Our Land

Rating: 4/10 (29 August 2004)

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Visually stunning, awesome soundtrack--not just the music, but all the sounds in the film: swirling wind, water droplets, clanging swords-- great choreography, sets, costumes, etc.
Unfortunately this movie is nothing more than pro-Communist propaganda, and while I'm not a jingoistic American vehemently against Communism, propaganda always bores me. "Yeah, we figured out what you were cramming down our throats 40 minutes ago. Ease up already." It's the same feeling I got when leaving the theater after "The Passion of the Christ": that I'd been used, manipulated and subjected to almost two hours of pure slow motion. Slow motion is a director's way of saying that the audience is too obtuse to grasp the beauty of motion in real time.
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How many times do I have to see one person die? It didn't intensify my feelings for him and his lover, the repetition made me not care.