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By Ken H (194) on 03 May 2008

Had the potential to be a great film, but wasn't. The personal narratives and the political/social events were completely disjointed…

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By Ernest W (9) on 20 Apr 2008

If you like disjointed, sophomoric nonsense-meditations on yourself and what it all means, and you like shaky footage and meandering inconsistency…

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By Nikki A (83) on 07 Apr 2008

Relationships were dull, even the love affair. the characters were monochromatic as well…

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By Nicholas S (353) on 04 Apr 2008

Interesting period piece during the TienAnMen Square revolt…

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By Matthias B (34) on 04 Apr 2008

Waste of time!!! Most boring chinese movie I have ever seen. I usually really like chinese movies…

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By Bin F (1) on 30 Mar 2008

The film will have its critics and I can see why because at time the film is rather overplotted…

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By Zhanyi J (167) on 30 Mar 2008

The movie is a reminiscent of The Dreamers, where the passion for love matches the back drop of revolutionary times. It was kinda interesting…

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By Luanne M (4) on 26 Mar 2008

An imitation of a few European art house movies with unreal plot and characters difficult to understand…

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By Gary C (555) on 26 Mar 2008

Long, boring, nonsensical meandering of whore-ish behavior written off as love…

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By Jonathan H (1,173) on 25 Mar 2008

Reminded me a lot of the Dreamers. Both movies are about a sexual youthful idealism being crushed by harsh reality and social revolutions…

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By Nanping Y (19) on 22 Mar 2008

He has been banned again by the government for making movies, 5 years this time. They are afraid of genius. that's all I can say…

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By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Mar 2008

The most important mainland Chinese film this decade…

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By Shawn Levy (1,238) for Oregonian (1,550) on 21 Mar 2008

A fascinating and frustrating film in turns, created out of scorching passions and built around a fascinating performance but rambling and…

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By Kok F (41) on 16 Mar 2008

Maybe this film portraits beijing students of that era, but it is not a documentary. I don't like the storytelling…

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By Richard S (2,067) on 16 Mar 2008

It breaks my heart. I've never felt so sorry for anyone like Yu Hong and Zhou Wei…

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By Benjamin F (516) on 15 Mar 2008

A good, but fairly mixed film from director Lou Ye…

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By Andy Klein (675) for Los Angeles CityBeat (424) on 13 Mar 2008

It benefits from a riveting performance by newcomer Hao, but the whole is sadly unsatisfying…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 10 Mar 2008

The saying goes There's a time and a place for everything, and it's called college. Who knew that included actually caring about something…

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By Brandon C (850) on 05 Mar 2008

Terrible, terrible movie, it did a lot to develop some characters at the beginning, then after she dropped out, it just sped through the rest…

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By Scott K (649) on 01 Mar 2008

I can not understand why set such big background into this movie. Full of simple and nonsense scene…

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