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Not to go on about "A Chinese Ghost Story," but the first thing I noticed was charming about this one was that several people are cut into several pieces BEFORE the opening credits are over.
It seemed to reenforce a rule employed in making "feel-good" movies. In order to make the audience feel really good, you first have to make them feel bad. You need a hell to pull them out of. So in its poetic way, the opening scene here establishes that this is a hard world we're peering into, a frightening and unpredictable world that frequently gets ugly.
So when our protagonist wanders into the haunted forest, we already feel that threats in this movie may prove to be quite real.
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