The story of "The Grandmaster" is based on the extension of Ye Wen's life as a clue to the entire film. With Ye Wen's life, the martial arts that went up and down. This film is not so much to interpret the fate of Ye Wen's life, but rather to look at the group of people in the entire martial arts and the times from the perspective of Ye Wen, accompanied by their various fates displayed by their grievances and revenge. . A generation of masters is not talking about a certain person, but the fate and joys and sorrows of that generation.
The depth of perspective shown in this film can penetrate deep into the active things in martial arts—human nature, human joys and sorrows, and human destiny.
From the moment Gong Er first witnessed his father's retirement from the martial arts, to voluntarily dating Ye Wen, and his father being brutally killed by his brother Masan, then he broke the oath to take revenge and regain the Gong family's family dignity. In the end, not to violate the oath - not to teach martial arts, not to have offspring - to be alone for a lifetime. Such a change in fate can be seen from her attitude towards gossipists.
Her father was pushing newcomers, but in order to maintain the martial arts style of the Gong family, she invited Ye Wen to fight alone. After the first battle, the charm of the gossip hand still shook the sky. To avenge the killing of his father, when he wanted to return to the palace, the appearance of the gossipist was more slaughter and heroic. The tragic fate of the characters, the initial clues. Originally pure gossip hands full of hatred and blood. What followed was not to violate his own oath, not to pass on art. The gossipists were left out in the cold and lost to the dark corners where they smoked big cigarettes.
Finally, there is a scene, in the snow, Gong Er elegantly turns the baguazhang. This represents Gong Er, who has always regarded the gossip hand as an important thing in life and cherished it in the bottom of his heart. Under the helpless fate, I have to give up the precious things in my life, and I can't help but say that it is not a tragedy. We can see that in that martial arts era, the fate of the turbulent martial arts people has been mocked.
Of course, there are other things to savor the film. For example, the scene between Ye Wen and Miyata Haneda. "Actually, the world is bigger than the north and the south. Reluctantly striving for perfection is equivalent to resting on your laurels." "From this piece of cake, what you see is the entire martial arts, and what I see is the entire world." Only progress can be made." These words contain deep meanings. If the north and the south really want to be similar, there is no room for complementing each other. Only by acknowledging the differences between different things can the overall space develop actively. "If there is a lack of "Dacheng", the "lack of" is not the omission that cannot be made up, but also refers to the difference and regret between things.
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