This is actual dialogue from Rose (aka Blue Valentine), a not so subtle in joke but director Samson Chiu actually makes us believe it's an intriguing proposition for a romantic drama. Clear from the beginning is that he's mixing drama and generic triad action, these crucial points works fine for the opposite attracts romance between insurance sales woman Rose (Maggie Cheung) and triad bad boy Roy (Roy Cheung). Both of whom have been neglected and left alone, especially the pregnant Rose who is now living in a shell where she makes her smoking habit equal to that of a secure man in the house. A little calculated, plagued with some holes in the character sketches (in particular Rose's shift in behaviour when harboring the wounded Roy as she would probably at one point do anything to kick him out) and predictable, director Chiu, while "borrowing" slightly with the A Moment Of Romance formula, merges these opposite performers to pretty decent effect. The stars themselves carry their more all too familiar-roles from their perspective into this unusual narrative, especially Roy, and delivers emotions of the workable, bearable kind. Still only at his second feature film (the superb Yesteryou, Yesterme, Yesterday followed), Chiu at this point doesn't seem to know that sappy montages are not needed for dramatic effect but his final reel moments does however speak of a subtle, simple poignancy that would be very evident in later films. Veronica Yip co-stars as Rose's friend who can't juggle life and love while Norman Tsui, Michael Wong and Yiu Wai also appears.