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Uncontrolled Love (Chinese) [Irresistible Love]

This film came out in 2 parts, each of about 90 minutes long, so yes, overall its like watching a 3 hour film. Also translated as "Irresistible Love", it is a story of 2 men sho share their life together: one born into wealth and another one as an orphan. Love, in this film is portrayed as a manifestation of power and obsession, as well as an act of obedience. I am not sure I agree with hit, but that discussion is for later.

Shu Nian is orphan and at a young age is adopted by Xie Yan's family who are a big real estate magnet. Shu Nian is always to stay by Xie Yan's side. years pass and Xie Yan has just returned from studying abroad. You can tell that Shu Nian loves Xie Yan as his master and lover but Xie Yan doesn't love Shu Nian, though he is extremely close to him. This makes Xie Yan's girlfriend very jealous of him. She tries to create a rift between friends, even leading to sending Shu Nian abroad for studies. But Xie Yan eventually finds out his girlfriend's evil ways and dumps her. To take revenge, she plans for an attack and rape of Shu Nian, where Xie Yan reaches in time and saves him and realizes that he has special feelings for Shu Nian and that Shu Nian is the only one who can help to cool off his hot temperedness. In the meantime Shu Nian meets Ke Luo, another orphan boy, who somehow is 20% shareholder in a big company. Shu Nian treats him like a younger brother since he was orphan but Ke Luo starts falling in love with Shu Nian, who only has his heart set on Xie Yan. After playing hide and seek, the two lovers eventually get together and are in love. When Xie Yan's family finds out about this, the father reminds Shu Nian of his duties to serve Xie Yan and not love him. They force Xie Yan to get engaged to another rich girl who despite knowing truth that Xie Yan is gay wants him. In another act of conspiracy, Shu Nian is blamed for poisoning Xie Yan's fiancé and is then thrown out of home. It's too late when the secret is eventually out. Three months later, Xie Yan received a phone call which announced that Shu Nian had died during a car accident. When he was sent to the hospital, he was able to be saved but because he had no money for any medical treatments, he soon after passed away. Shu Nian's death left Xie Yan devastated, and so he isolated himself from the rest of the world.

The ending of the film is actually really sad. Asian cultures expect the kids to follow orders from their parents and you can see how both Shu Nian and Xie Yan struggle with this. Especially Shu Nian, who is constantly reminded of how he was adopted as an act of kind ness and should the right thing rather than follow his heart. It is clear that Shu Nian has always loved Xie Yan and eventually Xie Yan also realizes his love for him. But either evil individuals or circumstances keep the lovers separated with only a few moments or days of togetherness. The whole storyline with  Ke Luo, seemed totally unnecessary to me. Yes, it does help Xie Yan realize and accept his love for Shu Nian but it unnecessarily drags the whole film and the essence of it. I would recommend getting away wit hit completely. Shu Nian feels that Xie Yan's possessiveness, is as an expression of love. This thought makes him believe that love equals being owned, where freedom doesn’t really matter. On the other hand Xie Yan sees love as a thing that you can easily buy with power and money. Instead of partnership, he believes love is a state of ownership, where he can do almost anything towards his possession. This is an interesting dynamic between the duo which eventually gets resolved into true love in part 2 of the film. The story is very predictable but thankfully the lead actors did a great job and share a good chemistry. The version I saw had really bad english subtitles, so i am sure I lost a lot of finer details.

In essence, this film is a cute love story where the lovers get together and are thrown apart like several times, but their love for each other remains true. (6/10)

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