Curse of the Golden Flower

Have you ever tried watching a chinese movie without subtitles and on an east european dubbing? well i have and i tell you its the worst experience ever. HHmm a good film, they said, would be if you watched it even without audio would still be understandable. Sort of like those charlie chaplin movies. Curse of the golden flower is not one of them. I think, at least, Chinese movies are evolving into the kind that has a plot in it. They use to have kung fu. And thats all. Congrats to them. they are making better movies. Actually, i was hoping for more action on this since i do not have subs or english dubbing. sigh. There were some good fighting sequels but i think they would be minutes all in all out of a 1 hour and forty nine minute movie. so you can just imagine how much i had to endure. I think i just found out what everything was about at the end. I thought the queen was trying to seduce his 2 children. seriously. until now im not sure. (spoiler- dont read the next sentence if you havent seen it)but i know that the queen plotted a rebellion. thats at the end. hhmm thats all i got. watch it(With english subs or dubb) please. please. please. Cuz you just might not enjoy it.

Cast, cast, cast:
Chow Yun-Fat - Emperor Ping
Gong Li - Empress Liang
Liu Ye - Crown Prince Wan
Jay Chou - Prince Jai
Qin Junjie - Prince Yu
Ni Dahong - The Imperial Doctor
Chen Jin - Wife of the doctor
Li Man - Jiang Chan (daughter of the doctor)


This is the poem from the old Tang Dynasty where they said the tilte originated from:
"When autumn comes on Double Ninth Festival, / my flower [the chrysanthemum] will bloom and all others perish. / When the sky-reaching fragrance [of the chrysanthemum] permeates Chang'an, / the whole city will be clothed in golden armour." ====== from wikipedia