Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Purple Butterfly

I'm confident that there was a story or an idea going on in this film, but it seems that the director was too frightened to let anyone know what it was. Instead, he substitutes narrative for painfully long stretches of silence perpetuated by anguished close-up's on people when we have no idea why they are wearing such expressions. Even the presence of the ethereally beautiful Zhang Ziyi can't save this one.

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