Viewer Comments:Fight And Love With A Terracotta Warrior
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Wow. This movie is so wonderful, with many levels of storytelling and flawless acting, sets and photography. This is one I would like to see given the royal treatment in terms of its DVD transfer. I am just glad to have gotten to see it at long last.
| An interesting film with a supernatural element, involving a Qin Dynasty general who was entombed alive as punishment for defying his emperor, but was also secretly given an immortality pill by his lover (played by Gong Li). Thus when he is literally made into a Terra-Cotta warrior, remaining in hibernation only to awaken in 1920s China.
The woman inadvertently awakened him by falling into his tomb bears an identical resemblance to the lover he last saw thousands of years ago (so naturally she is also played by Gong Li). The rest of film involves various gags as the hero (played by the director Zhang Yimou himself) struggles to understand the new world around him, ultimately ending in climactic battle against tomb rombers. Gong Li's 2nd character, who is pretty annoying at first, also ends up falling in love with him, completing the story arc. The attempts at humor during the film don't work very well, but the effectiveness of the romantic tragedy angle compensate for that. |
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