"Let the Bullets Fly", a smart commerical movie

Long story short: you should watch the movie "Let the Bullets Fly" if you are a Chinese.

People kept trying to find the symbolic meaning of the dialogue and scenes in the movie.  In fact, there is a scene in the movie when the tycoon played by Yun Fat Chow yelled at his people, "Come on, it's just an analogy!", like an inside joke about inside joke.  This is not surprisingly, consider that intellects in China already get used to communicate with code, symbol, proxy and irony on the Net.

However, it's the fact that the movie is enjoyable even without considering the hidden message, and the credit definitely goes to the script writer(s).  Yet, the pace and editing of the movie are tight enough that you get bored by the conversation.  Instead, the conversation keeps driving the storyline forward, seeing how the 2 parties in the story tried to out smart each other, like a intense chess game.

I think foreigners will have serious hard time to understand just the plot on the surface, let along the deeper meaning that drives Chinese people laugh and cry.  To me, the story really gives me hope on China that there are still a lot smart people with hearts.  The fact that a movie like this can be green lighted, produced, and well accepted by audience proves that intellects in aren't all corrupted by money and injustice system, that somehow we can see a bright future, as long as we "let the bullets fly a little bit longer."