I remember reading a post on Tianya. The poster said that there are very few historical figures who can be deified by artists. Those are the honors that people like Yue Fei and Qu Yuan can enjoy. In this era of deconstruction as the trend. Here, Fearless was selected by Jet Li. In order to reflect his own understanding of the spirit of martial arts, he used a very respectful way to make Fearless on the screen a great person, which is indeed very meaningful for the descendants of the Huo family. Things. However, it is really sad that the descendants of the Huo family lack the ability to understand.
To be honest, I haven’t watched a movie after Jet Li’s battle in Hollywood. I watched some Danny movies on and off on a British Airways flight last year, and it felt very ordinary, so I didn’t even treat Huo Yuanjia. Expect too much, so this movie has been hidden in my hard drive for a long time. The film reviews after the movie was released were also average. Many people's opinions were that the film was too preaching, in other words, it was too unreserved. My understanding is that the tastes of Chinese movie fans are changing. They have eaten too many preaching movies in the early years and have some indigestion. So now I hope that all movies can be hidden and tucked away. Don’t be too eager to say what you want to say. Throw them all out and let the film language express itself. A typical counterexample is the hero of Director Zhang Da. I personally think that all movies are needed, and the text is used to convey the words. As an art form, movies are often also directors or actors who want to express some of their life insights. As audiences, we should not pick the bones in the egg. First, see if the truth expressed is also a sense of identity, and secondly, evaluate whether the expression is appropriate. In fact, most of the so-called Hollywood blockbusters are mainly motivational. I have to say that because of the different language and cultural backgrounds, many domestic audiences feel not so awkward, and even eat comfortably. On the other side of the ocean, some people also commented that these movies are too irritating, and the fans of the world are generally difficult to serve, so we must not go to the movies with a provocative mentality, as this will miss a lot.
I personally like this movie very much. Jet Li has become more and more calm and calm, both in his skills and in his eyes. He reasoned and the way of telling stories was not as straightforward and eager as many people said. I saw Jet Li’s speech at Peking University some time ago, and I admire this man very much. He dragged his almost half-disabled body. After studying Buddhism for many years, his understanding of martial arts has reached a certain Zen realm, emphasizing the application of martial arts to strengthening the body. Keep fit, understand yourself, and stop fighting with strength. Compared with another filmmaker, Donnie Yen, who has refined martial arts to the realm of philosophy, his self-edited, acted and directed film to embody his own understanding of the movie Killing Wolf, but still stays in the mode of thinking of banning martial arts. Of course, what the two films want to express is completely different, and there is not much comparability.
I want to focus on the lens in the movie, which reminds me of the last sentence of "Snow Mountain Flying Fox": Is this knife cut or not? In the movie, the choice facing Fearless is, is this fatal punch to be hit or not to hit it? His father didn't fight, so he lost the competition. The young Huo Yuanjia couldn't understand, so he hit the punch for the first place in Jinmen. This punch killed Qin Ye and triggered hatred, causing his mother and daughter to die in revenge. What can he do if he cuts his enemy? The dead relatives can't come back to life, so the young Huo Yuanjia's life philosophy has collapsed. He needs a journey and needs to rebuild his understanding of martial arts and life.
During the period of planting seedlings in the paddy field, Huo Yuanjia saw that he was planting slower than others, and his aggressive character developed, so he took care of speed and planted indiscriminately. Yueci told him that there must also be a gap between the seedlings. Otherwise, they cannot grow well, and people also need to respect each other. What Huo Yuanjia learned is that it is meaningless to slow down and win blindly.
Later Jet Li also used Huo Yuanjia to say that it is a long-standing bad habit in China to sign life and death status before martial arts competitions.
Yuan Heping's martial arts instructor is still so artistic. The martial arts competition scenes in this movie are very beautiful.
In the final one-to-four arena, Huo Yuanjia knew that it was unfair and wanted to take the stage to compete. The competition here was to stimulate the spirit of self-improvement of the Chinese people, so even though he was poisoned in the end, he still had to compete to the end. And most importantly, that punch, he chose not to hit it. It was this choice that deified Fearless, the martial arts spirit Jet Li wanted to express.
When people learn martial arts, do they want to fight for their lives in martial arts competitions? Is it necessary to take the lives of others and cause hatred? This is Jet Li's question on the spirit of martial arts.
Jet Li said that this is his last film about "martial arts", that is to say, for his own understanding of the spirit of martial arts, he can use this movie to explain it enough, hope people can understand. But unfortunately, many people understand, but not many people understand.
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