Contemporary documentary film, prone to journalistic declarativeness, and sometimes completely devoid of some isolated, author’s view, is easily able to mislead at least a little picky viewer: on the one hand, a very gloriously made movie, and on the other, something that smells like the dead of mechanical, mathematical calculation, as if looking at something in between a block of news and someone’s artistic statement. And the scarcity and template of editing language is already getting tired: from film to film the same gluing and exercises in monotony - the impression that, at least in the last 15 years, 80% of all filmed films in the world edited by the same person.
The only plus is this quite ordinary, but rather uncompromisingly dotting the i accent, with the opposition of the school of kung fu and the Shaolin monastery.
In an age when any philosophy, whether humanistic or strong-willed, succumbs to the most ordinary bullet, it is unknown how and how the talents of these girls will be useful in a world of prevailing transnational interests. You can be endlessly physically and morally strong, you can train an army of such people, but even the entire multibillion-dollar China has not yet been able to break this misanthropic capitalist machine, moreover, partially bent under it (which does not mean defeat).
Perhaps China is what we can observe in the post-civilization stage, perhaps it is a post-civilizational society, whose mentality, being simultaneously tied to the ancient individualistic tradition and modern mass, undergoes a kind of socio-moral tectonic refraction; and in fact, it will all result (as far as I know, in the entire history of China such mass schools of martial arts were not) can be said only in 30 years, when a fully formed generation of these children will come out and say something. Is he going to say that? It is painfully similar to exclusively military drilling, where the obligatory condition is the sacrifice of the individual, justified by certain “prospects”, which, as mentioned above, may not be what is expected.
And will China, in these 20-30 years, get from a couple of tens of millions of beggars, angry at their own situation, to the state, and at the same time masterfully mastering martial arts?
And how justified is this “breaking of personality” in the sense that it does not displace the metaphysical “teacher-student” established in the centuries, reducing the learning process to an exclusively ontological, outwardly oriented training of technology, a “stress test” of a dozen or even several decades? After all (as far as I know), not everyone, even the most enduring, could get into students.
To all this, of course, one can “parry” that “being determines consciousness”, but a myriad of dead-end questions arise, the answers to which can probably lie in the plane of national peculiarities of the Chinese, and indeed Asian mentality.
Under the conditions of civilization, the natural need for ontological movement, for a “set of speed”, in man increases, and one could, of course, assume that with the growth of the “system”, this need only gains momentum, and that in a more closed society, in a more archaic, closed system, in a culture , this need exists so far in immanent stasis, and with metastasis, a certain “jump” is made outward; what, for example, could be the February and October Revolutions, and the Second Civil War, following them on a global scale. But it is impossible to find out experimentally, just as it is impossible to understand where demand was created, dictated “from above”, and where it really arose spontaneously – in both cases there is a phase of phenomena, where the original essence sinks into the bottomless abyss of re-emerging effects.
It is impossible to state with true certainty about China and its individual phenomena as subjects of the emerging post-civilization, all this can be the result of national peculiarities of the mass Asian (Chinese) mentality under the existing global and local trends (circumstances).
“Tears are a sign of weakness,” says a Chinese girl, as if unaware of Lao Tzu’s commandments. In pursuit of dragons, China is beginning to forget itself.