house of flying daggers is a complicated film.. somehow more confusing second time around. i suppose it says that the characters can't really control who they fall in love with and often that means completely the wrong person at the wrong time for the wrong reasons. which is why a mad martial arts film where one small woman with a stick can fend off a dozen heavily armed soldiers and a blindfold man can split a bamboo target at a hundred yards can speak to a wider audience than just kung fu fans. Mei is about to start dying now.. killed by the man that loves her.. there's half an hour to go and it takes the rest of the film to kill them all properly if i remember.

rat watch: albert is putting too much weight.. he's becoming proper portly.

leo and jin are now fighting it out in an autumnal landscape and arguing about who loves Mei the most... this is going to get messy