Hear Me is a triumph. A modest one, and not without some annoying flaws, but a triumph nonetheless. The third film from Taiwanese director Cheng Fen-fen (Keeping Watch), Hear Me is - at least on the surface - a simple romantic comedy about a delivery boy and the deaf girl he falls for. While it still displays Cheng's unfortunate weakness for characters that act more like stock archetypes than believable human beings, it's still a wonderfully heartfelt film that manages to work in a surprisingly effective message without ever coming across as insufferably preachy.
Tian Kuo (Eddie Peng, All About Women, My So-Called Love) is a genial twenty-year-old living with his parents, running deliveries for their restaurant, biking boxed lunches all over the city. He often stops at the local swimming pool, dropping off orders for the team of deaf athletes who train there.
One day he notices Yang Yang...
Tian Kuo (Eddie Peng, All About Women, My So-Called Love) is a genial twenty-year-old living with his parents, running deliveries for their restaurant, biking boxed lunches all over the city. He often stops at the local swimming pool, dropping off orders for the team of deaf athletes who train there.
One day he notices Yang Yang...
- 8/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
There's the ghost of a fairly good film in Cai Xin's You Deserve To Be Single, but it's flailing desperately under the sheer volume of trite, saccharine clichés and hysterically overt product placement piled up on top of it. The cast eke a surprising amount of dramatic mileage from what initially seems like merely one more tired mainland Chinese romantic comedy, but the director and screenwriter never pause for long enough to really let the characters or the story breathe, and You Deserve To Be Single ends up frustratingly bland and largely forgettable as a result.
Li Zheng (Mike He, Love At Seventh Sight) and Li Ying (Elsie Gao) are a brother and sister who run a successful dating agency in downtown Shanghai. She's the smiling public face chairing the agency's regular speed dating nights, but they offer more services than that. If a client feels concerned about the viability...
Li Zheng (Mike He, Love At Seventh Sight) and Li Ying (Elsie Gao) are a brother and sister who run a successful dating agency in downtown Shanghai. She's the smiling public face chairing the agency's regular speed dating nights, but they offer more services than that. If a client feels concerned about the viability...
- 8/2/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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