Leon Lai comes to Hong Kong from his small village. He hopes to earn enough money to marry his sweetheart, Kristy Yeung, who stayed behind. Celebrating his first paycheck, he goes to MacDonald's and meets Maggie Cheung, a girl who seems to hold down ten jobs, and hopes to get rich. They become friends and sleep together in a friends-with-benefits way, but break up when he asks her help in choosing a gold bracelet for Miss Yeung, and buys her one. But they are not through with each other.
In many ways this intensely romantic movie reminds me of the works of Claude Lelouch, in particular his Toute Une Vie, with its attitude that everything leads to one moment. Lelouch's movie spans a hundred years and many continents; Peter Ho-Sun Chan's only nine years and two continents, but I waited, achingly, for these two to find each other, Lai's unfocused and naive hick, and Miss Cheung's focused and acerbic urbanite, as life and other people, perfectly nice people in the end block their happiness. Can two people find each other in the swarming crowds of Hong Kong and New York?
In many ways this intensely romantic movie reminds me of the works of Claude Lelouch, in particular his Toute Une Vie, with its attitude that everything leads to one moment. Lelouch's movie spans a hundred years and many continents; Peter Ho-Sun Chan's only nine years and two continents, but I waited, achingly, for these two to find each other, Lai's unfocused and naive hick, and Miss Cheung's focused and acerbic urbanite, as life and other people, perfectly nice people in the end block their happiness. Can two people find each other in the swarming crowds of Hong Kong and New York?