The one-penny question is: what the hell is Chen thinking? If he tried to capture a bigger segment of the market and turn a profit, the Chinese passion for pirated copies would have made his efforts futile. Maybe Chen is a great humorist who is making fun of the cheap pulp sentiments of Chinese mass. But it seems beyond human ability for a erst-while great director to keep a straight face throughout this rubbish.
Or maybe Chen is the greatest artistic poseur who has ever lived, who faked greatness in spite of his innate commercial vulgarity. But how could one say this about the maker of "Grand Parade", one of the truly humanist films that my unfortunate homeland ever makes, and the master behind "Emperor and Assasin", a flawed film yet filled with imaginative psychological plausibility?
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