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at first, I thought this movie might just vulgar and erotic. because a beautiful white woman of upper class who hardly sleeps with her husband and a strong black gardener were likely to have immoral intimacy regarding of the situation. but it was totally my prejudice. this movie showed me the pure and mental love that disregards the color of the skin between a white and a black. they were very pure and cared for each other sincerely. I realized that their love was very temperate thing especially at the last scene the gardener left the town for his daughter and the woman saw them off to say goodbye. In spite of its sadness, due to their separation, their love might look more beautiful and pure.

As a Korean, I am very surprised to see how well foreigners understand the special culture of Chinese and Japan.

The idea that some Buddhists established an legendary organization and trained a legendary assassin called "freeman" and whenever China was in trouble, the organization helped to avoid or overcome the trouble situations. so it was given respect by Chinese is to come from the traditional chivalry story of China. in fact, the movie "First of Legend" acted by "Jet li" has the same context with this. "Crying Freeman" also reflects the culture of Yakuza Organization in Japan well. for example, Yakuzas like to have a dragon tattooed upon their bodies and if the boss died, the successor married the boss' wife. and so on.

I felt as if I was seeing the movie produced by Chinese or Japanese. and I could enjoy it even more interestingly than other foreign movies.

Compared to "the return of the king", this second story has lack of fantastic things. "the return of the king" has fantastic and interesting story such as a fantastic novel. but this is seen as it's the war movie between humans and monsters. it was the almost whole story that humans who support Rohan empire including elves and a great number of monsters led by Saruman fought each other. there is almost neither the appearance of mysterious characters nor the new fantastic story.

But it's great in its visual effect. perhaps you might not see such a spectacular war in any other movies but this movie. the desperate scenes between about hundred of thousands monsters to occupy the castle and many warriors to keep it were very tense and nervous as much as I can't take my eyes off the movie screen. although this movie failed in story, the reason it could have many attendants may depend on the success of its visual effect.