Hero. Saw it this past Friday, and was slightly disappointed. Great action scenes, but somewhere along the way I didn't get the same sense of engagement as I did with Crouching Tiger. The narrative style was interesting, telling the same story from three different views, using different colour schemes to differentiate, but in the end it was a tad to distant for me. Perhaps seeing the same characters die, over and over again, made it hard to accept the 'reality' of the ending... Still, _very_ pretty, and the actors were amazing, as always.
I've seen that 'same story, different POVs different visual and aural element change to represent it' technique used many times. I saw the reviews for Hero and decided to skip it because while the technique is always interesting, no film or television show has done it as vividly, creatively, or intelligently as Kurasawa did in Rashoman. (Though Darin Morgan's script for The X-Files episode 'Jose Chung's From Outer Space' came pretty close.)
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Date: 2004-08-29 10:05 am (UTC)I've seen that 'same story, different POVs different visual and aural element change to represent it' technique used many times. I saw the reviews for Hero and decided to skip it because while the technique is always interesting, no film or television show has done it as vividly, creatively, or intelligently as Kurasawa did in Rashoman. (Though Darin Morgan's script for The X-Files episode 'Jose Chung's From Outer Space' came pretty close.)