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Title: Boring!
Review: Zhou Yu's Train is a very slow film without any real narrative flow. It is also over-long and exceedingly boring. Close-up shots of Gong Li "thinking" or slow motion shots of her running seem to go on forever.My main problem is that Gong Li's character comes across as a selfish and spoilt bitch. Just because she is beautiful and everyone wants to "have" her does not make her likable?She sleeps with a man and when he asks the stupid question "Do you like me or the poet?" She replies quite coldly the poet. This is almost verbal castration and extremely cruel.The film is beautifully shot but the settings are cold, ugly and modern.This film so wants to be a poetical and profound but really is nothing more than a humourless and far from entertaining exercise.
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