It has become a fashion to study Stephen Chow, and the author also studies the current research trend. Some of them are philosophical analysis of Stephen Chow's films. There is a saying that Stephen Chow's films reflect a kind of post-modernism philosophy, others mainly focus on the social problems reflected by Stephen Chow's films, and of course more are critical articles about Stephen Chow's films. The author's research form is relatively novel, mainly using psychoanalytic theory and image analysis in psychology to analyze Stephen Chow's films.
Kung Fu is no longer an entertainment film with commercial profit as its ultimate goal. Although many places still burst into laughter, and even the long-lost Stephen Chow's trademark laughter reappeared, we can clearly see from the film Stephen Chow's thinking about the growth of life value and his concern about the transformation of good and evil in human nature, which may be the reason why some people package his films into postmodern art in their own unique absurd, chaotic, exaggerated and funny forms.
The plot of the film is not complicated, it is an old story of gangster theme, hooliganism fighting, vendetta and occupation of territory. The ending is not unexpected-evil triumphs over good. But it's like the difference between a pupa and a butterfly. The beautiful change is due to the sublimation of ideas. The core scene of the story is that in a slum called "Pig Cage Village in the City", a group of humble people live at the bottom of society. This is a place where no one even cares about the underworld. This is a group of people who are too lazy to bully even hooligans. Stephen Chow used to play nobody, but his attitude was quite different. He used to play villain for fun, but now I see more concern and recognition. When it comes to Changjiang No.7, the Hong Kong star even focused on migrant workers in the mainland. A Xing is a rogue, but not a real rogue, because a real rogue is too lazy to bully those who have no "surplus value" in the "village in the pigpen". Don't say that murder and arson are crimes. Even in the strict sense, he never fought once. He was only beaten by others, by the proprietress with slippers, and by the "four-eyed" clerk. All the bad things he really succeeded in doing were realized in Eva Huang's Sargam. Once he ate popsicles without giving money, and another time he took change from a Sargam vendor's basket. It seems that he has no talent to be a gangster at all, but he wholeheartedly wants to join the Axes to be a real gangster, because as he said at the entrance of the theater, if he joins the underworld and does bad things, he will have food and drink, money and women! There is another reason why he didn't say it, that is, the contempt, blow and humiliation suffered by those who adhere to kindness and justice! This is almost the shadow of a teenager's soul. The kindness at the beginning of life is soaked in urine! Even the world of older children has an evil order! Isn't this the real side of the secular era when the road collapses? Those who commit crimes can live a luxurious life. How many people who live in temples are demons, and how many who are rich enough to know ghosts and gods are bandits and robbers?