Word: jinglei
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Physically, the city has undergone a breathtaking destruction and reconstruction. "I went away for three months, and when I came back, I couldn't even recognize a neighborhood near my home. I hardly knew it was my city," says film director Xu Jinglei, 33, born and bred in Beijing. Astonishing buildings are starting to appear: the iconic Bird's Nest Olympic stadium; Rem Koolhaas' cantilevered towers for broadcaster CCTV; the National Theater, a doorless silver dome perched on the corner of Tiananmen Square like a newly landed UFO. Numberless dilapidated eyesores thrown up by central planners in the 1950s...
Exhaling smoke with a particular world-weariness only a beautiful woman can conjure, Xu Jinglei announces she's tired of Oriental mystique, all the brocade and bamboo and aerial kung-fu artistry. That's ironic, given that the movie director, 31, with her chopstick physique and brushstroke features, would fit quite nicely into an epic about a woman named, say, Plum Blossom...
...touchy-feely scenes, Lai is an inspired selection. Lai for the most part leaves the leaping chest kicks and pistol wielding to police counterpart Kin, played by Ekin Cheng (Twins Effect), and instead uses his powers of subconscious persuasion to free his wife (played by newcomer Xu Jinglei) from Ng's grasp. For Lai, acting the heartsick husband longing to be reunited with his significant other comes naturally. Lines such as "The greatest happiness in my life is to be with you" sound as if they were lifted from his 1996 feel-good romancer Comrade: Almost a Love Story...
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