I practice Wing Chun myself and I watched this movie with my master with great expectation. By now I think people are familiar with all the tricks the director gets - slow motion, close up, throwing in some classical music totally out-of-context, and closing the wandering plot with an abrupt ending that the director himself didn't understand. So, I don't even want to discuss the artisity about this film here. Kungfu-wise, well, let's just say my master and I would stick and be happy with Donnie Yan's series.
The reason I write this comment is that I feel the director has no respect at all to the person (Ip Man in this case) he tries to portrait. The way he makes up an extramarital affair with the imaginary Gong Er and force-feeds it to the audience is a total self-indulgence and egoist move. I wonder how Ip Man and his wife would have felt should they ever knew this. While it is common to spice things up for a movie about historical figure, it doesn't work and is definitely not appropriate to make up such story for a humble kungfu master in Chinese culture.
I hope with this movie, people could finally see how superficial and pretentious this director is. There is a reason he tries to procrastinates the release date of this movie (for how many years?), as he knows what a crap it is, especially after Donnie Yan's at-least authentic and respectful version.
The reason I write this comment is that I feel the director has no respect at all to the person (Ip Man in this case) he tries to portrait. The way he makes up an extramarital affair with the imaginary Gong Er and force-feeds it to the audience is a total self-indulgence and egoist move. I wonder how Ip Man and his wife would have felt should they ever knew this. While it is common to spice things up for a movie about historical figure, it doesn't work and is definitely not appropriate to make up such story for a humble kungfu master in Chinese culture.
I hope with this movie, people could finally see how superficial and pretentious this director is. There is a reason he tries to procrastinates the release date of this movie (for how many years?), as he knows what a crap it is, especially after Donnie Yan's at-least authentic and respectful version.