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Keep Cool (1997)
"You hua hao hao shuo" (original title)

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China, the 1990s. A young bookseller is in love with a woman. The woman is now with another guy, a rich man. The rich man sends his people to beat the bookseller. In the fight, the laptop ... See full summary »

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Credited cast:
You Ge ...
Policeman
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Bookseller
Gang Jiao
Baotian Li ...
Lao Zhang
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Taxi Driver
Guanhua Liang ...
Bar Boss
Ying Qu ...
An Hong
Tian Tian ...
Waitress (as Xiaohua Chen)
Yong You
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Junk-peddler
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Poet reader
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China, the 1990s. A young bookseller is in love with a woman. The woman is now with another guy, a rich man. The rich man sends his people to beat the bookseller. In the fight, the laptop computer from a man looking at the scene gets broken. Who will pay for the computer? The bookseller wants revenge. Will it be useful? The bookseller and the laptop owner are from different ages and classes. They are two different points of view, two different Chinas. How will they fight for justice? Written by Dul <dpueyos@itpsp.com>

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brilliant
15 June 2004 | by (Vilnius, Lithuania) – See all my reviews

I could never imagine I would start loving movies like this. After seeing Yimou Zhang's 'Hero', I decided to check his other movies, perhaps looking for something similar. The second Yimou Zhang's movie I watched was 'No One Less' after which I realized what kind of cinema I'm now in. No wonder why I got 'Keep Cool' immediately. It is a simple, touching and brilliant piece of cinema, I pay my respect to the director.

This movie shows that it's not the amount of money makes film good. It's all about what the director wants to show and how successful he is in doing this. The story is very simple, a typical extract of a typical daily life, moreover shown in a very simple way, the movements of camera also strengthen the impression and the feeling of the movie. I give a top rating to this film and impatiently waiting to see other Yimou Zhang's films.


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