"Happy Times"

I watched this great film the other day. I really liked this movie. The main character is a man in his 50's who wants to get married. He has found a large woman, with 2 children, who is willing. The only drawback is that he is unemployed and she wants 50,000 yuan for the wedding. He decides to go to his friend, who has the idea of converting an abandoned bus into a lover's nest and charging lover's to enter. They call the bus the "Happy Times Hut". When he tells his fiance that he is the General Manager of a big hotel, she decides to heft her blind step-daughter on him, with the premise of him getting her a job at the hotel. When the bus is unfortunately hauled away, the man decides to recreate a massage room for the girl in a factory, as she is very good at massage. Him and his friends believe that because she is blind, she won't be able to tell that the massage room is not real, and that she has the same clients coming in, over and over again. The girl is very sweet, and from the beginning, knows of the deception, but because she understands that it was done out of kindness, she goes along with it. Her and the man start to have an unlikely friendship. Both have been left by the unkind fiance, and both find comfort in each other. I thought this film was very sweet. The character of the girl is very endearing. And though at first you may not really like the bumbling, lying man, it becomes clear very soon that he has a heart of gold. Not once did the relationship between the two become awkward, or sexual, as some movies may have taken it. It is obvious the two care about each other, whether they came together by chance and unhappy circumstances. They had happy times together. Unfortuately, the end is not so happy. Neither knows what has happened to the other. The girl has decided to leave, and the man has been hit by a truck. In a very sweet and brilliant scene, the man's friends reads the letter his friend has written pretending to be the girl's father, to the voice recording of the girl's goodbye. I really liked this movie, and am looking forward to watching more from this director.