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Frankly yet another great epic from Chinese Theater.
Without giving the game away, it involves essentially two
lovers who live three lives in different stages/ages.
I simply adore these legends and plays from many centuries ago,
wonderful acting, script and sets, clothing and mythological creatures.
If you have also seen 'Legend of White Snake', the storyline
is (too me) along the same type of line. Boy meets girl, falls
in love; much hardship occurs - and all's well at the very end.
I watch these great stories on Netflix, with subtitles, but like to
turn the sound up so I can hear the Mandarin (I presume) speech.
Without understanding, I can detect the variations of happy/sad
tomes and so forth.
Watching novella's from different countries (China, Spain, Mexico,
Colombia, etc) gives me an in-look to the soul and culture of them.
One thing I've noticed in many China based tales, is that there is usually a 'spoiler' - a female who falls for the same guy as the main actress, then will literally, lie, cheat, steal, connive, frame and harm her - all out of jealousy.
Don't know if that is the norm, or just for the sake of a story.
Anyway, I'll leave it up to native Chinese speakers and so forth to fill in the blanks, but will just conclude by saying that I heartily recommend it.
score 10/10
jaybizman 2 December 2019
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