Suzhou River

What happens next? Love, of course." Suzhou River captures Shanghai in time when it was dirty and rapidly growing in the industrialization era. Highlighting the city we knew and once existed is no longer the same and unrecognisable. And the same metaphor was drawn into this mysterious fable like love story where when Mardar's love Moudan disappeared in th river and when he came back to same place after many years he finds a girl "Meimei" who looks exactly like her, but its not her but you are still clinged to that old times, not able to move on. Many said this film was inspired by Wong Kar-wai, but i feel Lou Ye has his own uniqueness to it. The mood, the setting and camera work is totally unlike wong kar wai. zhou xun’s performance has left me completely in awe. The movie splits itself between truth and fiction, idealism and cynicism. where even love may be just another myth. Suzhou River drifts like a bruised poetry through the veins of Shanghai, where love is full under current, cynical, unclear and restless as the river itself. Each frame is a soothing yet elusive memory, blurred by longing and loss, and walking along the banks of the river in hope of finding what once lost. It is one of the great city films, which influences the lives of people.