However, I have always had a soft spot for old movies, especially those in Hong Kong. Although the technique is slightly naive, the story is very attractive, and the actors are simple and sincere. Perhaps it is this preference that made me meet Zhang Che.
Closer to home. Criticize yourself first. I haven't watched a film by Zhang Che. In fact, I don't have the qualifications to speak. What I watch is the introduction of editing, and the introduction of martial arts movies on the Beijing channel every Sunday evening, generally, a movie can basically be understood by you. I liked Jackie Chan's early humor, but later I accidentally encountered Zhang Che's films-"The Incomplete" and "The Five Poisons", which looked silly. It turns out that martial arts can also express concepts, thoughts, and life in this way. If there is only one uproar left in the martial arts film, it can only be said to be the director's incompetence.
Let me talk about "Incomplete" first. When I finished watching this film, I couldn't help but search the Internet for all the content and introduction about it. There is no doubt that the four people who were injured and disabled by Du Tiandao in the film showed an extremely powerful combination of strength, which fully embodies the dialectics of disability and non-disability, as well as the opposition between physical disability and spiritual disability. In fact, how Du Tiandao and Du Chang are not victims, and how they don’t have a tragic life experience. At the beginning, Du Chang’s broken arms have made the necessary introduction, and gave a reasonable explanation of the distortion of the characters’ hearts, and contributed to the development of the following story. It is foreshadowing and thought-provoking—the roles of the hurter and the victim are changing in this way. When we are strong, how can we not remember that we are in a weak predicament? The tragedy of Du Tiandao is not only that Du Chang broke his arm, but also that he himself could not walk out of the shadow of his own soul, and could not survive the way of heaven. Such a dialectical truth is clearly and without a trace in a martial arts film with a fascinating plot. The director is really an expert.
Let's talk about the "Five Poisons". Beijing Taiwan's martial arts review has a title that seems to use the beginning of "Five Poisons". The beginning of "Five Poisons" is very exciting, centipedes, snakes, scorpions, geckos, toads, each person's kung fu design is very distinctive, not only like real kung fu, but also like the poison to be expressed. Everyone wears a facial mask, which not only gives people a sense of horror, but also hides the true face of the actor, paving the way for Xiao Liu to find seniors.
The story of Wudu is also more interesting. The master is worried that the martial art is insidious and that the disciple will do too much evil, so that a disciple who is not good at kung fu can find an upright senior brother and join hands to clean up the door. Here again contains the contest between good and evil, and it is not absolute who wins and loses. Although the final outcome must be to eliminate evil and promote good, the process is complicated and confusing. There are all kinds of wicked people, cruel, arrogant, and hidden, and their faces are not unique. And good people do not absolutely do good in everything, they also have their own selfish hearts. To bury good and evil in such a legendary martial arts story is indeed a more interesting design, and the re-emergence of the concept of teaming up may be a manifestation of Zhang Che's inherent dialectical thinking.
One more sentence by the way. The United States ranks "Five Poisons" as the 11th grotesque movie of the century. In fact, it still doesn't understand Chinese movies. The ingenious design and attractive suspense, as well as the bold creativity of all kinds of unique tricks, are not matched by the word "grotesque". And the deeper artistic conception of the film is even more than a simple vocabulary. Of course, looking at it from another angle, even if the "Five Poisons" is only reviewed from one side, the evaluation of Zhang Che is already so impressive, let alone other details.
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