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I am on my knees thanking the almighty and the film makers for such a wonderful piece of work. It is such a welcome break from the regular, loud, in your face, over the top tag line, poorly acted product that is coming off the Hollywood assembly line these days as regularly as lies out of the white house.
This movie is astonishing, it combines all the best elements of Tsui Hark's earlier very best films like The Blade, The Lovers, Legend Of Zu, Once Upon A Time In China, and creates a bleak whirlpool of (not poetic) the brutal and painful to watch violence, and conversely (not bland) the ever-present romanticism - not just between people but in the beauty and simplicity of the nature and human soul, and in their harmonical relation, just like the relation between heaven and earth.
Here one can sense what Tsui Hark is really capable of doing, given the proper DIRECTION and THEME. The landscapes, the love affairs are simply breathtaking. As if the movie didn't want us to be completely part of their affairs and issues, but just gently touches on them with an honest sensitivity and tenderness that let them move with a tranquility and an innocence which evokes in the viewer the sense of the genuine art of film-making that I have not seen in a very long time.
I did not go to the theater to see this movie (which i'll probably regret for the rest of my life), but rented the DVD, but my thirst for a beautiful, not just entertaining, but a truly BEAUTIFUL movie was finally quenched! Thank you Mr. Hark for your unique artistic voice and talent. You will be remembered as one of the greatest for evermore!
score 10/10
mjazz1 13 June 2006
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