Based on the semi-autobiographical novel 'Could Be Beautiful' by Wang Shuo, the best-selling 'bad boy' of contemporary Chinese literature, and directed by Zhang Yuan, this film tells the story of four-year-old rebel Qiang (Dong Bowen) and his initiation into residential kindergarten. A fierce individualist by nature, Qiang finds it hard to adapt to the carefully organised, minutely scrutinised collective life at the kindergarten. But despite his indomitable will and resistance to discipline, he still craves the reward that he sees his fellows students win: the little red flowers awarded each day as tokens for good behaviour.
Press Association
After all the hype, the counter-hype, the teaser trailers and the lack of press screenings and publicity, Gus Van Sant's ...
After all the hype, the counter-hype, the teaser trailers and the lack of press screenings and publicity, Gus Van Sant's reappraisal of Hitchcock's masterpiece is a big disappointment. Vince Vaughn is hopelessly miscast as Norman Bates (now a limp-wristed, giggling young man who isn't the least bit threatening), the mummy's boy who gives Anne Heche's fraudulent secretary a fright in the shower. The addition of a masturbation scene is made even more awful by some very suspect sound effects, but on the whole this is pretty close to the original. The famed shower scene is something of a washout in the new version, spiced up slightly for the '90s with shots of Heche's flesh hither and thither. Not so much Psycho as Mildly Demented.
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