1. In a way the plot is not organized in a normal way, the story is retold in a different interpretation three times. The movie has a serious tone and goes slowly taking time to look at the surroundings during a fight. At the end of the story you are left to decide how all the people involved made the right and wrong choices.
2. One way is that a lot of the shots are very beautiful backgrounds. Action pack fight scenes that are exciting and fun to watch. Also it had a story line that kept the viewer intrigued.
3. I thought the movie was beautiful however I was not interested in any parts of the story. I really liked the use of flowing clothing and cloth in several scene they made it seem other worldly. The natural environments were also very lovely like the golden forest and the lake. However the characters I could not connect to very well and I found little emotional connection to any of them.
4. The color I found emphasized the most was the attack on the calligraphy school at Zhao the bright reds during the attack. I think the color red is supposed to represent anger, lies, betrayal and false violence. Because it is later proven that most of that version of the story told in the red color code is a lie to the king to lower his defenses.
