GoblinEternal
Candle Lit intrigue
A very layered and complex storyline. Very beautifully filmed - keeping the feel of an authentic Ming era story by use of candles and dark streets. The attention to costuming and architecture is Indie film festival level. Romance is subtle not central. It is a meditation on family, friends, colleagues and the things we owe them. Characters are complicated, motivations shifting.One of the most personal of political cdramas. Not one of the ra-ra patriotism genre at all. Excellent script.
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If they’d just let him play zither…
This is a very watchable story of being a filial child in Ming era. A gentle zither prodigy son gives it all up to protect his mother & brother after his father is betrayed to become a military hero. A creative & talented embroider must, as a concubine’s daughter, give it up for her in-laws.Wallace is almost perfectly cast as a silently suffering solid citizen - under the massive social pressures of being a head of a family - slowly opening up to his young bride. Seven is great at portraying a young woman forced into plastering on a smile as family duties keeping trying to box her in or end her.
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