Watching this movie with my family has a special significance on my interpretation of the story. The premise of the movie is about valuing ones family and community over all egoistical interests. Even with fame, wealth and prestige, it does not gain any respect from others.
Ip man is portrayed as being a humble master who refuses to be acknowledged as the number one martial arts master in Hong Kong. He offers the center seat to an elderly master from another martial arts school but the elderly master declines the seat out of respect for Ip man.
Ip man does not use his martial arts abilities for his own personal glory but more so in helping the community around him by offering to guard a school which was being targeted by thugs who wanted the principal to sell the school which was located on prime land. The principal refuses their offer and is beaten up. The thugs proceed to kidnap the kids from the school to force the principal to sell the land.
Ip man comes to the rescue as his own son was amongst those kids who were kidnapped. At his son’s hostage point, Ip man is mocked at by the thug boss to kneel and bow before him, which Ip man humbly does so.
This movie teaches about how to make a stand for the society, and not cave in to external pressures no matter the impossibility. The conflict is that the prime land the school is on is so valuable that the head police chief has been bribed to close an eye on keeping out the thugs.
Despite the external pressures and entering combat alone, Ip man faces a few hundred thugs in a one man show down. To know the outcome, you have to watch this movie that also features Mike Tyson.
Highly recommended for an inside view into Chinese culture and confucianism / buddhism / martial arts philosophy.
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