Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Not all beauty

I agree with a prior review that this is a powerful and beautiful film, but to simply call it a love story set in quaint rural China is sugarcoated at best. This film is powerful for its ascetics, yes, but it is even more powerful for the haunting revelation of the horrors of feudal China (arranged marriages, etc) and the abandonment and detachment between social classes, even post-revolution. On top of that, it almost glamorizes a rape, which somehow worked to make the woman love her forbidden interest. All of this makes for a complex and hauntingly powerful film, but we cannot separate it from both the lessons of poverty and the trap of feudalism. I do recommend the film, but only to be watched with both eyes open.