The goddess loves Gao, Fu, and Shuai thoroughly, and it is completely westernized. It can be said that the lofty ideals from utensils to culture to male friends are all accepted. But men, always put their career first. Because when I was a child, I was a foreigner and couldn't learn martial arts. I was discriminated against mentally, bullied physically, and had low self-esteem, so I had to surpass it! Learning science and culture has become his way of proving himself, and marrying a girl is also one of the conditions for proving success. In fact, he doesn't love the two goddesses that much. (After the explosion, Gao Fushuai's first reaction when he woke up was that the machine had destroyed him as well. So it can be inferred that his confession to the foreign goddess is also strategic), success in his career and revenge in dignity are what he really needs: you can punch, I can repair railways, and repairing railways is much more important than boxing .
The story starts to get interesting here, the conditions for Gao Fushuai to change his position, and the opportunity for Diaosi to counterattack.
The past is a life of self-sufficiency and ancestral tombs, and the future is a life of opening railways and going to the world, backward and progressive, barbaric and civilized, such a strong contrast is stinging and tangled. The forced demolition scene reminds people of reality, and the movie is a bit like a local martial arts version of "Avatar". But more importantly behind this is an unsolvable colonial logic. Gao Fushuai accepted the seemingly neutral scientific knowledge of the West, as well as the ideology behind the knowledge, coupled with the ambition of personal success, all of which made him unable to see what was wrong with his approach: you are backward and barbaric, I will Helping you progress and help you civilization, although the means may be a bit simple and rude, but even if you are in the throes of change, the purpose is always good anyway, why are you so stubborn? If viewed from a foreigner's point of view, this may also be an imperialist conspiracy (but Claire doesn't care about the imperialist mission she shoulders at all! She is also a woman who loves too much); but from a national elite like Gao Fushuai From the point of view of the Qing Dynasty, he may not have lost the sincerity of revitalizing the Qing Dynasty - so, this is the conspiracy of the national elites of the third world trained in the first world and the colonial strategy of imperialism.
At this juncture, the goddess was shaken. The personal emotional trauma gave her an insight into the hegemonic nature of the grand narrative of the progress of Western civilization: so you said that the railway will be repaired, and in the end, you will have to demolish my house, destroy my ancestral grave and hurt my villagers! As a result, the goddess who has not been deeply immersed in Western civilization turned around on the way from soil to ocean, a liberal who was still in transition, after disillusionment with his ideals, resolutely turned back and embraced nationalism, standing with the local people and the people at the bottom. together. In the following plot, he and Diaosi cultivated a certain degree of friendship during the battle, which paved the way for the following.
As Benjamin said, all civilization is accompanied by violence. Civilization and barbarism are not two indifferent concepts, but a dialectical relationship, a situation full of tension. Pluralism sounds very optimistic and beautiful, but the basic universal narrative that makes all differences difference must still exist. Just like how we tolerate multiculturalism, some basic civilizational frameworks still have to be subjectively recognized. : If a country publicly declares that its government does not rely on democratic elections but is hereditary, does not recognize the equality of all people and competes according to their origins, the trial does not go through legal procedures, does not rely on evidence to speak, but asks the suspect to put his hand in hot oil Li - and then claiming that this is our national characteristic without your intervention, I'm afraid it's incomprehensible, right? Having said that, modern civilization must enter Chenjiagou, and no essentialist nostalgia can stop it. The leader is still enlightened and far-sighted on this point. In fact, the residents of Chenjiagou are already slowly accepting and enjoying the convenience brought by modern civilization. Isn't the happy scene of the post and telecommunications office an example?
It can also be interpreted from a feminist perspective. In fact, both women were designed to be very mindless at first. Whether it is a local goddess or a modern woman with scientific knowledge and a political mission, they basically regard their men as the whole world. This babes haven't changed to death. But the local goddess has more difficult tasks. In peacetime, a woman is Qin Xianglian, who is a husband and a child. If something goes wrong, she will transform into Hua Mulan who protects her family and defends the country, right? When the machine came in, the elders and the old men were all cowardly, and the goddess was obliged to come forward. In that scene, I suddenly flashed in my mind what Dai Ye and Meng Yue said about women "surfacing on the surface of history"! But no matter how powerful and mighty the goddess is, she will lose a few points to the male diaosi in terms of military merit. People are talented, and the future is destined to be bright. So the goddess had to sacrifice her personal happiness to fulfill the development of the story of a so-called martial arts genius, which was really hard.
In general, it is still a good movie. The reason why Gao Fushuai changed from a decent villain to a villain is quite sufficient. I don't like the comic expression a little bit, but this is a personal style that the director deliberately wants to reflect. The idea is a bit of an idea, the martial arts design is great, and the sequel will definitely be darker, but I don’t know if the theme will be more tangled, I hope so.
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