Green Snake

Tsui Hark's belligerent wuxia film savagely attacks the conservative conventions of the genre, portraying the kung fu master monk who roams the countryside banishing animal spirits not as the hero but the unambiguous villain who hides his sexual repression behind a veil of…

Jake Cole

Love explored in all its messy and wondrous forms by those least learnt in its ways, and abstained by those most versed in its traditions. Throughout the film it is assumed that humans are the ones to whom love belongs to, that the non-human are naturally incompatible with…

reibureibu

Had a great conversation with Wafflez on how the obsession of reading each piece of media one consumes with the same particular lens prevents one from taking in anything new, instead repurposing all stories to be in service of one's individual experience while ignoring any…

reibureibu

Understands that wuxia at its heart is steeped in romance, that one cannot have the former without the latter and as such the romance must not be neglected in favor of action. Indeed romance itself is a term of action, the courting and flirtations as much a battle of wills…

reibureibu

84 Like free falling through the loud, endless tumble of a waterfall. So sharp and sensual and scintillating it'll cause your brain to shatter. Tsui Hark sprints past Wuxia conventions in favor of subversion within fantasy. Simply a delicacy; pastel injected and…

SilentDawn

everything tsui hark imagines he achieves, not even touching the density of thought or ethics or feeling, this is an accomplishment beyond words.

nrh

Tsui Hark merges the punk outrage of his early films with the lavish effects-driven wuxia of his later, much more successful works in this pointed denunciation of the hypocrisies both sexual and racial of China's religious traditions, the backward superstitional blindness…

Sean Gilman

I hate life right now, but I must say, this is the greatest film ever made. For 99 minutes I forgot my problems and visited a beautiful magical fairy tale land where the lotus flowers never die and the monks can fly and there are beautiful snake women that live in the most…

Augie

this is the kind of movie that makes you believe in god

nadine