The Curse of the Golden Flower is a gorgeous movie that more or less is gone from your mind the moment you leave the theater. It's beautiful enough for that not to matter, though. Almost. The symmetry and repetition of movements are stunning. There are fantastic mass scenes. The costumes are magnificient. But the plot is thin and actually not that interesting.
What I did come to think of, though, is a Swedish kids' game. It goes like this. One person asks: "The Emperor of China doesn't have any tea. What does he have?" and the other people have to come up with answers. I asked Dan, and he said "rice". That was a good answer. He asked me, and I said "milk" which actually is a good answer too, but he disqualified it because there hadn't been any cows in the movie we had just seen. (!!) (He doesn't know the secret to the game.)
The Curse of the Golden Flower is a gorgeous movie that more or less is gone from your mind the moment you leave the theater. It's beautiful enough for that not to matter, though. Almost. The symmetry and repetition of movements are stunning. There are fantastic mass scenes. The costumes are magnificient. But the plot is thin and actually not that interesting.
What I did come to think of, though, is a Swedish kids' game. It goes like this. One person asks: "The Emperor of China doesn't have any tea. What does he have?" and the other people have to come up with answers. I asked Dan, and he said "rice". That was a good answer. He asked me, and I said "milk" which actually is a good answer too, but he disqualified it because there hadn't been any cows in the movie we had just seen. (!!) (He doesn't know the secret to the game.)
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