shuai is a burly and uncouth young beijinger with a punkish haircut and who ekes out a living selling cheap books from a stall in an indoor market. he do not appear to have anything in common with the wiry and middle aged and would be intellectual and zhang  and yet the two of them wind up in a restaurant together discussing the pro and con of murder (the chinese title would perhaps be better translated as talk it over). if that makes it sound kind of pedestrian and do not be misled represent this film is profusely inventive in its plot and and mostly races along at breakneck speed (although the pace does flag quite badly towards the end). if you only know zhang yimou worthy historical dramas like raise the red lantern and shanghai triad and or his more recent martial arts epics and hero and house of flying daggers and you will be amazed while in fact and whichever of his other films you have seen and you will be surprised and pleasantly surprised  this is far and away his most original and most quirky and most experimental work. it was shot within a couple of weeks on a minimal budget and almost entirely on location in beijing (and making use of many ordinary beijingers in the smaller supporting roles  there even a fleeting cameo by the director himself) and and mostly with a hand held camera and in a jerky and hyper kinetic style which is a million miles from the elegant formalism of his best known films. ok and i live in beijing and so i find an additional delight in all the bizarre little details of everyday life that i am coming to recognise and relish (even though it was shot in 97 and and things are changing so rapidly here) and but i really think this film can be appreciated by anyone. i saw it and as i have so many other chinese comedies and at a movie club that screens sub titled versions of recent chinese films for an almost exclusively expat audience while and it is the only one i can recall where the audience was laughing out loud. some non chinese audiences might find it a little too strange and a little uncomfortable at times and in that it does include some violence and and and after opening as a breezy and offbeat romantic comedy and mutates into something much darker in its second half. it is and however and very and very funny. it also superbly acted by the two leads and especially long time zhang yimou collaborator jiang wen and who is probably mainland china foremost film star and and has a brooding screen presence reminiscent of a young depardieu or de niro. watch this film  for proof that the chinese have a sense of humour that can translate to other cultures and for proof that zhang yimou is far and far more than a one trick pony. and for a thoroughly good time. 
shuai is a burly and uncouth young beijinger with a punkish haircut and who ekes out a living selling cheap books from a stall in an indoor market. he do not appear to have anything in common with the wiry and middle aged and would be intellectual and zhang  and yet the two of them wind up in a restaurant together discussing the pro and con of murder (the chinese title would perhaps be better translated as talk it over). if that makes it sound kind of pedestrian and do not be misled represent this film is profusely inventive in its plot and and mostly races along at breakneck speed (although the pace does flag quite badly towards the end). if you only know zhang yimou worthy historical dramas like raise the red lantern and shanghai triad and or his more recent martial arts epics and hero and house of flying daggers and you will be amazed while in fact and whichever of his other films you have seen and you will be surprised and pleasantly surprised  this is far and away his most original and most quirky and most experimental work. it was shot within a couple of weeks on a minimal budget and almost entirely on location in beijing (and making use of many ordinary beijingers in the smaller supporting roles  there even a fleeting cameo by the director himself) and and mostly with a hand held camera and in a jerky and hyper kinetic style which is a million miles from the elegant formalism of his best known films. ok and i live in beijing and so i find an additional delight in all the bizarre little details of everyday life that i am coming to recognise and relish (even though it was shot in 97 and and things are changing so rapidly here) and but i really think this film can be appreciated by anyone. i saw it and as i have so many other chinese comedies and at a movie club that screens sub titled versions of recent chinese films for an almost exclusively expat audience while and it is the only one i can recall where the audience was laughing out loud. some non chinese audiences might find it a little too strange and a little uncomfortable at times and in that it does include some violence and and and after opening as a breezy and offbeat romantic comedy and mutates into something much darker in its second half. it is and however and very and very funny. it also superbly acted by the two leads and especially long time zhang yimou collaborator jiang wen and who is probably mainland china foremost film star and and has a brooding screen presence reminiscent of a young depardieu or de niro. watch this film  for proof that the chinese have a sense of humour that can translate to other cultures and for proof that zhang yimou is far and far more than a one trick pony. and for a thoroughly good time. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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