this movie be truly boring . it be ban in chinese cinema and i can see why . it not because it critical of the communist regime but simply because the movie be of such low quality . i would never want to pay money to watch this . i love movie from chen kaige and zhang yimou and i be disappoint such a poor movie could come out of china . it totally seem to ignore the audience and the director seem to have make the movie for himself . the shot of a person stand there do nothing for up to a minute be hilarious and there plenty of them . the cinematography and video quality be unbelievably bad . i look this film up on the net and it seem like people actually like this film . the only explanation i have for this be that some film buff think that if a film be not in english it be automatically good . i can not see any reason why people would like this . this be not an art film it of waste of celluloid . ( that if they actually shoot it on film and which they do not ) .