The texture of the picture and the way of narration can almost be regarded as the perfect combination of Kurosawa's typical movies and Chinese classical freehand landscapes.
Director Hu should have been greatly influenced by Akira Kurosawa, and several scenes of testing each other have the feeling of the Seven Samurai back then. The shooting of Chinese landscapes perfectly interprets the classical charm in Jin Yong's novels in my heart.
This is the real martial arts, real, but full of ancient meaning.
Think about it too, how could the ancients come up and fight each other over the eaves and walls, there must be a process of testing each other.
The script is quite exciting...Except for the abrupt relationship between Miss Yang and Scholar Gu, there is basically no flaw.
The English name is also very intriguing, touch of Zen...
I have to say, this is a martial arts film that looks a lot like a literary film, very realistic and freehand.
It is not difficult to see that, a few years later, classic martial arts movies such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, and A Chinese Ghost Story were more or less inspired by him.
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