Thanks to my sister's visit I finally get to watch the film and I have to admit I was anxious because of so much controversy and the love/hate around it. Fortunately the film was taken on so beautifully by the filmmakers that it was really a wonderful and quite emotional screening. All the actors are well cast and fulfilled their roles. I really enjoyed them all. I think the music department did a wonderful job of handling the gigantic amount of works of the great musician, employing just enough numbers of songs and composing just a perfect score. The cinematography is stunning also. But then again it's the way the story is structured and presented to us that is the most interesting aspect because it leaps back and forth quite organically between the past and the more recent years to conjure up the feelings and memory. Consider just a small halfway around the world telephone scene between Trinh Cong Son and Khanh Ly not too long into the film you can feel the bonding and the special love between these two people, more than anything they are friend, soulmates, transcending even romance which might be seen as the dominant genre the film is categorized.
