Larry Oliver Film Reviews

Contains spoilers You have aged before your time. You open a nice leather-bound notebook. You smooth back the first page, so it does not uncomfortably snap back. Your fountain pen hovers over blank paper. It is a good pen. Ink does not drip. You recall walking by the river alone. You describe how no one has any memory of you. How is this possible? You fall in love with a young woman, Qiu Qian, who has an unfortunate habit of almost dying. At one point, having said goodnight to you on your birthday, she is hit by a speeding vehicle. On another night, in a theatre, she is hit by a falling girder. Even in the street, she is stabbed during a mugging. Incredible bad luck. Her father gave up his life so she could study. You do the same, rubbing a semi broken watch that you found at the bottom of a pool and pleading that you will do anything in order that she pulls through. Suddenly you do not exist. The woman you thought was your mother does not give birth to you. After she dies, the m...