When the first "Ip Man" was released, I was still in college, and I went to watch it at a cinema in the city center. I was very excited at that time, which has been called the decline of martial arts films. I was deeply impressed, and the martial arts design scenes in the second part are very wonderful. But then I haven't watched the third and fourth part.
I watched the finale on the movie channel today, and I felt a lot more emotion. Many members of the Chinese Association in the play are descendants of Chinese workers who once repaired railways in the United States. Those Chinese workers were "pigs" who were sold to North America in the late Qing Dynasty. , they built the railway day and night, but after the railway was built, they were undoubtedly abandoned by the Americans. After all, the United States did not treat them as human beings at all. They were just "slaves". The American railways are piled with the bodies of Chinese workers. up.
A nation is in an era of poverty and weakness, and it needs heroes like Huang Feihong and Ye Wen, relying on excellent force, to defeat foreign powers and imperialism on the screen, to declare and encourage Chinese people to not admit defeat, The unyielding spirit breaks the humiliating image of the "sick man of East Asia". I also grew up watching martial arts films with similar characters like Chen Zhen, Huo Yuanjia, and Ma Yongzhen. Now that I think about it, I can fully understand the objective factors behind the appearance of such martial arts films. However, personal struggle also depends on the progress of history. No matter how invincible the Ye Mans on the screen are, the Chinese nation under the background of the backwardness of the motherland is always difficult to be respected. China really raised its head in the world after the victory of Resisting US Aggression and Aid Korea. This was a real battle for the founding of the country, and it also made the PLA deserved to be the No. 1 army in the world. Even former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew wrote in his memoirs: After the Korean War As an Asian, my back was straighter when I was in the UK. I traveled in Europe before the Korean War, and people often discriminated against Chinese people. However, after China sent troops to Korea and won consecutive victories, Western European customs officers were awe-inspiring when they saw the Chinese. Sincerely, I have also started to study Chinese seriously.
The decline of martial arts films may be because Hong Kong is returning to its rightful place in history, while the mainland is on the road to revival non-stop. Once the "honeymoon period" between China and the United States was silent, neither filming nor approving it, "Resisting America and Aid Korea" was filmed and never broadcast. The series of TV movies were brought back to the screen at such a historical moment, which made me re-understand the meaning of the phrase "all history is contemporary history". The process of history has come to this window. We don’t need to keep “hiding our strengths and biding our time” all the time, not to mention that there is no need to keep a low profile and bide our time all over the world. The imperialists have long known that you are about to grow into a giant. Turning to smearing and spreading rumors about our country, their so-called "freedom, democracy, and human rights" are more like toilet paper, whichever is easy to use to achieve their goals, but most people have only discovered it in recent years. It's time to shine the sword. After all, the pirate nation can't understand modesty and etiquette, but they can understand the "truth".
"We are moving forward, and we are doing a very glorious and great cause that our predecessors have never done. Our purpose must be achieved, and our purpose must be achieved!"
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