More Chen Kun
May. 5th, 2022 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bingo_a This time I watched West Lake Moment also starring Zhou Xun. It's hard to describe exactly why i liked this movie, but i did, a lot in fact. It was entertaining, well-shot, and funny at times. The basic story is that ZX's character is a barista/owner of a coffee shop on West Lake in Huangzhou. She and a guy who is now a college student survived a car accident together. She says he's too young, but he clearly has interest in her. This really isn't a major plot point though. One plot point though is that ZX's character has an inner child whom she occasionally talks to. When things start, she's actually engaged to a white dude, but that doesn't work out.
Chen Kun is a playboy scriptwriter who ends up involved with ZX while he has another girl back in Beijing. He eventually breaks up with the latter and shacks up with ZX, but runs from her eventually too. This is all told mainly in short scenes that put the larger story together. The two get together again at the end. LIke i said, i can't really explain why i like it. Though lol, this one scene was so funny. CK and his gf are hanging out, reading magazines or something, and he reads a passage that says "Zhang Ziyi says she's the sexiest woman" or smth like that. CK laughs and is like, well, clearly she hasn't seen Shu Qi.
I LOL'd. This is an old movie, like 2004, but i always remember back in the earlier days, Ziyi was like the IT Chinese actress, but CK's character is right, let's not pretend she's supa sexy when Shu Qi exists.
Anyway, I'm on a kick of watching and rewatching Chen Kun's movies. I have this free trial of some channel at Amazon though, so ig i will have to watch the Painted Skin movies and Flying Swords might be on there too. Otherwise, i've located Balzac, Rest On Your Shoulder, The Door, Music Box, Kung-Fu Girls, and Bends. Plus I have My Ex-Wife's Wedding and Love on Credit. Still not finding the Knot or Baober. AND there's these clips i keep seeing where he's wearing a red and blue sweater and i haven't been able to find anything that matches that. It's old, that's all i know, and i can't really figure out who the girl is.
Chen Kun is a playboy scriptwriter who ends up involved with ZX while he has another girl back in Beijing. He eventually breaks up with the latter and shacks up with ZX, but runs from her eventually too. This is all told mainly in short scenes that put the larger story together. The two get together again at the end. LIke i said, i can't really explain why i like it. Though lol, this one scene was so funny. CK and his gf are hanging out, reading magazines or something, and he reads a passage that says "Zhang Ziyi says she's the sexiest woman" or smth like that. CK laughs and is like, well, clearly she hasn't seen Shu Qi.
I LOL'd. This is an old movie, like 2004, but i always remember back in the earlier days, Ziyi was like the IT Chinese actress, but CK's character is right, let's not pretend she's supa sexy when Shu Qi exists.
Anyway, I'm on a kick of watching and rewatching Chen Kun's movies. I have this free trial of some channel at Amazon though, so ig i will have to watch the Painted Skin movies and Flying Swords might be on there too. Otherwise, i've located Balzac, Rest On Your Shoulder, The Door, Music Box, Kung-Fu Girls, and Bends. Plus I have My Ex-Wife's Wedding and Love on Credit. Still not finding the Knot or Baober. AND there's these clips i keep seeing where he's wearing a red and blue sweater and i haven't been able to find anything that matches that. It's old, that's all i know, and i can't really figure out who the girl is.
