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Yep. Another reading of The Dialogues is not high on my ‘to be read’ list. That would still be higher than Nietzsche.

Here we are not in any substantive disagreement. Myths by their nature are meant to be instructive in moral and ethical matters—as are epics, which usually tell us the story of a nation (or something similar). What I was thinking when I was urging everyone to look at this as a myth, was...

Tony, I did not mean to imply that any philosopher or philosophical argument either supported or challenged anything in Hero. My point was that it might be that reading several different such writers might well allow one to consider the merits of any moral arguments made in the movie...

Perhaps you have a point, but I think that it is possible to at least partially discard ones limited view of the world and accept (for a couple of hours at least) another set of values. A part of my view on this may well be due to having lived fairly extensively in other cultures over the years...

I think that you are taking this too literally, Darrell. Plus you are making value judgments as to ‘good’ and ‘evil’ outside the context of the movie. In an earlier post I went though a minor consideration of some portions of the movie and why it is that the actions taken by the Nameless...

Just as a thought, there are numerous examples in Western literature, thought and matters of history where an individual either voluntarily gives his life for the greater good, or is required to do so (and that requirement is seen to be valid).

A few points, the first of which should generate no controversy. Yee-Ming has made some points about Malaysian Chinese and language (especially in schools), to which I would add that Michelle Yeoh did in fact learn both Bahasa (Malay) and English before Chinese. Since a check on IMDB...

There are (at least) two DVDs available. Get the ‘Mei Ah #DVD-068—a Hong Kong label. It is at least letterboxed (the English market version is terrible). There are plenty of video problems with the Mei Ah release (burned in subtitles and letterboxed), but at least the composition is...

Now I think that this is a hard film. And another beautiful job by Christopher Doyle as DP. My son and I were talking about these films yesterday—we thought it interesting that the ‘accessible’ (to Westerners) director, Wong Kar Wai, with films like Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love...

I would suggest that the emperor did indeed do what he would have done to him. It will take a bit to explain why this is so (at least in my opinion). We know at the beginning of the film that everyone (or at least three significant people have died (been killed). And from the tension and the...

I would suggest that in addition to being able to look at this film as a political statement or as one of moreal philosophy, it can also be viewed as a tragedy (in the classic sense). The only thing arguably missing is that the nameless hero (coming from an anonymous background, is not...