Born To Fly Review Chinese Top Gun Puts Tech Propaganda In The Frontline
China's so-called top gun pilots are best thought of as the People's Republic of China's growing technological dominance (which makes the name less appealing) as they selflessly support China's sophisticated military. Another of China's seemingly endless state-sponsored propaganda fighters, it differs from its American counterparts in the 1980s and 1990s only in its guileless patriotism.
It's a new generation of fighter pilots, but the plot is about the new generation: aspiring pilot Li Yu (Wang Yibo) is pulled from veteran Zhang Qing (Hu Jun) to join a team looking for "restricted data". ” at the height of the new stealth aircraft. That's apart from the temporary rivalry with Dan Fan (Yu Yosh). But an interesting drama unfolds outside of this film: Born to Fly's constant political rhetoric about foreign powers trying to occupy China and invade its waters. It features some of those pesky villains who say, "We come and go as we please" at the intro.
Wrong, intruder! Encouraged by Zhang, who tells them that she will return alone from the post-war strategic division, Lei and his friends begin to develop advanced technology for the Chinese military, giving director Liu Xiaoxi a double or two.
Not that the Top Gun and Rambo series weren't filled with the same sentimental chauvinism, but more importantly, they never lost their humor. But here the attempts to "be" are half-hearted, committees: the wrong teachers are required to wear a bow tie, but Zhang's idea of freeing the recruits is a trick at night in the house.
Also, it seems to be part of the veteran action movie's DNA, as a superhero goes undercover like in Top Gun: Maverick in an F18 fighting fifth-generation Russian-Iranian Sukhoi fighters. But with the likes of the Wolf Warrior franchise, The Wandering Earth and The Battle of Changjin Lake, Chinese blockbusters have truly excelled. Liu almost choked as Lei and their teachers engaged their planes in a very exciting activity. These days, it's not so much a movie as an unsettling foreign policy document.
