The Real Shaolin

The film was very entertaining. My coworker absolutely adored little Yuan Peng, whose journey was one of the four main story lines. Personally, I thought the entire selection of subjects was excellent, including side plots like Hussein's.

Each subject's story depicted a different aspect of the Shaolin experience. Although I didn't know much about Shaolin entering the screening, I think that the four stories and additional side plots covered the gambit of the Shaolin experience.

Without getting too much into the film, one can summarize it as a "tough love" type of story. The Real Shaolin differs from what most people envision the Shaolin experience to be. Shaolin has always been depicted under the shroud of fantasy and mystique, but The Real Shaolin jolts outsiders with a taste of life within the Shaolin walls.