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Cast Elisabeth Shue; Summary The Karate Kid is a movie starring Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita, and Elisabeth Shue. A boy and his mother move to California for a new job. He struggles to fit in, as a group of karate students starts to bully him for dating a rich; Average Rating 7,3 / 10 star; Directors John G. Avildsen; Country USA; Genre Family, Drama

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'The Karate Kid (1984) is a surprisingly philosophical film, in the way that it uses its eponymous martial art as a way of materialising the opposing mindsets of its two mentor characters. These mindsets themselves are not only indicative of the two most common uses for karate, the offensive sport versus the defensive art, but also an incredibly common opposing take on the world, wherein 'good vs evil' isn't boiled down to its most black and white of interpretations but is instead seen through the way we navigate our lives and treat those that aren't ourselves. Indeed, this central conflict is one of the most realistic and universal in all of film, a battle often seen but not often portrayed with such a clarity and, frankly, nuance, even though it is somewhat pushed to the background and has to be ever-so-slightly read from in-between the lines. The shades of grey that paint the piece aren't always so evident or 'lived up to' in the way that the 80s styling is bound to have aged and so is some of the mentality to a minor extent, but it is always present and, actually, always of a very high-quality. Even the bully, who would normally be the definite villain and does make some cruel decisions (even nearly killing our hero at one point) is drawn with a deft hand that shows him to be a human only as flawed as the hero, who is himself an arrogant and impressionable adolescent. The two provoke each other almost as much as one another, both making similar mistakes but having those filtered through their differing mindsets. The feature's philosophy of 'no bad students, only bad teachers' is especially apparent when the real villain of the piece, the Cobra Kai sensei, is shown to be the one who is corrupting the mind of all the antagonistic teens. The depth of the picture actually stretches to its depiction of its core martial art, too, because it gets a lot of its ideals and principles correct while also portraying the physical side with a lot more accuracy than normal. Though some of it can seem a little dated or just plain off - especially when the 'masters' use it or it's taught through dubious methods, it is actually evocative of the home-town taught variant that would be used by normal people, instead of the Jet Li or Jackie Chan superstars, and definitely fits with the amateur tournament at the end, while still feeling dangerous and properly weighty. The flick is downright entertaining, on top of all that. Its a fun, and at times genuinely funny, film with an important message and a well-developed screenplay that dives into philosophy in an accessible way. It's one of the best films of its decade and has ascended into pop-culture for good reason. 8/10.

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