I thought she was gonna fall in love with the prince or her hometown friend, but she doesn’t LOLLL. I know Mulan isn’t really the “marry a handsome man” sort of story, but the scenes kinda looks like the chemistry-building beats that normally happens in a romance. It just fizzles out and goes nowhere.
Honestly the movie kinda reminds me of 300 a bit? The war just happens, and we’re watching stuff roll along. Everyone’s doing fine if it weren’t for the one sneak rat who was being an asshole, and it ends with everyone evacuating and Mulan left alone with only 2 people defending an entire empty city.
They keep insisting that if the city falls then the Rouran's march into the country would be unstoppable (or at least harder to stop). And like... what do you even plan to do with 3 people? :/
There’s no magic Zhuge Liang save. The prince promised to bring reinforcements but nothing happens for weeks. Mulan and friends are starving to death. In the end the Rourans come and invade. Mulan and her friend fight, while the third person, a one-armed old man, beat the marching drum.
And in the end it was suggested that the prince really did come with his reinforcements to save them. I think. Because History Says Mulan Can’t Die.
Like, the sequence was hazy and faded and intermingled with visions of the dead friends, so like... is it an illusion of hope just before they die? Did the prince really come? Who knows!!!
Also after reading Weiyang, I get twitchy at the surname Tuoba hahaha... Not in a bad way, though. It’s just like the kind of weird feeling I have when a character in a book/movie has the same name as me or someone I know IRL.
