a good movie you don't want to watch twice
this is a very powerful movie, well made, beautiful shots, very pretty and lovable actress.
BUT (i agree with the other reviewer), you want to trash the disc right away after you are done. by error i watched this movie with Dancer in the Dark back to back, torturing myself to the abyss of hell! i hate this movie, but i still rate it highly. it has achieve its job of making me hate it so much. it is a powerful movie, so powerful that one wish one had a time machine to go back change all that, or at least go back to change Joan Chen's script. if i were the Chinese censorship official , i would also be inclined to ban it (sort of NC-17), or at least requires the distributor to put a cigarette box warning note on VCD/DVD box.
all said, i mean this as a compliment for a well made movie.
some other notes: 1. china was bad in that era, but a story like that is extremely rare. 2. the sex scene is overdone. the same effect could be achieved without that cart-pushing scene
BUT (i agree with the other reviewer), you want to trash the disc right away after you are done. by error i watched this movie with Dancer in the Dark back to back, torturing myself to the abyss of hell! i hate this movie, but i still rate it highly. it has achieve its job of making me hate it so much. it is a powerful movie, so powerful that one wish one had a time machine to go back change all that, or at least go back to change Joan Chen's script. if i were the Chinese censorship official , i would also be inclined to ban it (sort of NC-17), or at least requires the distributor to put a cigarette box warning note on VCD/DVD box.
all said, i mean this as a compliment for a well made movie.
some other notes: 1. china was bad in that era, but a story like that is extremely rare. 2. the sex scene is overdone. the same effect could be achieved without that cart-pushing scene
- pegasus8228
- Jan 10, 2004