Zidan's version didn't have the desire to watch it again after seeing the second part. In addition to remembering the light and shadow, Jiawei's version felt more like watching Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It's hard for me to resonate with this kind of Jianghu hero movie, and it makes me feel new.
I want to say that if you want to make a heroic film, the entertainment and special effects of Hong Kong films are far less than that of Hollywood. If you want to make a literary film, the authenticity and emotion of Hong Kong films are not as good as those of traditional mainland films. The cultural heritage of the studio. If you want to make a commercially successful film, the pragmatic Hong Kong film will not have the creativity and enterprising it used to be. How can I recall my memories of the Hong Kong film boom in the past? Now I watch more Shaw Brothers kung fu films, Lin Zhengying's zombie films, Chen Kexin and Chen Guo's films.
Brother Qiusheng's Ip Man reminds me of "Sweet Honey", "Golden Rooster", and "The True Story of Old Hong Kong".
This is a typical Hong Kong biographical film.
"Sweet Honey" narrates the immigrant life experience of Guangzhou people in Hong Kong in the 1970s and 1980s, and this "Ip Man" tells the rough experience of a Foshan boxer immigrating to Hong Kong. Aside from the relationship with Master Bruce Lee, Ip Man is a martial artist from Foshan, where he lives fluently. If it weren't for Bruce LEE, I believe there would not be so many films about Ip Man. In this film, the director and screenwriter deliberately weakened the elements of Bruce Lee, but instead made Ip Man return to the position of an ordinary warrior, focusing on portraying Ip Man. Introverted, lofty and forbearing personality. This is the unconventional part of the film, and the part that is unlikely to be recognized by ordinary, purely entertaining audiences.
The film narrates all living beings in Hong Kong in the 1960s. Speaking of water saving, it reminds me of Xu Guanjie's water saving song. I believe Hong Kong people who have experienced those days have more resonance after watching it. I just watched Andy Lau and Donnie Yen's "Chasing the Dragon", and I also have a new understanding of Kowloon Walled City. Knowing, is simply the Asian version of the Rio slums in "City of Angels", which are mentioned in this film. Some of the plots of Chinese Detective Xiaochun are far-fetched, and the way of whitewashing is obvious. Although the good and the bad are not as simple as binary opposition, the position of Xiaochun in the film is indeed very divided, which makes people unable to believe the real corruption Detective. It is so simple to balance and deal with the contradiction between black and white and spiritual reality. Overall, there are many commercial frustrations in this film, but the art and Qiusheng's performance are definitely punchy and penetrating.
After reading it, I want to feel that life is hard and emotional helplessness. What is the biggest difference between Chinese and Westerners? I think it should be forbearance.
The part of this film that moved me was when Qiu Sheng packed up after the New Year's Eve dinner and moved out of the apartment rented by his apprentice. Qiusheng's move out of the apartment is the pursuit of love and the yearning for freedom. He doesn't want to owe others or hurt his lover, so he resolutely moves out of the apartment, how does he look like an elderly man? Just like a young couple who left and eloped together if they could not get the consent of their family members, happened to an old man. Seeing this made my heart surge.
I really like movies that document the times. People's feelings can always see the contrast between the sublime and the insignificant under the cleansing of the tide of the times. Thinking of the article by Long Yingtai I read before, compared with the times, people are really like ants, but even if they are ants, they still have delicate feelings
. Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. There are not only people who know martial arts in the arena. We are fish, the street we live in, the city we live in, the place we live in is our river and lake. Thinking that the quilt was given by the apprentices, we don't want to offend anyone, but we can't please everyone. This review is my rough opinion. Of all Ip Man movies, I like Qiu Sheng the most so far :)
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