hero

so i finally got around to seeing hero last night, the zhang yimou epic starring jet li, tony leung chiu wai, maggie cheung, donnie yen, and zhang ziyi.

wow.

i mean, really.

wow.

just so incredibly beautiful. phenomenally beautiful. the cinematographer was christopher doyle, who is wong kar wai’s main guy, so i was expecting the lush, saturated colours, but this was stunning. delicious use of filters, to make different parts of the movie have an entire pallette, something not seen to that extent since the cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover.

i did chuckle a little, as it’s a very chinese movie. the whole theme, the whole outlook, is very chinese, almost blatantly pro-party, and wouldn’t quite have been the same (or even made?) as a hong kong film.

but to no detriment. because it’s fabulous.

maybe it was worth $30 to see this on the big screen…

Posted at March 12, 2004 7:23 AM