Accented Cinema

The Eight Hundred: A Chinese War Epic | Video Essay (4x4)

Air date: Feb 18, 2021

The Eight Hundred came out last year in the middle of the pandemic and became the highest-grossing film of 2020. For a couple of months, people talk about this movie non-stop. While most of the discussion focuses on the film's historical accuracy, I want to focus on the film itself, mainly its depiction of heroism.