How to evaluate Ip Man 1? How artistic is Ip Man's character?

"Ip Man 1" is definitely worth going to the cinema to watch twice in a row. The first time, I watched the dazzling kung fu, because the value of the movie ticket was all transformed into the seconds of fists and feet; the second time, I watched the warriors behind the kung fu, they used their short or ups and downs life to draw a violent question mark: The world is impermanent, what should a warrior do? Ip Man is a top-notch master who loves martial arts but is non-competitive, introverted and humble. At the same time, he is also a rich kid who loves his family and "respects his wife". His character is just artistic.

The first third of the film uses a light and humorous plot to bring out the scenes of a group of Chinese folk martial arts on the eve of the Anti-Japanese War. At that time, Foshan was known as the hometown of martial arts. It was a common practice to learn from masters and compete with each other. Of course, there were also factional differences and disputes between superiors and superiors. In this short article, there are some who are obsessed with martial arts, some who use martial arts to support their appearance, and some who use martial arts to conquer others.

In this context of life, practicing martial arts is purely a way of daily life, showing the wild and harmonious interest of the grassroots. The threat posed by the northern martial arts represented by Jinshanzhun is the most intense conflict in this drama, but it is also eliminated in the most common way under the feather duster of Ip Man, and in the star-chasing carnival of many martial artists. The curtain of comedy falls.

The textbook opens the page of national tragedy. Biographical movies often use the passage of time and the changes of the times to create turning points in the fate of characters. Ip Man and his peers fell into a useless situation without preparation. In an era when weapons were stronger than martial arts and iron cavalry trampled martial arts, the anxiety, hesitation, pain and helplessness of warriors led them to embark on different paths of pursuit of meaning. But it is also at this point in the development of the story that the screenwriting standards of Hong Kong movies that have always been inadequate are exposed.

The character positioning of Jinshan Zhao was a failure. This initially reckless and honest northern man later became a bandit, and even unbelievably betrayed Ip Man to the Japanese army (this plot is said to have been deleted, but we learned from Li Zhao's life-saving reminder) - This sudden change in personality and the whereabouts of the missing characters are also reflected in the experiences of the martial arts idiot Lin brothers, which I will not go into details here. Such a poor sub-line design almost turned the film into a Hollywood-style version of personal heroism due to the ecological display of the warriors.