Eileen Chang's story is literary and precise; the film has more raw devastating power in some scenes, and fleshes out Mr. Yee's character better, but bloats itself to 2 1/2 hours on less important fare.---- SPOILER ALERT: ----If you haven't seen the movie or read the story, you probably don't wan...
There was an unseeing, unfeeling grayness in going among strangers. And in his case they would have to remain strangers because he dared not really talk to any one. The things he was experiencing in Shanghai now only became real to him when he pictured himself telling them to Su Nan. Not in his l...
depicts a heroine who “becomes herself” only when she takes on the identity of another, for only behind the mask of the character Mai Tai-tai can Chia-chih truly desire, and thus truly live—playacting allows her to discover her one real love. But this is too reductive. For the performer always, b...