I originally thought that the film was a year old and I was staring at the plot and what two men in censored China could afford to do with each other, and everything was still very "entangled" with each other, so I didn't mind the film, on the contrary, well played, in just over ten years China has taken a huge step "forward" (actually backwards) and now two human beings of the same sex can afford practically nothing in front of the camera. The story "smoldered" in me for a long time.
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