Given the number of effects-driven fantasy wuxia films that have come out in China in recent years, and the general mediocrity of the ones I’ve seen, I was a little wary of diving into the latest film from Brotherhood of Blades director Lu Yang. But A Writer’s Odyssey is not only a solid action movie, it’s got an ingenious set-up rife with allegorical potential, the kind of sneaky politics one hopes to find as a sign of life in a mass-market product.

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I don't know what to make of a world that rejects this and adores every Marvel movie. Things don't make sense to me.