I love this movie so much

The acting in this movie is really good.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

I so much was looking forward to this film, and to be fair, the visuals are great, the photography is fantastic and it COULD have been a good film but instead of making the right choices the director chose a soap opera approach.Never seen so many guys crying in a film, some many women in tears. It bothers after a while that every time something is said everyone must cry. And to complement this natural disaster, the music. Every tear was in sync with cheese violins and last century broken heart melody. A cinematic soap opera at its worst Approach with caution, you have been warned. Pity, such a waste

The movie "Kong Zi" reflects how the Confucianism was developed and consummated in ancient China by describing the whole life of Kong Zi. Based on the benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust, Kong Zi created Confucianism in china. The Confucianism has reflected significant influences to every generation of Chinese people since it was created. From the perspective of Confucianism, it is practical in daily life. The key of Confucianism is to adjust people's behavior and mindset. Confucianism can set clear guide for ethics and courtesy to restrict people's behaviors and to make the society stable. One of the key ideas in Confucianism is courtesy. In the movie, Kong Zi reflected the importance of courtesy from his daily behaviors. For example, whenever Kong Zi went to visit the king of country Lu, Kong Zi completed the whole process of a standard courtesy of Confucianism: Thrice kneeling and nine times bowing. In front of the palace, Kong Zi needed to kneel down with three bows. After entered the palace, he kneeled down with three bows again. Finally, after he saw the king, he needed to repeat the process one more time. In total he needed to kneel down three times with none bows. This courtesy is a typical noble courtesy. Moreover, in the scene of taking dinner, the courtesy was also strict. All people needed to wash hand firstly. After that, they could not make any noise in the dinner. They should sit straight and chewed the dinner slowly. This courtesy for dinner is still applied in china today. At 19', Kong Zi was proposed a toast by his student. Kong Zi lifted his two hands to take the bowl from his student to show his respect. At 96', Kong Zi and his students shared the only one bowl of soup. This scene reflects the courtesy of giving precedence to other people. Another typical courtesy is to make an obeisance by cupping one hand in the other hand before own chest. Kong Zi applied this courtesy to show his respect to people before they had a chat. To show respect to people from different hierarchy, this kind of courtesy is reflected in different ways. The diversified courtesies to different people reflect that the strict hierarchy and courtesy take place at same time in Confucianism. For example, when Kong Zi was competing with Jisun in an archery game, Kong Zi proposed a toast to Jisun because of the requirements of courtesy and hierarchy. At 70', students kneeled down and bow to Kong Zi firstly. After that, Kong Zi also kneeled down and bowed to his students immediately. This scene also reflects that the courtesy and hierarchy are both important in Confucianism. Benevolence is one more important idea in Confucianism. In this movie, Kong Zi gave a clear expression to benevolence by overthrowing a bad tradition. Ancient Chinese got used to bury living people with dead people to show respect to the dead people. Kong Zi led a revolt to against this bad tradition. He insisted that every people should not take other people's life at will. Kong Zi had a well-known word about the benevolence "People who are actuated by Confucianism should realize the benevolence even sacrifice themselves." Moreover, in the scene at 108', Kong Zi taught his student Zi Lu that they should quit from the country because the government officers did not apply benevolence as a guide to manage the country anymore and the country became unstable. Kong Zi also exhibited the significance of persistence to people who practiced Confucianism in daily life. When he was restricted in the place between country Chen and country Cai, his students and him were tormented by hunger more than couple of days. However, Kong Zi asked his students that they should not gave up Confucianism for any reason. This idea is also known as "people should insist their faith and should not be bended for poor and power." The persistence is also reflected from people's loyalty to the king in the country. In the scene at 11'30'', Kong Zi did not cooperate with other people to replace the king of country Lu. Kong Zi believed that loyalty was a basic and critical requirement to people. Feudal code of ethics is another important idea proposed by Kong Zi in Confucianism. When Kong Zi was in country Wei, he taught the king that the leader of a country should apply feudal code of ethics to educate his people. This scene reflects that the education of feudal code of ethics is critical to stabilize a country from the perspective of Confucianism. Furthermore, when Kong Zi was spreading the ideas of Confucianism in country Song, the king and other people of country Song cut the tree that was applied by Kong Zi to shade the sunshine because people did not believe in the feudal code of ethics at the moment. They just wanted to drive Kong Zi and his students out. This scene reflects that the feudal code of ethics in country Song was extinct. At 108', Kong Zi's student-Zi Lu was dying. Zi Lu insisted to adjust his hat to a proper position before died. These scenes exhibits that the feudal codes of ethics are important to both of the country and individual people Confucianism. At the end of the movie, Kong Zi told his students before died: future people can understand me through this book; however, future people can also misunderstand me through this book. In my opinion, "future people" reflects all people who know or are getting to know the Confucianism. The "me" indicates all ideas in the Confucianism. The "book" exhibits people's diversified perceptions of the Confucianism. People who really understand the ideas in Confucianism can practice these ideas in daily life and gradual become as the people who can benefit other people and whole society. On the other hand, people who misunderstand the Confucianism believe that these ideas are only applied for the leaders to control the country and manage their people.

Chow Yun Fat has only recently been able to pull himself out of the 'B Grade' bracket, and then he jumps into something like this...? Beats me. I never expected much of this film. I can only pity anyone who did. lol.If your bored and looking for a movie you never saw before and like strange humor like re-takes and dragged on jokes... (IE maybe your a big fan of 'kung-pow') then you might find this entertaining... in which case I would pity you more. lol.As for all the idiots (I refrained from using the word 'uneducated' as most idiots have flopped through one education system or another these days. - ie. I know a marketing lecturer who quit because his university told him he had to 'pass' at least half the class, when most of them couldn't even speak English, let alone market to an English speaker.) Anyhow... like I was saying... all the idiots who are spouting all the garbage about politics and communism. It's laughable. If they even knew how many people were members let alone the procedures, they would probably realise that the only real lack of democracy comes from "corruption". Are they under the illusion that this this corruption isn't in western or other societies. Or perhaps that western or other societies don't use media for political or propaganda purposes. That's just too stupid to be called ignorant. ...Which basically describes anyone who isn't a Chow Yun Fat supporter and somehow had an interest in watching this movie.As far as historical correctness. It has about as much truth to it as any one-man-perspective piece of garbage that we like to call history, so that's not exactly an issue as far as I'm concerned. Once again, the only people who would be bothered by this is the idiots who say "Nah, yeah, it's true man! I saw it on a movie once!"

This is the film that the film bureau of the PRC's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television wanted to pit against Avatar? Really??? This film wouldn't even last five seconds against Judge Judy.Here is what I learned from the film: Confucius would have made a perfect litigant for Judge Judy's binding arbitration, 'make belief' court, being sued by his wife for back child support and breach of contract by his 'students.' The film portrayed Confucius as a 'bum'--as Judge Judy would say--who abandoned his wife and children after becoming unemployed. He then meandered all over the feudal kingdoms of ancient China, turning down job after job for the next few decades or so while taking on more students to service him, even when he had no funds or resources to see to their education. In his defense, Confucius say: "I want to change things!" However, other than the fairly common desire to see an end to the perpetual conflicts between warring principalities that characterized the Spring and Autumn Period, it is not entirely clear in the film what specific changes he wanted to affect or how his teachings were going to bring about those changes. In fact, other than dispensing one liner fortune cookie wisdom, when did he actually 'teach' in this film? Now let's put this film into context. As the PRC's communist ideological framework crumbles under the reality of its free market political and economic reforms, the post-socialist Chinese state 're-discovers' once banished Confucian ideals as a way to attempt to re-align its political authority with a moral authority, re-unite the disparate social and political elements of Chinese society, and distinguish the uniqueness of its modernization from Western industrialized countries. But even as a propaganda film meant to promote social values that would reconcile the PRC's authoritarianism with market capitalism, this film fails. It fails because the story was badly scripted and delivered by an over-dramatic acting style reminiscent of the last generation of period Chinese films. It's not smart or stylish, but is desperately trying to be in order to reach a new generation of Chinese movie-goers who would rather be stupefied by films like Avatar instead of being stupefied by films like this.Two stars, for the women in the film - the only aspect of this film that was not profoundly irritating.