Hou hui wu qi (2014) Reviews

• Quirky road movie

  Frollo2014-11-18

  Three twenty-something friends live on a remote island in the easternmost part of China. When one of them, a school teacher, is transferred by his employers to the westernmost part of the country, his friends decide to accompany him on the journey. They all have their own motives to leave home and during the trip they will get to know their country and the people that inhabit it, as well as each other and themselves. Director Han Han is one of China's most famous writers, so with only one other IMDb user review thus far, I'm surprised to see this film doesn't have received much more attention. A shame, really, for it's an entertaining road movie, with some quirky characters and fun story developments. Of course, I may have missed a layer or two. Chinese moviegoers may very well view it as a satire of Chinese society. I don't know enough about this fascinating country to be sure about that. The pacing is calm, perhaps a bit boring to some, but the Chinese cityscapes and countryside make for breathtaking visuals at times. Not a great movie, but worth a watch.

• where's the logic? where's the consistency?

  BasicLogic2015-02-24

  i often found out that most of the Chinese people, or more strictly speaking, the Chinese writers or screenplay writers, are lack of logic whenever they are trying to write a story, a novel and/or a screenplay. let's just take this film as a sample written and directed by a popular blogger: so as long as nobody cares for the logic, the consistency, the reasoning, the believability of all the above-mentioned falsehood, inappropriateness, the wrong storyline, the wrong casting(all the 3 actors are bad, especially the taiwanese guy and the 3rd younger guy), the hidden commercial agenda that i've just found out in the first 10 minutes; as long as nothing matters, you can always keep watching this crappy movie but not me.

• Very good movie

  user-65-5555612014-07-31

  Han Han was a popular use of social culture, the reality of restlessness and ideal violent, continuous kneading, extrusion, and precise and crisp to young people living in frustration and pain are thrown out. In the narrative, the Han Han administration with lines and images draw further apart technique, not only enhances the sense of conflict, but also create a lot of happiness, so the director, he can always enjoy it using this technique. Don't talk about this narrative technique is advanced, just as the film itself, the director to continuously emphasized the core content of the film, the way that life is not what you think, say.This is a very good road film, tells the story of the hero has to send his brother to the western education, many people meet on the way, experienced a lot of things. Like the whole life, constantly meet new faces, and constantly with the people you know some people say goodbye, say goodbye, really do not see again. "Every time farewell, best effort. To say one more thing, may be the last sentence. Look, could be the last eye --《The Continent》