Thursday, 31 December 2009

Shi mian mai fu (House of Flying Daggers) (2004)

"Oh, that movie with the bamboo-forest?" is how everybody always replies when you ask them whether they saw this film.

Again, so impressed. Pure beauty, the fighting, which is dancing. The story, which is a fairytale. The backgrounds, which are heaven.

Chinese films; do they take things more to the extreme, or on the contrary simplify everything so much that it becomes much easier to relate to the subjects?

Love it. Miss China. Miss Chinese music, their poetry (though I don't understand), its people (though I don't comprehend), its everything