Lan Yu is the tragic love story between a struggling architecture student (Lan Yu) and a successful businessman (Chen). Lan Yu goes home with Chen who is used to meeting young men and paying them for the night. For Lan Yu it was more than an experience for the money and starts developing feelings for Chen. Chen also starts getting feelings for him but lets him know that they will only do that for as long as it feels right for them and once it doesn't they will stop. They see each other a lot for an extended period of time and Chen even buys him a car as well as a villa for Lan Yu who is really not interested in the money buy accepts all the gifts since he is still in school and needs it. Chen feels like he needs to get married and after meeting a woman that seems perfect to be his wife he lets Lan Yu know that he will get married and they have to stop seeing each other. Lan Yu is heartbroken by the news but accepts them. A few years later and Chen gets divorced since he couldn't be happy with his wife, he sees Lan Yu and they decide to rekindle their love. Lan Yu has already become an architect and is successful. They start seeing each other again but Lan Yu lets Chen know that he is planning on moving to the U.S to go to school. In the middle of this Chen is arrested because of the way he has been running his business and ends up in jail, all of his finances are frozen and there is no way to get him out unless he pays $1,000,000(Chinese currency I assume) for a deal he is offered. His family doesn't have the money but Lan Yu offers to help by giving him all of his savings and selling the villa he had bought for him years ago. Chen accepts this and he is freed but Lan Yu doesn't leave for the U.S and instead they start seeing each other as a couple again. They are living happily and one day Lan Yu has a work accident and dies. Chen is heartbroken and the movie ends that way.
The theme of the movie is love as well as loyalty. The love they both had at the beginning was true and because of the idea that Chen had that he must have a family he gave it up but was able to have it once again even though for a short period of time, and it was still there even though many years passed. The other theme was the loyalty Lan Yu had for Chen and how he helped him even though he didn't need to because he remembered that he was there when he needed him first.
I liked this movie a lot, even though their love was taboo it came off as real and pure and the actors did a great job at portraying that.
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