Em Va Trinh

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.

• The film is made by a director who is not loved by many movie fans in Vietnam.

-The story is not smooth but also not confusing, difficult to watch.

-Some scenes may seem gimmicky to many people but I think it's fine

-The characters are real but imagined, something we can see in many biopics.

• The movie could be better but nonetheless it's a good movie compared to many vietnamese movies I've seen.

2 hours 19 minutes long, the only thing that help me, and many vietnamese is the acting of Hoang Ha (Dao Anh), Bui Lan Huong(Khanh Ly), Akari Nakatani (Michiko), and Nhat Linh (Thanh Thuy).

The movie has changed a lot of people view of Trinh Cong Son, who is potrayed by Alvin Lu (Young version) and Tran Luc(Old version). While Alvin Lu acting was not so outstanding as the protagonist, Tran Luc is too old looking in the scene.

Khanh Ly - in real life,(potrayed by Bui Lan Huong) who recently has confirmed that this flim has changed too.much about the life, how Trinh Cong Son was.

Last but not least, Bich Diem (potrayed by Lan Thi) absolutely has no role in the movie.