I haven't watched a movie directed by Wong Kar-wai for a long time, but I can still find the feeling of first watching it again, the details are handled very extremely, and every frame is beautiful like an oil painting, a movie and a story.
But this is by no means a story of one person, but a group of people recorded from the perspective of the male protagonist, a martial forest, a fate, and an era.
The film is very Wong Kar-wai style, the lines are full of philosophy of life, the picture color is rich, the personality of the characters is outstanding, Liang Chaowei is still as stable as ever, the temperament of the Ip Man generation of martial arts masters is very in place, and the melancholy eyes add a little bit of poise to the role.
Zhang Ziyi is even more eye-catching, this should be her best time, not as green and slightly thin as in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, here is just the right maturity, the bone phase is superior, the fat is slightly plumper, the lines are filled very smoothly and without losing the angles, in Wong Kar-wai's lens reflects the advantages of the real movie face, and the heart of Miss Gong Er is proud and decisive to show to the fullest.
Other roles are just as remarkable, such as the villain Ma San played by Zhang Jin, the fierce force, Zhang Zhen's first-line sky, the cold master, Zhao Benshan's Ding Lianshan, the predecessor who retreated behind the scenes and still has the prestige of the jianghu, a good movie is a whole, not a one-man show of a big name.
The film begins with a chaotic war in the street rain, first explaining the background of the struggle between the various factions at that time, Ip Man cleanly ended this street war and laid his position in the sect. Then it is straightforward to enter the narrative stage, explaining the origin of Wing Chun, the background of the times, a belt and a breath, which is the teaching of the master on ip man's first day of worship, and has since become Ip Man's belief in martial arts.
If life is divided into four seasons, then the first forty years of Ip Man are spring, the family is rich and does not worry about eating and drinking, such as flowers and beautiful families, like water flowing year, listening to music and practicing boxing is not comfortable.
Time to 1936, is still the Taiping era, when the head of the palace family Gong Haneda in the martial arts highly respected, in the luxurious and mysterious golden building representatives of various sects gathered together, Miya Haneda proposed the southern fist of the north, asking the south to send a representative to partner with it, which is related to the reputation of Guangdong Wulin, naturally to send a figure who is expected by all, and at this time the young Ip Man was elected by everyone to take on this heavy responsibility, he also lived up to the expectations of the public to win the recognition of Gong Haneda, at this time Miss Gong Er was young and proud, proud and proud, Proud of the palace family from undefeated, the unpredictable sixty-four hands also practiced pure fire, naturally can not see the winning in the idea of Ip Man, her movements are dexterous and full of strength, in several eye contact with each other has been sympathetic to each other, after defeating Ip Man she is like a child who fought a victorious battle to write pride and joy on the face, their fate also began in this fight, unfortunately a lifetime is no reason, maybe he does not know her, she does not know him, but even if they know each other, they can only put it in their hearts.
In order to avenge her father, she broke her hair into the Tao, and swore not to marry, not to stay, not to pass on the art, just because she wanted to take back the things that belonged to the palace family with her own hands, in the evening of Chinese New Year's Eve she still found Ma San, as noble and intimidating as the goddess of revenge, after all, it was the most rigid Ma San invincible sixty-four hands, Ma San said "I have returned the things of the palace family" She immediately retorted, "To make it clear, it is not you who you have returned, it is I who took it back myself" As domineering and strong as ever, but after this fight, she also suffered serious internal injuries.
Qinggao lonely and arrogant all his life Gong Er realized that when her time was short, she met again in the theater, she put on heavy makeup to hide her haggardness, and she never looked back, her words were full of regrets, although the look was still cold but the eyes were not as sharp as before, and even a little lonely, she said a lot of words to herself, just a few minutes as if she remembered her life, almost with a sigh that said, "If I insist on learning to play, I will be a famous character, singing "Yangmen Female General", I will sing "Garden Dreams", Also finally said the sentence "Mr. Ye, to tell the truth, I have you in my heart", speaking of this, she also had a little bit of unconfidence in her eyes, slightly looked up at Ip Man, but said "like people and not breaking the law, but I can only like it until I like it", as if to say that liking you is my business, it has nothing to do with you, although life should be boring if there is no regret, but many regrets are the weight of life that cannot bear, she also longed for dreams and longed for love, but there was no regret, that era was doomed to women without many choices, I think she was happy when she said these words, a person who had spent so many lonely and cold days, and finally unloaded her heavy armor on that day. Ip Man did not know, but he could not get close, could not turn back, he said to her, "There is no grudge between us, some are just a fate, there are lights, I hope that I can see the sixty-four hands of the palace family again in the future" He may want to give her faith, but I think this sentence is very cruel, at the end, Ip Man still maintains a decent gentleman's etiquette to the proud Gong Er, in front of the people she admires, it is estimated that she is also looking forward to even a little understanding and response from him, hearing here she silently shed tears, Only she knew that faith had collapsed, and the lights could no longer be lit.
A year after the death of The Second Palace, perhaps later Ip Man understood, but there was no turn back, a lifetime of freedom, after all, he left regrets, and then his wife died of illness, he left Foshan for Hong Kong, leaving the place where there were only regrets and thoughts.
The times have changed, but it is no longer the river and lake, there are people outside the people, there are mountains outside the mountains, and the rolling red dust will eventually make everything a passing cloud.