I recorded this movie on a DVR through my cable company. Unfortunately, the recording stop short of the end of the movie. Urggggg! The mother of the child was stuffing money into the baby carriage. Did she then take off with the baby who had been proven to be fathered by her own husband? I am dying to find out the ending. Someone fill me in. Please!
shareThat's very funny. The same thing happened with my DVR.
shareShe stuffed a ton of money and clothes in a suitcase and put some bills in her pocket. She closed the suitcase and picked up the kid. She left a breakfast of eggs and a letter for Lin Dong. Then she walked out. Others in the board have said something about seeing them pushing a car together in the credits but I don't remember seeing that or I wasn't paying attention.
I wanted to like this movie but the people were dispicable. The rapist, oh, my god. He should have his weenie hacked off. I was thinking, all this was going on because he *beep* couldn't control his stupid self. What an egotistic idiot. I absolutely hated the bastard. I've been raped so I know what it's like for a *beep* creep to overpower you and think its cool.
Next was her husband. What kind of *beep* not only sells his own son for a few yuan, but worse than that, will forgive the rapist if he gives him enough money? Money money money. And of course he blames her for being raped, calling her a whore. Same old same old.
I wanted to like the girl, but she was weak. I guess I saw too much of myself in her. She blamed herself. She wasn't really sure what happened. Not sure enough to go to the police. So she was stuck as the punching bag of her *beep* spouse and creep-rapist boss. Can't go anywhere. Broke. Pregnant to boot. Weak and sick. She's up s***'s creek.
The rapist's wife had some balls at least, enough to book outta there. But she obviously had been putting up with his infidelities for a long time so she was weak, too. She was just riding things out until things came to a head. That's just lazy. And she gets a F in my book for having gratuitous sex with the husband who wasn't attracted to her. That was bad taste and undignified.
So the movie was about four stupid *beep*s. I want my two hours back.
Orestes
I wasn't too crazy about the characters either. What attracted me to to the film was the actor who played the husband character who I remember from the movie "The Lover." Not one character had any redeeming qualities so I understand people being off put by the work. I wouldn't call it a complete waste of two hours. It is what it is.
shareYou have a point. I watched the movie in the first place because Tony Keung Ka Fai was in it and he doesn't make many movies. I thought he would be particular in his choices. And I could have junked it half way through but I kept watching. It wasn't the worst movie I've ever seen; that honor still goes to "He Liu (The River)." On the other hand, does one want to fill one's brain with something that has so few redeeming qualities, wherein the movie is one unpleasant thing after another? Taken to an extreme, it would be like watching vivisection. Why would someone want to do that if one didn't have to? I would like to hear the director defend this movie as a piece of art. Artists are supposed to refine real life or transpose it, or create something, and hopefully beauty of some kind is the goal, although it doesn't have to be. Meaning should be, *has to be* the goal. Art should make one's live better. If it doesn't, it's not art but boring and/or porn. One is responsible for what one puts in one's brain, and I expected art and I got trash that I didn't want and now I'm stuck with it.
Orestes
Others on the board were right, when they said that they were pushing a car during the credits. The driver was definitely the boss. I didn't pay much attention to the other one, I thought that wasn't that important. I couldn't think the other one would be a girl, as I had already ingested the fact the girl has left with the baby. My take of the scene with pushing the car: It was just to show how the boss became miserable at the end, losing everyone and everything.
I don't like the ending where the second car-pusher is the girl.
You have to do the best with what God gave you. Forrest Gump
The other car pusher appears to be the girl's husband. I suppose it means she took off with the baby, so both the boss and the husband set off to look for her, and the car broke down, so they had to push it to the side of the highway.
shareAi ya! That's the point of the movie. All 4 characters were so bad and you are supposed to dislike them. All 4 of them did things that are truly disgusting. This is a pretty damn accurate movie about modern life in China. People here in China only care about money and face. Its more important than anything. Stupid movies about some rich guy chasing some pretty girl are so boring and realistic. This movie shows the real China and that's why the government banned it
shareI know this is a very late reply but I just recently saw the movie. I'd like to give my opinion about the entire 'rape' scene. I can understand why the husband was blaming the wife and even why the wife felt guilty because lets face it at the time the husband noticed them having sex she was actually enjoying it. The incident might have started as rape but after the start the wife did enjoy it and her arms around his neck and her moaning did not make this better. In all honesty if I'd seen my wife in that kind of situation I'd be blaming her too and she'd not remain as my wife.
In contrast her husband doing her right after seemed more like rape and that's how I'd have expected her to behave instead of putting her arms around the boss and start moaning.