Forever Enthralled

Synopsis: A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.
Director(s): Kaige Chen
  16 wins & 11 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Year:
2008
147 min
19 Views


Hey! You Chinese locust. Stop jumping the queue

You've bought the whole world

Get off you bastard

Lockhart Road, please

Tell me where to get off.

Not the name of a long street

I'm not in the mood

Hong Kong is a playground for the rich

For them the sun's never set.

In the dark only the poor get upset

Don't I speak good English?

I did well in my GCE. A few F's and an E

Now end up driving taxi

"I don't wanna shut down"

"I wanna open up my heart"

"Gotta fight through this darkness"

"Before the silence tears us apart"

"Free me from these chains"

"Nailed through my feet to the ground"

"Gotta fight through this darkness"

"I don't want to shut down"

Shut down?

This city's gonna shut down soon

People get nostalgic

You've been moaning all the night

You need a priest to talk to?

Rent is to increase by double.

We'll have to shut down

This pub saw through the hand-over

Boss, ask the owner for some bargain

The owner said:

Shut up, pay up,

or close down. F***!

Down with property tycoons!

Give us democracy!

The road is sealed off. Can't get there

I'll drop you nearby. You can walk across

Not again. I hate demonstrations

What a waste of time

Is this your boyfriend? What a lucky guy

He speaks English and

he's a journalist. He's handsome

Press freedom is now the last bottom-line

He's got a US passport. Congratulations

If things turn sour,

there's always a warship for rescue

When will you divorce your American wife?

Oh please

I'm walking over

You're so quiet,

you look like a wise man.

Tell me how to earn a billion, will you?

A billion?

Life is just a long continuous chain of belches

God bless

I'm terribly sorry

I like your dress. It looks slutty

20 minutes late

Has Julie arrived?

She's worse than you

- Any drink, miss?

- Soda please

In school, she was always the queen

all guys falling at her feet

Does she think that's a carte blanche?

How can you still put up with this?

I know what she's like. Relax

Less moaning keeps a woman young

Going mad means earlier menopause

Sorry. I'm late

It's OK. We know you're so busy

Get a drink

I know your choice, dry martini

You still remember it

Oh yes. We're good friends

Get me a DM

DM?

DM means Dry Martini

Not Dumb Man

OK, DM

Your husband, Ben, is in elections.

You must have a full schedule.

We go separate ways

Ben's been howling around, leaving me alone

Today he asked me out, which came as a surprise

But ended up campaigning with him

Such hot weather!

I'm a bad time-keeper

It's OK

It will soon be over

After he wins,

he'll be a faithful husband.

Politicians are too scared to mess around

Make sure we're invited to your celebration party

It's been more than 20 years

Thanks to Facebook

Cheers

You two look the same as before

Well...

You've been abroad for years

Now you talk like a classy Brit

I can't help it

All these years, I graduated from Cambridge

Mixing up with too many Brits, I forgot my Chinese

How lucky to have gone to Cambridge!

I did a local degree in Chinese.

I'm now a college tutor

You two are doing great

I left school and went straight to a hair salon

My grand-pa's been admitted to

an elderly home named Cambridge

I earn my living

by feeling ladies' hair

You seem to be doing well, man

ls education a must?

Be it Maggie Cheung, or Maggie Q,

I make all women look younger and cute

But you are the best of us

Now you work for Citibank

In charge of Far East,

you must have a good time

With a hot western girlfriend!

We've seen her pic on Facebook

Look. She looks hot

Finished. Just broken up

It happened this morning

Just broken? Doesn't matter

Chinese girls have better skin. Cheers

Ka-lok, you look a bit miserable

My mom's just got cancer

I've been looking for my dad these years

How long are you in Hong Kong for?

No idea. I'm now Managing Director

May be Shanghai next stop

Girls are easier to pick up there

Easy? They are all the same: London

Shanghai, or Hong Kong

Hey, look over there!

That one seems interested in you

How do you know she's into me?

You are the coolest among us

Can't it be me?

Summer camp is not just for games

We've seen the tanks out in the square.

We're sad and distressed

Work hard

for a better China

Now it's time for more vocab

Does anyone know what this place is?

I know. Niagara Falls

Well done, Adam

It was discovered

by a French explorer some 200 years ago

Shing, what's the word for this huge ditch?

It's nothing but some roaring waters

There's no gold there. Is it worth an adventure?

There is so much beauty in life

so intangible

only to be felt by one's heart

Adam, what will you do when grown up?

I'll seek to change the world

How can you do that? I'd earn a lot of money

Money is what most people want

But we all need love

Your parents love you

And friendship

And love between man and woman

Is it true that we will find what we want

only if we work hard,

like that French traveller?

Yes, if you have a strong will

Ka-lok, you don't look convinced

Don't tease him. He's no idea who his dad is

I don't want to go to England on my own

They'll convert me into an Englishman

Ka-lok, and Shing, what are your plans?

What plans?

We're not well-off enough to go to the West

Dad said we wait for the commies to come

Will you come back to see us?

I won't forget you. I'll be back

That's a promise. Sure

Hey, look over there!

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