Review of Zhou Yu's Train

1/10
A poet and a vet allow themselves to become targets of the labile affections of a pot decorator with inexhaustible leisure and a lifetime railway pass.
7 April 2008
If you like the feeling of being mystified and of watching others being mystified themselves, then this is the movie for you. You have only to peruse the previous comments and notice the contradictions in them about plot elements and even dramatis personae to see how confusing this movie is. Most interesting of all, what someone understands to have happened in the movie seems not to matter. Almost all the comments are positive. ("Abject adulation" might be a better phrase.) How much to blame Zhou Sun (writer, director) and how much to blame Cun Bei (novelist) must be left to readers of Chinese with time on their hands. All in all a travesty fit to be enjoyed by those who deserve nothing better!
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