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Xiong Shi Shaonian (2021)
A Disney-match best animation in 2021
Excellent animation! Its whole story, animation technique and the main roles' setting are ranked in the first class. I think it can be ranked in the level of Disney or Pixar. I give this animation 9/10 as it is almost satisfying except for some a little fabricated dialogue lines. Another important merit is this Chinese animation is a realistic one concentrating on the current local Chinese society, without any Chinese legends' background such as Sun Wukong or Ne Zha, which means the comic producers in Chinese more and more independent and powerful.
Some so-called Chinese patriotic audience, trolls actually, said the animation is a humiliation to China because the leading roles have long-small-evil eyes like "The Mandarin" in Marvel Universe. Oh come on! Aren't you too sensitive to ignore the true nature of this passionate movie?
The proper way of defending one's country is to make great achievements with so-called characteristics rather than crying out like a baby or cursing online or accusing that you were humiliated. Characteristics like your appearance are your born nature, nothing good, nothing bad, it is unnecessary to express patriotism or hatred to the country with them, and if others do, just ignore them because this is stupid nonsense. Think about the story of the label "Made in Germany", which was first used to mark the poorly-produced goods from Germany because of their lower quality. However, German people tried their best and later made the label became the mark of best quality. See? Did German cried and accused that was a humiliation to Germany? No, of course not, it can only be useless. Only by hard-working and making higher achievements can you change the way others comment on you and eliminate the so-called "humiliation".
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
The movie actually discussed two questions besides the war of the good and the evil
As the Batman sequel which happened 8 years later in the story, the movie discussed two questions besides the war between the good and the evil:
First, what kind of evil was the worst evil? In the last part, the Joker challenged the dark and evil side of human nature, and in this movie, the villain not only continued to challenge the dark side of human nature, but also did it in a sounding name: the people. The evil masked by justice is the worst evil.
For the Chinese people, the speech by Bane in front of the city hall was entirely a replica of the inciting speech in China's 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, which was one of the characteristics of that era with black and white reversed and justice ruled by evil. So it was a little weird that this movie could be shown publicly in Mainland China.
The second question was which to trust, people or institution? Apparently, Batman had always been committed to find "a good guy" to entrust him the business of justice safely. However, it was clear he failed. Miranda, his heir, even slept with him, but was still the bad guy. This was not accidental, it indicated that you should not put all hopes on a single person, even if he turned out to be a good man, as there was no guarantee that he would not deteriorate or make something evil in the name of justice, intentionally or not. Therefore, we should trust institutions rather than people. At this point, the movie was an obverse to hero movies.
Last but not least, this movie seemed more like "Rise of Robin" rather than a story focusing on the Batman, or a story on "how the Batman retired and handed his career to Robin".
See my blog: http://ymyx.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-dark-knight-rises.html
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
Awesome one!
As a whole, the story continued the style of Kung Fu comedy + cute panda of the first "Kung Fu Panda"; the script may be a little weak compared with the last one, but still a masterpiece. Po the panda understood the importance of self-confidence in the last movie, and in this one he realized the Eastern philosophy of Conquering the Unyielding with the Yielding. However, the ending part of Kung Fu defeating artillery reminded us of the ignorance of the time of "the Boxer" in the very beginning of the 20th century more or less, which I really would not regard as a good point.
The villains were somewhat weak in this movie, perhaps I gave them too much expectation. Gary Oldman's voice failed to chill me.
In fact, just as the same with the first Kung Fu Panda movie, the essence of this one was still the combination of both Chinese and Western. The first story was the combination of the western self- struggle and a Chinese Kung Fu teacher-student routined story, and the second one was the combination of the western family rebellion and the eastern philosophy of Conquering the Unyielding with the Yielding.
As some Chinese newspapers said that this was the assault or insult to Chinese culture or so, I rejected them all. The high political pressure in China made domestic newspapers lack the creativity for animations and everything, so they need excuses to blame the other countries' wonderful movies. This sense of inferiority was nothing but truly ridiculous.