A mediocre movie.
It had neither myth, nor love; instead, it was filled with petty citizens' vulgarity in language and in action. Many details were either missing or not reasonable: first of all, the so-called love story between Old Bai and divorcee Miss Li was very vague: how did they know each other? How did they suddenly sleep together at the beginning of the movie? Through entire movie, the chemistry between them was missing. Secondly, as a modern and chic woman with a career, Miss Li chose to live with her very annoying and bad-mouth mother in a tiny and broken-down apartment, it was unbelievable. If her choice of staying with her mother was already very unreasonable, when Old Bai offered her a room in his elegant townhouse, she hesitated and refused, which was even more unthinkable and unbelievable. In addition, all the characters in this film were all unlikable, they were all very similar, very predictable. Lao Bai supposed to be a painter, art lover/art teacher and real estate owner, but this character lacked this artistic quality, his dialogues and actions were just like any average fat and oily middle-age man with zero charisma and enthusiasm. Nothing was make-sense to me in this movie. I thought, people who were crazy about this movie were not after the stories' depth, nor character development, nor diversity of a metropolitan. But simply for love for the city and love for local Shanghainese dialect used throughout the film.
It had neither myth, nor love; instead, it was filled with petty citizens' vulgarity in language and in action. Many details were either missing or not reasonable: first of all, the so-called love story between Old Bai and divorcee Miss Li was very vague: how did they know each other? How did they suddenly sleep together at the beginning of the movie? Through entire movie, the chemistry between them was missing. Secondly, as a modern and chic woman with a career, Miss Li chose to live with her very annoying and bad-mouth mother in a tiny and broken-down apartment, it was unbelievable. If her choice of staying with her mother was already very unreasonable, when Old Bai offered her a room in his elegant townhouse, she hesitated and refused, which was even more unthinkable and unbelievable. In addition, all the characters in this film were all unlikable, they were all very similar, very predictable. Lao Bai supposed to be a painter, art lover/art teacher and real estate owner, but this character lacked this artistic quality, his dialogues and actions were just like any average fat and oily middle-age man with zero charisma and enthusiasm. Nothing was make-sense to me in this movie. I thought, people who were crazy about this movie were not after the stories' depth, nor character development, nor diversity of a metropolitan. But simply for love for the city and love for local Shanghainese dialect used throughout the film.
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