warning: loads of spoilers
disclaimer: i am not responsible for e contents of this blog
i watched the sneaks of house of the flying daggers (shi mian mai fu) and all i can think of is that e writer really tries to reflect e title to a T. Not only is e plot full of ridiculous twists, it is also a medical breakthrough. First Andy Lau and Takeshi fights a gruelling duel for god knows how long cos e fight started with a sunny clear blue sky and ended with them standing knee deep in snow. Then amazingly, Zhang Ziyi actually gets not one but 2 death scenes! She collapsed with alot of hoo ha with a dagger in her left bosom which common sense tells u that it would haf punctured her left pleura if not lung. So after all e snowfall she woke up (at tis point, e audience lets out gasps of disbelief) but weirdly e actors dun find tis miracle weird at all and nonchalantly start to talk. She pulled out her dagger and is dead within minutes but not before sharing one last kiss with Takeshi.
And that's not all, we found out that Andy Lau had been going along all this while with a dagger stuck in his trapezius and that was at least days before e fight of dubious length.
AND during e fight both actors suffer knife stabs and slits to their stomachs and various other parts of their anatomy and they still manage to come out of e fight whole.
And that was that, no mention of what happened to e cult nor to e two main leads. Talk abt a worse ending than matrix.
The only saving grace of e film in my opinion is Takeshi's face, tho liang vehemently disagrees. Perhaps we shld haf stuck with Brotherhood after all, then at least i will have 2 cute faces.
Saturday, July 24, 2004
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