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Ye Rutang (Siqin Gaowa), a single-living woman in her late fifties, struggles to maintain a dignified life amid the dangers of Shanghai. Living alone in an apartment, she endures gossipy neighbor Mrs Shui (Lisa Lu) and her pampered cat. She is pragmatic, frugal and self-reliant, but her old-fashionedness and trusting nature make it difficult for her to fit into Shanghai society.
After encountering self-proclaimed aesthete Pan Zhichang (Chow Yun-Fat), she falls for Pan and uses her life savings to invest on cemetery spaces on Pan's suggestion. He turns out to be a fraudster.
After being the victim of several con artists, Ye suffers a bad fall and is hospitalized. She decides to leave Shanghai to live with her working-class husband and cook daughter (Zhao Wei) in Anshan."
A nice film that appears slow throughout and often boring. I wish we could have seen more of the girl that the boy fell in love with but she didn't appear a lot in the film. The aunt borderline on being a uptight woman to one dumb woman that will fall for any man. Now Chow Yun Fat was interesting to see as a conman, this film he didn't have to use any kind of violence. That alone is worth the watch, he is one of my favorite actors.
Anyway this film doesn't have a lot of good material to comment on. Watch it if you like slow movies
2/5
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