The Equation of Love and Death

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Audience Member Parte benissimo e regge bene per la prima ora, poi il finale sembra affrettato e forzato Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member there were only two reasons why i stuck it out and sat through this - zhou xun and the very charismatic zhang hanyu. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Li Mi (played by Zhao Xun), an unassuming taxi driver, is searching for the love of her life, Fang Wen. She picks up two druggies who kidnap her and attempt to take her hostage to get money on their way to Guanzhou. They end up ripping out all her dough, but not before they end up ripping off (and losing, by throwing over the bridge) her magazine which includes all her pictures of Fang Wen (which pisses her off more than anything.) In the meantime, on the other side of the bridge, who is there to pick up the magazine but none other than Fang Wen, who just crashed his car into some dude who was supposed to pay off the druggies but ended up jumping the bridge. Eventually the druggies let her go and are brought in. The younger one (the only one now because the older one OD'd on heroin), hung up on a conversation they had in where Li Mi manufactured the identity of his long lost girlfriend, won't speak until Li Mi tells him that she spoke to his girlfriend. She obliges, and the druggies are dead to the movie. Li Mi gets the police to set her up with Fang Wen and his new girlfriend. Fang Wen insists that he's not Fang Wen, he's Ma Bing, and has no idea who she is, even though we get the impression that hey, this is clearly Fang Wen. Finally he tells her he is to get her out of his (and his new girl's) hair. Now here's a parallel between her telling the druggie he knows his girlfriend, and Ma Bing telling her that he is Fang Wen. But this doesn't seem to be an appropriate case of the if-then fallacy, and it ends up not being, because lo and behold, Ma Bing is Fang Wen who changed his identity and became a drug dealer. In a totally irrelevant climax, we find out that he was set up by his new girl. But hey, at least we get to see snapshots of Li Mi going out to dinner with friends, and know that all is right in this ordinary cabbie-who-lives-her-life-with-integrity's world. Like All Around Us, the devil's in the details, so to speak. The storyline isn't anything write home about. But the connections that the characters make with each other, the gamut of emotions that they run, is impressive. Zhao Xun is overall brilliant, although she does go overboard at times like when she's pleading with Ma Bing to tell her he's Fang Wen. (Although, far be it for me to deny that some lovesick girls probably really do act like that,) Another flaw (or strength, depending upon how you look at it) is that this story is based entirely upon coincidences. It just so happens that the Li Mi picked up druggies who were on their way to meet another druggie who fell on Fang Wen's car. It just so happens that the druggies dropped Li Mi's magazine including pictures of Fang Wen in front of Fang Wen. Et cetera. Yeah yeah, so there's no such thing as a coincidence, but when you revolve a movie about it the overall effect is weakened. That being said, Cao Baoping did an excellent job of making you want to follow some extraordinarily average human beings' lives for 92 minutes. Rating: B Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member How long can love survive? Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Tried to hard to be a unique mixed genre movie with a twist, but although the plot made sense, it's hard to see a connection that clicks. It's kind of a waste using such great actors. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member 爱一个人你愿意等多久？ 我等了四年。 9，38，52，69，80，83，193…1460。 Good starting......the robed scene feel like real........ending a bit sad and boring. 李米哭着，她说他曾经说过，遇见她是最美丽的事情。然后画面戛然而止。 Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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