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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 3069387" data-attributes="member: 39593">First off I saw Hero, and I loved most of it, the action scenes were brilliant wire-fu.  My problem wasn't even really with the nationalism directly.  It was with the characters themselves and the rigidly deterministic mindset of their actions.  The way their actions were so stylized that they were simply alien to me.  Such as the two later assasins, broken sword and snow.  They engage in a stupid and pointless fight over an issue neither of them are going to influence.  Then broken sword "shows his love" for snow by letting her kill him?  What sort of mindless purile drivel is that?  And after she kills him she commits suicide, when she drew down on him in the first place, if she was so heartbroken over killing him she committed suicide why did she draw down in the first place? You don't draw a lethal weapon unless you intend to kill with it.  Then there's the Nameless Hero, I can see him realizing that the emperor had to live to unite the land.  My problem is that once he spares the emperor's life the emperor now owes him his life.  And even assuming the emperor still orders him killed it's perfectly clear he could have escaped any time he wanted if he tried, or even turn around and go right through those guards to kill the emperor anyway for his betrayal after his life was spared.  So why did he just stand there and allow them to kill him, it makes no sense at all?</blockquote>

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