Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Gordon-11 This film is about a young Chinese man in Beijing, who got inspired by a male prostitute to become a male prostitute.This film is bad. I don't normally mind low budgets, but in this film it really hurted me to watch it. The filmmakers did not even have appropriately wide angle lens to film most scenes, so most of the time, we could not even see the characters on the screen properly. Take the music choosing scene for example, the guy who wanted to choose music was at the edge of the screen. Only his face could be shown, not even the ears could be seen.Another big problem is that they often filmed it against bright light, such as against a window of a room. The resultant effect was that only shadows could be seen. The third major problem was that the background music was highly annoying. It consisted of weird sounds, which was totally out of place with the film. A further problem was that the film was inundated with totally irrelevant scenes, such as people playing Tai Chi on a bridge or the traffic on a motorway.This film seemed more like a psychotic experiment. Avoid this film like the Black Death!

thinker1691 The land of the Sleeping Dragon has been given license to make movies. This particular film has made the circuit and has been touted by many as Avante guard. The director Cul Zi en has crafted his film to promote cinematic interest and mounting international concern for one of China's fastest growing problems, male prostitution. The film itself is, by western standards, ill conceived and poorly constructed. Furthermore, it proves an ill woven tapestry of minor characters, spectral images, philosophical dialogs and a tangled message which has viewers wondering, if they are in the wrong theater. Lacing a shadowy musical composer who's role and purpose is never fully explained, with that of an elder brother, who's role is equally sketchy at best is confusing enough. His aim is? To save his younger brother from the brutal streets of Bejing. What little is understood of Cul Zi en's message is clear if one is on medication, but the options of a boy prostitutes in any country is doubtful at best. Sandwiched between overt poverty, harsh imprisonment, armies of religious zealots and the mounting problems of a ambivalent nation, prostitution, like any vice, becomes morally offensive, but a necessary evil. The film, like it's message, is destined for the shelves in the library of humanity.

jim smith This opus is guerrilla cinema shot on Peking streets without permits, the director and actors risking arrest. I figure the budget at about $9. But it's well worth seeing. In spite of the reticence and denial of the traditional Chinese, gays are as much a presence and the services of young men for "rent" are as much in demand in big Chinese cities as in New York or London or Moscow. Though disease must be a factor in these guys lives, this is not a story of death from AIDS (prophylactics are as much the stars of this movie as the young men). It is about gay and bi young men making a practical choice: washing dishes for a handful of renminbi or the freedom, money and variety of partners offered by hustling. The downside is the boredom of a slow day and irregular sleep because customers may call at any time. These guys are nice young people, matter-of-fact, sane. They give us a different and refreshingly non-Western view on practical hustling. These guys know that suffering and death may be the wages of sin but they are also the wages of everyday life, too. At about 76 minutes the film's lack of production values remains tolerable. Note: The antagonist in this film is the Chinese version of a Christian right proselytizer. Such a waste. He's the cutest character in the film. And he's the one who dies young, not any of the hustlers. Jim Smith

scott-658 Deplorably boring film consisting mostly of dialog supplemented with extended waste of film lingering on unrelated scenes of a guy chasing a dog through a park apparently intended to extend length of film to a required viewing time.Filming is of poor quality, with no compensation for backlit scenes, resulting in blacked-out underexposed 'actors.'Lots of religious Christian bible thumping comparisons of scriptural condemnations of homosexuality. I purchased this as an addition to our Gay & Lesbian Community Center library, and now regret doing so. Save your money; Don't waste your time viewing.