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It is a story that looks purely historical as it tells of a battle that may be the most dangerous in the life of that general. The story begins where there is a great king and his people who will be expelled from their homeland and aspire to claim it over a period of time. The king general appears to be the visionary who longs to win the final battle but needs to prepare his plans in secret. In the end, the general sets up a complex plan involving his wife, personality and two kings to win the battle.
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.