Friday, October 7, 2016

Dragon Inn

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Dragon Inn takes place somewhere in the desert, the defense minister Yang Yu-xuan is killed along with his family by the malicious "minister" Tsao who is an eunuch, after killing him he decides to spare the life of is two young children in order to catch general Chow who was an ally to Yang Yu-xuan.
Consecutively, when the soldiers that are with Tsao realize that he did not go to rescue the kids and instead a woman (Mo-yan) posing as a man did they decide to follow them to the Dragon Inn where they will stay until they cross the border. 
Eventually Chow comes to the Inn and reunites with Mo, the kids and other soldiers travelling with them, around the same time other people who are trying to kill them also arrive at the Inn and they have a few fights. Meanwhile, the kids are in hiding in one of the rooms and Chow asks Jade(the owner of the dragon inn) to help them leave through her secret passage. Jade takes every opportunity to either get money or get what she wants and agrees to help them only if he sleeps with her. Chow being a man of principle says he will not sleep with her but agrees to marry her instead, meanwhile hurting Mo who he obviously has feeling for and its mutual. The bad weather keeps them from leaving and Jade only wants to sleep with him before helping him out. Eventually Tsao arrives with his men and since a lot of people have died only Chow, Mo, Jade, her cook and the children escape through her secret passage only to fight them afterwards. During the battle Chow, Mo, Jade and the cook fight soldiers as well as Tsao and end up killing him. They go back to the Inn to burn it and cross the border after to reunite with Chow, the kids and Mo. 
The theme of the movie was loyalty, honor, greed and love.  
I found the movie confusing, everything happened too fast and a lot of characters were introduced at once and I lost track of who was who. The subtitles were also fast and it was a little difficult keeping up. It was also very fictional with all the actors flying around all the time and towards the end Tsao not dying even though he had no leg or arm and he was still fighting. 
However, my favorite character was Jade, even though she killed people and fed them to her guests she always made it clear that the most important thing for her was money and that is where her loyalty resided. Towards the end I feel like she fell in love and she tried to help Chow and that was also the main reason for her to destroy her hotel and join them. She made the movie be more enjoyable and at the end decided to join the "good guys" and leave her life of killing and hooking up with powerful guests behind. 

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