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Confucius

Confucius

Mei Ah Laser Disc
~Chow Yun Fat, Zhou Xun, Chen Jian Bin

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Original Name  孔子決戰春秋
Release Date Mar 22, 2010
Starring Chow Yun Fat, Zhou Xun, Chen Jian Bin
Director Hu Mei
Screen Format Wide Screen
Video Format NTSC
Audio Dolby Digital
Language Mandarin
Subtitles Chinese, English
Running Time 125 Minutes
Genre Drama
Version  US
  Category IIB
Not suitable for young persons and children.
PAX-Code PAX0002978451
Item Code  4890391753823
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Their life as wanderers is not easy. Confucius withstands both temptations and hardships, and is more than once forced to flee when another local war breaks out. Eventually, many years later, he is invited back to Lu, once again threatened by a political coup. But he agrees to return only as a teacher, refusing to involve himself in politics, and spends his declining years studying and collating the classics. History records that he died a disappointed man, but his work outlived the “Spring and Autumn Period” in which he lived and echoed through the dynasties to become the very bedrock of Chinese civilization. This film tells the story of the turbulent life and stirring times of the greatest sage and teacher ever known.

孔子名丘,字仲尼。出身于當時一個小諸侯國——魯國的沒落貴族家庭。他為社會的混亂情形而憂心忡忡,希望以他超越時代的思想和智慧來影響春秋諸國的歷史進程。然而就像歷史上的其它聖賢,孔子的時代還未到來。雖曾仕官于魯國,並以其勇敢和智慧帶給魯國以尊嚴和強大的希望,但最終政治理念破滅于現實之跟前。孔子在失意中逝世,一腔報國熱血空付東流。但是,禮崩樂壞終促成萬世師表!歿後,其言行及思想終為後世所認同推崇,成為中華民族精神的重要根源,尊諡“大成至聖先師”。
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star full star full star full star full star full anthony2pokemon (33) on 30, Jan. 2012 18:26 (HKT)
Great movie.
I was touch by how confucious spread his philosophy and teaching and how he be so humble even if people ws angry at him. he's like JC of china.
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star full star full star full star full star full xanderlone (21) on 09, Oct. 2010 23:11 (HKT)
Chow Yun-Fat at his best!
What you have here is Chow Yun-Fat's best performance in the last years and that's enough to recommend this movie even if you're not that into heavy drama. A mesmerizing actor in the best part he's had these last years. And you'll learn something about peace, love and freedom.
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star full star full star full star full star full aimanrifhan (36) on 07, Jul. 2010 05:30 (HKT)
Good drama, superb performances
Good drama, superb performances
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star full star full star full star hollow star hollow roycck (273) on 25, Jun. 2010 20:59 (HKT)
Confucius Is Okay
Confucius is a movie that taught us to respect each other as equal. Bought the dvd as Chow Yun Fat is one of my favorite movie actors and in the movie, he portrayed Confucius very well indeed. The movie is a long two hours and if you are into drama with lots of dialogue and talking about characters in history, this movie is definitely for you.
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star full star full star full star hollow star hollow bodhid (2) on 20, May. 2010 23:29 (HKT)
Good, but could and should have been better
Let me start by saying that I purchased this movie mostly because of Chow Yun Fat and partly out of interest in Confucius. I must also say that I am unfamiliar with most of the other actors in the movie and know practically nothing about the production of the movie.

I have given this movie only 3 stars because I think that it's overly compressed, and I'll explain this with two examples. First, if you receive the same edition of the movie I did, you're going to encounter a cover that features Chow Yun Fat and a beautiful woman. The presence of the woman on the cover (who I suspect is a prominent Chinese actress; I apologize for my ignorance on this point) led me to believe that she would play a significant role in the film. For anyone anticipating this: She doesn't. And in the actual viewing, her interaction with Chow comes across as a throw-away--one suspects that there is at least another hour of footage featuring the two together, but that it was discarded in the interests of time.

A more extended example of this is, unfortunately, the entire 2nd half of the movie. Confucius and his disciples' exile is treated--strange to say--almost perfunctorily. The only real sense of progression one gets from this half of the movie comes from the changing geography and the rapidly aging appearance of Confucius' face.

Having said all that, this is still a good movie. The first half of the movie plays out thoughtfully and at times is even exciting. Even in the sections that play out too rapidly, there are a number of touching scenes that demonstrate the devotion between Confucius and his students. Nor should I leave out that movie does manage a degree of visual or artistic achievement in its recreation of the period. And, finally, Chow Yun Fat brings the sincerity and conviction to his part that his fans have come to expect from his performances (even in some of the bad films, like Bulletproof Monk).

As I've said, I'm not familiar with the production history behind the movie. And it certainly makes sense that the people responsible for the movie deemed it commercially unwise to release what feels like probably should've been a 5 hour experience. Within those constraints, I suppose they did the best that they could. But for a home release, and given the significance of the subject matter, if there is a director's cut of the movie out there somewhere, it'd be really nice if they put it out there for us.
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