I'm going to say that it was a waste of time as well. Although there is one thing I discovered. Although the storyline was solid, and perhaps the script was more solid then the direction the film was taken in, because it took my boyfriend and I an hour after the film to connect plotlines up, amongst the cinematic mixed signals.
I came to the conclusion that like books, movies like this should have editors that go over the film and say whether things connect and whether they don't. Because they failed to tie in the 3 different segments, because by the time something new is happening you start forgetting the motive they had in the first place. Because of this it was hard to empathise with the characters, and what they were doing (not to mention it took less than 20minutes for his wife to die when she wasn't even buried that well, really her grave was so close to surface and the coffin was so big at most she would of fallen asleep or gone unconscious) So the only thing I can conclude at this point was that we are meant to feel bad for him fighting instead of trying to save his wife, unfortunality it's not like she really died at all, so his reasoning in the last segment just became confusing and irritating.
The conclusion we came to is that after the main character gave his sword away he was slowly drifting into madness because he went home to have a family then fight for his country. Because he didn't take that position, he puts his own family in danger. Second, for the first time in his life he actually losses a fight. He loses faith in his wife. There is no kung fu movie I've seen where the dude fights himself and reaches enlightment, seeing people? That is just straight up madness, his fighting style would of been more chaotic and less understandable and less choreographed because there really was no outside inspiration to show him a better way of fighting.
The little boy really had no role except the role of his consciousness of everybody else and what they should of being doing. The kid had no personality, and I'm pretty sure is uncle should of killed him, or least trained him to kill his own father, at least the boy would of had some motive rather than crying and yelling at his parents, because he clearly couldn't handle change.
Point being none of it was real, all the 3D backed up the idea that we were slowly being sucked into his maddening mind because he didn't uphold his honour in finishing the campaign. Because I can try and make sense of this film, and when I think about it I ‘think’ I can tie up how the characters related to each other. But the movie gave no directional explanation for any of it, it met anti-climax after anti-climax. Whilst it's all good to say there was good fighting. Who cares? It went for two hours too long and the story was disjointed that I'm still not even sure what I watched.
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