n19900709 There are a lot of things to write about the film. It's a representative opus that builds great meaning from details. Is it real love between Li Xiaojun and Li Qiao? Would they been so engraved in the heart like this if there were not so many coincidences? If those two conditions establish both, is that to say, love can not be sublimed of stay in the story?In the movie, before everything begins, Li xiaojun and Li Qiao go to Hong Kong back-to-back in the same train by accident. There is a wording "Only sweethearts in love consider that everything happens by accident was destined before"（《Twelve Night》, 2000）, of another similar sentence "There's no coincidence in the world but only the illusion of coincidence, there exist something in the back of coincidence"（《V for Vendetta》,2005）. It's just like Qingxia simply choose her lover: anyone can extract my sword, I'll treat him without reservation.Love may often begin with some simple coincidences. It's just coincidences make us full of motive power, it's the biggest pill to stabilize their mind to the person who do not have much sense of direction or security. But in reality, there are not so many coincidences in life. We always expect for coincidence, live a calm life superficially, but we are still peep coincidence occurs. We all have the wish that something would happen in the future. For coincidence, we can surfer so many boring days, we are waiting for miracle arrives and that's the time we can free ourselves. If not, we can also keep the right to image.In those waiting days, time goes by, Li Xiaojun gets married, and Li Qiao is successful in her career. There leaves them two after they sent Xiaoting to work. So many days passed, and it just like they never lost it. Li Xiaojun has so many words want to tell her, so many topic can talk about, but traffic light passed one by one, there is still not even one word in the car.Li Xiaojun sees Deng Lijun in the moment, she was his spiritual ballast once upon a time. That can be a summary for his young years. Does it perfect? Does he satisfies even if he got the autograph? Those all because you keep them in your memory, I loved you, you abandoned me, we can not go back to the way we used to be even if time machine gives me the feelings of that moment. They cannot help but say goodbye. Finally, coincidence arrives.Heavy body run into steering wheel, harsh klaxon tweets. Though there are weighty responsibility, so many life goals that can not release, those burdens that push down them and leave them no room are penetrated by the klaxon. Music stops, Xiaojun goes back to her without hesitate and they kiss. That's my favorite moment of this movie. Then the story can stop, the coincidence would be as a full stop for those suffering.But in fact, they are separated even there is not 24 hours since they got back to each other. And this separation is more despair than any separations they had before. The movie approaches to reality till now. Coincidence is just presentation. People always attach it, that is exactly their own wishful thinking. As reality events, coincidences are what you eat today, what you dreamed last night, just like you read the passage I write. Coincidence is one part of life, it has no particularity. Sperm and ovum meet, then you born; screened by society time and time again, there you are. Those are all coincidences, everything you experience and you not experience are all coincidences. Only you can not realize that reality would never respect the things you image all the time.I always believe that the essence of people is tender. We all move forward and wonder what would happen next second. The more you desire for success, the more you love someone, the afraid in your heart would be more powerful. Once you got desire and then you would afraid to lose it. In this way, one could never grasp the sense of security in fact. And then coincidence turns to as our best spiritual ballast. Of course it's just a film, they get back to each other again, the ending is so beautiful. The moment they move their sight and then meet, they are both caim in heart. That's because of the screening by time, it's quiet after great rejoicing and great grief, it's deposition after so many days. There eyes tell me that they would live a calm life till old even if there is no coincidence.

Xiayu This movie is delightful from start to finish. Although some of the coincidences and chance meetings are highly improbable (both going to NYC? Both watching the same TV set at the same time?), they cannot spoil what is a genuinely touching and moving experience.Instead of a the usual scenario where two people try desperately to find love, the two leads, Li Chiao (Maggie Cheung) and Li Xiao Jun (Leon Lai), try desperately to avoid it. Both Mainlanders, she has come to Hong Kong to make her fortune; he has come to earn enough money to marry his long-time fiancée back on the Mainland. Through a brief meeting in a McDonalds where Li Chiao works one of her several part-time jobs, and Xiao Jun has come to experience the unknown-in-his-hometown food, they become friends. They discover a shared love for the songs of Taiwanese singer Teresa Tang, which become the soundtrack to their relationship. Both are lonely, and gradually they form a genuine friendship, then a not-so-casual intimate relationship. Their struggle to remain true to their original goal in coming to Hong Kong leads to an emotional crisis for both them and their partners. The struggle takes place over a ten year period, during which they separate only to keep bumping into one another and reopening old wounds. The resolution of this struggle is sweet indeed.The lead actors are both exceptional, particularly Leon Lai, who always seemed to be playing a variation on himself until this film. He is completely believable as the naive and trusting Xiao Jun, and Maggie Cheung is, as ever, radiant and affecting. The songs of Teresa Tang are used to great effect, one of which gives the film it's title (Tian mi mi, the title of the Chinese version, roughly translates as Sweet Like Honey).Loses a point for the number of coincidences, but otherwise unreservedly recommended.

ProfessorFate Other reviewers have said it well: this is a wonderfully romantic film. I hate to make a statement like, "It's the Asian version of . . . ", because the film doesn't need a comparison to any American film to have an identity, BUT it has several things in common with "The Way We Were", "Comrades" follows an up-and-down romance over the span of several years and has that same quality of bittersweet fate hanging over them throughout. The early scenes in which Li Xiaojun (Leon Lai) and Li Qiao (Maggie Cheung) begin their love affair are particularly entertaining. A favorite scene: Li Xiaojun helping Li Qiao on with her coat, they get closer and closer, their lips brush together, then they embrace, then a full on kiss, then mutual passion overtakes them as they both feverishly unbutton that same coat they had just been struggling to button. The scene is both sweetly romantic and humorous. Another similarity to "The Way We Were" is that both films benefit from a tear-inducing song, in this case a love song by Taiwanese singer Teresa Tang which plays a vital role in the plot. Great job of direction by Peter Chan and a wonderful script, but it's the performance by Maggie Cheung that really sells the film. From the moment you see her behind the counter at McDonald's you're hooked by her energy, spunk, attitude, and determination. Her character runs the gamut of emotions during the course of the film and there wasn't one false moment in her performance. She is totally believable, whether she's flashing a self-satisfied grin into her ATM machine or dealing with a devastating loss (I won't give it away, but Cheung's reaction is heart-wrenching). "Comrades" is truly a wonderful film.

notting-12 This movie made me moved at all,two young people coming from mainland went to Hong Kong looking for their dreams ,although they might lose a lot of things. At the end of the movie ,they sat in the street of America ,hearing the news of deng li jun's death,.a story ended,but another story began.