Wednesday, 29 June 2011

A Beautiful Life 不再讓你孤單 (2011) 3/5 Stars

Starring Liu Ye and Shu Qi, it sets in modern day Beijing “A Beautiful Life” is a Chinese movie that has this delicate story which will make you unable to stop watching it.

Shu Qi plays a very beautiful Hong Kong Immigrant gold digger Li Pei that also worked as a real estate agent. While Liu Ye plays Fang Zhen Dong, a Chinese Police Officer that always become a role-model to his juniors and Colleague, he also has to shoulders a lot of responsibilities.

They accidentally met in a karaoke men’s toilet where a drunken Li Pei mistakenly gets into the wrong toilet and bump into Zhen Dong. Since then, there seems to be mutual interest between the two but with different motives.

In the end, after all the happenings, finally Li Pei is opened to a realization what is the true meaning of Love. When everything does not seems to look fair and ruined, the story came into a fairy-tale like conclusion that makes you as the audience feel the sense of wanting to believe and having faith again.

Shu Qi manages to play this strong girl Li Pei. As a very well experienced actress, she has undoubtedly captured the character and brought Li Pei to life.

Liu Ye a versatile China actor also nicely captured Zhen Dong character with every line in his face in every scene of the movie.

There was also a short appearance of Anthony Wong in this movie.

A Beautiful Life starts very simple and not so heavy but as the movie goes on the audience is brought to different levels of emotional rides and layers. If you like a nicely done movie and not just a time wasting thingy, you have to try watching this drama.

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