Jet Li's Fearless- My Review

One of my favourite movies of all times is Jet Li’s Fearless. The story embarks on a young martial artist will, who vows never to lose in a fight. After watching his father lose and getting beaten up by the local bully, Huo Yuanjia (Jet Li) embarks on becoming the greatest martial artist of his time. Although this story is based on the heroic and legendary life of Huo Yuanjia, it is very difficult to tell the difference between the truth and lies behind his story. The story shows how one person’s will and desire can change the outcome of their life. After becoming a famous, undefeated martial artist, Yuanjia, is pursued by a child who challenges him by telling him that his grandfather is a much better martial artist and that he can beat him any day.  After Yuanjia’s victorious battle with the grandfather of the child, the child had gone and killed Yuanjia’s family, causing him to go and get revenge. Although, revenge never solves anything, Yuanjia had gone to the young child’s house and wishes to slaughter his family. When he gets there he realizes that the grandfather had died and that the young child had slit his own throat. Yuanjia had gone and tried to commit suicide by drowning himself in the river, but he washed away to a small village. There he learned to love again, and practice his martial arts for himself and not for the idea of fighting for honor. During his last tournament he fought a karate master, and was poisoned so that he would not win. Due to the amount of respect that this master had for YuanJia, the karate master forfeited his win to Yuanjia, who then died. I feel that this story had hit me hard as it shows the struggles of one man who had everything and went to absolutely nothing. This story also shows that greatness can be achieved without the use of violence, and with a calm sense of mind. This story can relate to me in a sense because this year I went to a tournament for the FMSS wrestling team where I was defeated and did not place. I promised myself that at the next tournament, that I would do better and get nothing but a gold medal. I remember struggling during that gold medal match and almost losing, but because I was a better, and much stronger opponent, I was able to walk away with the gold medal, I was Fearless.