Wong Ka-Wai certainly can and did. Or stuff like 'The West is favourable'. Don't get me wrong - I love all that Chinese philosphy stuff, but there were about two lines of speach in the whole film which were 'straight'. Both of these were spoken by Jacky Chueng's character, the simple swordsmen with nine fingers who just wants to be famous. His role was perhaps the most easy to understand, the rest of them spoke in simarlies and metaphors.
People expecting a linear plot can forget it.
The numerous fables in this one are scattered around all over the place like a puzzle. The camerawork, which Victor said was outstanding in his review, is good, but its nothing to write home about. Ok, Mr Doyle, your great at slanting the lense and taking shots of desert dunes and all that jazz, but you aren't that great. The music, by Frankie Chan and another composer was one of the movie's few positive aspects, but I'm sorry to say that Samo's battle sequences did not impress. Whether Wong insisted them on being obscure or if it was Hung's decision to do this, I don't know, but one thing is for sure, they are made in a way so that they are snyc with the film, so you have to 'solve' the fights for yourselves.