End shot


At the very end, they have a shot of the door closing with Gong Li and Andy Lau in the office. We see the sign on the door--does anyone know what it says? I can't read Chinese--I see her name there, but what is her title now?

This movie was okay. It was interesting--I liked the original American version, so I wanted to see how this would be. Curiously, the city doesn't play a role at all--you don't even get a sense that they are in China--it could be any city.

I also agree with other post that the characters in this version lack the depth of the American version. It does have some funny moments though, and it does add some things (the grandfather) but for the most part it was an almost exact copy of the American script.

What I found disappointing was the "revelation" scene. Sun Zigang reveals what he had done, but he doesn't reveal his feelings for her (unless I somehow missed it?), unlike with Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. So the scene ended up being kind of weird, especially since you don't even hear Zigang completely explain things--the music scores comes in and you just hear bits and pieces. It lacks any emotional ooomph. "I wanted to get rid of you, so I tricked you, blah blah blah, but then...you rocked my world, etc." Without the "but then..." part, it doesn't really work.

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I also thought the end was rather abrupt. Saw her name on the door and wondered about the Chinese characters. I suspect the ending was ambiguous on purpose, letting viewers decide what a happy ending or not might be. It's a fiction story so let it be whatever we want.

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