Review of He ni zai yi qi

After watching an advanced screening of this film, the director (Chen KaiGe) was in attendance and told the audience that it was a film about individual choice. In a country where the communist party has historically frowned upon individualism - a country where arranged marriages were the norm for centuries - individual choice is viewed with different perspective from one generation to the next. China is undergoing continuous social change - some changes are obvious and others are more subtle but still very real. This was elegantly captured in this film. From reading other user reviews of this film, it's really hard to tell what others were expecting from this film - but they clearly missed a very easy central theme (or lost sight of it amidst tertiary issues). Too bad, because for the viewer who doesn't try too hard to be critical for the sake of being critical (or read too much into the film), it is a wonderful film!