espiritista

house of flying daggers

only two names needed to make me willing to shell out 400 bucks to see the movie. zhang yimou and zhang zhiyi.

matagal-tagal na rin akong fan ni zhang yimou. road home (reportedly also zhang ziyi's first camera appearance), that movie with a fetish for zhang zi yi's face; not one less, that one that can only strike a chord inside any teacher with delusions of self-importance...i think all teachers MUST HAVE this delusional sense of self-importance and civic duty in order to be successful, but more on that in some other posts.

as usual, napakaganda pa rin ni zhang ziyi. kilala siya ng mga tao dahil sa "hero," at sa "crouching tiger, hidden dragon." but really, in hero, she was nothing more than a bit player. sayang ang byuti nya. sa crouching tiger talaga lumabas ang kanyang ganda.

sa house of flying daggers, ganun pa rin. kahit patalsikan ng putik, naknangtupa, ang ganda pa rin niya. pansin ninyo, nauubos ang bokabularyo ko pagdating sa kanya. wala. maganda talaga e. yun lang ang makasasapat. tsaka siguro tahimik na pagtulala sa kanyang mukha.

pinansin na ni nikka yung eksena ng pagtingala sa langit matapos magtalik nina zhang ziyi at takeshi kaneshiro (ang bagong pinagpapantasyahan ni gerald ramos). dinepensahan na niya laban sa pagpuna ng isang kaklase na parang wala daw iyong kuwenta.

i think i'll have to agree with nikka here (uy! yun ang title ng blog niya!:)). call it perverse or sentimental, but that scene could never have been draggy. if at all, it was so blatantly fragile. i was anticipating a few soldiers on ooone hand, or members of the flying daggers on the other, to come anytime from under the trees and run after them. looking back, i think that was the only moment they had for themselves alone. i particularly like the nuances of lying down on a field of grass. conjures up images of sting ("fields of gold") simultaneous with my own experiences of lying down on grass. and im not even talking about THAT kind of grass they equate to heaven! hehehe. marley man!

asar lang ako sa tipo ng ending. as in, can't you just die now? i mean, well, the film was obviously going for epic time, as opposed to realistic time, but really, how much of the film prepared us for that kind of treatment? parang half-hearted yung epic thing. parang sumobra. parang in the end, it was more of an adornment, a chance to showcase once again zhang yimou's famous eye for capturing luscious scenes in the big screen. medyo letdown nang konti.

pero as usual, astig ang fight scenes. astig ang costumes. astig ang camera shots at angles. astig kung paanong napakaepektibo ng simpleng storyline.

tinext ko tuloy si mareng dot, ano ba ang "mei"? bulaklak in general o isang specific type of flower? wala lang. baka may dagdag na level ng meaning. yun kasi ang name ni zhang ziyi. pinansin ni kaneshiro yun sa simula ng film, ung bakit ang pangalan niya ay pangalan ng bulaklak.

at bakit 400 bucks ba kamo?

remember my earlier post about the surprise party for my wife? i had to bring her to the movies while the students set up in the house. but halfway through the movie, mama was already texting me like hell to go home because the students were done already. so we went home, and my wife was just plain freaked out. then he birthday party freaked her out some more.

kinabukasan, piannood namin ulit. :)

posted by dyeproks @ 1:40 AM