The movie has a pretty good screenplay, good dialog, well directed, nice cast, but the storyline, scenarios and plots are quite cliched boring. Generally speaking, this is one of the RARE Chinese movies that turned out to be watchable if you like the Chinese tabloid-like gossip topics: Adultery, outside marriage affairs, loan shark, mistress, divorce....blah, blah, and blah. People in China are disappearing mysteriously after a bright light suddenly appeared. Since all kinds of people, male, female, young or old, rich or poor, single or old....they just disappeared when people who didn't disappear during the abrupt bright light and a vertigo-like tremor. People disappeared, baseless rumors spread like wildfire, concentrated on those who disappeared were most in love or having affairs, but once they disappeared, anything or person related were suddenly disconnected, cut off, broken, dismantled...people related to them but left behind, not just lost the people they loved or hated, simply encountered a sudden change of their lives. The social infrastructure just messed up. Well, this is a very interesting premise and scenario, much better than that stupid "The Wandering Earth", of course. But it also made me wonder
Is this mysterious light a new weapon system invented by the Chinese Communist government, another means to control its people, its population? It's invented and developed for the purpose to eliminate the anti Chinese government Muslims, a new weaponry for interior stability? This light in this movie seemed to be still on an experimental level testing stage, not smooth enough so when it activated, it'd cause earthquake-like tremor and dizziness.
Well, it this Chinese new weapon system does exist, man oh man, it might give Donald Trump big headache and get chronic insomnia. The only thing he could do is Twitting crazily. : )
