When I found that when I was watching "Kung Fu Panda 2", everyone's laughter was different; when the lights left the stage, everyone talked about different plots; on the way out, there were middle-aged men and women who patted their sons on the head and said pandas The master's famous saying "be calm"...and I am even more convinced that many people will not be the same as I thought.
It can be said that every audience gains just because they "think too much", but one of the wonderful and troublesome things in this world also happens to be that everyone is capable and optional about "thinking too much".
The panda in the play probably inherited the basic era background in the first part. The world is divided into some cities, and each city has its own standing bandits and standing heroes, who defend the citizens of the city from bandits.
Panda is not only a hero of a city, and its influence is limited to a certain time and space; it is also the inheritor of "Kung Fu", continuing a cross-space cultural system, and as the inheritor, he should surpass his predecessors and promote " Kung Fu is such a science itself, so at this point it goes beyond the so-called time of ordinary people.
Finally, once, he was not only fighting for his city and his people, but for this system of learning "Kung Fu".
The white peacock located in the Central Plains has invented a new type of artillery weapon, which can subdue the strongest kung fu in the world. If this more lethal weapon becomes popular, it will open a new era of "how to make more powerful artillery fire". Few people think about "how to practice stronger kung fu".
This means that the knowledge of "Kung Fu" will no longer exist, and every master who has served as the shoulders of giants in this knowledge will no longer be revered. All will become a skill that doesn't make sense...
like unemployed workers after introducing new equipment - maybe it will be worse for people who practice kung fu, because they think they are better than others, and spend their lives racking their brains in kung fu.
Maybe someone smart enough to know history can expect a new system of learning to subvert kung fu, but in a society where progress is slow, no one can predict whether this will happen in their own lifetime.
This kind of situation is too common in the historical process, but "Kung Fu" is only one of them, such as the craftsmen before the introduction of machines, the hand-painting technology before the invention of printing, the drawing technology before the invention of design software... I think of the recent work in Zhang Dachun. A wordy but vivid metaphor seen in "City-State Violence" -
like shooting a board with a gun, the story of kung fu is any one of the bullet holes,
it can be this one or that one One, it is a bullet hole, and it may be all bullet holes, representing the bullet hole.
Kung Fu established a kind of hegemony, which can give advantages to those who are gifted for Kung Fu. The white peacock may not have good Kung Fu aptitude, so he invented tools that go beyond this skill system - like all subversive traditional skills No tool can be invented by the best craftsman, only the craftsman on the edge has the motivation to squeeze into the center and impact what occupies the center through the innovation of the tool.
White Peacock can allude to an innovative person who dares to challenge traditional hegemony. He is never the strongest in the kung fu system, so he invented artillery to go beyond the rules and win.
But the white peacock in the film is a negative character who is ultimately unlucky. In terms of ethical considerations, like most Hollywood blockbusters, humanitarianism will not be questioned - "artillery fire" is enough to destroy a city and make people's bodies. Weapons that are turned into ashes are indeed much more contrary to humanitarian principles than the "kung fu" that only targets individuals and leaves the whole corpse even if they are killed.
Therefore, artillery fire represents evil, and kung fu represents justice.
Just like weapons and even tools in the process of history, the power and effectiveness are getting stronger and stronger, which also means the destruction is getting stronger and stronger - from projectiles, to bows and arrows, to muskets, to AK series...
just like bows and arrows The invention of the musket makes life difficult for those who are good at projectiles, and the invention of the musket makes life difficult for those who are good at bows and arrows;
but no one feels that the invention of bows and arrows and muskets is wrong because of sympathy for those who hold traditional skills.
It was only when nuclear weapons were reached that their lethality expanded to the point that people began to oppose it, contracted against it, and tried to monopolize it as a political deterrent.
It ends with Panda defeating White Peacock's artillery fire by developing stronger kung fu—that is, seeking development within the intellectual system of "kung fu".
The true meaning of this new kung fu is "to calm down".
From my understanding of the film, this is just one of the manifestations of countless Chinese elements, which means that this sentence is irrelevant, and it can be replaced with another sentence, such as "the benevolent loves others" and "eternal life"... ...
But there are indeed many people who think that this sentence is the biggest gain from the film - the proud Xiaoxin will probably laugh at them for vulgarly applying a few words to their own lives.
I think that's fine too, it's nothing more than treating the images of pandas, tigers, peacocks, etc. as a generalized person, that is to say, both myself and these animals can be one of the group of bullets passing through the whiteboard;
my The way of interpretation is nothing more than seeing their environment as a microcosm of a region and an era, that is to say, it can act as a bullet hole like countless regions and dynasties.
It's just that I'm skeptical about the ending - Panda subdues inhuman artillery weapons by finding a breakthrough within traditional kung fu...
But what usually happens in history is that more powerful tools completely defeat some traditional knowledge The system or field, even the traditionally trained people, are forced to use this new tool in order not to change the place and object of their work - or just not to change their professional title
- this Isn't it a sympathetic pain, a sacrifice we've always taken for granted, a state of need for intervention.
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