Weekend Update

Watched Curse of the Golden Flower last Friday. Read horrid reviews about it but felt that I owe it to my folks to watch historical Chinese movies. I also felt I needed to demonstrate my fidelity to the director Zhang Yimou for creating my favorite movie ever, Hero. And of course, it features the gorgeous, gorgeous Gong Li who we should all show our eternal devotion to.

The movie was an overblown melodramatic telenovela with really good costume and set design. It was pure eye candy but the over the top acting was the complete opposite of the zen that is Hero. Even House of the Flying Daggers, with its overextended, please-just-die-so-we-can-all-go-home ending, has much more substance than this frivolous royal family squabble.

Oh well, Gong Li is still a goddess.







PS. Got so depressed so I watched Hero again yesterday and Wong Kar Wai's Chungking Express