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Priests, rabbis and Buddhist monks stood among the crowd, praying and comforting the victims’ families...
...dynasty, was of a very Chinese disposition: he liked walls, the longer the better. His affection for fortification was not merely fanciful: Zhu (also known as Hong Wu) spent 30 years at war with various warlords in his campaign to liberate China from the Mongols. In 1356, Zhu, a Buddhist monk turned soldier, captured Nanjing and declared it his capital. Ten years later, Zhu oversaw the construction of the longest city wall in China: a massive battlement almost 37 kilometers in diameter. Today nearly 21 kilometers are still standing and the towering Old City Wall?more than 20 meters high...
...happens in nowhere, though. The plot hinges on the ancient remains of a Buddhist holy man, which have transformed into a sharira: a green, glowing rock that grants good stuff like immortality. Since immortality would throw all kinds of wrenches into the system of reincarnation, Tibetan monks hid the sharira for thousands of years, but ensured a family of trained acrobats would one day be able to retrieve it if the need were sufficiently dire. Presumably the Chinese invasion of Tibet was not dire enough, because the sharira is still waiting to be discovered when the diabolical Karl (played...
...scene, but has trouble keeping his story moving. He is not helped by Philip Kwok's jerky and unimaginative fight scenes or The Touch's lackluster special effects, used extensively whenever Yeoh does her flying thing and in the film's climactic fight?which takes place inside a fiery Buddhist shrine, but was clearly filmed in front of a blue screen. Neither realistic nor awe-inspiring, the special effects make the The Touch look cheaper than it is, like expensive makeup poorly applied...
...Touch aspires to action, adventure, romance, slapstick, plus a little Buddhist spiritual gloss on the side. Maybe it combines too much. Crouching Tiger, conceived like a dream by director Ang Lee, managed to incarnate a China straight out of a storybook?a very Chinese storybook. The Touch has China everywhere in the background?golden deserts, Tibetan mountains, endless blue skies?but Hollywood action in the forefront. The cinematic mating of East and West is far advanced?but some of the offspring look a little strange...