Uganda, April 5 -- I am not a movie freak. On those few good days, I will find myself searching up some winners at the Cannes Film Festival and watching a film or two. And I do land on gems. Such as a Dinner with Andre or move to the far east and watch some intrigue from the Legend of Zhen Huan from China.

I suspect the West struggles with scripting scenes around power, plotting, intrigue, that soft machination, that politics that plays in the passive-aggressiveness kind. Chinese seem to be the masters of this scripting. The closest the West tried with such a plot was with Game of Thrones. But even then, most of it was overt. It is not the case with Empresses in the Palace. Enough of the advert. Beautiful things need no convincing.

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