And ice flowers sometimes melt from love

December 30, 2010 in film distribution drama came outdirector of South Korea Yu Ha called "Ice Flowers". The film is historical, with the inherent genre of costumes, scenery and heroes. Despite the small budget of the picture, it looks like the whole action and scenery is quite plausible.

The game of actors should be noted separately, it looksShe is gorgeous and does not allow for a second to take her eyes off the screen. The actors in the film “Ice Flowers” ​​are quite stellar, but this does not distract the viewer at all and does not prevent him from believing what is happening. The movie was shot very beautifully, starting with the costumes of the characters and the scenery, ending with the staging of battles that look quite realistic for an Asian film. Frequent and bed scenes, including homosexual. For a large number of erotic moments and scenes of violence the picture “Ice Flowers” ​​was assigned the highest age rating of 18+.

Once again about the love triangle

The action of the film "Ice Flowers" takes place inmedieval Korea, enslaved by the Yuan Empire. To save his state, the Korean monarch, unable to have sex with a woman, orders his lover and at the same time the chief of the royal guard Hon Rome to sleep with the queen to produce the legal heir to the world. During the film, a rather unconventional love triangle arises, in which a woman and a man fight for the love of the main character. The center of this "figure" becomes the beloved of King Hon Rome. Having known love with a woman, he can no longer remain the same. Gradually, love arises between him and the queen, based rather on sexual attraction. The king is unable to endure treachery. The relationship of the characters turn into a real confrontation. In search of Hon Rome, the king does not stop at anything, starting with the murder of his friends and ending with the blackmail of the queen by her unborn child.

Love drama

Despite the large number of fighting scenes, the tapeis a classic drama with its inherent elements, and most importantly in it - the story of human relations. The film “Ice Flowers” ​​is a classic story of love and betrayal. The pain of the protagonist - the king - is shown by the actor so authentically that this cruelty even causes understanding. He is an owner, accustomed to owning everything and getting everything, even if it is all - human life. And even the love of Hon Rome sometimes seems just a sense of possessiveness. And it’s a pity in this film of all: both the faithful king and the queen with her lover, who are forbidden to be together. This tape can be compared, rather, with a picture of the artist, than with an intricate and unpredictable detective novel. The movie “Ice Flowers” ​​will seem provocative to many people because of the raised theme of unconventional love. However, this is most likely just a delicate author's move, designed to add even more drama to the already tragic plot.

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And let the dialogues in the film are simple, but the plotthe moves are predictable and primitive, but the result is a picture that can be safely called the masterpiece of not only Korean, but also world cinema.