I still can't stop thinking about the movie I saw yesterday. "The Blade" is haunting me. The land of rivers and lakes where countless heroes leave their mark, has no water to be seen except when it rains. And the heroes are no different from the villains, except maybe that the heroes have less of a body count since they only started recently. I wonder, how many people were inspired by these stories? As the feudal knights probably imitated the conventions of Sir Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur.
It's kind of sobering to someone who practices martial arts that came from the same cultural milieu. In the film, people who are purported to fly do so with the help of ropes. People leave after every bloodbath - why? To evade justice? To avoid revenge? Because they can't fix anymore what they broke? Or is it because that's what heroes are supposed to do? And the martial arts they learn - these forms that I work on, these techniques and conditioning; sure they've been refined, but in the beginning were they the result of nothing more than someone getting lucky?
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