Everybody around was so into it that I suddenly realized a movie packed with nationalism could easily become mega-powerful and even a bit frightening.Įven if I'm too humble to personally speak for the 1.3 billion Chinese in our country, it's fair to say after years of poverty and inferiority in contemporary history, our sense of national dignity is in some ways still on shaky ground and so sometimes it's as well to have it reinforced by enchanting ourselves with a rather chauvinistic story like this one. When the indestructible grandmaster triumphs over the opponent, I was thrilled by a lasting round of applause by the excited Chinese audience, something you rarely see in a Chinese cinema. It takes Ip Man a few more punches to beat down his rival. But instead of confronting Japanese militarist ambitions, like the original, Ip Man 2 challenges British colonists.Ī noticeable change in the latest installment is that winning the fight is not as easy as in the first movie. Every line of dialogue and plot twist still serves no purpose except to provoke a fight, finally leading to a good beating of foreign hecklers. But the switch of time and place by no means varies the format of the original 2009 movie. Ip Man 2 follows Ip's life after he moves to Hong Kong from Guangdong's Foshan in 1950. Ip Man is back, along with everything Chinese viewers expect to see on the big screen –a large dose of dazzling Wing Chun-style martial arts action, a moral lesson, and above all, plenty of nationalist aspiration.
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