I decided to branch out a little more in my movie watching on crunchyroll. I loved Zhou Xun in Perhaps Love so I decided to look for some of her other films. I just watched Ming Ming.
Zhou Xun plays two characters in the film. Ming Ming will do anything to get what she wants. She has a talent with taking people out with these black beads (that – haha – I thought were blackberries when i first saw them so was momentarily baffled by what she was doing – lols). Nana is a girl who looks just like her. They are both in love with the same guy – D.
Ming Ming goes to a guy she works for – Brother Cat – and asks him for $5 million dollars…he agrees but something happens and she has to go ballistic with the beads and as she buggers off takes a box sitting on the table in from of Brother Cat. He aint happy and sends his goons after her.
As she runs off she meets up with a guy working with her, Tu, and hands him the bag of cash, while keeping the box, and they split up again. Tus main talent is he can run fast. 😀
Ming Ming as she runs away bumps into a girl who looks just like her – this is Nana. Tu then also see the girl, and thinking it is Ming Ming, grabs her hand and drags her along with him.
They all manage to get away and Tu takes Nana with him. Ming Ming has told the people Tu will contact to refer to the other girl as Ming Ming and to tell Tu to head to Shanghai, where D is.
So they are all off to Shanghai and Nana questions Tu about what he knows about her (meaning Ming Ming), so she finds out that Ming Ming is also in love with the same guy she is.
Now I cant tell you more because it would give away the story too much, but there is a few lil twists and I was stoked I figured out the main one well before it was revealed. Reading the comments on crunchyroll it seems some people were mighty confused. Idiots!
Anyway, the only thing about this movie that was negative was some of the editing was a bit annoying. If would fade to black and then come back to the same scene…maybe to give you a sense of time passing or something – but they did it like 3 or 4 times in a row – it got really annoying! or near the start during one of the fights it kept showing this fake blood smearing across the entiire screen…it was just annoying!
I read on other sites it was a movie directorial debut for someone who usually directs for MTV so thats maybe why it had these annoying moments, but if you can get past that – over all it was a good film. And i liked Tu and Nana – i wanna squish them with LOVE! 😀
Its funny – I actually thought the guy who played Tu would be a perfect Nobu for the anime/manga Nana. He just had that endearing quality. awwww
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