It is set in historical-make-believe-China, and looks extraordinary: everything is gilded and ornamented and every shot displays about fifteen different brilliant colors, so every scene seems to be taking place inside a Faberge egg, or a stained-glass window.
Hero was like that. I got about a third of the way through and gave up on it. Couldn't watch House of Flying Daggers either. Maybe I just don't like wuxia.
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Date: 2007-02-23 04:17 pm (UTC)Hero was like that. I got about a third of the way through and gave up on it. Couldn't watch House of Flying Daggers either. Maybe I just don't like wuxia.