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First part was about innocent love affair. Boy meet boy and boy disappeared. It is choppy and fragment, unreliable like our memory. In flirtatious smelling and licking, the boy disappeared.

So who is the one left behind? Keng or Tong? You see Keng's body in soldiers uniform chasing Tong's soul in the jungle. You see the face of Keng, sad, fearful, shivering in facing the face of tiger. Is that his own soul he is facing to?

The movie is about the life of Xiao Hong. She was the Emily Dickson of China. The scripts are totally rely on her few books A ballad of Hulan. The narrator is exactly reading from her books and her books were loved by so many. It has sentimental value to every mainland Chinese who read her works in text books. Another movie of her life is The golden Era, following almost the same story line, but better produced. I wish you can read her books if you ever want to watch it again. Still, it is a biography with so much respects but falling low on some acting and directing. I'd like to thank you for watching it and writing such a truthful review.