Orb in the movie? I think so.

Rating: 10/10 (27 March 2005)

Fist of all I would like to say wow! When I watched the film for the first time it was like looking at a beautiful painting for the first time. It felt like pure art and that is exactly what it is. Art. The film is about a warrior who has defeated the three most threatening assassins to his king. In return for his efforts he is awarded money, land but most of all the privilege to sit within ten paces of the king. As the warrior tells the king of how he defeated these three brilliant assassins we go back in time and get a quite stunning visual interpretation of the warriors story. However the king is not convinced of this story as he knows of these assassins and almost lost his life to one of them. What we get now is the story from how the king thinks these events unfolded and this includes the king thinking this warrior has defeated these assassins because he knew he could get close enough to the king to kill him himself. Is the king right? I don't want to give anything away because this was an absolutely incredible experience for me and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. The movie has many layers and unfolds very exquisitely bringing out almost every emotion we have as human beings. Not many films can do that.
Now time for me to explain the tittle of my review. What is an orb? We know they are in the shape of a ball, small and fast moving. They are also sighted in areas that are "haunted" or areas that have a lot of history or/and both. Orbs are not visible to the naked eye and they are either caught on camera and rarely captured on home video. Nobody really knows what an orb is. Some say electricity causes them and some say they are a form of ghost. Either way I have seen a lot of movies and never in my whole life have I seen an orb captured in a motion picture. Until now.
The first couple of times I did not notice it. But yesterday I watched "Hero" and noticed something in the corner of the screen. I thought nothing of it at first but I wanted to be sure so I skipped back a scene and watched very carefully. If you want to see this orb skip through the movie until the time passed says exactly 1 hour 26 minutes and 39 seconds. This object which I believe is a orb is visible for exactly one second and it starts off at the top right hand corner of the screen and ends up in the bottom middle of the screen. When the DVD is on pause I suggest you zoom in as much as you can and press the pause button another nineteen times and you can see the path it takes from start to finish. Now that's something you won't find in the special features.