Zhi sha
Jisal Ryeong
Ohjaus:
Ping WangKäsikirjoitus:
Ping RanKuvaus:
Sun MingSävellys:
Kenji KawaiNäyttelijät:
Hideo Nakaizumi, Elvis Tsui, Le Geng, Youliang Zhao, Ye-jin Park, Xiaoran Li, Shaoqun YuJuonikuvaukset(1)
Set in early 13th century, Daoist monk Qiu Chuji (also known as Ch'iu Ch'u-chi) travelled for 2 years to stop Genghis Khan and his soldiers from killing in Europe and Asia. The story is set against the backdrop of the later years of the reign of Genghis Khan. At a point when his power was at its peak and his empire had no equal, he decided to push westward wanting to enlarge his empire so that he could see it stretch from "the place where the sun rises to the city where the sun sets." Smart, cunning, vicious and strategic; at that point in his life, no one could equal him and no one dared challenge him. That was until a master Daoist priest, Qiu Chuji came down from his mountain monastery, pursued Genghis Khan for three years and convinced him that immortality was only possible if he gave up violence and killing. Thus the mighty Khan was tamed. (jakelijan virallinen teksti)
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I’d been looking forward to a great Asian historic movie that would showcase the local culture, teach me a little something and that would be carefully and properly made for the whole thing to make for a truly epic experience. That’s the way it usually goes for me with movies like these – if things don’t work out like that, the movie must be pretty bad. An End to Killing is a case in point – it’s pretty bad. Most of the important scenes full of action were ruined by the shaky camera. I also had a problem to find my way around the story. As the time went on, I realized what the master actually wanted and who he was after. What’s most amazing is actually the plotline itself where Genghis Khan realizes that he is cruel and he invites a monk who is supposed to teach him humility. He then indirectly kills him and thus discovers that he is worse than he was. Which kind of sums it up. The cinematography is terrible, so you will only find out when the authors spell it out for you in the addendum. The entire time I had no idea what was going on, where everybody is, the editing was terrible, the story really difficult to grasp. It’s a pity. Movies like this should work out really differently.
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