Even the European critics can't agree more that they couldn't understand Chen Kaige's The Promise, when it makes a special screening at Berlin Film Festival, despite The Promise receive popular response with its sold out session.
A Chinaman finds The Promise hard to understand and simply ridiculous. Thus, he comes out with a 20min long videoclip that mocks at The Promise, where it becomes an instant hit among the youths. To me, it is entertaining and releases my pressure from the preparation of the final exams.
Here comes: <<一个馒头引发的血案>> aka A Murder Sparkled By A Chinese Bun. The short film is cut, chopped, marinated, cooked and served by a joker named Hu Ge, who presents the world with a laughable comedy out of a overbudgeted comedy.
The storyline: A man named Mr Wang (who is the King in The Promise) was stabbed to death by a watermelon knife (sword) by a man in a crimson armor. The murder begins with Mr Wang, the CEO of Circle City Entertainment City (The Kingdom) walking up to the rooftop making a protest with his wife, Cheung Qing Cheng (Cecilia Cheung as Qing Cheng). Both are protesting over the government for delaying their pay, as Circle has been making a loss and unable to pay their employees a single cent due to poor location and low visit.
Cheung Qing Cheng is a famous fashion show model in the Circle, where her job is to put on clothes and strip during performances. Suddenly, Mr Wang had a quarrel with Cheung over relationship problems. Thus Mr Wang draws out a watermelon knife and comes after her life. A man in crimson armor, who was riding a horse, came suddenly and throws a watermelon knife at Mr Wang. Mr Wang died instantly on the spot.
Witnesses claims that the crimson armor belongs to Captain Sanada (Hiroku Sanada is indeed wasted in The Promise. Now, Hu Ge gives him a comical role.) Captain Sanada claims that he did not commit the murder. Thus, the police puts in Chen Man Sheng (Chen Hong, the mainlander actress who plays Man Sheng, the goddess.), a negotiator. Chen Man Sheng is a controversial character in town due to 3 things:
1. She is smart and knowledgeable. All questions will be given with an answer. (100% guranteed!)
2. Her hobby: using wealth in the future to lure little girls to con them in giving up their future happiness.
3. Another hobby: Enjoy rubbing salt on middle age man's wound verbally.
After nites of negotiation, Captain Sanada confessed that the man who wore the crimson armor is his assistant, Jang Kun Lun (Jang Dong Gun and his laughable role.)
The police trys to arrest Jang, but they met with another problem: He runs at the speed of light. Based on the rate of speed of light (330m/s), Jang could run for 1188km/hr. Thus, before the police could have got hold of him, he is in another side of the world. Thus, they invites a sports athlete, Officer Wolf (Liu Ye with his ugly looking role of Ghost Wolf.)
As Jang enjoys watching somersaults, he goes for a somersault performance. The police anticipated that Jang would be there, thus Officer Wolf was send to arrest Jang. However, they ended up falling for one another, and they decided to exchange their experience in running at the speed of light.
The police have a problem in arresting Jang. What is their next step? Will be back after a commercial break!
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