Breakup Buddies
- director: Ning Hao
- actor: Huang Bo Xu Zheng Zhou Dongyu
- writer: Sun Xiaohang Xing Aina Yue XiaoJun
Synopsis:
About to be divorced, GENG Hao (HUANG Bo) is devastated; his best friend HAO Yi (XU Zheng) in an attempt to cheer him up decides to take him on a road trip “hunting” for beautiful women. Between the two of them, one has “divorce phobia” while the other deals with his midlife crisis in the most absurd ways. The film uses these two extreme representations to explore the many social phobias and phenomenons in modern China: internet addiction, subcultures’ inability communicate amongst themselves, love phobia, midlife crisis, violence/mania, etc. As our buddy duo encounters a vast array of characters showing each of these problems, the film brings up an interesting question: Does an impromptu road trip, such as the one that GENG and HAO are undertaking, solve their social problems? Or maybe they should just give up “treatment” altogether?
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