Curse of the Golden.Flower

Directed by: Yimou Zhang

Produced by: William Kong

                         Weiping Zhang

                      Yimou Zhang

Written by: Yimou Zhang

Starring: Chou Yun-fat

       Li Gong

       Jay Chou

       Junjie Qin

In this movie, the image is fantastic. Your eyes can get a great visual enjoy during the whole movie. The gorgeous golden color can’t be erased in your mind after the movie done for a while. Compare to the sense of sight, the story and theme become very weak. The external and internal conflict is not strong enough for each character. It is just like a beautiful melodrama and can’t touch the heart of audience at all. 

The simple story is about a general steals the throne and has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest during China's Tang dynasty. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family. But he lost everything except the high kingship at the end.

The emperor looks endowed with civil and martial virtues, but actually he is avaricious and relentless. That’s why he can get the throne. And the sad ending is directed by him. The empress is the victim of political marriage. She never gets any love from her husband. Because of loneliness, she falls love with her stepson. By the affair being found out, she becomes the target that the emperor wants to kill. One of her son is good kung fu and valued by the emperor. For protecting his mother, he decides to break with his father and plans an uprising. But his plan is failed and he is killed by the emperor.