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Brian Levinge

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Now imagine that someone managed to record that atypical instant of your very worst behavior, and has posted it on the Internet. And now, everyone who has never met you and knows nothing of you — which is to say, outside a tiny circle of friends and family, the entire world — knows you only through that recording, and is gaining a first impression of you via the worst moment you’ve ever had. The whole world is judging you based solely on that one instant of atypical bad behavior, bad behavior of which you’re already ashamed and wish you could do something, anything, to retract.

Are people forming accurate impressions of you? Do you feel you’re being treated fairly? Reasonably?

I can’t imagine there’s anyone who would answer any of the preceding questions, “Yes.” So then why do so many people instantly and reflexively judge the totality of a stranger based on a single reported instance of the stranger’s behavior?

I can think of various reasons that might apply case-by-case, but my guess is that the overall explanation for individual such acts of condemnation is self-pleasure through sanctimony. Sanctimony, contempt, dudgeon, umbrage, outrage… all are among the most self-pleasuring emotions available to humans. This alone should render them the least trustworthy. But for many people, the insidious high delivered by, say, a solid hit of dudgeon is too alluring an opportunity to pass up

August 2014
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FIlm Analysis - House of Flying Daggers -Brian Daniel Levinge
House of Flying Daggers Film Review

House Of Flying Daggers is a wuxia 2004 film that was released on May 14, and directed by Zhang Yimou. Wuxia is a broad genre of Chinese fiction that concerns the adventures of martial arts, which also means “martial arts hero”.

House of Flying Daggers is a myth of love being lost and found, set in the 859 AD China at the end of the Tang Dynasty. Throughout the Tang Dynasty trouble is raging throughout the land, and the corrupt government is locked in battle with rebel armies that constructing in disagreement. The biggest and most honoured of these rebel groups is the House of Flying Daggers, which is expanding ever more powerful and under a mystifying new leader.

The House of Flying Daggers is a film that tells the story of three characters and how their lives get greatly entwined with one another. The component that combines all three of them is the suffering for love, their misery and dedication. The film shows that affection can’t be based on time- span. Some could find the love of their life in a matter of three days. The aim of this film would be to show how the voyage of love uncoils, what kinds of offerings characters make for it and how immensely the understanding of love changes their innermost and their worldview.

A scene I liked a lot was where the characters were fighting in the bamboo forest. Jin and Mei fight large numbers of troops from the government in luxuriant green bamboo groves. This environment symbolizes the genuine spirit of the Chinese martial arts action motion picture, and how they see conflict as part of the nature of life. This scene begins by having the duel, between the two groups, taking place on the ground and on top of the bamboo at the same time. We see the chain of events from Jin and Mei’s approach on the ground and on top of the bamboo, from the villain’s point of view. This adds courage to the narrative and generates stirring tension as we see the main characters’ perspectives on the action.

The characters battle with their enemies, but also use the bamboo forest as a tool to walk, jump on the thread-like branches, break loose of each other by twisting and bending the treetops, jumping from tree to tree, or standing between two bamboo trees. Despite the fact that the people watching the moves would predict the fighting style that occurred and techniques to be used, the bamboo scenes are still spectacular, due to the ability of the actors, and the vibrant colours and the lighting of the forest.

The first most majestic moments I enjoyed was the concluding setting of the motion picture in the snowfall. It made a sensational inclusion to the visual refinement of the film. The snow in the last scene of snow could be identified as a representation. We see throughout the film how the forests of yellow, green, red, and purple trees all of a sudden gets surrounded beneath a thick layer of refined white snow, it unravels the highest peaks events yet to come. In a way the crispy white snow signifies the end followed by a new beginning. It shows the end, we see blood slowly dripping from each main character and hitting the snow, creating a small pool of crimson. But it also symbolizes a new beginning, as it’s the day of the great battle between the government and the House of Flying Daggers. It’s a new start for everyone else, although it’s the end for Jin, Mei and Leo.

During this scene, we see fighting develop in the meadow, but the seasons continue to change around the action. There were a number of tracking shots, where the camera follows the action in a smooth and seamless way. This helps the audience to feel connected with what is happening in the narrative, and to. There was a beneficial use of wide shots to record the passage of the season from autumn to winter as snow suddenly covered the area. The wide shot was perfect for setting the scene and providing a background to the action. Some other camera shots I liked were where during the last battle scene between the two protagonists, the camera shots flick between the perspective of Leo looking up at Jin through two crossed swords, and then looking down past Jin at Leo through the two parallel blades.

I highly recommend this film to anyone who is looking got great fight scenes, emotional love triangles, and great scenery.