Break Up 100 (分手100次) is a Hong
Kong film which directed by Lawrence Cheng (鄭丹瑞) and It showed on 1st
August, 2014. It is a story about a pair of couple who are Sam (Ekin Cheng) and
Nam (Chrissie Chau) have been romantically in a relationship for eight years. When
they have quarrel often over extremely trivial matters, Nam always wanted to break
up and every time was Sam to apologize in order to maintain their relationship.
Furthermore they have broken up 99 times already but they got back together
again 99 times as well and it can say they use “break up” to keep the
relationship. When they open a cafe and promise not to say break up again and
they story will expand from the cafe.
This
is a genre film about romance and the main theme of this film was not to break
up easily. It code this again and more detail after the end of the film by voice-over
that was no relationship is destined and no love is deservedly so if you meet
someone willing to hold your hand tightly, do not release your hand readily. Moreover
Genre consists of specific systems of expectation that mean what audiences
expect to see in the film. For this film, the audiences will expect to see the
love story between Sam and Nam and because of the name of the film audiences can
get some hints to know it is a relationship always breaks up. As it is a love
story, some iconography are clearly show such as symbol of heart, couple things
like cups and rings, dim light to create an romance environment etc.
In
addition, Nam is the one always right (win) and predominant in the relationship
so it seems that Sam has the lower status. Sam does not have any male
chauvinism but on the contrary. Furthermore people always have the stereotype
that boss will be the men and the one to inheritance. However瑞記 (Ivana Wong)
inherit family’s cha chaan teng and many staffs are men. This can reflect the
society nowadays that is men can be led by women which reflect the status of
women is rising. Also Nam demand for sex actively show equality of gender because
if women play an active role for sex usually have a negative image while in the
film did not.
Besides,
Sam hits on the idea of having a break up mini storage facility for people to
store evocative mementoes of past relationships temporarily and Sam will use
some sentences to describe the relationship. This represent every relationship has
different unforgettable feelings and memories. Lastly it shows Sam and Nam how
to change themselves to make the relationship more balance so as to maintain it.
This romance comedy can arouse a resonance for the audiences because everyone has
their love story and the feelings are similar. Moreover when the film 完了(end), it add
“沒” to become沒完沒了 to express
the wish of every couple the relationship will
“never end” . Even breaks up 100 times but still holding hand together. Thus,
it attracts many people to watch the film and its box office hit 5 million in 5
days. (550 words)
Student name: Wu Sin Tung
Student number: 10579258/21423781
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