Monday, May 14, 2007

Curse of the Golden Flower

First I watched this in a computer from a CD that was brought by a friend from China . It isn't exactly a feel-good movie, I thought. It's hard to describe what this film does, without spoiling the movie and that structure is it's strength. Suffice to say, this is a very exhuberant movie, but not a realistic movie, a movie where direction and production are the extreme stars in the field of Chinese movies. And that is also "Curse of the golden flower"'s weakness. Moviegoers are used to seeing the full spectrum of a movie; varied scenery and ambiance, multiple stories, realistic characters, a realistic society portrait, and so on. Certainly, this movie has strong characters, but like the imperial court setting, they are puppets, that said , the degree in which I'm interested in this movie is medium, it means it's not bad and not good.

1 Comments:

At 6:17 PM, Blogger rosa ochoa said...

Is it an action movie? There are so many movies now that mix action with incredible stunts and fantastic computer effects. Sometimes the story suffers, though.

 

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