The Empty Mind
by Jon Braeley
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Actor: Kagawa, Kanazawa, Okazaka, Tanaka, UeshibaDirector: Jon Braeley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Dolby, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 78 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-07-08
Studio: Budo Films
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DVD Review: The Empty Mind
Summary: 3 Stars
As an entry level movie for those beginning to look at Empty Mindedness, this movie is good. It captures some key points of what Empty Mindedness is about in Martial Arts, but some of the Martial Demonstrations are disappointing. The majority of the demonstrations of Shaolin were the usual scenes which one will find in most documentaries about shaolin with nothing truly standing out. The fighting was choreographed in a modern wushu style but it was to the point where one could tell that it was choreographed and the preformers were boxed in by a rigid routine. The Qi gong conditioning with the spears is always impressive but again it was nothing new. Also the Kendo conpetition was nothing more than people yelling and beating each other quickly with sticks. Not much technique could be gathered from the preformance but there was plenty of yelling and hesitant blows. What used to be tactical, and focused fights, mocking what was once a life or death match of steel swords.
The demonstrations of the Karate impressed me because of the knowledge and skill of those preforming the technique and this p art of the film is worth watching a few times. Also the Aikido was well preformed although there was not enough to show its application in an actual situation like many of the other arts. The scenes from Wu Dang mountain were impressive in some ways but not in others. The flexibility of the practitioners were impressive some of the other skills like the forms. However,the sparring again seemed to choreographed although done better than the sparring from shaolin, it was not free.
The most impressive scenes in the movie came in the form of the Qi Gong ( all of it in any section) and the masters practicing unchoreographed in the park in Bejing. These masters/practictioners truly followed the mushin or no mindedness technique of immediate reaction to any situation. The movements as displayed were choreographed in the forms but not in application. Also, it is as if they have practiced the forms to the point where they have become part of the practitioner and not a choreographed series of steps. They have gotten to the point of no form.
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