Crouching joke, hidden bluff

Rating: 7/10 (4 June 2001)

Would the Taiwanese filmmakers please return the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and give it to "Amores perros"? Come on, Chinese warriors have been flying for decades, martial arts have been choregraphed for centuries, and Buddhist philosophy has better illustrators. But now since Ang Lee has become an Occidental "acquired taste", since Chow Yun-Fat has gained "mainstream respectability", as the King of Siam, and a nod for Taiwanese cinema (or politics?) is needed, everybody's gone crazy and placed this silly tale among the best films ever made. "Cosas vederes, Sancho"..., said don Quixote.