Beautiful Epic about Humanism

Rating: 9/10 (25 March 2003)

I got to see this movie last winter with little expectation. But now I have no choice but to confess I am tremendously eager to comment about this gigantic movie. Some says this movie is tightly coupled with another piano-wire-action Chinese movie, CTHD. However, Hero has a lot more than the movie. Have you guys notice all during the running time of this film very strong visual image effects and metaphores were used? The plot is actually not quite sophisticated even though it seems so. Main tense is presence, and Nameless and the Qin King's dialogue is what the audiences see really.And other stories about Broken Sword and Flying Snow are , in fact, not real, and has a form of variety. Director take good advantage of inner story plot .All stories has their own color and metaphore.White(Love), Green(Reminiscence), Red(Jealousy), Blue(Sacrifice), Black(Qin dynasty).After seeing this movie, I cannot lose the strong impression the each colors gave me . And, the way of effecting is similar to Kieslowski's trilogy(Bleu, Rouge, Blanc). I thought over the real meaning of Hero thanks to this movie, and the real spirit Chinese people has in their mind. This is a must for all people in the world, I recommend to see it.