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Synopsis: A lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Director(s): Ka-Fai Wai
Production: Annex Film Group
  2 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.1
Year:
2009
85 min
25 Views


Which one is mine and which one is yours?

They're not dead.

Who are you?

You're messing up life and death!

M'am Meng, don't send my daughter away!

Dad, Mom!

You're M'am Meng?

Does my daughter kill herself?

What're you talking about, honey?

I saw her hanging herself,

cutting her wrists,

but I couldn't stop her.

I'm dead already.

You're not. Dad knows you've grown up.

I'm dead already. I know,

you're Melody Tong who wants to be dead.

February 10th 2008, 14:24,

Melody Tong, 22 years old,

dies from jumping off a building.

There are 5 more minutes.

February 10th 2008, 14:25,

Melody Tong, 22 years old,

dies from jumping off a building.

There are 6 more minutes.

How come you die twice?

Don't, Melody, don't die!

We'll be a family again soon.

No! Dad won't let you die!

M'am Meng, how can I save my daughter?

You daughter wants to die

because you haven't moved on,

and you've dragged her along.

Have the M'am Meng Soup

and move on to next life.

If we move on, our daughter won't die?

I don't know. If you can't let go,

she won't either.

Don't drink it! You won't remember me

after you've drunk it!

We'll never be together again!

Why is it my family again?

What have we done wrong?

No one's at fault.

Death is not a punishment,

it's a part of life.

The Books of Life includes all families,

there's death, separation and reunion

in the next life in each

and every one of them.

Let go, Melody.

Let's get going.

Sit tight, my dead friends,

we'll soon go into the afterlife.

Die once.

Mom? Dad? Oscar?

How come I can see?

Am I dead?

(Melody Tong, 22 years old,)

(dies jumping off a building)

Sorry, I won't do it again.

Mom, Dad, Oscar,

I'll remember to be good from now on.

If death is not the end,

there's M'am Meng, the Underworld Express,

there's a farewell and a new life,

I won't be scared any more.

In the novel,

things will happen as I wish.

I write my novel

and decide life and death.

But who's writing the story

in the real world?

Who decides life and death?

If you spare my life,

I'll live it to the fullest.

If not, let me see my family.

In the novel, I use death as a way out.

In real life, I'd chose to live

and jumped back to the roof.

In the beginning, I wrote the novel

about Mom and Oscar

and tried to heal Mom.

Now, I'm the only one left behind,

trying to heal myself.

I feel better right this minute,

but I may feel agony the next.

This is the way it has to be.

I'll tell myself to live better each day.

To live a long life.

To life a good life.

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