I saw the message that others saw but, like you, it did not bother me. It just made me think a bit on it. How interesting that these assasins and trained warriors ultimately became pacifists, not true Gandhi-type one's but pacifists none the less.
My other response to the love story in Hero was that that love was also not an ideal one. These two (Sky and Snow) people did love each other very much but Snow's sense of honor became very distorted. So much so that her love for Sky transformed a bit into a love of knowing that she had this ultimate weapon of which to exact her revenge on the man responsible for the death of her father and the demise of her people. He was her instrument. I think that Sky was a little blind to this in the very beginning but, as we see in the end, he stuck to his conclusion of what he felt should be done, not what he had been groomed to do all this time.
I agreed with the message that violence does not necessarily mean it should be met with violence. Killing the Emperor would only bring into the court one of his corrupt advisors who would've been likely overthrown after much bloodshed. Better to impress upon the Emperor, a very smart and sharp minded man, that all these very clever and infamous assasins came upon the conclusion that he was better off alive than dead. It's a start.
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Date: 2005-01-09 09:37 am (UTC)My other response to the love story in Hero was that that love was also not an ideal one. These two (Sky and Snow) people did love each other very much but Snow's sense of honor became very distorted. So much so that her love for Sky transformed a bit into a love of knowing that she had this ultimate weapon of which to exact her revenge on the man responsible for the death of her father and the demise of her people. He was her instrument. I think that Sky was a little blind to this in the very beginning but, as we see in the end, he stuck to his conclusion of what he felt should be done, not what he had been groomed to do all this time.
I agreed with the message that violence does not necessarily mean it should be met with violence. Killing the Emperor would only bring into the court one of his corrupt advisors who would've been likely overthrown after much bloodshed. Better to impress upon the Emperor, a very smart and sharp minded man, that all these very clever and infamous assasins came upon the conclusion that he was better off alive than dead. It's a start.