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Chinese film directed by Ah Nian. Embodies the historical views and values of young people born in the 1960s. The Cultural Revolution, a very special and extremely embarrassing era in Chinese history, experienced reform and opening up during its adolescence, but also faced a wave of commodities during its maturity period. On the whole, they are a generation that has not been well developed. The film bureau considered the original title "City Love 1997" to be ambiguous, and proposed to change it to "Winter Love" or “Love in the City.” Since then, the film has undergone nearly a year of modification and waiting. The reflection of the Cultural Revolution is one of the main parts requested by the film bureau. The film was changed again and again, but was not approved, and then the director made a copy of the film privately, and participated in the 45th Spanish San Sebastian Film Festival without obtaining the "Film Release License."
Ma Yiming graduated from university and worked as a photojournalist in a newspaper office, dreaming of creating his own film festival. Yiming wants to find beauty around him and wants to use nostalgia to explore the confusion of modern urban people. The old artist Xu Lao, who is engaged in root carving, suggested Yiming and him go to the mountains to observe the simplicity and rural spirit of the people in the mountains. Yiming fulfilled the old man's will and went to Dashan and opened his own film exhibition. Following the proposal of the newspaper director, the theme of the village was changed to change the theme of the film exhibition. The film festival really succeeded. Yiming finally got rid of the hustle and bustle of the city and walked on the land of China to pursue the true meaning of beauty. He finally became a promising young photographer.
Four parallel stories of people just getting by, unfolding over seven days in Beijing. For most of the story, the main characters mis-connect with others, except through their pagers.
Qiu Sheng works in Beijing. He accidentally saves Tao Zi, a female university teacher, at work, and she loses her job. Out of gratitude, Tao Zi asks Qiu Sheng to be her babysitter. Although the two have different life backgrounds and disparity in social status, they gradually establish a kind of trust and a kind of friendship in the process.
In an auction, Ye Ye spends 50,000 yuan on an envelope from an air crash dating back more than 50 years. Inside the envelope is a letter that was never opened before. The letter indicates the whereabouts of a box of gold bars. This action attracts the attention of three men: one is Ye Ye's ex-boyfriend; another is a a young man from Taiwan; and the last is the owner of a stamp shop. All three want to get this letter from Ye Ye, so a battle of wits and courage begins to take place.
Chinese filmmaker Ah Nian's second film.
Obscure Ah Nian film. Doctor Li Hong has a husband and a daughter in high school -- this looks like a happy family, but in fact, Li's marriage is in name only. Li's husband has confessed that he has a lover, and Li has suffered through and coped with it. After Li's daughter finds this out, she decides that she wants to save her parents' marriage...by jumping off the building.
