In the 1980s and 1990s, martial arts films were all the rage.
In the film, various scenes of happy enmity and fighting with their lives on various rivers and lakes open up a different world for the audience.
Among them, "Double Flag Town Knife Man" in 91 and "Broken Knife Man" in 95 show us two completely different rivers and lakes.
The former abandoned the more common eastern scene and set the story in the northwestern shuangqi town of yellow sand.
The latter highlights the hysteria in human nature to the extreme, and the behavior of all jianghu people is no longer constrained by traditional morality, but is based on the standard of hand kung fu.
Unfortunately, later the market wind changed, and martial arts films gradually declined.
Now it is rare to see a simple martial arts film anymore.
Especially in the field of online movies, it is basically a five-cent special effect full of screens, acting skills are awkward out of the screen, and editing is used as a perfunctory work for playing.
What is surprising is that the recently released online movie "A Thousand Miles Without Leaving a Line" actually has some shadows of past martial arts films.
The film mainly tells the story of Lin David, the first knifeman in Taiping Town, who robbed the property of the underworld merchant Jia Jinmantang with Lu Qian and several other colleagues because of his life.
Later, David Lin was framed and exiled, and Lu Qian took over the salt and iron business of Jin Mantang.
Ten years later, Jin Mantang and the Horse Thief Grand Master returned to take revenge and threatened to slaughter the entire town.
David Lin, who had just returned home from amnesty, had to pick up the rusty knife that had been buried again.
The story line of this movie is not complicated, basically ten years ago was the cause of everything, and ten years later is the result of everything.
In the end, David Lin, who had great righteousness, defeated the enemy, guarded the town and achieved self-redemption.
In the movie, the fullness of the characters is one of the highlights.
The film involves Many people such as Lin David, Lin David's wife, Lu Qian, Ghost Dao Lin, Jin Mantang and many others.
In addition to portraying David Lin more carefully, the thoughts and behaviors of others are also relatively complete.
For example, when Lin David was exiled, a thousand people beheaded and accepted Lu Qian's commission to rob and kill him halfway.
But when the Thousand Men found him, they gave up, because David Lin had spared him once before during the competition.
This seemingly useless plot actually has two uses.
One is the plot of Lin David letting go of a thousand people before the circle, and the other is to make the character of Lu Qian more thick.
The robbery of Jin Mantang was planned by Lu Qian, and he framed David Lin for his exile, plus he had been coveting David Lin's wife, giving him various reasons to put David Lin to death.
If Lu Qian did nothing and just allowed David Lin to be exiled, it would seem unreasonable.
This plot of hiring a killer but doing nothing, I think, is set up quite cleverly.
For the setting of David Lin who is strong in martial arts but has a poor life, the film does not explicitly say but implies that it is obvious.
The martial arts of a thousand people are not as good as Lin David, but he has made some money by "taking people's money and eliminating disasters for people".
But his way does not ask the other party whether it is good or bad, but only as a business.
On the one hand, David Lin still has his own perseverance in his heart, and on the other hand, he has the reminder of his wife around him, so although the days are bitter, he is unwilling to "fish for the wrong door".
Even if he later went with Lu Qian to rob Jin Mantang, it was because the other party was a person in the underworld and had done a lot of illegal activities.
This is not much different from David Lin's work as a helper in the county court, that is, when he works odd jobs.
Coupled with the fact that his wife is seriously ill and needs money for treatment, it is completely reasonable that David Lin, who has been insisting on it before, has a wavering in his heart.
Throughout, David Lin was not a selfish or vain man.
The film's shaping of this protagonist can be said to take into account both the surrounding environment and the inner heart of the characters, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it exceeds most of the works in online movies.
I have always said that the script of online movies is bad, but where is the rot?
Some of the story logic is not reasonable, and even the main plot is inconsistent; some characters are extremely unpleasant, and may be very virgin.
"A Thousand Miles Without Staying" has not done much of a problem in these two aspects, and the score of 5.9 in Douban actually implies the feelings of the vast majority of people.
The best part of this story is that I feel that all the characters have legitimate motivations for their actions, and this relies on the unfair atmosphere tone created.
For example, Lin David and his wife are the two most positive characters in the film, but kindness cannot be eaten as rice.
Working for the government but not receiving a salary, if you want to become a catcher, you can only rely on connections and connections, but the most trusted big brother has become the person who framed himself...
Good people have no food to eat, bad people are dying, and being in this environment makes people feel helpless and desperate.
But the film is particularly real, because this unfairness often appears in various corners even now.
Since the decline of martial arts films, domestic films have been missing this link.
Especially in the field of online movies, with the blessing of various gorgeous special effects, few directors will be willing to study the thankless things of martial arts action.
Here there is a problem of easy from frugality to luxury, from luxury to frugality.
For example, in the past, I watched more realistic movies, and suddenly there were martial arts films that were far away from ordinary people, such as martial arts and jianghu, which would naturally attract many audiences to love.
And now the technological progress is too fast, any movie can add a variety of gorgeous special effects, the genre has also been upgraded to fairy, fantasy.
Pure action movies have lost their appeal.
Although "A Thousand Miles Don't Stay" cannot single-handedly change the current situation of martial arts films, it has successfully added bricks and tiles to this genre.
After all, if you can't find a place in the extremely inclusive online movies, the martial arts movies may really be gone.
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