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Originalname:
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花木兰
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Also known as:
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Mulan
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Release Date:
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26. November 2009 (Singapore), 8. December 2009 (China)
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Director:
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Jingle Ma
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Writer:
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Ting Zhang
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Producer:
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Guangcheng Song
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Cast:
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Wei Zhao, Jaycee Chan, Jun Hu, Kun Chen, Vitas, Rongguang Yu
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Plot
You all
know this story: Girl disguises herself as a boy and enters the army, because
of her sick father.
But here
the story begins to divide itself from the Disney-plot.
While Tiger,
a childhood friend of Mulan, helps her to disguise herself, she meets Wentai, the
seventh son of the Wei king and Mulan starts to like him.
One day,
she gets accused for stealing and is sentenced to death, but luckly the Rouran
attack and Wentai sets her free. She kills the Rouran general and becomes
commander and later general together with Wentai. As the fighting goes on Mulan
gets sick of losing so many “brothers”, when Wentai is attacked by some Rouran
warriors and orders her to stay and guard the supplies, she disobeys and fights
alongside him. But when they return, they find the people, who were still
guarding them, dead. Wentai gets angry at her and claims that the death of her ”brothers”
is all her fault.
The next
time the Rouran attack, she doesn’t want to fight and Wentai goes there alone. Tiger
returns with his mark, saying that he’s dead. Mulan completely gets into a
depression and nothing can snap her out. She doesn’t train with her regiment
and doesn’t lead them into wars anymore. Tiger snaps her out of her world of
the dead when he say that Wentai wanted her to become great.
She asks
for forgiveness and goes back in the game. (And Wentai’s still alive) Mulan and
her regiment become known all over the country.
She goes to
a meeting with other generals and tells them, how they’re going to defeat the
Rouran once and for all and the others agree. However none of them show up.
Mulan is
deeply wounded and a sandstorm has blown away most of their supplies, but at
least she’s got Wentai back.
Tigers gets
captured and killed. Wentai sells himself for the regiment. Mulan goes there to
save him and succeeds. And Wentai marries the Rouran princess for the sake of peace
and Mulan goes home. Wentai and Mulan meets once after all this. He asks her to
run away with him but she rejects. She also tells him that she can never forget
him.
Conclusion
The movie
was good. It was what I expected from a chinese movie- beautiful tunes and a
lot of dialogues. No, seriously, the music was great. It matched so well with
the film. Especially the scene when Tiger gets killed in front of Mulan’s eyes,
they were singing this song where they talk about home and getting back to
their families. It is so mood-fitting and gets you so sad. But I liked the other
tracks as well.
Wei Zhao is
a great actress but I couldn’t believe her that she plays a man. I mean, she
looks so feminine. The rest of the cast did a great job.
The movie
is a little bit slow. I don’t mean boring, I mean slow. It has a lot of
dialogues which are slowing down the action. And the battle scenes aren’t that
impressing. But the great thing about them, is the thing that you can really see
Mulan view of her brothers getting murdered in the most brutal way which really
helps to understand her anger and pain.
The movie is very obvious, you know what'll happen when you're halfway throught. This is also the reason why there aren many jokes here. My sister and me did some Disney jokes and love interest jokes but none of them seemed to fit in here.
So, if you
like historical movies and are feminist by any chance, you will find your pleasure in this.
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