Lan Yu

Lan Yu is a love story that shows just how much someone can mean to another person. There film is about two gay men and the love the share for one another. Chen Handong is a business man who meets Lan Yu at gay establishment. He takes Lan Yu home where he just wants to have sexual relations with him. Lan Yu and Chen Handong see each other more and more and soon they develop feelings for one another. However Handong does not want a relationship with Lan Yu so he tells him, in a very important scene of the film, that when people get to know each other too well they split up. This upsets Lan Yu and he is afraid to love Handong in fear of losing him. But as the two get closer and the story goes on Chen Handong develops very strong feelings for Lan Yu.

There are points in the film where Handong is very careless with Lan Yu's feelings like when Lan Yu finds Handong with another man. This causes the two to separate briefly, until Handong find Lan Yu and takes him to the house he has bought for them to live in. They move in together and everything is going well. Until, Handong decides that he is going to marry a woman. He believes that once everyone matures it is their duty to marry a woman and raise a family. He leaves Lan Yu for the woman and they get married. He later gets divorced from his wife and randomly runs into Lan Yu at the airport one day. He asks Lan Yu to have dinner with him. The two meet for dinner and their relation is back on the right track again.

Suddenly Handong finds himself in trouble with his company and is at risk of going away to jail for a long time. Lan Yu comes through for Handong by selling the house and car that Handong had bought him in order to produce money to bail him out. The two are then back together and everything seems like it will end happily ever after until Handong receives a phone call. The next scene shows Handong in the morgue with Lan Yu's body. He had died in a construction accident that morning. The film ends with Handong driving past the spot where the accident occurred stopping briefly then continuing on.

This film shows the power of love, and how that sometimes love doesn't have to be present immediately but it can arrive when it is needed most. What started as a one night stand for Handong turned into the love of his life and though there were some bumps along the way everything ended up fine in the end. Yes, even with the death of Lan Yu I believe that Handong felt fulfillment in finding love and knowing that the love Lan Yu gave him will exist forever inside of him. Sure Lan Yu's death was a tragic even for Handong but at the same time I feel that Handong was satisfied in knowing that their love was powerful and that it was real.

Overall I feel that the film was a great story emphasised by the deep characters and acting that they put forth in creating the film. I feel that the story's tragic ending has a lot to do with the power of the message that the story is sending to the viewer.