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Curse of the Golden Flower

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds; they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material." F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you want a cinematic definition of "melodrama," then use Curse of the Golden Flower, Zhang Yimou's colorful family drama dominated by the color of red blood, heavily influenced by Shakespeare's tragedies such as Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello, and decidedly over-the-top with incest and revenge.

Emperor Ping (Chow Yun-Fat) is slowly poisoning Empress Phoenix (Gong Li), who is having an affair with her stepson, Prince Jie (Jay Chou). And that's for starters because real incest rears an ugly head while the children struggle over the issue of who will become the heir. The emphasis on family politics takes the usually visual director into a soap opera world where jus