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It is a strong historical and dramatic story that tells of a great king and his people who will be expelled from their homeland and aspire to demand it soon. Events begin through the violent and ambitious king who seems to have his own mysterious methods and motives. On the other hand, there is a general, a visionary who longs to win in that battle. The women of the palace are the women who struggle to find salvation from this whole world.
There's romance and melodrama in Shadow, and while it's less emphasized than in Zhang's other wuxia films, it pairs well with the Machiavellian intrigue.
Zhang is seriously gifted at combining eye-catching imagery with darkly engaging stories. And this film is packed with sequences that take the breath away.
Every supremely controlled stylistic element of Zhang Yimou's breathtakingly beautiful "Shadow" is an echo of another, a motif repeated, a pattern recurring in a fractionally different way each time.