This page was created on May 4, 2005
This page was last updated on May 4, 2005

—Overview
—Photos
—About this Film pdf
—Spiritual Connections

In any case, whether in a Buddhist, Christian, or any other context, Kung Fu Hustle—besides being a brilliant piece of entertainment, and a nod to a myriad of influences—is about a destined, yet obscure, self-sacrificial figure, and the triumph of good over evil. It taps into story and character types that have been reworked by tale after tale, time after time. It leaves me asking a question that I often ask after movies with these kinds of obvious spiritual elements: “why do human beings, regardless of our culture, keep telling the same kinds of stories, involving the same kinds of characters?” Why the popularity of the Christ figure? Why the triumph of good? Why the “diamond in the rough” motif?

Is it possible that we all—Chinese, American, African, whatever—have a story in our hearts? A story that we keep echoing in our own fictions, tale after tale, time after time? A story that continually fascinates us because it is, in the deepest sense, the true story of reality? Is it possible that this story really does involve a Christ figure—the Christ figure—and the triumph of the good over the evil? Hmmmm. A possibility to consider . . . and a movie to see.

--Matthew Hill

Review continued on Matthew's blog

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