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Tony Leung Maggie Cheung Ziyi Zhang Donnie Yen Daoming Chen || Nameless Broken Sword Flying Snow Moon Sky King of Qin ||
 * ** Director ** |||| Zhang Yimou ||
 * ** Year ** || 2002 || ||
 * ** Actors ** || Jet Li

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=KEY SCENES=

The end
The ending of the film is the core of its ideological comment. The King, despite being a tyrant, is seeking to unite all the realms as one nation - China. Nameless comes to see the unity of China as being of greater importance than his need for personal revenge. His death is a scarifice for the greater good of the people. Given the context of the film's production and the financial influence of China's communist government, the values being promoted by the film support the political status quo of China. Under communism, the individual good is secondary to the communal good; the individual can only prosper if the collective prospers. This is in contrast to capitalist Western values which hold that the community will prosper when all of its individuals prosper - the public good should not impinge of personal freedom.

This scene plays out like an opera. The king's advisers symbolise the public good. The tyranny of government, it seems, comes from the tyranny of the public demand for the rule of law.

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