While martial arts had taken over the Hong Kong action in the ’70s with the rise of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, there were still those of enjoyed the sword play of wuxia. In 1980, Patrick Tam brought back the clanging glory of wuxia with a movie appropriately called The Sword. The film … Read more
This article contains major spoilers. Dystopian films are often treated as a collection of recognizable images: surveillance cameras, brutalist architecture, militarized police, overcrowded cities, and citizens dressed in identical clothes. Those images can establish a mood, but they do not define the genre. A ruined society is not necessarily dystopian,
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