"Noon" is indeed a classic, the heroism of Prometheus, the absurdity of Sisyphus, the classical triune structure, the background of the era of McCarthyism, the respect for the sublime and the tragedy in the Western philosophical tradition, in fact, it contains It is something very traditional and classical, but it has a breakthrough in the context of Hollywood and special history. The sheriff is a collection of these heroic meanings, and women appear in such films only as symbols of redemption. A savior - like Prometheus or even Jesus - must be self-sacrificing, and mortals will thank him but mortals don't save themselves or sacrifice themselves. The sheriff is also a mortal, not with an attitude of self-sacrifice and dedicated to survival, but he cannot walk and is isolated by the crowd, as isolated as a figure in the noon sun on the earth.
"Two Flags Town Knife" is a cult of it. If I didn't watch "Noon", I would think this film is very cool. The picture is very drawn, the character modeling is particularly good, and the rhythm is clean and neat. The author obviously wants to paraphrase it as a Chinese-style chivalrous proposition, the fate of a Chinese-style hero. But just from what I've seen in the second half, I feel like the story is complete and what it wants to say is messy. "Life is what I want, and death is what I want; you can't have both, you sacrifice your life for righteousness." In "Noon", I instead saw such a tradition of Chinese knights, and "Double Flag Town Swordsman" does not seem to want to discuss these. It is talking about growth, and it is more inclined to the myth of traditional martial arts. The protagonists eventually grow into masters. Its sacrifice of life and death is compelled by the whole village. Its BOSS appears too early to be funny, and it is too powerful to fight even if it is combined. There is a criticism of human nature, but the powerful enemy who kills like numbness is more like a metaphor An irresistible fate, and the symbolic meaning of the BOSS that did not appear until the last moment in "Noon" is even more expanded. At the same time, the evil itself here is not too powerful to be invincible, and the silent crowd is a desperate situation.
Although the process and ending of the hero's victory over the enemy in "Noon" is bizarre enough, "Double Flag Town Swordsman" is even more so called Chinese Kongfu. I think it's very creative highlight is the handling of the fight, there is no trick to win. At the end of "Noon", as the comments said, the hero won, but the contradictions intensified. The justice for which the sheriff sacrificed his life turned out to be absurd in the end. The life and death of heroes and personal ethics have no effect in this society, and a hopeless society is still in front of them. The comedy ending of "The Swordsman in Two Flags Town" is in line with the Chinese narrative tradition. Even if it is made up like a myth, it seeks to be successful, and it still returns to the myth of martial arts.
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