Nothing kills my respect for a video reviewer faster...

...than said reviewer, who poses himself as an authoritative reviewer of Chinese cinema, giving Creation of the Gods a good review.

OH FUCK YOU!

Like...I can't even put into words how terribad Creation of the Gods was as a movie. I hate it. I feel like every time I try to explain why I start frothing at the mouth because my hate and frustration for that movie sends me into a blinding rage and I lose all coherent thought.

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I genuinely think that not enough Chinese people (and people of Chinese descent) actually bother to study the classics from a sociopolitical perspective to understand why these classics withstood the test of time. Chinese culture is so mixed, varied, and have difficult to define boundaries, and yet at the same time has a shared sameness that is enforced through an official language. Thus the analysis of media from the perspective of language as it pertains to social norms is so very core to understanding Chinese works, be it novels or stage performance or animation or whatever.

And yet, there are so many English-language "Chinese explainers" that completely ignore the core role language (such as grammar, word choice, proverbs, etc.) plays in conveying the depth of emotion and the framing of interpretation. So much of that is lost in translation and the explainers themselves aren't really learned enough to explain any of that to non-Chinese speakers. It's frustrating AF.

Anyway. Gotta go do some anger management exercises before I blow a gasket.