Suzhou River

Suzhou River is the second film of Lou Ye, who is the sixth generation directors in Chinese mainland. However, he directs this film in a different direction from the works of his Beijing Film Academy contemporaries Zhang Yuan (Beijing Bastards/Beijing Zazhong, 1993) and Wang Xiaoshuai (The Days/Dong-Chun De Rizi, 1993). There are some obvious similarities between this film and Wong Kaiwei’s ChungKing Express/Chongqing Senlin.

The story is about four people: Meimei, Mudan, Mada and a videographer. Meimei, a performing mermaid at a nightclub, illuminates the life of the videographer. However, she slips in and out of his life. Her bouts of unexplained silence and periods of absence deeply trouble him. One day a man called Mada claims that Meimei is his long-lost love. He keeps convincing Meimei that she was his girlfriend before. Here, points of view begin to shift to Mada and Mudan. Mada, a motorcycle courier, was once asked to deliver Mudan, the daughter of a local alcohol merchant, to her aunt. When Mudan’s father entertains prostitutes, she must be delivered to a relative. Then Mada and Mudan fall in lo

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She jumps into the Suzhou River, promising to haunt Mada forever as a mermaid. Meimei is stunned by such a love story when she finds out what Mada told her is true. However, there is no obvious such exact time definations in Suzhou River. She leaves the videographer at last with a question:” if I leave you someday, would you look for me, like Mada looking for Mudan?”

The story is not complex, but people can be easily attracted. This narrative form deepens the dreamlike intensity and haunting, slippery sense of unreality. His point of view forms the basis of the film. Only people believe in true love can easily uncover it. This heavily hurts Mudan’s feelings. If you still think I need to revise it again, I can take in draft four. Finally Mada finds Mudan by chance but soon their bodies are hauled out of the Suzhou River after a drunken motorcycle crash. Although Shanghai presented in this film is a dark and decrepit city, every city like every person wears different masks. Mada involves with a plan to kidnap Mudan for ransom.

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