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Lee’s Adventure, a popular animated short film produced by young director Li Yang in 2009, was recently re-produced as a live-action feature film, and has been in theaters since early October. Telling the story of a lovesick young man who suffers from a fictional “time dilation” disease, and tries to get back with his ex-girlfriend by traveling back in time through a computer game, the original 20-minute Internet animation became a cult hit with its fast pace, surreal humor and dark, scintillating style. But while the 90-minute feature adaption retained some of Li’s original plot, the movie was largely revised in order to appeal to the mass market. Many disapproved of the revision, arguing that it sacrificed much of the film’s original edge.
December 2011
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