Chapter 1,624: To attain enlightenment is not to counterattack, but to return to innocence.
The popularity of "Kung Fu" has naturally led to a trend of "nonsensical kung fu movies".
Of course, it's more of a small show, but not to mention, in the field of online movies, there are actually a few decent films.
And the reason why this movie can set off a craze may also be because it is a very unique and unique "kung fu comedy"!
But it also captures the core of comedy, which is the essence of tragedy.
Film critic Du Xianghai, a die-hard fan of Li Yi, is long overdue for this long review.
“I have watched it many times and read many other colleagues and netizens’ interpretations, but I have never started writing a movie review.
Some people say that "Kung Fu" is just a child's "Kung Fu dream";
Some people also say that the Fire Cloud Evil God, Fatty, and Ah Xing in "Kung Fu" are the trinity!
I'm also thinking, what else is there to write about in this movie?
So I watched it over and over again and finally started writing this review.
It must be strange to everyone that the movie is called "Kung Fu", but at the beginning it is a conflict between police and robbers with cold weapons and hot weapons, and a gang fight!
This prologue sets the tone of the film's environment: this is a society where there is no distinction between justice and evil, only success and failure, the strong and the weak. What are the police doing when faced with the arrogant and domineering "Who else" from the boss of the Crocodile Gang?
?Pretending to be deaf and dumb!
After the Ax Gang won a great victory, the second leader of the Ax Gang shouted: "Police, come out to wash the floor." Immediately afterwards, there was a scene of counting money...
So, what is the difference between the police and the underworld? If there is, it is just that they are not as strong as the underworld. The Crocodile Gang swept the police station, and the Ax Gang wiped out the Crocodile Gang. This is a highly generalized food chain, and the logic runs through it.
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"Is there any more royal law? Is there any more law?" Of course not!
After the prologue begins, you will see a picture of a society in which the jungle prevails. Everyone is both strong and weak.
The landlady is arrogant and domineering when facing her tenants, but when the Ax Gang comes to cause trouble, she is the quickest to escape.
Ah Xing can't even beat a four-eyed boy, and even beggars look down on him, but it doesn't matter, he can crush a child's ball with one kick, and he can rob a deaf-mute girl.
What about children? They can hug adults’ laps and bully deaf-mute women with all their might.
This is a chilling place in the jungle world. Even children are no longer innocent and bully like adults.
But what can be done? The kid Axing, who wanted to be a brave and righteous person, was stepped on and peed on the ground by the group of children who bullied the deaf-mute girl. He bought the secret book "Tathagata Palm" from the beggar for ten yuan, but
The back has white paper and black text, and the price is 2 cents.
Innocence, kindness, and justice will only be trampled underfoot, so who dares to believe in them?
Therefore, Ah Xing also believes that good people are not rewarded, so he wants to kill people and become strong.
"In this world, there is money everywhere and women on the streets. Whoever can make up his mind can win; whoever can seize the opportunity can get ahead."
To a certain extent, this is also the epitome of the dynasty changes in the history of China. The princes, generals and prime ministers all sang and I came on stage. The court uniforms and the country's title have changed, but everything seems to have remained unchanged. Below, they still kneel three times and kowtow nine times, and the mountains shout.
Long live the civil and military officials, eunuchs and common people!
The so-called prosperity means the people suffer; if it perishes, the people suffer!
Because in fact, it is always the top of the food chain that changes. As the people at the bottom, they have never changed.
Therefore, the ultimate dream of a person's life is no longer to break the food chain, but to climb to the top of the food chain and become an absolutely strong person that no one can suppress!
In a monopoly capitalist society, although the social beasts at the bottom hate the domineering supervisors and capitalists above them, they endure the humiliation and bear the burden in the hope that one day they will stand out, succeed in counterattack, and trample under their feet those who previously stepped on their heads.
To create a beautiful new world.
As the protagonist but without even a name, Ah Xing is just a microcosm of thousands of us passers-by, A, B, C and D.
But everyone wants to be strong and does not want to transform the food chain, which means that no matter where you climb, it will not be safe. There will always be people eyeing your position. The only stable thing is this structure of survival of the fittest.
Therefore, some people don't want to be strong or weak, but just want to escape from the jungle and live in comfort.
There are many experts in the Pig Cage Walled City, not only the chartered in-laws, coolies, ghosts, tailors, and even the aunts who farm the fields can beat Ah Xing until he vomits blood with one punch. However, most of them have no blood. When the Ax Gang came,
The charterer was the first to run away, the charterer buried his head in the soil, and the tailor remained silent...
Stop imagining that Pig Cage Walled City is full of masters, that is simply not reality!
In fact, isn’t it everyone’s fantasy?
Some people say that this place is a paradise, but in fact, it is just a survival nest for the lower class.
Maybe there are many places like this!
Don't imagine that the tenants and landlords are guarding this paradise. Before the Ax Gang came, and before the killers came, they never guarded anything.
Because people always have to live and have a place to live, and this is just an ordinary community.
This is also a portrayal of the many ordinary people around us who have no ambition or courage to be heroes and just want to live a comfortable life.
In general, the characteristics of all living beings in this society—struggle, endure humiliation, survive, and retire—can actually be summed up in two words: survival.
In this way, the title of "Kung Fu" also has a sense of irony.
In Chinese culture, Kung Fu is definitely not as simple as Kung Fu with fists and kicks. It has too many spiritual connotations attached to it. Just like the knights in martial arts novels, they all believe in the spirit of being upright and upholding the strong and supporting the weak.
But the world of "Kung Fu" only has kung fu, but not the spirit of kung fu.
Tian Can DiQue, who ranked first on the killer list, cut off coolie Qiang's head in the dark as soon as he arrived at the Pig Cage Walled City!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Fire Cloud Evil God has practiced kung fu to the point of obsessiveness. He is also despicable and shameless during the competition. He pretends to admit defeat many times and uses hidden weapons to kill the enemy when he is relaxed!
In their hands, kung fu is actually no different from guns and cannons, they are just weapons of killing.
What's even more ironic is that at this time, the world already has better killing tools such as guns and axes. If you can't catch bullets like Huoyun Evil God, or like Tian Can Di Que, use a
The piano can produce the effects of hot and cold weapons, so what's the use of all the skills?
The scene that appeared at the beginning became natural, because in a world without the spirit of kung fu, what is the difference between those ax gangs bullying the weak, and those firearms as murder tools?
Under the law of the jungle, the world is occupied by sheep and dogs. Those with the noble spirit of leopards are aliens.
When everyone is drunk and I am sober alone, I am naturally an alien!
In "Kung Fu", the most independent people are the buck-toothed Zhen Zhen who smiles, the Jiang Bao who exposes half of his butt, and the deaf girl who hands out lollipops without fear in the face of Ah Xing's knife-wielding robbery.
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Buck-toothed Jane is ugly, but she wears sexy underwear, high-slit skirts, cheongsams, lipstick, and listens to elegant music. When the landlady wanted to drive away the coolies and wait, it was Buck-toothed Jane who stood up for her.
They talk.
do not judge a book by it's cover.
The buck-toothed Jane who seems "irregular" and "weird" is actually a person with a full sense of justice.
Many people assume that she is some kind of mistress, which is simply outrageous.
The movie doesn't explain what kind of job she does, but the movie is so long, why does every character have to introduce their occupation?
This is a movie, not a job advertisement!
Jiang Bao always exposed half of his buttocks, bathed and brushed his teeth in public. When he was blackmailed by Ah Xing, Jiang Bao had a firm look in his eyes and told Ah Xing: "Even if you kill one me, there are still thousands of me."
In fact, the director is using a vilifying method to portray "normal people" such as "spicy" and "buck-toothed".
Because they are so "different from ordinary people" in the world in the movie, they will appear "abnormal"!
The audience was hypnotized into thinking that the "mental retardation" of the bastards was to satisfy their sense of superiority. In reality, you could see them dancing on the roadside with half of their butt exposed, and speaking in a tone similar to "Even if you kill one of me, there will still be
How does it feel to have thousands of "me" people?
My first reaction must be: Is this an idiot?
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This is the cruelty of this way of presenting humor. These clowns are idiots, as if there is no doubt about it. Because we laugh so peacefully, without even a trace of sadness, we only feel that we are more familiar with the laws of society than they are.
A sense of superiority that is more sophisticated and worldly.
At that time, we seemed to be laughing in front of a funny mirror, not knowing whether we were laughing at those "idiots" or those "idiots" laughing at us, or even who was the idiot.
However, these "idiots" are unarmed, but they dare to challenge the strong, instead of treating themselves as fathers in front of the weak and grandsons in front of the strong. Bakujiang obviously has no talent for martial arts, and was knocked unconscious by the charterer with one punch, but he wanted to become
The peerless master avenges the coolies.
Is there a sense of sad irony?
It seems that if you don't act like an old man in front of the weak, and don't act like a grandson in front of the strong, you are an alien, and you will feel like a "stupid"!
But isn't this the saddest thing?
Is what Buck Yazhen said wrong? Isn't this what a normal person should do - speak out for justice?
Is what Jiang Bao said wrong? Isn't this what a normal person should say and do - distinguish between black and white, pleasure and grudges!
In fact, they just did what many people want to do but dare not do in such a situation.
Is Ah Xing the only hero? No, in fact, they are also heroes to a certain extent!
What is even sadder is that people with kung fu have no kung fu spirit, and people with kung fu spirit have no kung fu. The spirit of kung fu does not lie in the level of kung fu, but in the brilliance of the spirit.
But sheep, dogs and leopards are not distinct. When there is no way to retreat, the courage of the sheep and the conscience of the dog will be awakened.
Rabbits will bite when they are anxious!
"Kung Fu" can be seen as a three-act self-redemption.
When the Ax Gang wanted to burn the defenseless mother and son to death, Coolie Qiang, Gui and the Tailor stepped forward.
When Tian Can Di Que killed the three coolies, the charterer's parents-in-law stood up.
When the renting parents-in-law were defeated miserably by the Fire Cloud Evil God, the protagonist Axing also stood up.
Does it sound familiar? Do you have a sense of resonance?
That's right.
Because maybe, most of us are dogs or sheep, either always thinking about counterattack and trampling others under our feet, or we just want to survive.
However, in our hearts, we all have the heroic dream of saving the world that Ah Xing had when he was a child. It is the conscience that has been suppressed and slept deep in our hearts after being hurt by the world again and again.
We will sing praises and praise those who act bravely for justice, but what happens when it really comes to ourselves?
Therefore, whether you become a dog or a leopard is actually just a matter of thought. Just like Ah Xing was deceived by a beggar, and after he acted bravely but was peed all over his face, he did not believe that good people will be rewarded, so he decided to join the Ax Gang and kill people.
After racing with his housewife, Ah Xing healed his injuries in the traffic light. The traffic light is a metaphor for the crossroads. As the housewife said: "Young people will inevitably go astray. It is good to be able to stop at the cliff."
However, the beggar did not lie to Ah Xing.
After Ah Xing's arms were filled with knives, he could actually "racing" with his landlord on the field road. This actually hinted that Ah Xing had peerless martial arts.
After being beaten into the ground by the Fire Cloud Evil God, A Xing's two channels of Ren and Du were opened, and he could fight dozens of them when he woke up. After suffering a heavy blow from the Toad Kung Fu, A Xing finally mastered the Palm of the Tathagata...
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This is actually a metaphor for "only through suffering can one achieve nirvana." When Fire Cloud Evil God came to the Pig Cage Walled City, the beautiful butterfly he saw emerging from its cocoon also had the same hint.
Saving the world cannot be achieved by practicing a martial arts secret book. As the saying goes, "If I don't go to hell, who will?"
If you knew that if you told that the shadow on the wall was just a fantasy caused by the fire, you would be ridiculed, kidnapped or even killed by stubborn people, would you still tell the truth?
Therefore, I still think that the beggar used a martial arts secret book with a price of 2 cents to "cheat" Ah Xing out of 10 yuan, which was intentional.
Just like knowing that there is coldness, ridicule, and deception on the other side, but still crossing the threshold without hesitation, and still not changing your innocent nature after experiencing deception and humiliation, this is the real innocence.
After Ah Xing took out the stinger from the hidden weapon of Fire Cloud Evil God, the hidden weapon bloomed into a lotus, turned into a windmill, floated in front of the deaf-mute woman, and turned into a snow-white chrysanthemum.
The Bodhisattva sits or stands on the lotus throne and is in the cycle of reincarnation, but is not polluted by unclean things, mind obstructions and heart obstructions. In ancient Chinese poetry and prose, it is even used to describe the noble quality of a gentleman by emerging from the mud without being stained.
The lotus is a flower that grows in the mud but remains pure.
Therefore, the symbol of the lotus is very obvious.
In a world where the jungle prevails, the moral herds of rampant sheep and dogs appear to be worldly, while the opposite is naivety.
Innocence is not about drawing a clear line from the sophistication at the beginning, but about still maintaining a pure nature after crawling in the mud.
The movie also uses a series of mirror symbols to express this metaphor of two sides of the coin.
In the early stage, Ah Xing had a unique skill: lock picking. This is an opportunistic survival skill that can be mastered in a short time, and it is also a symbol of the loss of kindness and justice.
After opening up the Ren and Du channels, Ah Xing wiped out the entire Ax Gang with a step-on-foot technique. Fire Cloud Evil God laughed at it as a move used by children to fight.
In addition, the Tathagata Palm and the Toad Kung Fu, as well as the lotus, the flower of evil mentioned earlier, are mirror symbols that contrast and unify innocence and sophistication.
Therefore, even though they are both masters, Ah Xing and Huo Yun Xie Shen are different in level.
Ah Xing adopted a forgiving attitude towards Fire Cloud Evil God's sneak attack. When Fire Cloud Evil God asked "What kind of palm technique is this?", Ah Xing calmly replied: You want to learn it? I'll teach you?
Fire Cloud Evil God felt the radiance of divinity and burst into tears.
This is the true spiritual connotation of Kung Fu: Kung Fu is not a tool to become strong, but a weapon to safeguard justice.
Therefore, at this time, Ah Xing has become the strongest, and the ending is certainly not to climb to the top of the food chain. As a commercial film, the happy ending designed by the director is a beautiful new world created by little people, and the food chain has of course been broken.
In this beautiful new world, Ah Xing stood opposite the deaf-mute girl. The two smiled at each other, returned to their childhood appearance, and walked into the lollipop store hand in hand.
To attain enlightenment is not to counterattack, but to return to innocence.”
