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I have to admit that I find the narrative of Kelley-Hawkins's racial slipperiness incredibly, impishly, compelling. As the play is pure fantasy in the first place, placing it in present-day requires little resourcefulness, and there's an irritatingly twee quality to this version of Shakespeare's tale of star-crossed lovers, fairies impishly misapplying their magic and happy endings for all. Only seemingly, because nuance and ambiguity creep in anyway, as the avenging loyalists incarnated by Jimmy Wang Yu (The One-Armed Swordsman [1966]) and Ti Lung (The Blood Brothers [1973]) become increasingly nihilistic and conflicted, and even David Chiang, the impishly smiling, sometimes lute-strumming hero of so many films, acquires intimations of a psychopathic edge. |
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