This land doesn’t know a real hero.
Hero
This has a cast that is virtually a who’s who: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang. And then it is directed by Zhang Yimou and ‘presented’ by one Quentin Tarantino. After that is will either be a great disappointment of heroic. It is for me the latter.
The colour, the scope, the story with it’s twists and turn and multiple perspectives, are all things that I will remember for a long time. Yet, somehow the film transcends these and becomes something that is greater than the sum of it parts. It has something intangible, some other worldly quality that makes it a great, rather than a good film.
For me it is simply a film I cannot forget, and would never want to forget. A film that simply changed me, and changed the way I see the world. A film that you simply must see.
This land doesn’t know a real hero. Yet.
