I was going to say, possibly maybe, if you as a practising martial artist can stand to see showy martial arts scenes stylised most of the way to ballet, Hero, which is still out in cinemas here, would be worth your seeing. In that it does some stunningly gorgeous visual things, some really nice things at the level of multiple renditions of the same story and how they echo and interact, and it has a coherent and cogent philosophical point to make - though I suspect much more so if one speaks Mandarin rather than having to rely on subtitles. It's also something that will be completely bloody wasted on video.
Clockwork Orange is certainly good, and having it to hand is a plus for this sort of discussion. I'd not recopmmend it to you so highly as the other two because it really is Very Nasty Indeed, contentwise, on levels I suspect might get to you and be depressing.
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I was going to say, possibly maybe, if you as a practising martial artist can stand to see showy martial arts scenes stylised most of the way to ballet, Hero, which is still out in cinemas here, would be worth your seeing. In that it does some stunningly gorgeous visual things, some really nice things at the level of multiple renditions of the same story and how they echo and interact, and it has a coherent and cogent philosophical point to make - though I suspect much more so if one speaks Mandarin rather than having to rely on subtitles. It's also something that will be completely bloody wasted on video.
Clockwork Orange is certainly good, and having it to hand is a plus for this sort of discussion. I'd not recopmmend it to you so highly as the other two because it really is Very Nasty Indeed, contentwise, on levels I suspect might get to you and be depressing.