Critical Review Assignment
Our next assignment in English class is to write a critical review of a certain subject that we can pick from. I chose to write about a film. The film I have in mind is An Empress and the Warriors, a foreign film about a nation at war. The movie is entirely in Chinese and translated by English subtitles. I found this very interesting because it is different from movies that I have grown accustomed to. Besides the fact that it is in a different language I enjoyed that the person in position of power was a woman. It was very interesting to step away from the stereotypical male authority figure and see how a woman is able to lead a nation. However, I don’t think that enough was done to show her full potential and I think that the love scenes in it might have done more damage than good to the movie.
There are many aspects I find fascinating about the film but there are also many that I think needed to be different or not included at all for the film to be more successful. These will all be included in my review and I will hopefully be able to answer all of the questions that people have to ask.
