vivid analysis of human psyche

Rating: 10/10 (14 April 2001)

There are people intelligent enough to study things,events and other people in multi-faceted approach with an assessment quality fed into their perception of imagination and reality, and there simply are people that are only capable of seeing through one-dimensional and shallow who are not interested in any way of understanding us,earth-bound humans,our desires,weaknesses,ambitions,etc.That latter description applies to us with our likes and dislikes,the way we approach arts,colors and finally the art of moving pictures what we affectionately call 'cinema'.
Being a 'cinema-lover',I usually like every type of movies and try to experience fun,grief,anger,agony,suffering,joy,poetry,filth and so on and I try to see the inner-quality of some when I watch them.I simply like movies for their depiction of atmosphere(Tequila Sunrise),or their anti-hero's way of living and understanding life(Point-break),or director's struggle to reminding us how realities can be contrived or changed,how ambiguous human behavior can be manipulated in all sorts of ways(Memento-Crouching Tiger,Hidden Dragon).
If you try not to see CTHD like a kung-fu flick in which there are people flying rather inanely and see it as a fable dating to thousands of years in which there are poetic calligraphy dispersed reminding us some long forgotten virtues related to mankind of this savage world which are not banal or cheap but that are really needed to ease the atrocities and relentless anger amongst our species.
Remember,this is not a real-life story but rather like verse from the ancient times of Eastern culture of when there were the same problems we try to cope with today.JEN is not only a spoiled little rich brat.JEN is me or you all.JADE FOX is not that evil like our-selves,carrying various shades of grey.
There will always be people who would rate Battlefield Earth '10' and CTHD '1'.Such is life!
Some films are bound to be longer remembered than others;this was one of them.