Slow Fist

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In the future, the height of mental and physical achievement is Slow Fist, in which one trains their perceptions and mental processes to such a degree that time appears to slow down. Practitioners are able to literally make "split second decisions" with great regularity and calmness, dodge attacks by the thinnest margins, conserve energy, etc.

By and large, the future world is Utopian. Killing of any kind is abhorrent, and even when Slow Fist masters from different nation states clash, it may be violent, but to kill an opponent is considered a grave offense and, in most cases, results in the expulsion of the perpetrator.

Part of the idea of the film is flipping the script on "good guys in a bad world", this is a good world, defended by good guys. The action is driven by terrorists (though I need to think carefully about how they come across; could play them sympathetic... possible, they are, in many ways, like us. I don't want to get heavy handed about it, though. Most of all, this should be an action flick.

Bits:

- bullet running: by watching the sweep of enemy guns and extrapolating trajectory, can effectively block bullets with local shield (note that dodging is sometimes possible with single shot, but given the leverage that small movements give the shooter, repeat fire or even a single centerline shot could be hard to impossible to dodge) - reaction timing: present a false or protected target and see how long it takes the opponent to react; then use the reaction speed to calculate next move (remember, the object is always to incapacitate)