This movie is very hard to describe. It is visually amazing, totally confusing, with two parallel plots and incredible amount of unspoken facts which do create mess for uninformed watcher. It is based on Finnish epos which is totally unfamiliar to me - and I can why some watchers are so confused. I'm not certain if there is any message in the movie or not - lots of strange things do happen at the same time. In the end the plots and subplots do connect somehow, but the story just does not give a sense as a whole. There is plenty of North / East mythology mixing, lot of melancholy, lot of love and even some combat. Actually I cannot say if the story ends with resolution or the reincarnation thing... just reincarnates into another life cycle. However there is a beautiful, sad poem in the move if you stop trying to find a sense in the plot. In this case you stop to care about loose ends and just enjoy the show. It is very slow movie, very good for romantic evening with your girlfriend. But if you do expect some Chinese action movie you will be very disappointed.
Review of Jadesoturi
