Movie Review: Curse of the Golden Flower
"When autumn comes on Double Ninth Festival, / my flower [the chrysanthemum] will bloom and all others perish. / When the sky-reaching fragrance [of the chrysanthemum] permeates Chang'an, / the whole city will be clothed in golden armour."- Huang Chao Here's one of those action films I really think is just too filled with conspiracies, tragedies and it's quite hard to sympathize with most characters maybe except for Crown Prince Wan (acted by Liu Ye) who by one way or another is stuck in tragedy born into a dysfunctional family. Emperor Ping speaks of principles yet he is shown to be a hypocrite, his stepmother the Empress Phoenix, an envious half-brother in Prince Jai (acted by Jay Chow) and the other envious half-brother Prince Yu. What is so utterly disgusting are these details- the emperor wants to turn his empress (who is his second wife) to become a vegetable under some kind of weird conspiracy while I can't feel sorry for the empress either because...