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You Ge invents and sells a ridiculous invention to a Chinese venture capitalist for $2 million. The device is a blue tube where two paper, scissors, rock players place their fists to hide their choices without last second cheating. This, Ge maintains, will help restore world order and peace by helping simplifying stalled negotiations.
Now, newly moneyed, Ge decides that he needs to find a wife and writes quite a humorous advert for a Chinese on-line dating service. Ge, who is in his late 40's begins to meet all kinds of women, usually a lot younger than him, with humorous consequences: one beauty only wants sex once a year, another stockbroker describes his value in financial market terms, yet another already pregnant and looking for a father. Finally, he meets a rather sad but always beautiful Shu Qi who is a flight attendant. She seems preoccupied and the rather homely Ge presses ahead in his always no-nonsense manner about Qi's life. He finds that she is in love with a married man and Ge then confesses his guilt of betraying another woman in his earlier life. They part with the idea they are never to meet again.
Ge continues to meet women from his ad and quite by chance boards a plane to fly off to a date. The greeting stewardess is Shu Qi and an uncomfortable, but funny, situation develops when Qi's married lover and wife board the plane also.
When they reach their destination Qi contacts Ge and they meet for drink and then things begin to develop for real. The practical Ge seems to be the sensible answer to a lot of Qi's needs and soon she decides to become his girl friend/fiancée under one condition: Her body is his but her heart belongs elsewhere. Under this tenuous situation they struggle to go forward and Ge's worthy devotion soon becomes too much for Qi.
This movie pushes all the right buttons with its humor, feelings, and passion delivered with a very insightful script. This is a good-looking film hindered only by being subtitle intensive.
If you are a foreign film buff you will enjoy it. This is the first film I've seen where Shu Qi was more than just an ornament.
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Topic - If You Are The One: The Princess and the overnight Millionaire . . . - mr grits 17:41:47 12/13/09 (0)
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