I mean, I thought it was okay. Once you’ve seen some ideal Chinese girl in movies then you’ve seen them all. Okay, maybe an exaggeration, but the personality is usually very similar. Smart, aggressive, provocative, playful, etc., not like I’m blaming, those are good traits. Mi Lan was a good character. Monkey was interesting enough. I just thought it was okay. It’s a decent movie. Actually I watched half of this movie, stopped, then decided to come back to it a couple months later. Shows I was really dying to know how this one ends. Now that I think about it, teenage rascals seem to be a common theme in Asian movies.
The story wasn’t that captivating. Mi Lan was a good character, but she wasn’t enough to carry the whole movie. I think the setting kind of lowered this movie in my eyes. Kinda hard to romanticize a not very romantic time. Everyone in the movie is just hard-headed. Maybe it’s because it’s a movie of people living in the present and not grasping their transience. People that give little thought to their legacy or even what comes in the near future. Building some solid foundation. Maybe that’s what put me off. I think that aspect about this movie makes it a little tragic.
