Two month ago, an American broke up with me, after two weeks' dating. I am a Chinese, btw, living in my own country. The excuse he gave me was we had no connection. I have to thank to this film for helping me out of my confusions.
Josh, the leading role in this film, is an American who has been living in Hong Kong for ten years. He has been in a two-year relationship with a Chinese girl who got her university degree in America. However, the moment he talks to Ruby, an American who he has met twice and who is to stay in Hong Kong for a year, he knows what real "connection" is. They are raised up in similar language and culture background. They watched the same cartoons as kids and they enjoy jokes and puns that people brought up in another world cannot understand.
I see comments like "these two people are just talking very shallow topics" thus they are not really liking each other but just flirting. I agree that the two characters do not really have mutual understanding in anything profound like world outlook or share a similar taste in arts and literature. But so what? In a foreign place, the two are the best they can find for each other.
Josh, the leading role in this film, is an American who has been living in Hong Kong for ten years. He has been in a two-year relationship with a Chinese girl who got her university degree in America. However, the moment he talks to Ruby, an American who he has met twice and who is to stay in Hong Kong for a year, he knows what real "connection" is. They are raised up in similar language and culture background. They watched the same cartoons as kids and they enjoy jokes and puns that people brought up in another world cannot understand.
I see comments like "these two people are just talking very shallow topics" thus they are not really liking each other but just flirting. I agree that the two characters do not really have mutual understanding in anything profound like world outlook or share a similar taste in arts and literature. But so what? In a foreign place, the two are the best they can find for each other.