20 December 2006: Curse of the Golden Flower

Joshua and I went to catch Curse of the Golden Flower（黄金甲） at a nearby theatre. We guessed it was filmed on an extremely high budget, and many scenes were truly spectacular, even by Hollywood standards. Joshua did not really understand the film, and he blamed it on his own weak proficiency of Mandarin. I reassured him that this was not so, because the mediocre plot was difficult to comprehend anyway. I would rate the film 3 stars on a scale of 5.