Meditation on Violence (1949)

Title: Meditation on Violence

Original Title: Meditation on Violence

Release Date: 1949-04-24

Status: Released

Rating: 5.548/10 (from 31 votes)

Language: EN

Genres: Documentary

Production Companies: Unknown

Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees of traditional Chinese boxing, Wu-tang, Shao-lin, and Shao-lin with a sword. A long sequence of the ballet-like, sinuous Wu-tang becomes the more erratic Shao-lin; in the middle, there is an abrupt change to leaping sword movements, in the center of which, at the apogee of the leap, there is a long held freeze-frame.