Woman is left to pick up the pieces after her photographer boyfriend goes missing and is discovered dead on a working vacation that was to be the time he proposed to her.There are questions as to whether the body is his and she begins to try and unravel what had happened to her boyfriend.
Strange and pretty much a mess of a film bounces through time and space as the woman begins to have visions and relive past events. I think. Frankly I'm not sure what the hell was going on.Certainly the events make for some great looking images, but the plot is not really clear. I kind of lost interest about half way in and just kind of went with it hoping for an "ah ha" moment that would make it all make sense and make me want to back it up and try again. It never happened. I know many people who dislike the film are calling it further proof of the directorial ability of Tsui Hark. I'm not so sure partly because some of the sequences work beautifully, but more because Hark has never been a great director. To be certain he's directed some great, or near great films (Peking Opera Blues, We're going to Eat You, Butterfly Murders), but for the most part he is a better producer than a director (He produced John Woo's Better Tomorrow films and Bullet in the Head, The Chinese Ghost Story films among others). I don't think he's declined as a director. I just think he picked a poor script.
Strange and pretty much a mess of a film bounces through time and space as the woman begins to have visions and relive past events. I think. Frankly I'm not sure what the hell was going on.Certainly the events make for some great looking images, but the plot is not really clear. I kind of lost interest about half way in and just kind of went with it hoping for an "ah ha" moment that would make it all make sense and make me want to back it up and try again. It never happened. I know many people who dislike the film are calling it further proof of the directorial ability of Tsui Hark. I'm not so sure partly because some of the sequences work beautifully, but more because Hark has never been a great director. To be certain he's directed some great, or near great films (Peking Opera Blues, We're going to Eat You, Butterfly Murders), but for the most part he is a better producer than a director (He produced John Woo's Better Tomorrow films and Bullet in the Head, The Chinese Ghost Story films among others). I don't think he's declined as a director. I just think he picked a poor script.