The Assassin Comments

  • Adela 2022-01-18 08:01:39

    Qingluan dance mirror. "Nie Yinniang" is actually lonely, a person in Yuyu Qionglou, no one knows, no one understands, only one way to the end. Solitude is not only Yinniang, but also Tian Ji'an and Hou Dao. Like a literati painting of "sit and watch the clouds rise", for the first time, the Chinese have retrieved the long-lost classical aesthetics and rituals from the gap of light and...

  • Junius 2022-01-18 08:01:39

    If I give you 4 stars because of your stunning photography and beautiful costumes, I would tolerate your bad scripts and naive fighting scenes. Naturally, it is far from the original. Even if it is not compared, so many inexplicably unconnected sections will finally say such a simple thing? The long shots of the fight in the same scene were taken a few short shots abruptly. The ending music is...

  • Augusta 2022-01-18 08:01:39

    #Cannes2015# Contrary to Jia Zhangke, Hou Xiaoxian made a film in which only Chinese can get a sense of beauty from the inside out. The narrative is the simplest [few dialogues, very weak performance traces], but Hou Xiaoxian is best at it The content and charm of the fixed shots are maximized. The exterior shots with great landscape painting are so beautiful that they are breathtaking. The interior composition colors, light and shadows outline the charming Tang Dynasty charm. The martial arts...

  • 晓雪 2022-01-18 08:01:39

    It was the air and time of the Tang Dynasty. The drums sounded in the twilight, and I couldn't help tears. I didn't know what moved me. I often turn my eyes inadvertently, and when my eyes fall out of the screen, I will be taken aback by a wall, as if I was abruptly blocked from the Tang Dynasty back to a modern theater, and the air suddenly changed suddenly and uncomfortably. Tang Nuo said that Dao Hou’s movies are a list of terms and artistic conceptions, like ancient poems. Don’t use the...

  • Adrienne 2022-01-18 08:01:39

    Cannes brushed it twice, the aesthetics is unique, although it is not perfect. The peculiar ratio of 1.33, the color conversion from the prologue to the feature film, the sharp and realistic martial arts action, the calm and refined photography style, the magnificent art design... Hou Xiaoxian uses architectural composition, freehand brushwork with landscape, expresses his mind with the sound of wind, and composes poems with cicadas. Instead of comforting the audience with dramatic conflicts,...

  • Pierce 2022-01-18 08:01:39

    This film will soon become a new artifact for Wenqing, but I really don't like it. The advantages are obvious. Photography is as rigorous and white as a landscape painting, coupled with unwilling long shots and stage-like drums, and has a comprehensive three-dimensional art from the visual to the auditory. However, I did not perceive the extraordinary Zen as you did. , Taiwanese accent speaks classical Chinese, we have to watch English subtitles to know what to say during the whole process,...

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The Assassin quotes

  • Xia Jing: [subtitled version] The way of the sword is pitiless. Saintly virtues play no part in it.