{"id":155,"date":"2007-05-03T22:19:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T22:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/movie-review-curse-of-the-golden-flower\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T22:21:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T22:21:01","slug":"movie-review-curse-of-the-golden-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/movie-review-curse-of-the-golden-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: Curse of the Golden Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a wonderful evening, had a meal with Amanda, Maria and her sister Dora and then we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theelectric.co.uk\/\">The Electric<\/a> to watch Curse of the Golden Flower. The Electric is a fantastic little cinema, you get large leather seats and drinks \/ refreshments served while you watch the movie. It&#8217;s a stunning venue and I&#8217;m positive we&#8217;ll be going there again &#8230; here&#8217;s a picture:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"486\" height=\"316\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theelectric.co.uk\/images\/sc1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amanda even managed to get me to scoff this huge slice of chocolate cake they do &#8211; well it is my birthday tomorrow so I guess it&#8217;s ok \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/f\/fd\/Curseofgoldenflower.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nImage:Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p>As for the film, as far as tragedy&#8217;s go this one might have driven Shakespeare to suicide! It&#8217;s one of the most bizarre movies I&#8217;ve ever seen. Yet the sets, costumes and cinematography are absolutely stunning. Don&#8217;t make the mistake of thinking this is another Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon because it couldn&#8217;t be futher from that. The story revolves around an Emperor who is secretly poisoning his wife, she in turn is plotting against him using his sons to overthrow him. It&#8217;s basically the story of a rotting family that destroys itself in one night.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the film was very good, I struggled to keep up with the plot but the acting was superb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a wonderful evening, had a meal with Amanda, Maria and her sister Dora and then we went to The Electric to watch Curse of the Golden Flower. The Electric is a fantastic little cinema, you get large leather seats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/03\/movie-review-curse-of-the-golden-flower\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[401,382],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","category-personal","tag-movie","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtualchaos.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}