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The Dream Factory
Four friends come up with an unusual idea to make some money and have fun doing it. For a small fee, they will impersonate and act out any character role for their customers. In the course of executing this novel service, they encounter a whole spectrum of people in society, finding ways to genuinely help them boost their morale and overcome their fears, while gaining unusual and new insights into the human condition.
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It is a performances centric movie
Great visuals, story delivers no surprises
Best movie of this year hands down!
One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.
I like this film very much. I know it's difficult for a non-Chinese. It's composed of 7 parts. The film is about an fictional company consisting of 4 young men helping ordinary people achieve their impossible dreams. A bookshop owner who dreams of becoming Batton, a cook who wants to keep secrets, a man who wants to know what it feels like to be treated by others in a bad way, a star who desires an ordinary life, a young man who needs love desperately, a rich man who wants to experience poverty and a middle-aged man who needs a new flat to satisfy his dying wife....... Anyway the film has a warm ending. The film is directed by feng xiaogang and starred by gou you and liu bei.
This is a wry comedy that requires the understanding of the communist puns of 1960's and 1970's China. Therefore, not only it might be a little bit difficult for non-Chinese to understand it fully, it might even be a little bit more difficult for Chinese who did not live through the 1960's and 1970's to understand. However, once you know those communist puns of the 1960's and 1970's, the film is very funny indeed.
This is really funny is you can understand all the Chinese 60's communism puns. Personally I think that the script was nicely written, and it actually has a quite touching theme. And again, it's really really really funny, one of the funniest movie I've ever seen.
Too bad the critics who seem to act as gatekeepers for Chinese movies haven't approved this. Maybe because it's a comedy. The story is somewhat similar to Mi Jiashan's Wan zhu (1988), and even shares a star (Ge You) with that movie, but it's also much better done.
