"Embroidered Spring Knife": This is not a jianghu, this is a paste; this is not a martial artist, this is a heroless

Poison sir rating: ★★★ ☆

"Embroidered Spring Knife" is good-looking, but not addictive.

Compared with the transformation of the writers in July, or the actor's cross-border PPT, word, and 100,000 cold jokes, the quality of the "Embroidered Spring Knife" movie is clear at a glance, the story is solid, the characters are complete, and the scene scheduling is more like the thing, rather than doing some stiff close-ups, or showmanship-style long shots.

Realism is the biggest feature of this movie, it is completely different from the romantic martial arts set off by Xu Ke in the 90s, abandoning the fight between heaven and earth, and there is no unique divine skill of splitting half a mountain with one slap, every detail of the film stands on the ground, and the rigorous study of the history of the Ming Dynasty, official uniforms, weapons, architecture, and even the accent of speech have a source. And the force of the plot to promote, is not the general martial arts world Chinese difficult family hate, practice revenge, or shimen grudge, his story is very angry, is a story of the failure of a diaosi counterattack.

The three male protagonists, Lu Jianxing (Wang Qianyuan), are filial piety, and they only want to be able to become a hundred households in their lives, inherit their father's official position, and not disappoint their mother. Shen Lian (Zhang Zhen) for love, in order to redeem the beloved woman, "take her to eat delicious food", desperately take risks. Jin Yichuan (Li Dongxue) is righteous, because he comes from a dark background, lives a fearful life, has no opinion, and everything is "listening to the two brothers". Although the three are Jinyi guards, they have a humble desire that is no different from ordinary people. They sold their skills (martial arts) to receive the Feng Lu, and they were as helpless as the white-collar workers of migrant workers who moved bricks under today's scorching sun and coded words in front of the computer.

If "Sword Rain" restores the jianghu and gives another identity of the chivalrous guests in private, telling us that the chivalrous guests also need to eat and dress every day, avoid the rain and avoid the sun, then "Embroidered Spring Knife" goes further, and the whole movie is full of trivial hardships and hardships among all sentient beings. It turns out that chivalrous guests are not loved by everyone, and also come to chivalrous guests will get sick, but also come to chivalrous guests also want to be promoted, the original chivalrous guests will also be "poor", and even, it turns out, there is no chivalrous guest at all.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty 400 years ago, we saw an authentic today's society, which even deliberately blurred the boundaries of morality, and because of this, the film jumped out of the conventional dualistic chivalry and righteousness, and had a tacit understanding with ordinary men to share weal and woe.

This is the biggest advantage of the movie, and it is also the biggest weakness of the movie.

This is not a martial arts film.

What is Wuxia? Wuxia is the righteous thin cloud sky of "this heart of blood as long as it is sold and recognized", and it is the iron-shouldered morality of "if things are not flat, it is sound"; wuxia is the fluttering of the fox rushing sword dance, and it is the domineering spirit of the undefeated oriental wine song; martial arts sometimes even have to rely on a song to lift the gas, such as "A Laugh in the Sea". Sometimes you have to rely on a sentence to strengthen your courage, such as "I want to hit ten." And these, in "Embroidered Spring Knife", all of them are not, chivalry is like a bereaved dog in the face of the brutal reality, Luyang's rivers and lakes, less of the heroism of the straight heart, there is no pleasure of revenge, always let sir not like it.

This also shows why most people, after watching it, will think that Ding Xiu, played by Monday Wai, is a highlight, because in this slimy and slimy jianghu, his untamed and solitary existence is completely independent of the existence outside the system, he does as he pleases, has a set of moral standards, regardless of right or wrong, at least, looks like an imaginary jianghu person.

Even in the martial arts scene, the film also "excessively" follows the laws of physics, strong and fierce, but wonderful, we can see the mighty of Lu Jianxing's slashing sword, the dexterity of Jin Yichuan's double short knife, the crossbow, rattan card, and arquebus gun also restore historical facts, but these "highlights" are more carried by weapons, hard work, but non-moves to win, by handheld photography and rapid editing to build the "spy heavy" style, although in the brutality of the fight is done in place, but the coherence and ornamentality are difficult to clap.

For the current situation of Chinese martial arts films in the current weakening west mountains, the anti-martial arts of "Xiu Chun Dao" is a fresh attempt, but for most of the martial arts film fans who cannot forget "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu", "New Dragon Gate Inn", and even "Ip Man", whether this idea is affected, whether it can break the situation, and point out a new way for the next martial arts films, it is a matter of opinion.

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