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Volume 8, Issue #1. Published on March 2, 2001
Hong Kong Romantic Comedy To Premiere at CSUF: and i hate you so

  Prepare yourself for the GenerAsian romantic comedy of the millennium. The one night only premiere of the movie “and i hate you so” featuring HK mega stars Aaron Kwok and Kelly Chen will kick off Amerasia Week 2001 on Mar. 7 at the Satellite Student Union at 7 p.m. Admission is free to the public. The movie revolves around two popular media figures. Radio disc jockey Cheung Yung (Kwok) hosts a radio show where he discusses his perspective on life and romance. Luna Ng (Chen) writes a newspaper column called “Luna Talks” which features her perspective on life and romance. Both see life and romance completely different from the other. As Luna walks into a store, she finds a record album that she bought for her boyfriend with the original note that she wrote to him still attached. She begs the shopkeeper to sell it to her but unfortunately the album was sold to another customer. Luna tries her best to get the album back by begging on the phone for the customer to not buy it. Unfortunately, she loses. That same night, Cheung Yung talks about his experience of buying a used record from a store and a woman who tried desperately to get the album back. However he wants the woman to feel the “beauty of regret.”

“and i hate you so” stars popular Hong Kong singing stars Kelly Chen and Aaron Kwok. The movie will be shown in the Satellite Student Union as part of the Amerasia Week celebration on Mar. 7 at 7 p.m. Admission is free.
   Luna listens and becomes very upset by how arrogant Cheung Yung is on his radio show. She fires back by writing about him on her column. Thus the media war begins between Cheung Yung and Luna Ng. Although it is titled “and i hate you so,” the movie focuses on relationships. It shows how relationships are and aren’t meant to be and that maybe opposites do attract. The movie features a beautiful soundtrack that is reminiscent of romantic American movies such as “When Harry Met Sally” and “Sleepless in Seattle.” It ranges from romantic oldies such as Edith Piaff (an artist from the past whose music is gaining popularity in several romantic movies and dramas in Asia) to beautiful piano instrumentals. The movie has attracted many HK movie critics and fans that have been craving something other than action films. “The look and sound of the film generally excels — one of the slickest looking local new releases I've seen for quite some time,” said Tim Youngs, an HK movie critic.





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