"Chivalrous Girl" has a very visual sense of "Dragon Gate Inn", both works have the descendants of Zhongliang who fled and the eunuchs of the East Factory who hunted down and killed, there are confrontations in the confined space (ancient house and inn), and there are successive action scenes. It's just that "Heroine" not only has the length of the film far exceeded that of "Dragon Gate Inn" ("Chivalrous" is nearly three hours long), but the action scenes are more magnificent and charming than "Dragon Gate Inn", the light and shadow of the whole film are beautiful, and the scheduling and editing of the camera are full of ingenuity, whether it is the light work of the cornice walking the wall, the battle in the bamboo forest, the mechanism of the ancient house, and the climactic duel scene at the end, etc., all of which make people look dazzling and admired. Compared with director Hu Jinquan, Xu Laowei still seems to be slightly inferior.
