Bei guang zhua zou de ren

I was given the chance to sit down and watch the 2019 Chinese movie "Gone With the Light" (aka "Bei guang zhua zou de ren") here in 2021. And without ever having heard about the movie, of course I opted to sit down and watch it. First and foremost, because it was a Chinese movie that I hadn't already seen. Secondly, because the movie's synopsis sounded very interesting. And thirdly, because the movie had Bo Huang on the cast list.

But let me just be the first to say that writer and director Runnian Dong failed to deliver something wholehearted and entertaining. The movie's script and storyline didn't live up to the movie's synopsis in a fulfilling manner. And I have to say that I gave up on this ordeal of a movie not even halfway through.

The pacing of the storyline and narrative was just insanely slow and uneventful, so it was a drag and a struggle to sit through this movie. Even more so because nothing interesting happened, so there wasn't much to keep my attention to the screen. And not even an actor as profilic as Bo Huang could manage to salvage this movie.

"Gone With the Light" is definitely a movie that is of an acquired taste. Writer and director Runnian Dong certianly failed to impress or entertain me with this 2019 movie. It was a shame though, because the movie's synopsis really made it seem like the movie had so much potential to be interesting.

My rating of "Gone With the Light" lands on a mere three out of ten stars.

The movie has a pretty good screenplay, good dialog, well directed, nice cast, but the storyline, scenarios and plots are quite cliched boring. Generally speaking, this is one of the RARE Chinese movies that turned out to be watchable if you like the Chinese tabloid-like gossip topics: Adultery, outside marriage affairs, loan shark, mistress, divorce....blah, blah, and blah. People in China are disappearing mysteriously after a bright light suddenly appeared. Since all kinds of people, male, female, young or old, rich or poor, single or old....they just disappeared when people who didn't disappear during the abrupt bright light and a vertigo-like tremor. People disappeared, baseless rumors spread like wildfire, concentrated on those who disappeared were most in love or having affairs, but once they disappeared, anything or person related were suddenly disconnected, cut off, broken, dismantled...people related to them but left behind, not just lost the people they loved or hated, simply encountered a sudden change of their lives. The social infrastructure just messed up. Well, this is a very interesting premise and scenario, much better than that stupid "The Wandering Earth", of course. But it also made me wonder

Is this mysterious light a new weapon system invented by the Chinese Communist government, another means to control its people, its population? It's invented and developed for the purpose to eliminate the anti Chinese government Muslims, a new weaponry for interior stability? This light in this movie seemed to be still on an experimental level testing stage, not smooth enough so when it activated, it'd cause earthquake-like tremor and dizziness. Well, it this Chinese new weapon system does exist, man oh man, it might give Donald Trump big headache and get chronic insomnia. The only thing he could do is Twitting crazily. : )

This movie is worth the watch! If you appreciate films with creative plots and a variety of dimensional characters, watch this movie! This movie questions what it is to love, and to be loved, something rarely questioned so literally.