Bai Le De and Hu Lin Tung are military cadets. After graduating, Hu Lin Tung is appointed captain of Guangdong headquarters and goes away.
Is it worth your time? If you have a thing for 1930s Chinese cinema or just want to see how a Shakespeare plot gets transplanted into military uniforms, go for it. If you need snappy pacing or modern editing, you will probably be checking your watch every five minutes. It is slow, deliberate, and undeniably old-school....
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Wancang Bu
Dallas M. Fitzgerald
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"Is it worth your time? If you have a thing for 1930s Chinese cinema or just want to see how a Shakespeare plot gets transplanted into military uniforms, go for it. If you need snappy pacing or modern editing, you will probably be checking your watch every five minutes. It is slow, deliberate, and undeniably old-school. There is a specific kind of stillness in Yi Jian Mei that you just don't get anymore. The scenes linger. They really linger. Sometimes a character just stands there holding a let..."
Yanyan Chen
William Shakespeare, Yicuo Huang
China
