When I learned boxing as a teenager, Master once told me: There are two points that are extremely important for people who practice martial arts-one is that they cannot be held by others; second, no matter whether they win or lose, they must never weaken their momentum.
Desert, yellow sand; sunset, blood.
Shuangqi Town, with one yellow and one red, has long written all the colors of this thousand-mile desert.
The story begins with a teenager's journey to find a wife - doll kiss, a woman with a mole on her ass, a father-in-law who is a cripple...
Just by relying on a few last words of his father before his death, the younger brother, alone and on one horse, began this journey of east and west but symbolic growth in the vast desert.
Most people who practice martial arts seem to pay special attention to integrity and have a very special kind of persistence.
In the movie, of course, the child brother found his daughter-in-law smoothly, but he also got into trouble, and this trouble led to the climax scene of the whole film - the life and death battle between the ignorant teenager who has no strength and the knifeman "One Knife Immortal" who has been traversing the rivers and lakes for more than twenty years and is famous in the desert.
Unlike most people's imagination of the sword light and blood shadow, sword rattling, murderous fire and fire scene, the director in the film's handling of the scene during the duel between the knife and the knife can be described as simple. The two sides were opposed, and when the knife was not even seen, the blood had been splashed and the person had fallen to the ground.
This is the implementation of the supreme truth that has been passed down for a long time in Chinese martial arts - the world's martial arts are only fast and unbreakable. And "a knife immortal", the knife is not fast, how to let the enemy sword to ascend the immortal?
Unfortunately, no matter how fast the knife of the "One Knife Immortal", he still died under the knife of the child brother who transported the knife with "qi".
This rather gulong-style duel scene reminds me of the scene of the duel between Gao Li and Ma Feng in "Peacock Plume of Seven Weapons". The film borrows a similar side foil technique from the novel, not to spend all ink on the decisive battle scene, but to choose to use the fear of the opponent before the war to set off the extreme horror of the opponent.
Dominating the desert for many years, he mentioned the famous knifemen who made people feel frightened and could stop the children's night crying, and the "Green Dragon Society" killers who held grudges and used devious means everywhere. It is true that the two are indistinguishable in terms of frightening degrees, but the same thing is that they both create a great shadow for the "weak" opponents.
Although the "weakness" of the child brother stems from the fact that he is only a fledgling teenager, gao Li's "weakness" lies in the uninteresting waste of both him and his wife for many years. But the "weak" nature of the two is due to a lack of confidence. Because of the lack of opponents, it is difficult to know the depth of their own martial arts, but they pay attention to the strength of their opponents, underestimate their own abilities and the knowledge they have mastered, and this general psychological state of Impostor syndrome (imposter syndrome) is produced.
But from the result, neither of the two who defeated the opponent can be regarded as a real imposter.
The real imposter in the film is instead a "big hero" and "Sha Lifei" who can be called "a knife fairy" and is also known as the desert.
In fact, at the beginning of the film, this "big hero" who is strong in the outside world has been revealed. The knifeman who came to seek revenge on the "One Knife Immortal" asked him about the traces of the enemy, and "Sha Lifei" could not even get his knife in his hand during the crisis, but the child brother knew that the knife of the knifeman could not leave his body.
The fake heroes of the wine sack rice and the martial arts are superb real swordsmen, impostors and counterfeiters, which are the rivers and lakes and life. Reality is exactly such a true and false false falsehood and reality, fame and fortune may not be worthy of the name, and those who have achieved nothing may be hidden.
The portrayal of small people in the film is also very surprising, and the characters with clear details and three-dimensional personalities form a pyrotechnic and life-like social scene that can affect people's emotions, which can make the viewers believe that this is indeed a real story that happened at an unknown time. Because the jianghu is not only the pleasure and revenge of the knifemen, but also the daily and ordinary life of ordinary people. Although the people of Shuangqi Town have inferior roots and threaten their brother with the lives of the whole town, there are still blacksmiths and drunkards who are willing to stand up and seek justice, and they are more like real heroes than "Sha Lifei".
"Double Flags Town KnifeMan" was released in 1991, the whole story of the knife is not a knife, the style is rough and delicate, and it tells a story of growth in a solid and simple style. There are good and bad ways in life, don't run away, face it seriously, after all, if you don't shoot, who will know the result?
