| This film is perhaps the most realistic portrayal of interpersonal relationships as we know them in China today. The dialogue rings true, the acting is superb and poignant; I was shocked at the grace and beauty this film was able to reveal, like the slow peeling of fine layers of onion skin--the depths of the Chinese heart and soul, like the Russian, the Khmer, the American, is permeated with a perfume of profound loves of many different kinds and on so many different levels--like some Shakespearean elf, the musician in the terminal playing his songs reveals a secret about hope to "our Hero" and about waiting--Baogen goes back to his auntie and even though he brings back, later on, this "dog fart friend" who she accused of being a user, Baogen, step by step, wins the love of his lost, fearful auntie--a woman who we all see stripped from her adult veneer--she's just a 4 year old girl; her girlfriend with the driver for a boyfriend, the woman who seeks her advice--SHE'S A WOMAN, able to ride on the back of his bicycle.
I love this film. I found this film to be fine art on the grand scale; it makes the film "Dr. Zhivago" seem silly and immature, despite the Finnish backdrop--with all the grit of modern Shanghai, the poverty, the ostentatious wealth, here, country-bumpkin makes good, he is not a fool, he is wise with his Tao of Lunch boxes, paying off the debts of the woman who lived a life sponging from anyone who'd lend her money, which she would never repay. The film is all about A BEAUTIFUL NEW WORLD which lies within us when the cosmos and the atoms of our passions make those atoms and molecules in others step in harmony with our own.... |
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