I don't care what other people think about this film. I love it. There are those blockbuster films that are so annoy and crudely done that after you come out of the theatre, you forget about it. Then there is a film like Kung Fu that will stay in your mind because it is so different to all the others, a dark stone in a bottle of white.
A funny film, a parady to The Matrix and many old matrial arts movies in Hong Kong, Kung Fu follows the steps of a unknown guy from the city full of sins and money to the poorest apartments in 1940s.
What does a fat landlady, a thin landlord, a sissy tailor, a quiet chef, a coolie, a nobody, and an old crazy man have in common? They are all masters in martial arts.
The choreography is great. The color and the cartoonish presentation of the story are mesmerising. You are treated with quick cut and straight forward story.
We are living in a world where reality and imagination blends and blurs our vision. Kung Fu is so unrealistic, yet the emotion in this film is so real that you can cry and laugh long after you come out of the theatre. There is love. There is friendship. There is fear. There is rich and there is poor. There is inequality, and there is justice.
Just feel that this movie is a little bit too short because it is so good that I didn't want it to end. I just want to live in that dream world where the good guys will win and the bad guys will lose.
Friday, September 16, 2005
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