I don't care about incest and the city full of steamed buns, but the scene of killing like a mustard sent a chill down my spine.
There are also many movies of court battles in various countries, but some followers are always going to die. But I've never seen anything so brutal - I mean the director. I have also seen arrows like rain on the Roman battlefield, and I have seen rivers of blood in "300", but I have never seen the relationship between generals and soldiers in "Golden Armor". The prince flew up to the shield and looked back at the countless casualties among his subordinates. He didn't show any pity, but there was an anxiety on his face - he was worried that those ants would not be able to help him in his hegemony.
Even more frightening is that the ants have been crushed to death, and another group of ants is even more despicable to clean up the site. In just 5 seconds, the dead were gone, the blood was washed away, the red carpet was rolled out again, and the floor was covered with chrysanthemums, and then long live the mountain! What audacity this is! How cruel! The director probably thought that some ants died, and he was eager to show the sinister viciousness in the court. I speculated for a moment that Zhang Yimou deliberately wanted to show this feature of Chinese culture, but I knew right away that I was wrong. The last scene in the main hall is just to show the love and hatred of those big men.
A director's work reflects a director's values. I can only speculate that in Director Zhang's mind, the status of a pariah is not as good as that of an ant. He only saw a few people, and then used tens of thousands of people as foils. And our audience accepted that view—let's just be princes, insidious but fun, better than those fleeting ants.
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