Story – Robert McKee's Creative Storytelling Magazine Issue 005 – Drew Carey | Page 49

FILM
REVIEW

As technology and special effects
have advanced so incredibly, anything—any image imaginable—
can now be created. Therefore,
when special effects are brilliant,
they are a triumph for the imagination. Mr. Stephen Chow has
created wonderful scenes, from
the fish demon at the beginning
to the pig demon through to the
climax of a monkey king, with
brilliantly imaginative imagery
that is very well produced.
The hero's quest toward love
and achieving a greater love,
and not the lesser or romantic
love, is very well portrayed until
toward the end when Mr. Chow
decided to stop dramatizing his
meaning and explain it instead.
The climax of the Buddhist’s triumph over the monkey king was
predictable, because we know
that in the ethos of this film, or
most of the world, we believe
that good will triumph over evil.
At the end of the film comes a
rather tedious explanation that
there is no such thing as a higher love and lesser love; that all
love is love. Becaus