I have very mixed feelings towards the actor Shu Qi. I cannot say that I really like her, but I am definitely fascinated by her. Her style of performance in most of the films is quite similar. The numerous drunk scenes easily remind one of “Millennium Manbo” (2001) by Hsiao-Hsien Hou. Her characteristic smiles shine through in each of the films she has starred in. If Maggie Cheung embodies the classic beauty, Shu Qi radiates the urban spirit. She also has this seductively innocent look of a child that makes one hard not to sympathize with. I do like her.
The film “A Beautiful Life” is a pretty banal romance with lots of hard-to-believe plots and too-perfect-to-be-real characters, but I still cried over it. Even as an ultimate and thorough pessimist, I still would like to believe those life-changing accidents, coincidences and decisions, because life is full of surprises, good or bad. If you find them hard to believe, it’s probably that you haven’t lived long enough or you are just being lucky not having to experience the unfathomable depth of life. Yes, there can be tragedies like those in the film, and yes, there can be true love and a happy but never easy ending like that.
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