The House of Flying Daggers


Mei, impressing the captain with her skill in the Echo Play


It's Tuesday again, another day of waiting ... waiting for a call I'm not really certain that would ever come but the best way to kill the time waiting is to do something else, right? Yesterday, I've learned that the House of Flying Daggers will be shown today so after my daily routine, I decided to watch the movie at Megamall.

The movie opened with the trademark chinese caligraphy and so the story. Watching this movie reminds me of "Hero" since both movies, this one and Hero are both produced and directed by award-winning director Zhang Yimou but this one has a different touch, with more to "real" fighting scenes, and a much inclination to a love story. Again, in this movie, Yimou, expresses his artistry through the costumes, the more-to-very-gritty-yet-artistically done scenes like a sword cutting a drop of water, and of course the very nifty fighting whatever martial arts of the Chinese. Surely it will take your breath away.

To give you a brief overview, this movie is a love story set in a crucial period where the Tang Dynasty will soon end. With a government run by corrupt people (like the Philippines), a new band of rebels, who called themselves "The House of Flying Daggers" plan to outthrow the government. With a cunning plot to lure the Chinese army into their trap, the rebel group uses Mei (Zhang Ziyi) to pursue this mission. Hoever the plan complicates as Mei fell in love with her playboy captor, the Chinese captain, Jin aka "Wind". In the end of the story, a fascinating twist happens that all ends in tragedy. I cried a tear actually.