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Nationalism refers to the thought or movement that takes the self-nation as the main body of politics, economy, and culture and puts the supreme and supreme values into consideration. The shame-type nationalism originates from a series of "national humiliation" and traumatic memories. It is the driving force of national cohesion that "China must be strong" shaped by countless pains over the past century. The former may be neutral, while the latter must be pathological. In recent years, Chinese movies (in fact, more than movies), in the process of China's transformation into a great power, gradually put on a real great power mentality to match the increasing strength of the Chinese nation, so we can see the comparison of "The Founding of a Nation" In the past, he treated historical issues with a little calmness. No longer mentioning Jiang Gong, he could not wait to hit the 30th board first and then hurry up. Our president is also listening to the dissidents of other countries' heads, but he only smiles and never breaks out. However, this is enough to prove that our country and people have completely got rid of the masturbation-style nationalism mentality? Are our people really not inferior to the envy of the superior living conditions of those democratic powers? We really Have you walked out of the shadows of the years of being discriminated, insulted and slaughtered? From the perspective of "Ip Man 2", or the upcoming success of "Ip Man 2" that I predicted, it is far from there.
"Ip Man 2" including his first part tells the story that has been told in the TV series "Huo Yuanjia", which has been popular over the country more than 20 years ago. It is nothing more than a generation of masters who opened martial arts halls and received apprentices. Defeating foreign boxing masters’ routines is just that this work incorporates a design that restores humanity that the great master has never had before, such as "respecting" a wife, such as running away if you can't beat them-of course these are the details, the kind of control The mood and mentality of the whole movie are no different from the "Fearless Fearless" that our people are passionate about. Let go of it, our narrow nationalism is not because of the improvement of living standards and the so-called The construction of spiritual and material civilization is hard to grasp how enlightened-this is from the audience's perspective, but this phenomenon can be regarded as a mirror, reflecting a certain mentality of filmmakers. What is this mentality? The young Hong Kong director Ye Weixin and his team certainly know what kind of movie can stir up the nerves of the increasingly paralyzed audience in the three aspects of plot, mood and emotion. Wang Jing's set of piss is the pursuit of Ye Weixin. Disdainful, and Wang Jiawei's petty bourgeoisie even if he can barely manipulate, but the sunglasses brother is already shooting the same theme of "The Grand Master", so in desperation Ye Weixin finally returned to the primitive and revitalized Hong Kong movies and began to play with the film and television. It's been a long time since the world has experienced nationalism, and as expected, the people who don't know the truth are taking care of it.
In the past few years, the wave of anti-Japan, anti-American, anti-French and anti-developed countries has not yet subsided. It seems that people after the Cold War need to use this method to preserve their bloodliness. The performance of a new youth. If the series of demonstrations and demonstrations are a memorial to the May 4th generation or the 5+14th generation who once soared their youth, are these activities now only for memorials or expressions of their aspirations? Has the actual value decreased? After all, the final result of this type of activity is no result. Therefore, Hong Kong film workers have seized the opportunity to set the embodiment of this repeated nationalism in a film that can be magnified by artistic means without fear, and as long as they are politically correct, they are not responsible. In this context, "Ip Man 2" is ready to emerge. We see that the martial arts and character of a martial arts master does not need to evolve (the film adapted from Jin Yong's novel requires leveling and abandonment of martial arts several times), and he can stand tall in the world. Dian, in his battles, he completely conquered opponents with his own martial arts and kung fu. Whether the opponent is the king of the world or the local champion, we too need to speak for our nation with such an image, just like we can't play now. Yao Ming is the same: humble, wise, and have a few hands at the same time to persuade people with morality. Therefore, when the Lakers insisted on returning to the Rockets Yao Ming in the first game of the second round of the playoffs last year, the commentator had to say, Yao Ming gave The Chinese have a long face-maybe this sentence is a kind of weird representative logic of China, this mysterious country, in the eyes of local American fans.
Then who gave Ye Wen such an identity as a representative of the Chinese nation? Of course, it was a few Huayang boxing matches set by the director. In fact, the essence of the two Ye Wen films is to let Ye Wen finally defeat the foreigner with the highest martial arts in the scenes involved in the film, and they are often at a time when "the Chinese nation is at the most dangerous", as if as long as they have won this one. , Japan and the United Kingdom will immediately surrender, give up the colony, and stand up and applaud, agreeing with the "people should respect each other" advocated by Ip Man. In the years when they believed in social Darwinism, they tried to use a martial art that was not tall. The family’s peaceful persuasion allowed the foreign aggressor to put down his butcher and become a Buddha. Isn’t this the director’s wishful thinking? But in fact, at that moment, including myself, there was a trace of worship and belief in Ye Wen. I believe that all Chinese audiences who saw this scene would be immersed in the nationalistic swelling pleasure in an instant. This is Because Ye Wei credits the art means to make the scene of the last big battle scene, using the lens language skillful enough to be comparable to Hollywood, to manage the battle, the collective arrogance of all the yellow races is at this moment. Climbing to the top, the scene is like the final decisive battle of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression-isn't it actually a shameful nationalism behind this, for fear of foreign insults coming again and giving yourself the inferior quality reassurance in advance? Even if the profoundness and profoundness of Chinese martial arts are displayed and recognized here, his offensiveness and defensive power is, in the final analysis, a kind of performance art that is more than actual combat, and it is a sport that embraces the spirit of strengthening the body. Otherwise, why can even the mere Muay Thai boxing champion easily provoke my master father of Shaolin Temple in Foshan?
However, if we put aside the abnormal psychology to examine the movie itself, "Ip Man 2" can be regarded as the outstanding domestic film since the beginning of this year. He successfully escaped the fate of the sequel, and tells the story of Bi Di. A more exciting plot, even if these plots are nothing more than showing every aspect of a master through several angles. We can see from this that what troubles the master’s life is not the existing martial arts accomplishment, which cannot meet the contradiction between his growing need to deal with the villain’s martial skills, but should use the only money saved to pay for the children’s tuition or pay. The contradiction between rents, Ye Wen's experience in Hong Kong is more like a down-and-out artist, full of lofty ambitions and helplessness in the absence of any appreciation, which makes the audience undoubtedly add a sense of identity to him. It is greater than what we have seen in Yurentai's "Huo Yuanjia", the experience of the man who went to a different place to meet an innocent girl. Compared with "Huo Yuanjia", "Ip Man 2" also has preaching, and also has the theoretical basis that martial ethics is higher than martial skills, but the Wing Chun fist understood by Ye Weixin is obviously deeper than the lost fist studied by Yu Rentai-one The master of martial arts, who has become famous to the realm, will inevitably integrate the style of boxing with the philosophy of behavior. The boxing is like a person, and Ip Man's Wing Chun is feminine, and his behavior has the ability to hide or hide. There is more. It’s not as good as the wisdom of one less thing, which can stand up at the moment when the righteousness of the nation is related to faith. This is called the ability of a man to be flexible and stretchable. In addition to warning people that martial arts is self-defense (in the end, it did not prevent being poisoned). , I can only remember that this seems to be the last martial arts movie Jet Li said (then "The King of Kung Fu" is a literary romance movie?).
At the same time, Ye Weixin restored the appearance of Xiangjiang in the 1940s and 1950s. Although I don’t know what the real situation is like, at least he didn’t pretend to be Shili Yangchang by dragging two passers-by in the car pier. With the use of the lens to match it, people have been involved in the time and space of the film from the very beginning. If there is no copycat fashion that Huang Xiaoming advertises for Metersbonwe, the movie theater will not at least be in this 100 minutes. There is a place of laughter.
Of course, all these discourses must be based on the premise that "Ip Man 2" can be dubbed the Chinese audience to be able to see it as wonderful. Judging from the spontaneous applause of countless reporters who read the film at the end of the media field, the big sales of "Ip Man 2" seems to have become an established fact. I believe that you will not be disappointed when watching "Ip Man 2" with the mentality of watching "Fearless", but if you can jump out of that narrow nationalism to appreciate an excellent Hong Kong-produced action movie, that feeling will be even greater purely.
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