zhang yimou attempt to squeeze yet another chinese history lesson into one of his movie aside and i still come away unexpectedly move by shanghai triad . the story be fascinate and sometimes in a morbid way and sometimes in a childish one . i get the sense that i be be witness to a myth in the making and one of those amazing story out of history that have underlying message about the human condition . zhang treatment of the aesthetic and both visual and aural ( ajiao song make for a wonderful musical theme ) and be move a ever . and since it by him and all the symbol and allusion and circular event and juxtaposition of character and all the rest of that applies . gong li a the bratty and doomed bijou be wonderful to watch and and wang xiaoxiao be very effective a the audience stand in in the movie . and the history lesson wasn not so bad either .