his twenties, he didn't do what he did in his twenties, but now that he is old, he has the impulses of his youth. This sounds like a kind of helplessness. When people are young, many things cannot be autonomous. When you can do what you want, you still remember what you wanted to do and have the ability to do it. What else do you think about at this time? As said in "Old Boy", it's never too late to dream about something. Don't care what other people think.
Many people say that "Martial Arts" is chaotic and unclear, but I feel that many things are clearly explained, but it is boring. The thing that makes people wonder is that there is taste, and whether it is delicious or not depends on everyone's taste buds. As for me, Chen Kexin's filming of "Martial Arts" was originally something that excites me. It was like a romantic inspirational drama. It was like seeing an "old boy", which made me look forward to having an addictive day. To this end, keep your ideals in the competition with fate.
As for what tragedy? comedy? serious? humor? Fate? Autonomous? pay tribute? Innovation?
whatever.
I think, Chen Kexin, you have long been obsessed with the rules and regulations, and you have been murdered.
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