Nobody Wins

I just got a 'Happy New Year' message from my boss. Weird.

Anyway I just watched Red Cliff 2 today, which has got to be at least the second best chinese movie I've ever watched. Not only does it rack up the highest body count I've seen in recent movies, it also manages to sustain a plot while doing so. Only John Woo could've pulled that off. In fact, he somehow manages to produce more explosions in a medieval setting movie than all 3 Mission Impossibles combined. How godly is that.

Furthermore there were so many imba (translated) quotes, such as :

'Knowing a trifle about everything gives life more colour' - Zhuge Liang

and

'Your stupidity is trivial, but it has caused my stupidity' - Cao Cao

But aside from that it really is a great movie. I feel kinda sad that Cao Cao's always depicted as the villain in most modern interpretations of the story. I remember when I first read the book (or was forced to read it) when I was 10, and while I heartily supported the efforts of Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang I also remember being slightly confused at how the drama was being played out. So I asked my tutor at the time who the real good and bad guys were in the story, and she told me that there wern't any, which was at the time a rather novel idea. I doubt I totally understood the concept at the time though. But it still left a sufficient enough memory to last til today, which I suppose means something.