A lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel.
"Lau Ching-Wan plays a lawyer who dies in a car wreck, leaving behind his wife and daughter. To console herself, his daughter writes a novel wherein she and her mother have died in a car wreck but her father has survived. To her surprise, the character of her father in her book decides that HE needs to write a novel to console himself and in his novel he has died but his wife and daughter have lived...and on and on in an endlessly recursive loop as wounded characters desperately apply fiction to try and dull the sharp edges of their grief." [D-Man2010]
Wai Ka-Fai's fantasy-drama is a winning Hong Kong film that pushes emotions and ideas over artifice and complete coherence. The resulting film won't win over all, but those who roll with it may be particularly charmed. Having Lau Ching-Wan as your lead doesn't hurt, either. One of the more special films this year. [D-Man2010]
