Extended Reading
  • Keyon 2022-02-07 14:51:56

    Actors are actors after all

    Watching this movie is all about JI, and as his crush (has been crushed for a month, I don't know how long it will last), I really want to get to know him. Saying "want to get to know him" is ridiculous and impossible. I once thought it was possible, that an actor could show his intelligence and...

  • Dagmar 2022-02-07 14:51:56

    mixed world

    Haven't watched a disc in a long time. Yesterday afternoon, the video store called me to say that the "Velvet Goldmine" and "Desire Express" that I was looking for a few months ago were in stock, so I went around and got a few.

    I bought "China Box" because of the two leading actors, Jeremy Irons...

  • Nola 2022-04-23 07:04:38

    what will you do in the new years ringing? killing you self? or just step in 1997 without turn back , even if only can hang out on the street as like nothing happen

  • Jamir 2022-04-23 07:04:38

    The screenwriter of this film is Joan-Claude Carrier, so it can be said that it is Hong Kong in the eyes of foreigners. The theme of this film is the return of Hong Kong in 1997, trying to use the perspectives of the three protagonists Jeremy Irons, Maggie Cheung and Gong Li to metaphorize the positions of Britain, mainland China and Hong Kong. The subject that should be interesting is designed to be boring, and The background of the 1997 Return was rendered too apprehensive, almost like a political disaster, and it became a nondescript failure.

Chinese Box quotes

  • John: Money, money, money. That's all you hear.

  • John: Just a week ago all I wanted was to tell Vivian how much I loved her. But now I see that's the one thing I mustn't do. I can't offload my illness onto her, or Jim, or Mary and the kids. I don't want the look in their eyes to remind me I'm dying. I wonder if I can hold out longer than the British. Not that I could be described as an empire.