Comrades, almost a love story aka A love story - Peter Chan (1996)
Cantonese | Subtitle: English (hard coded)| 1:56:09 | 624 x 352 NTSC | AVI | MP3 – 128 kbps | 700 MB
Genre: Drama
Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out.
Only the few of those movies about 1997 I find interesting and this movie is the one among them, and perhaps also the best among them. Through a love story, it shows something people should remember about hongkong before 1997. It's not a job that documentary can do well because the emphasis here is on emotion. Maggie Cheung performs very well in this movie and the role she plays successfully shows some typical values of hongkong in the past. Deep down what she values above all else is emotion although she looks crazy for money. Her going to New York is the part very moving. Peter Chan very often has a kind of "soft" power guiding audience to enter into the story and this power is applied perfectly in this movie. Several years have passed since the first time I saw this movie, and therefore I think I can give a sufficiently fair verdict - it's a real classic. Don't miss it.