The Empty Promise

Watched this show with hubby the other day ( at home luckily ) - The Promise. It was heavily publicised both on the papers and the bill boards in KL about a month or so ago. To those who don't know, this is a very expensive movie, a collaborations of the Asians - Chen Kai Ge (Director from China), main actor (forget his name, sorry- A Japanese), another main role - 张东健 from Korea, Cecilia Cheung from Hong Kong. Saw some clips in the theatre before and the cinematography was indeed stunning. It took 3 years to complete the project etc etc. It was one of the movies nominated for Best Foreign Movie together with The Memoirs of A Geisha in one of the recent xxx award ( just too many awards giving thingy, sanguin can only remember one - OSCAR, :) )

And I was literally bursting into tears of laughter when I watched the whole show, oh yes, I did finished watching the show. Well, I am no critics but I just have to say this though I have sheer respect for all who put in the efforts.

1. Hmmm, since when did soldiers in war put on RED armour? I thought in war, the best is to camouflage oneself? Oooo, the costumes of these armies reminds me of Chinese Opera though....and if I am not mistaken, red is a very expensive dye. So much for armies huh..??

2. Has anyone any idea or recall that the King of China likes to stand on the roof? Not just that, he also bring his concubine together with him sama-sama stand on the roof. Never know that they love to do a manhole to get up to the roof top in any of the Chinese Architecture...must do more readings on this myself.

3. See, it must have been great standing on the roof, check the picture above, even out of the palace, she still loves to stand on the roof. And the roof is with balcony too! Would love atok to comment on this if he is free...ya tok?

4. Now this is a love story. Let's do a test. U r on top of the roof in a palace, u slipped and now hanging onto the roof eaves like a bat, lucky u somebody riding on a horse with full mask came to your rescue, end of the story.
A. You thanked him
B. You hugged him and kissed him, a gesture of appreciation
C. You immediately fell in love with him, elope and make out right away.... :P
D. Get to know him better, become friends and later fell in love, live happily ever after...

Oh yes, the answer is C for the concubine. Wow, even Jack and Rose did know a bit of each other before 'You jump, I jump!'. Wah Liao eh? Sure or not!

5. Now, what is the punishment do u think it would be like in China for assasinating your King?
~Beheaded..I guess hor?

Now, u r an entrusted General, knowing the law, u killed the King! Guess what is your punishment?
~Congratulations! You win a trip down to a resort to stay with the King's beloved Concubine. :P. This resort got nice blinds and it is very scenic wo! Fantastic, somemore got stream right in front of the chalet. No disturbance one, I guess the cleaner only creep in once in a while to clean up a bit of the mess la...and, u don't have to bring any luggage one, we got baju like u know, a bit like the Japanese yofu (simple kimono) for your daily usage la..not bad ler, all these are FOC!

6. I still recall that the cubical in the Silence of the Lamb is rather a complete cubical for Sir Anthony Hopkins, with proper bed, a wc also a chair or something. But in this case, they caged in the concubine in a big huge golden bird cage. Empty see thru type with a staircase. No wc, no bed nothing....err maybe I missed out that the staircase actually leads to a waterbed upstairs? with a flush down wc and a complete sewer line? ke ke ke

7. Oh, there was a human kind in the movie whom can run very very very very fast. They perhaps are related to Doraemon. But somehow in the beginning of the show, they are tired I think, they prefer to ride on a horse though the horse is slow but I guess in that way, he will be in a stylo mylo way when doing the stunt of rescueing the concubine ma! *shake head*

8. Best script of the year :

" General, we missed u! " (armies talking to the general after he eloped with the concubine)

" Without u, we are like children without parents!" ( what the ? :O )

and lots more, care to find out yourselves?

Well, I guess they should be nominated in the Catogory of Best Comedy or the Best Animation ...no joke!

At least, I like the 神. With the help of the special effects, she got a ring constantly circling on her gravity-defying-hair and also a chiffon 'shawl' like 嫦娥 ~ for those who don't know her, wait till the mooncake festival, u will see her on the plastic bag.

Sheer laughter, worth watching if you missed your Friends or Everybody loves Raymond for your piece of laughter of the day. :)