Assignment #2: Ip Man 4

The movie I selected to write the analysis about displacement is Ip Man 4: The Finale which was directed by Wilson Yip. This movie was released in 2019, and it is the fourth and last movie of a series of movies. All four movies show displacement in a different way. For example, the first one shows how Chinese people were being displaced in camps during a war against Japan. The second one shows the displacement when he moved from a Chinese city called Foshan to Honk Kong, and displacement is seen when this city’s martial art teachers do not accept Ip in this city. All movies are interesting to watch because they all have an important message behind. Ip Man 4 specifically show how Chinese people are discriminated in the United States. It does not matter the place or age of the people; Chinese people are discriminated, and this movie demonstrate different ways of how it happens. One of the characters in the movie is Yonah Wan, who represents how some Chinese people are treated at American schools. She fights do defend herself but other people do not believe her, she has to “live in the shadow” under American people, because when she tries to have success she gets bullied and the other students beat her up, and the other students target her and make her look like she did things that she did not. Another character is Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee is a teacher of martial arts in the United States, but other schools for American people do not believe in what he can do even though when he demonstrates to them his skills in his shows. As he says, he must fight American people in the streets all the time because he is targeted by those people. Another important character is Hartman Wu, who is a sergeant part of the US Marines Corp. Even though this character is a person that fights for the United States and he does all the possible to make the US Marine Corp. better and improve their combat skills, the American leader discriminates him and making him do a lot of extra work, and this leader reminds him all the time how superior American people is to Chinese people. The main character Ip Man shows displacement as soon I he gets to the United States. When he asks for a letter of recommendation he is instantly rejected, and his friend is reminded that he is only not fired because of his boss. After the main character fights for the Chinese people in the United States, at the end of the movie, when he realizes all of the discrimination to Chinese people in the United States he decides that his son is not going to go to the United States to study.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otI4pyQjb8w