Brilliant !!
Just got the HK 3 DVD set and watched the film unlike any other.. and MY GOD! THIS FILM IS A Masterpiece! I was so moved ... if you do one more thing in your life before you die .. see this film! It's true...I am sure your are all familiar with the story, however, I think that i couldn't spoil it for you because it's all the visual direction that's so extraordinary and original. At it's basic level, the story follows the characters' adventures and interactions through out the film and we're getting right into their own mind and destinies that brought them together. The movie exactly feels like it's a beginning of something very big... the whole friendship and personalities of all swordsmen is still not as tight, clear and developed... and that's a good thing as we'll be slowly witnessing the whole build up of the characters through the entire series.
Just like many other Tsui Hark's films, "Seven Swords" is gorgeous. The action and costume design in the film is extraordinary and there are so many frames that are just beautiful and indescribable, it's just something what has to be seen. The use of camera movement is as intriguing as the movement and choreography of the main swordsmen, and I really can't think of anything but this film or recollect any other wuxia film that could get even close to the monumental magnificence of "Seven Swords". It's great to know that there's so many others who were also so deeply affected by this incredible work of art.
The certain characters become in the mid of the film very colourful, and fleshed out enough so that the viewer feels they know them, but still not enough that they'd know everything about them, and that's one of the elements intentionally left out for many other sequels. The past is something what's haunting these characters, in many ways that is a thematic point of the film that is truly just about the destiny, redemption and peace and love that all the swordsmen want to achieve (and hopefully "will" achieve in the process of the ongoing sequels) and as we follow the moving and struggling drama between and in the minds of the characters we may even come to understand something within ourselves. It is truly a very humanistically inspirational for the viewers, and should be noted that much more so than was even "Seven Samurai". Seven Swords is just a brilliant example of the true power of the cinema. And Tsui Hark once again proves that he's an unadulterated cinematic genius. It seems that some people still don't know what film can do to the viewer's senses, Tsui Hark does.
score 10/10
newbabylonx 29 March 2006
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