A quirky but very likable film from the director of "Postmen in the Mountains". Except for the motif of a young man stepping into his father's metaphorical shoes, this film is very different in terms of setting and style -- no rural mountain scenery here. The male lead is a would-be artist, who has become a somewhat reluctant police detective in (what looks like to me) a medium-sized seaside town. At the outset, he rescues a young woman who appears to be in the process of jumping off a bridge. Sh tells him she has just murdered her lover -- and starts walking away. He flashes his badge, and takes her to the office. She claims she is an actress, practicing a bit of "performance art" in preparation for a show she is working one -- but our hero then gets a call that someone in the neighborhood has been murdered. As it turns out, the victim is a woman -- and the incident clearly has no connection with his "prisoner". Our heroine is released with a warning. Despite this rocky introduction, the two gradually become interested in each other -- and, as it turns out -- there is a link from the past that ties their stories together. The leads PAN Yueming (the police officer) and YUAN Quan (the performer) are engaging. Even if not a "masterpiece", this is an interesting, entertaining film.
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The original novel was much popular than the movie
zzmale7 April 2004
though neither one is my favorite, and as a matter of fact, I do not see how could any of the two be any popular, but then again, no man can ever understand any women, well at least most men.
The original novel was written by a female author, a divorced female author who actually started her writing careers as a way to escape her sorrow of divorce, just to do something to get the divorce and its after effect out of her mind. However, as it turned out, this result was unexpected popularity, or popularity among single women (Not surprised?), and the young girls (Definitely surprised, because they seemed to young to mingle about romance, concentrate on study first). Not surprisingly, reactions from male readers are not as enthusiastic as that of female, just like this movie.
The original novel was written by a female author, a divorced female author who actually started her writing careers as a way to escape her sorrow of divorce, just to do something to get the divorce and its after effect out of her mind. However, as it turned out, this result was unexpected popularity, or popularity among single women (Not surprised?), and the young girls (Definitely surprised, because they seemed to young to mingle about romance, concentrate on study first). Not surprisingly, reactions from male readers are not as enthusiastic as that of female, just like this movie.
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