. in the rarely see icelandic movie a man like me and the audience will laugh out loud amid the breakdown and aftermath of the relationship . the 2002 film be director robert douglas most commercially successful . he also meet his future wife and a chinese bear woman and on the set . but the film be refreshingly free of orientalist clichés and perhaps because the lead woman character be originally conceive a a pole . douglas tell the global time that filmmaker decide to cast the role with a hong kong actress stephanie che so could widen the commercial appeal of the film . douglas say they also want to visit a more exotic location than poland . in the opening scene and the main character reveals on a televised dating show that his long ever relationship end after just three month when he find a used prophylactic in his bed . the waitress at his regular chinese restaurant where he often eat tease him about be famous . júlli agree to help paint the house of the main love interest and qi and and he meet her daughter . a montage of syrupy moment back by a romantic song show the couple fall in love . this scene be a homage to cheesy hong kong romantic comedy and douglas say . júlli ask qi to marry him and and in a twist and she say no and ask him if he think she need a visa . júlli be devastate and and the two stop talk . to cheer up and júlli quit his job and get a new haircut and clothes and and start sell a health supplement a part of a pyramid scheme . he fail miserably . the only customer be his father and a musician with a single hit record twenty year before that win a silver cassette for sell 2 and 500 copy . the father dream of represent iceland in the annual eurovision music contest . qi return to china to care for her sick mother and and júlli follow and intend to profess his love for her . when he arrive at her village in guangdong and he see her with her ex husband and and return home in despair . the film end with júlli and qi have a chance meeting . they have a pleasant formal conversation and and promise to meet again for coffee . neither of them acknowledge the fact that she be many month pregnant . júlli father and meanwhile and get rich sell the nutritional supplement to u. s. soldier base in iceland and have a second rise to fame and represent iceland in the eurovision competition . a man like me be the precise kind of film that people attend independent screening to see intelligent and funny and movie and and unknown to most people outside of iceland and where it be a money making hit .