Xu Zi (Leslie Cheung) is an immigrant from Shanghai. He has never met his real mother and was raised by his adoptive mother since childhood. So, when he grew up, he became a rebellious young man, eager to fly high, but he was just a prodigal son. Be merciless to every woman you meet in your life. At the beginning of the play, he appeared in the background with the sound of shoes. Su Lizhen (Maggie Cheung), who borrows and sells soda; After living together, she broke up because she wanted to get married.
I met a showgirl (Carina Lau) and lured her home with earrings. This girl can't extricate herself. Waizai (Jacky Cheung) climbs into Xuzai's house from the window in the middle of the night and meets a showgirl, who becomes the goddess in her heart, but she will never accept him. Su Lizhen hopes to make a compromise and return to Xu Zi's side. After being rejected, it is difficult to restrain the pain of lovelorn, and confide to the policeman Chao Zi (Andy Lau) who patrols at night. Because the foster mother refused to tell her where her biological mother was, Xu Zi deliberately opposed her and learned that her biological mother was in the Philippines, but she was rejected and never seen again. Xu Zi took a fake passport and wanted to go to America.
The policeman (Andy Lau) who has a crush on Su Lizhen witnessed the break between Su Lizhen and Xu Zi and decided to switch to sailing. In the Philippines, he saw Xu Zi again. At this time, Xu Zi was seriously injured in a European war. He watched Xu Zi die on the train home.
This film has only characters, but no complete story. The director and slave-driving actor directly cut into the inner world of the characters with excellent art design and very fashionable photography, so that the audience can clearly feel the environmental atmosphere and the passion of the characters.
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