Wuxia for the exploitation freaks and the gothic horror weirdos, I dig it. Love the shadows and the dark rich colors, the melodrama, the tragedy. Fun time. I like that the eponymous bride with white hair has powers like Medusa from d-tier Marvel title The Inhumans.
A film for the sensates and sybarites. Eroticism as rooted in eros. A lush sensuous wonder of aureolas of light cradling bamboo shoots and water gently rolling down the skin like so many tongues desiring nothing but delectation.
Once again, my GF has the more analytical review (go read it it's good) because I'm very high (perfect movie for it holy shit), but I love this movie. One of Hark's masterpieces, complimented by a thoughtful, radical script with very nuanced…
Misbegotten is the word. Trey Edward Shults is the only one even slightly trying and...even then, I certainly wouldn't say he has many radically imaginative ideas and he certainly doesn't elevate the vanity project pabulum at the roots. Fr this is narratively insipid, there's like a 30 minute music video worth of story content stretched like cloying taffy for two hours. Imagine if (the nazi, it bears repeating) Kanye dropped that fucking stupid Runaway thing in theaters and you kind…
