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Simply Perfect

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Statement： 1，All of Chinese to English---there can't preview Chinese(Stupid Web！！！) 2，I use translation software to translate into English as much as possible, but due to cultural and language habits are different, you might not understand the meaning of themA Laughter From The Seas （The song）The seas laugh, lashing on both shores Carried in the waves, we have only the here and now The heavens laugh at the troubled world Only they know, who is to win and lose The mountains laugh, the rain is afar When the waves grow old, the world still goes on The clear winds laugh, such a feeling of solitude Bygone camaraderie leaving behind a tinge of melancholy The earth laughs, solitude no more My sentiments laughing stillThis is a group of old text wrapped into a mess, can sing, sing, don't try to understand. To solution can also, risked to Move a stone to drop your foot it. Vaguely feel, this song speaks to disregard the changing of the hero, talked about a wait every day under the tree, in the hope that a hare would kill itself by crashing into a tree trunk's paladin, talked about the hero to Sitting in the well and think it's all of the world, told plug one's ears while stealing a bell of the sages, talked about life in a fit of pique today, talked about the universal nobody in the sunset. Said is a laughter, in fact, laughter is more than the sea.Sea laughter, boat sank.Heavens laugh, as lightning.Rivers and mountains laugh, rock are falling. Breeze smile, flowers are falling.People laugh, even no anger no hate no cause.The film, about is how valuable a free and had free access to how difficult it is, even if is a Kong fu master, invincible, but always involuntarily. What a funny thing to an outsider is, it is people's principles, beliefs, and self.what the hell! English is really unable to accurately express the meaning of, Chinese a lot of very essence of culture is completely unable to express, and some of the highlights cannot translation, to blame blame your ancestors culture too backward!

This film is clearly based on the same novel which has produced several other versions, notably two which were done as multi-episode television programs. The earlier, from the 1980s, starred Chow Yun-fat as Ling-hu Chong (as the name is given in most versions), and ran at 20 episodes. I have not seen this, though it has an excellent reputation, but the more recent version, shown in China in 2000, ran for 40 episodes, and was shown recently in the US on the AZN cable station under the title Laughing in the Wind. The first half of the series will be available on DVD soon. It was a superb piece of work, strikingly photographed, brilliantly choreographed, and, more importantly, written and acted with a depth and subtlety that did full justice to its possibilities.This version with Jet Li has many excellent qualities, but the limited running time necessary for a theatrical film, plus the unnecessary addition of the Japanese story, robbed it of the ability to develop the psychologically and dramatically fascinating story to anything like its real potential. (I can't see the smallest relation to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which it seems to me is an entirely different kind of story.) For a Jet Li fan, this is one of his more interesting films, but anyone interested in the adaptation of this classic novel into a truly superior dramatic version should seek out Laughing in the Wind.

I finished to be less sorry for the time spent on seeing this film than I anticipated. If you want to see where 'Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon' and some of the fight effects in the 'Matrix' series come from 'Swordsman 2' is certainly one of the original sources. It is not a bad film at all, there is good camera work all over, characters have structure and are different one from the other (even for an Asian film seen by European eyes) and all seems authentic - but I know little about the history of the area in the past times, unfortunately. It still looks naive and confusing sometimes, but compared to many of the Hollywood 'legends' recently, maybe this is not so bad either. 7/10 on my personal scale.

If you only see one movie from Hong Kong, look no further. This one packed the best of all that kept HK's movie industry at the forefront of the action/ martial arts genre. The androgynous leading role also revived veteran actress Brigitte Lin's career, launching scores of other copycats casting her in such roles. She completely overshadows everyone else, despite the star-studded cast (incl Jet Li). The action sequences were stunning and kudos also for the meticulous costume-design and music score - a classic!