. do a pre adolescent girl who would lose her hearing manage to run away from a small village and in 10 15 year end up living in a big city high rise apartment complete with a storage room and a well equipped private screening room that seat at least ten and a balcony that just happen to overlook the hutong inhabit by her long estranged parent . in contemporary china ( population represent 1 . 4 billion ) . i know one be suppose to suspend disbelief at the movie and but this be beyond ridiculous . and how about the fact the the young man she injure in the present day part of the story just happen to be an adopt childhood playmate from whom she be separate dozen of year before and hundred of mile away . and the fact that she doesn not even recognize the guy whom she think have kill a beloved pooch and yet trust and send him to look after her fish and so that he can conveniently discover their childhood connection that last and what and maybe a week and which be more than enough time for an enraged father to locate his errant son in a small chinese village . this be probably the bad write chinese film to make it to western arthouses and festival in many a moon . it be an insult to the pre communist and communist movie about which it wax nostalgic . and shame on the critic who bestow even an iota of praise on this wrongheaded and sentimental hogwash .