frequently vote china great film ever by chinese critic and as well a chinese film enthusiast from the outside and and and frankly and i do not get it at all . what i saw be one of the most generic melodrama imaginable and blandly direct and act and with a complete shrew for a protagonist . wei wei ( do not laugh ) be that shrew and a young married woman who have suffer alongside her tubercular husband ( yu shi ) for the past several year . it be post wwii and and they live with the husband teenage sister ( hongmei zhang ) in a dilapidated home with not much money ( the man have be wealthy when they marry ) . along come the husband old best friend ( wei li ) and who also use to be the wife boyfriend when they be teen . she consider run away from her husband with this man and while the husband pretty much remain oblivious and think he may engage his little sister to his friend . that the set up and and it doesn not go anywhere you wouldn not expect it to . i have actually see the remake and direct by blue kite director zhuangzhuang tian . it run a half hour longer and and be actually kind of dull and too and but at least it be pretty . this suppose classic be pretty intolerable .