Ai zuozhan - 2004

In Italy is “Love Battlefield”. An Hong Kong movie I think, but not sure. Sad, well made yeah, but violent and sad. Didn’t like it too much. It starts like a romance movie with Ching meeting her future husband K ( I didn’t get the exact name, something like Kayoi). They hit it off immediately, but life together is complicated; they love each other a great deal, but those thousands of annoying little things come between them: she wants him to cook but then doesn’t like the results; he doesn’t want to vacation in Europe because he doesn’t like the cold; a lot of stupid everyday things. One morning they’re about to leave for the airport when surprise! their car has been stolen and she goes out of her mind: she doesn’t want him to report the fact because they’d lose time and maybe miss the flight, and since she paid for it she doesn’t wanna miss it. They fight, all the things left unsaid come out and they break up. He’s about to go to the police in a taxi when he sees his car. He approaches, it’s really his car, and he does the stupidest thing: he stops in the car to make a phone call, to put things in order, then goes to check if his bags are still in the back. How silly was that, I was yelling. Someone must have driven the car there, it didn’t move by itself, so don’t just hang around quietly, with no worry in the world! It turns out his bags are gone: instead there’s a wounded man with a gun, and then his friends arrive and take K prisoner, making him help them, since he’s a nurse. They kill people and policemen very easily with no remorse, so K does what he’s told. Ching sees him in the car and he’s sure he’s been abducted (well, the blood, the yelling, now him in a car with strangers…) but her cop friend suspects K to be an accomplice and wants to hold her for questioning. What a good friend, huh? Ching knows her husband is a good, caring person, so she won’t believe he might have a part in all those killings, and runs away to find him. Thanks to a watch-walkie-talkie-gadget they know when they are near each other. The injured man died, K tried to escape but once they killed a guard and brought him back, and another time he was tricked by a pregnant woman asking for help that turned out to be the criminal gang’s leader’s wife. Frustrated, K threw out of the car the bag full of drugs they had stolen. One of them 

got out of the car to retrieve it and was killed by other cars in the road. Now without money, the gang assaults a police-armored-car forcing his help. Ching sees it and tries to free him, but the boss’ wife hits her and they escape. The remaining two men of the gang are badly injured in the fight with the police, so they need blood. The boss uses K’s phone to call Ching and have her collect some blood bags and bring them to the wife. Ching reacts, takes her gun and tries to force them to release K, but it’s not so easy. They won’t ever give up, they’re desperate now. Ching then wants to be taken to him. Hearing that Ching has been involved, fearing for her life, K loses it and fights the two men, and eventually kills them right when Ching and the wife arrive. At this point the wife hits Ching and leaves her trapped in the car sinking in the water. The wife shoots K, goes close to her now-dead husband and kills herself. K is afraid for Ching, and even if he can’t swim and is badly injured now, and very tired, he throws himself in the water, swims until he finds the car at the bottom, fights to open the door so to free her. Wow, really, amazing, how long did he swim under water? Very resistant, huh? Anyway, he’s at his limit now. She goes up for breath then comes down again and again trying to save him too, but she can’t , he’s suffered too many things.  The movie ends with her and her friends watching the baby that was saved from the dead body of the wife. I guess that’s supposed to be a happy ending, a new hope for the future, that sort of thing…