Originally from China, homed in Southampton but hardly ever there as I'm at uni in Cambridge, and ho...
Originally from China, homed in Southampton but hardly ever there as I'm at uni in Cambridge, and holiday times I'm all over the place, like London, like Guernsey.
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With all the media's enthusiasm and award-winning of this film, I finally decided that I am going to see it. It is done in Chinese (Mandarin - the Peking language) with subtitles in English, and as a Chinese I judge that the translation - no matter how much they try to keep the same meaning - makes the film somewhat lost its originality. I didn't quite understand why they did it in Mandarin - the main characters Chow Runfat and Yang Mei (I think) can't even speak Mandarin very well - they are both Cantonese speakers and I think they are much more capable of speaking English. For me, this made the film even less appealing. Anyway, onto the main plot. This film is a love story about a woman who fell in love with her fiancee's god-brother-like (only in Chinese way) after her fiancee's death. However to keep loyalty to her fiancee both of them kept the love down for over 20 years. Just when they were trying to crash the barrier built by guilt a rich girl of a high-class general came into the scene. She learnt the Kong-fu of Wudan (Origin of Taichi and in the story the Kong-fu that belongs to the male protagonist) from an evil woman (Jade Fox) who stole the script of the kong-fu by poisoning the male protagonist's teacher. A series of events were stirred up by the unsofisticated girl until the male protagonist was poisoned by Jade Fox did the girl realise what she's done. This is a very sad film and very gentle and sensitive and vague even with all the Kongfu scenes. Having seen a lot of other kongfu novels and films and TV serieses, AND the original novel this extracted from myself, I didn't like this film much because it was emphasizing on the kongfu too much and it ignored the importance of plot and character building. This is aimed at western audience who did not see a lot of kongfu style films and are fascinated at it. However Chow Runfat isn't even an action actor and I think this film has a very poor attemp because the kongfu isn't real at all and the plotline is so weak. I think the producer had the thought of that 'Nobody would understand much anyway' on mind. However I must say that the actors and actresses are good ones and the performance is quite good. This maybe a bit harsh but this is how I feel towards this film, even after several months of seeing it.
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