This is How Movies Should Be Made
Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful
disgusting, overrated, pointless
Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.
View MoreNow this is about as funny a movie as anyone like that can get. Do not ever mind the detractors. This here is real fun to watch. Not a "documentary" like some blame. Nor pretentious like others pretended to believe. It is a really fun movie to watch..I find no better way nor phrase to express it. Every aspect of the film, be it tragic incidents, comic relief or just plain student-life-reality, has got such a kinetic energy to it that you never get bored. Even when subject matter delves into territory of cliché, movie's execution is so bloody brilliant that you somehow feel brazenly energetic. A movie for the young of heart.
View MoreI thought this film was heart wrenching and brilliantly written. It won many awards when it came out. It still doesn't fail to draw out a tear when I watch it and I did go through a point where I was watching it everyday. The film starts off with the two lead characters happily together in a car, which then crashes and they both die. Then the rest of the film begins. It shows young love blooming between a playboy guy and a shy girl, with a sweet scene of a rose in a vase with an aspirin to make it last longer. The film is definitely sentimental, but that's the kind of film it is. In the present day, the film shows two kids by the characters, although they are not related. They slowly realise that their parents were in love with each other which technically, would mean they were cheating on their husband/wife. But that isn't the issue. Although I would agree that it may be a film more suited to women, men should learn a trick or two! This would have to be one of my favourite films.
View MoreThis is a light romance. There are 2 story lines. One takes place in the 1997 and the other in the 1970's. The movie moves at a slow pace, there no real high or low points, sometimes the movie is boring. The cinematography is pretty good and there's lots of music from the 1970's. All in all, a very mellow movie. Worth a look if you have nothing to watch.
View MoreThis movie is so sweet that I gave it a score of 8/10 already when I was at 1/3 of this film. When I watched it till the end, it won my heart totally and got a score of 10/10!This film reminds me Leon Lai's previous film Tianmimi(1986) which won Best Picture of Hongkong Film Award. Both love story films also describe social and political happenings of their time which made them a classic.I was deeply touched by this movie not just for love story part, but for the plot of hardship life of studying abroad in 70's, political demonstration, language barrier, and Hongkong's destiny. That's a slice of my life and many Chinese'.This is a classic love story. Bravo.
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