If you're in the mood for a chinese folk/fairy tale with great visuals and production design, this is right up your alley.
It's relentless, it never takes a break from the fantastical feel, for 98 minutes it wants you to escape your boring life and fully transport you to this realm in which two sister snakes (one green and one white) want to be human but are hunted by a buddist monk. It's great! I really don't know why it's called Green Snake when the White one is as much part of the story as the first one. Maybe because the green one is more in touch with her mystical side by the end, rather than the human side?
It's interesting how religion is the one fighting mysticism here...how religion fights fantasy. Only with Buddhism you can do this.
It's relentless, it never takes a break from the fantastical feel, for 98 minutes it wants you to escape your boring life and fully transport you to this realm in which two sister snakes (one green and one white) want to be human but are hunted by a buddist monk. It's great! I really don't know why it's called Green Snake when the White one is as much part of the story as the first one. Maybe because the green one is more in touch with her mystical side by the end, rather than the human side?
It's interesting how religion is the one fighting mysticism here...how religion fights fantasy. Only with Buddhism you can do this.