I love Stephen Chow - he's an absolute genius as far as I'm concerned. I've probably watched his movies a dozen times each (my wife and mom would say that's an under-estimation.) Wife loves his second-latest movie: Shaolin soccer - its about a group of losers, people who have spent years practising Shalin, only to find that its useless in today's society. one is a rubbish collector, another lives in a shack, another one works in a 7-11: you get the idea.
Stephen Chow plays a character who's still holding on to the dream - how to make in spread Shaolin's glory. Its one of those things martial artists want to do - how to spread the art. In one scene, one of his disciple, now working at a pub, tells him to give it up. To get a real job.
He says: everybody must have a dream, or else you're not much better than salted fish (yea, it sounds funny, but it goes back to an chinese saying.)
His fellow disciple points out that Chow didn't even have a pair of shoes on, making it worse than salted fish in any case.
It's not a new message, but it took a rather unusual premise and turn it into a comedy cum social satire about the plight of working class people reduced to the margins of society.
I hope Siyuan loves Stephen Chow as well :)
No comments:
Post a Comment